Colorado Governor 2026
Election day is November 3, 2026. A statewide contest in Colorado.
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What the Colorado Governor election decides
State government decides most of what touches daily life directly: schools, roads, policing, public health, utilities regulation, and the state's share of healthcare programs. A governor's veto and budget proposal set the boundaries of what a legislature can do.
A governor signs or vetoes state law, proposes the state budget, commands the state's emergency response, and in most states shapes how elections themselves are administered. Colorado decides this alongside its 8 House seats and a U.S. Senate seat. Governors are judged on results inside the state rather than on national mood alone, which is why governor's races often break differently from federal contests held the same day.
How Colorado votes
Colorado blends a booming Front Range corridor from Denver to Fort Collins with ranching and energy country on the plains and Western Slope. It has trended Democratic statewide while retaining a strong independent registration and an outdoors-and-growth politics of its own. That backdrop is the ground any Colorado campaign fights on, and it is what the Electorate HQ simulation reads first when it weighs a ticket's platform against this contest.
About this race
The 2026 Colorado gubernatorial election was held on November 3, 2026, to elect the governor of Colorado. Incumbent Democratic governor Jared Polis is ineligible to seek re-election to a third consecutive term. Primary elections took place on June 30, 2026. Colorado Attorney General Phil Weiser is projected to have defeated Republican nominee and Marine Corps veteran Victor Marx.
In the Democratic primary, Colorado Attorney General Weiser defeated U.S. senator Michael Bennet. Weiser will be the second consecutive Jewish governor after Polis. The Republican Party has not won a gubernatorial election in Colorado since 2002 nor a statewide office since 2016. Republican nominee Marx's candidacy was mired in controversy; Marx has made a number of dubious claims and has notably stated he is unsure how many people he has killed. Leading to the Republican primary, both of Marx's opponents indicated they would refuse to endorse him if he won the nomination.
Democratic primary
Latest coverage of the Colorado Governor race
AP calls Colorado’s gubernatorial race for Weiser one minute after polls closeColorado 2026 Election ResultsColorado primary election results 2026Democrat Phil Weiser elected Colorado governorColorado governor | Weiser, Marx and Lopez vie for top state seatDemocrat Phil Weiser easily beats Republican Victor Marx to become Colorado’s next governorColorado Gubernatorial Candidate: Democrat Phil WeiserRepublican Victor Marx says Colorado voters are ready for changeThe rest of the Colorado ballot
Every Colorado House district, the counties inside each one, and an address lookup that resolves your exact districts are on the Colorado state page.
Other 2026 races in Colorado
Analysis covering Colorado
One seat covers 34 square kilometres. One seat covers 1,713,379.
New York's 12th and Alaska's at-large seat each elect one member of the House. On the ground, one is fifty thousand times the size of the other.
Twenty-six states elect a senator and a governor on the same day in 2026
The overlap between the Senate class and the gubernatorial cohort is a coincidence of two unrelated calendars, and it decides where money goes.