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Colorado early vote 2026

State file of Oct 23 · Colorado Secretary of State, daily ballot-return workbooks ↗ · newest count via civicAPI ↗

On the ballot in Colorado: Senate forecast → · Governor forecast →

Newest count from civicAPI, Oct 24 Colorado's own file runs through Oct 22. civicAPI, which compiles counts from state and county election offices, had a newer one, shown as the last day; the state's own file takes over again once it catches up.

Ballots returned824,754through Oct 24 · +94,140 since Oct 22
Registered D–R gapD+8.1among ballots returned
Day of voting2310 days to Election Day

Where it stands

  • 2026Oct 24 · day 23824,754D+8.1
  • 2022 finalall early ballots, Nov 8, 20222,444,585D+2.2

Dem 269,463Rep 202,286Unaff. 353,005

Colorado's counts were recorded here from Oct 19, day 18 of voting. The chart starts once 7 days can be set beside 2022 or 2024; 4 so far.

Against whole elections

So far, Colorado’s early ballots equal 33% of all votes cast for U.S. Senate in 2022 and 26% of all votes cast for President in 2024.

  • 2026 so farearly ballots returned824,754
  • 2022 all votescast for U.S. Senate2,500,201
Early ballots by party registration, and the result
YearEarly ballots, finalResult
2022D+2.2D+14.6 U.S. Senate
2024D+1.8D+11.0 President

Registration is not a vote, and the result also counts every ballot cast on Election Day. Results: Federal Election Commission, Federal Elections 2022; Federal Election Commission, Official 2024 Presidential General Election Results.

Where the ballots are

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Each bar is a place’s ballots against the largest place’s, split by party registration: Democrats, unaffiliated, Republicans. The figure at the end is the D–R gap. All ballots in this year’s file.

Last column: this year's ballots as a share of the county's whole 2022 early vote.

  1. Jefferson87,114D+14.129%
  2. El Paso86,614R+8.830%
  3. Arapahoe71,706D+14.928%
  4. Douglas62,747R+8.032%
  5. Denver62,356D+42.722%
  6. Larimer56,601D+11.938%
  7. Boulder50,423D+38.730%
  8. Adams45,744D+14.733%
  9. Weld36,248R+10.531%
  10. Mesa25,818R+17.235%

Mail or in person

Mail 819,524 99.4%In person 5,230 0.6%

In-person early voting: Oct 19 to Nov 3. Colorado mails every voter a ballot; voter service centers open for in-person voting from Oct 19.

Known

  • 824,754 ballots returnedthrough Oct 24
  • Each ballot's party registration
  • Mail or in person
  • On 5 daysthe state's page as read each day since Oct 19; the newest, Oct 24, from civicAPI
  • By 64 counties
  • Voters' age and gender

Not known

  • How anyone votedballots stay sealed until they are counted
  • How unaffiliated voters lean353,005, 43% of ballots
  • Election Day turnout
  • Mail ballots still outrequested or sent and not yet returned; not read from the state's file yet
  • Ballots reported after Oct 25
  • How day 23 of voting compares with 2022 or 2024no count survives for that day

Who has voted

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Shares of the ballots in this year’s file. A tick and the small figure: the same group's share of all 2022 early ballots, where the bands match.

Age

  • 18-243.5%5.9%
  • 25-346.7%13.5%
  • 35-4410.6%16.4%
  • 45-5411.9%16.2%
  • 55-6417.3%18.6%
  • 65-7426.5%18%
  • 75+23.6%11.4%

Gender

  • Men48.3%
  • Women51.5%
  • X0.2%
How Colorado is counted and compared

Mail ballots went out 10 days later in 2022 (22 days before that election, against 32 this year), so 2022 had had less time by this point.

Mail ballots went out 7 days later in 2024 (25 days before that election, against 32 this year), so 2024 had had less time by this point.

  • 2022 is read at the same number of days before the election. Colorado mails every voter a ballot, and most come back in the last days before the election whenever they were mailed. This year clerks began mailing 32 days before the election, against 22 in 2022 and 25 in 2024, so lining up the first day of voting read this year's count ten days out against 2022's final count (−66%, 2026-10-25). The years are read at the same number of days before the election instead.
  • 2024 is read at the same number of days before the election. Colorado mails every voter a ballot, and most come back in the last days before the election whenever they were mailed. This year clerks began mailing 32 days before the election, against 22 in 2022 and 25 in 2024, so lining up the first day of voting read this year's count ten days out against 2022's final count (−66%, 2026-10-25). The years are read at the same number of days before the election instead.
  • Counts every ballot returned to a county clerk (mail, drop box or in person), as published in the Secretary of State's daily ElectionActivity workbook; returns are not yet checked for signature acceptance.
  • Each row is a published snapshot dated by the day its data runs through (as of 11:59 PM); days without a release (weekends, mostly) are gaps, not carried forward.
  • Colorado mails every active voter a ballot, so mail returns dominate and in-person voting is concentrated on the last days.
  • U is unaffiliated plus every minor party (Libertarian, Green, American Constitution, Approval Voting, Center, Forward, No Labels, Unity).
  • Age uses Colorado's bands (18-24 ... 75+); pre-registrants under 18 are counted as 18-24. Gender X is the state's non-binary marker.
  • County clerks mailed ballots October 2-9, 2026; voter service and polling centers open by October 19.
  • 2024: Counts every ballot returned to a county clerk (mail, drop box or in person), as published in the Secretary of State's daily ElectionActivity workbook; returns are not yet checked for signature acceptance.
  • 2024: Each row is a published snapshot dated by the day its data runs through (as of 11:59 PM); days without a release (weekends, mostly) are gaps, not carried forward.
  • 2024: Colorado mails every active voter a ballot, so mail returns dominate and in-person voting is concentrated on the last days.
  • 2024: U is unaffiliated plus every minor party (Libertarian, Green, American Constitution, Approval Voting, Center, Forward, No Labels, Unity).
  • 2024: Age uses Colorado's bands (18-24 ... 75+); pre-registrants under 18 are counted as 18-24. Gender X is the state's non-binary marker.
  • 2024: Daily releases began October 23, 2024 (data through October 22, 14 days out); there is no published count earlier in the window.
  • 2024: There is no count through November 4, 2024: the release that morning ran through November 3, and the next was 9 AM on Election Day (superseded by that day's 11:59 PM count).
  • 2024: The series ends with the 11:59 PM Election Day count; later releases add ballots processed after Election Day and are left out.
  • 2022: Counts every ballot returned to a county clerk (mail, drop box or in person), as published in the Secretary of State's daily ElectionActivity workbook; returns are not yet checked for signature acceptance.
  • 2022: Each row is a published snapshot dated by the day its data runs through (as of 11:59 PM); days without a release (weekends, mostly) are gaps, not carried forward.
  • 2022: Colorado mails every active voter a ballot, so mail returns dominate and in-person voting is concentrated on the last days.
  • 2022: U is unaffiliated plus every minor party (Libertarian, Green, American Constitution, Approval Voting, Center, Forward, No Labels, Unity).
  • 2022: Age uses Colorado's bands (18-24 ... 75+); pre-registrants under 18 are counted as 18-24. Gender X is the state's non-binary marker.
  • 2022: Daily releases began October 25, 2022 (data through October 24, 15 days out); there is no published count earlier in the window.
  • 2022: The series ends with the 11:59 PM Election Day count; later releases add ballots processed after Election Day and are left out.

Last checked Counts change only when a state has posted a new file.

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