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Ballotpedia provides comprehensive coverage of elections in the 100 largest cities in America by population and the largest counties that overlap those cities. This encompasses all city, county, judicial, school district, and special district offices appearing on the ballot within those cities. Ballotpedia also covers mayors, city councils, and district attorneys in all state capitals.

This page includes the following resources:

* The city governments covered by Ballotpedia in Colorado
* An overview of local elections in Colorado
* An overview of the initiative process in Colorado

## Contents

* 1 Cities
* 1.1 City government
* 2 Elections
* 2.1 2026
* 2.2 2025
* 2.3 2024
* 2.4 2023
* 2.5 2022
* 2.6 2021
* 2.7 2020
* 2.8 2019
* 2.9 2018
* 2.10 2017
* 2.11 2016
* 2.12 2015
* 3 Initiative process availability
* 4 See also
* 5 External links
* 6 Footnotes

## Cities[edit]

### City government[edit]

Click the links in the table below for information about the cities in Ballotpedia's coverage scope and the county governments that overlap those cities:

City | County

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Aurora | Adams, Arapahoe
Colorado Springs | El Paso County
Denver | Denver County

According to a 2022 study from the U.S. Census Bureau, this state's local governments consist of 62 counties, 272 cities, towns, and villages, and 3,201 special districts.[1] Broomfield and Denver operate as consolidated city-county governments.

## Elections[edit]

Click the links below for information about the elections held in each municipality. Please note that this is not a comprehensive list of municipalities that held elections each year in this state; click here to learn more about Ballotpedia's local government coverage scope.

### 2026[edit]

See also: United States municipal elections, 2026 and School board elections, 2026

* Denver, Colorado \- Regional transportation district board, district court judges, and county court judges
* Adams County, Colorado \- Assessor, clerk and recorder, cornorer, sheriff, surveyor, treasurer, county commission, regional transportation district board, district court judges, and county court judge
* Arapahoe County, Colorado \- Assessor, clerk and recorder, cornorer, sheriff, treasurer, county commission, district court judges, and county court judges
* El Paso County, Colorado \- Assessor, clerk and recorder, coroner, sheriff, surveyor, treasurer, county commission, district court judges, and county court judges

### 2025[edit]

See also: United States municipal elections, 2025 and School board elections, 2025

* Aurora, Colorado \- City council
* Colorado Springs, Colorado \- City council
* Colorado school board elections

### 2024[edit]

See also: United States municipal elections, 2024 and School board elections, 2024

* Denver, Colorado \- District attorney, Regional Transportation District, district court judges, and county court judge
* Adams County, Colorado \- District attorney, county commission, Regional Transportation District, district court judges, and county court judges
* Arapahoe County, Colorado \- District attorney, county commission, Regional Transportation District, district court judges, and county court judges
* El Paso County, Colorado \- District attorney, county commission, district court judges, and county court judges

### 2023[edit]

See also: United States municipal elections, 2023 and School board elections, 2023

* Aurora, Colorado \- Mayor and city council
* Colorado Springs, Colorado \- Mayor and city council
* Denver, Colorado \- Mayor, city council, city auditor, and city clerk and recorder
* Colorado school board elections

### 2022[edit]

See also: United States municipal elections, 2022 and School board elections, 2022

* Denver, Colorado \- Regional transportion district board member (both regular & special), county court judge, and district court judge
* Adams County, Colorado \- Assessor, clerk and recorder, coroner, sheriff, treasurer, surveyor, county commission, county court judge, and district court judge
* Arapahoe County, Colorado \- Assessor, clerk and recorder, coroner, sheriff, treasurer, county commission, county court judge, and district court judge
* El Paso County, Colorado \- Assessor, clerk and recorder, coroner, sheriff, treasurer, surveyor, county commission, county court judge, and district court judge

### 2021[edit]

See also: United States municipal elections, 2021 and School board elections, 2021

* Aurora, Colorado \- City council
* Colorado Springs, Colorado \- City council
* Colorado school board elections

### 2020[edit]

See also: United States municipal elections, 2020 and School board elections, 2020

* Denver, Colorado \- District attorney, county court judges, district court judges, probate court judge, regional transportation districts
* Adams County, Colorado \- County commissioners, county court judges, district court judges, district attorney
* Arapahoe County, Colorado \- County commissioners, county court judges, district attorney, district court judges, regional transportation districts
* El Paso County, Colorado \- County commissioners, county court judges, district court judges, district attorney

Past elections

### 2019

See also: United States municipal elections, 2019 and School board elections, 2019

* Aurora, Colorado \- Mayor and city council
* Colorado Springs, Colorado \- Mayor and city council
* Denver, Colorado \- Mayor, city auditor, city clerk, and city council
* Colorado school board elections

### 2018

See also: United States municipal elections, 2018 and School board elections, 2018

* Denver, Colorado \- Local court judges
* Adams County, Colorado \- County commissioner, county clerk, county treasurer, county assessor, county sheriff, county surveyor, and county coroner
* Arapahoe County, Colorado \- County commissioner, county clerk, county treasurer, county assessor, county sheriff, and county coroner
* El Paso County, Colorado \- County commissioner, county clerk, county treasurer, county assessor, county sheriff, county surveyor, and county coroner

### 2017

See also: United States municipal elections, 2017 and School board elections, 2017

* Aurora, Colorado
* Colorado Springs, Colorado
* Colorado school board elections

### 2016

See also: United States municipal elections, 2016 and School board elections, 2016

Ballotpedia did not cover any local elections in Colorado that year.

### 2015

See also: United States municipal elections, 2015 and School board elections, 2015

* Aurora, Colorado
* Colorado Springs, Colorado
* Denver, Colorado
* Colorado school board elections

## Initiative process availability[edit]

See also: Laws governing local ballot measures in Colorado

An initiative process is available in all cities and towns. In charter cities, initiative is also available for charter amendments.

In charter counties (Weld and Pitkin) initiative is available for county measures and charter amendments.

Citizens in general law counties do not have broad initiative authority to propose county measures. However, specific state statutes grant a petition process for limited subject matters. For example:

Recall of county elected officials, C.R.S. §1-12-103 & 104; Formation of a home rule charter committee, C.R.S. §30-11-502(1) et seq.; Increasing the number of county commissioners from three to five (in counties having a population greater than 70,000), C.R.S. §30-10-306.5(3)(a); Decreasing the number of county commissioners from five to three (in counties having a population greater than 70,000), C.R.S. §30-10-306.7 (2)(b); Enacting a countywide sales tax ordinance, C.R.S. §29-2-104; Establishment of a county library, C.R.S. §24-90-107(1),(3); Establishment of public improvement district (PID) or a local improvement district (LID), C.R.S. §30-20-501 et seq. and C.R.S. §30-20-601 et seq., respectively; Establishment of various districts, C.R.S. §30-20-801 et seq.[2]

## See also[edit]

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## External links[edit]

* Search Google News for this topic
* Colorado municipal code library
* Colorado state government website

## Footnotes[edit]

1. ↑ U.S. Census Bureau, "2022 Census of Governments – Organization," accessed October 16, 2023
2. ↑ Ballotpedia, "Types & #s of local government by state," September 2012

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