Lakewood Primary Results 2018: Tipper Leads In H28. JeffCo Races.

LAKEWOOD, CO –Lakewood procrastinators hurried to their Jefferson County polling places to cast their ballots on Tuesday in the Democratic and Republican primaries for the November 2018 election. 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.

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

State House Rep Dist. 28 Democrat Primary - Tipper Wins

Kerry Tipper, the daughter of beloved Lakewood English teacher Edward Tipper, a WWII vet whose story was told in the film Band of Brothers, was the top vote-getter in the race for House Rep Dist. 28 with around 66 percent of the vote, in early counts. She beat the candidate formerly known as Lakewood city council member Shakti, who had 34 percent. Brittany Petterson has jumped into the state senate race for District 22, where she is running unopposed in the primary. Tipper will face Republican Kristina Joy Alley, who's running in the primary unopposed.

Here are updated results for 2018 primary races June 26.

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