Happy Election Day! By 7 p.m., Denverites will have at least a slightly better idea of who will be the city’s next mayor, what the next City Council will look like and if housing and other development will be allowed on the Park Hill golf course
That doesn’t mean voters will have all the answers tonight. Many races could be too close to call including the mayor’s contest in which 16 candidates are vying to finish in the two top places and make it to a runoff election that would conclude on June 6.
The first batch of unofficial results will be released at 7 p.m., according to the city’s election division. Counting is unlikely to be finished tonight, according to Lucille Wenegieme, spokeswoman for the Denver Office of the Clerk and Recorder. Denver voters’ propensity for voting later led to ballots being counted for more than a week in the November 2022 election. Roughly half of all votes were cast on Election Day or the day before in that contest.
In a news release accompanying those figures, Clerk Paul López cautioned that results would only come as fast as ballots do.