Your vote counts

This morning’s ballot returns show Republicans continuing to claw back the early lead that the Democrats grabbed out of the gate.  The Democrat Party’s share of returned ballots continues to slip.

Yesterday’s results showed Democrats with 117,766 votes, which accounted for 41.1% of total ballots returned.  Today their share of the total ballots returned has slipped to 40.0%, while Republicans saw an uptick in their portion of the returns, moving from 33.0% to 33.9%.

This morning’s ballot chase break down is below:

Republican ballots returned: 141,354

Democrat ballots returned: 166,605

Unaffiliated ballots returned: 103,354

Other party ballots returned: 5.638

Some key counties are below:

Adams

Democrat: 10,576

Republican: 6,646

Total: 23,378

Arapahoe

Democrat: 21,371

Republican: 17,514

Total: 52,396

Denver

Democrat: 28,628

Republican: 6,601

Total: 46,296

Douglas

Democrat: 7,394

Republican: 12,508

Total: 26,780

El Paso

Democrat: 14,232

Republican: 23,549

Total: 51,386

Jefferson

Democrat: 20,512

Republican: 16,263

Total: 51,473

Larimer

Democrat: 9,081

Republican: 7,792

Total: 23,734

Weld

Democrat: 4,931

Republican: 7,026

Total: 16,236