State Representative - District 52

Office

State House of Representatives, District 52

On the ballot

Incumbent

Yara Zokaie

Yara Zokaie Incumbent

Democrat

Steve Yurash

Center

The people on the ballot01

Yara Zokaie Incumbent

Democrat

State Representative

Yara Zokaie represents House District 52, in Fort Collins in Larimer County, and sits on the Appropriations, Finance and Judiciary committees. She was elected to the seat in 2024, defeating Steve Yurash, and ran for House District 49 in 2020. Her House Democratic caucus biography says she is an attorney with a master's degree in taxation and a former deputy assessor.

State representative for District 52, in Larimer County

Official member page

2024

Elected to the Colorado House of Representatives, District 52, defeating Steve Yurash

State election record

Former deputy assessor

Caucus biography

2020

Ran for the Colorado House of Representatives, District 49

State election record

An attorney with a master's degree in taxation

Caucus biography

Represents a House district in Fort Collins

Caucus biography

CUT rating

The Colorado Union of Taxpayers (CUT) rates how often legislators vote with its positions on taxes, spending, TABOR and other issues, including property rights and parental rights.

CUT rating (2025): 14%
CUT rating (2026): 14.7%
Average of listed CUT ratings (2025, 2026): 14.4%

The guide gives each listed year equal weight, omits years without a rating and rounds only the final average to one decimal. This is a guide calculation, not a CUT-published lifetime score.

CUT ratings

The money

Yara For Colorado
$10,185.52 from 74 contributions, August 4, 2025 to August 14, 2026
Spent $11,260.35 in 85 expenditures

Party platform

Steve Yurash

Center

Steve Yurash ran for Congress in 2022 and for House District 52 in 2024, when Yara Zokaie won. The Colorado Center Party's candidate page says he is the party's state chairman, worked 38 years in the computer chip industry, 23 at Intel, served on the Larimer County Board of Health and the Fort Collins Electric Board, and holds a physics degree from San Jose State University.

State chairman of the Colorado Center Party

Party candidate page

The Larimer County Board of Health and the Fort Collins Electric Board

Party candidate page

2022

Ran for the U.S. House of Representatives, 2nd Congressional District

State election record

2024

Ran for the Colorado House of Representatives, District 52

State election record

38 years in the computer chip industry, 23 of them at Intel

Party candidate page