Golden Primary Results 2018: Duran Leads In HD24. JeffCo Races

GOLDEN, CO – Voters exercised their franchise Tuesday in the Democrat and Republican primaries throughout Colorado. Golden procrastinators hurried to their Jefferson County polling places to cast their ballots. Others had already voted by mail.

Some of the tallies took awhile to be calculated, causing some frustration in close statewide races.
All the initial vote tallies had been posted by Wednesday afternoon, except for those in far-western Montrose County, where bar code problems meant Clerk staff had to count by hand.

Attorney General Race
The final counts made it clear that former CU Law professor Phil Weiser had won the primary in a very close race with Joe Salazar. Once the 99% tallies were in, Weiser was top vote-getter with 281,764, or 50.77 percent of the vote, with Salazar receiving 49.23 percent, or 273,218.

Weiser posted a message of unity on his campaign Facebook page.

"My focus as Attorney General will be on building partnerships to solve problems together, working to strengthen community bonds."

Governor race

Walter Stapleton was declared the winner of the Republican primary for Governor, Colorado Politics reported. Stapleton was almost 18 points ahead of the second highest vote-getter, Victor Mitchell, with 82 percent of counties counted.

Jared Polis was top vote-getter for the Democrats with 44.75 percent of the vote, or 264,464. Cary Kennedy had 24.69 percent, or 145,908 votes, and Mike Johnston got 137,617, or 23.39 percent of the votes. Lt. Governor Donna Lynne received 7.28 percent of the votes.

In Golden, U.S. Congressman Ed Perlmutter and GOP candidate Mark Barrington ran unopposed. But voters found some primary contests on their ballots.

State House Dist. 24 Democrat Primary – Winner Monica Duran

Wheat Ridge city council member Monica Duran beat former Edgewater Mayor Kris Teegardin in the 24th District House seat, after Rep. Jessie Danielson has jumped into the race for State Senate District 20, where she is running unopposed after Cheri Jahn said she would step down. Duran, who had the endorsement of Danielson, as well as Colorado House Speaker Crisanta Duran (no relation), was the top vote getter with 54 percent of the vote in early tallies. Teegardin received 46 percent. Duran will face JeffCo Republican Arthur Erwin.

Here are updated results for 2018 primary races June 26.

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