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2022 Colorado Elections
A general election was held in the U.S. state of Colorado on November 8, 2022. All of Colorado's executive officers were up for election, as well as all of Colorado's seats in the United States House of Representatives, and Colorado's U.S. Senate seat currently occupied by Michael Bennet. The Colorado Democratic Party had a very successful election, sweeping every statewide race by a double-digit margin. The party 2022 United States Senate election in Colorado, easily maintained control of the state's Class 3 United States Senate, U.S. Senate seat and all state executive offices, 2022 Colorado gubernatorial election, including the governorship. Democrats expanded their majorities in both chambers of the Colorado General Assembly, General Assembly and won five of eight United States House of Representatives, U.S. House districts, including winning the newly drawn Colorado's 8th congressional district, 8th district in an upset and nearly flipping the Republican-leaning Colorado's ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Colorado
Colorado is a U.S. state, state in the Western United States. It is one of the Mountain states, sharing the Four Corners region with Arizona, New Mexico, and Utah. It is also bordered by Wyoming to the north, Nebraska to the northeast, Kansas to the east, and Oklahoma to the southeast. Colorado is noted for its landscape of mountains, forests, High Plains (United States), high plains, mesas, canyons, plateaus, rivers, and desert lands. It encompasses most of the Southern Rocky Mountains, as well as the northeastern portion of the Colorado Plateau and the western edge of the Great Plains. Colorado is the List of U.S. states and territories by area, eighth-largest U.S. state by area and the List of U.S. states and territories by population, 21st by population. The United States Census Bureau estimated the population of Colorado to be 5,957,493 as of July 1, 2024, a 3.2% increase from the 2020 United States census. The region has been inhabited by Native Americans in the United St ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lauren Boebert
Lauren Opal Boebert ( ; ; born December 19, 1986) is an American politician, businesswoman, and gun rights activist serving as the U.S. representative for beginning in 2025, having previously represented from 2021 to 2025. From 2013 to 2022, she owned Shooters Grill, a restaurant in Rifle, Colorado, where staff members were encouraged to carry firearms openly. A member of the Republican Party, Boebert is known for her gun rights advocacy. In 2020, she unexpectedly defeated incumbent Scott Tipton in the primaries of Colorado's 3rd congressional district and won the general election over Democratic nominee Diane Mitsch Bush. In Congress, Boebert has associated herself with the conservative Republican Study Committee, the right-wing Freedom Caucus, of which she became the communications chair in January 2022, and the pro-gun Second Amendment Caucus. She won reelection in 2022 by a narrow margin of 546 votes against former Aspen City Council member Adam Frisch. Boebert was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jena Griswold
Jena Marie Griswold (born October 2, 1984) is an American attorney and politician from the state of Colorado. A Democrat, she is the 39th Colorado Secretary of State, serving since January 8, 2019. She is the first Democrat to be elected Secretary of State of Colorado since 1958. Early life and career Griswold was born in a Jewish family in Toledo, Ohio, and moved to Estes Park, Colorado, at the age of 10. She graduated from Estes Park High School in 2002. She graduated from Whitman College magna cum laude with a Bachelor of Arts in Politics and Spanish Literature in 2006. She graduated from the University of Pennsylvania Law School with a Juris Doctor in 2011. In 2006, Griswold was awarded the Watson Foundation Fellowship, and in 2009, the Penn Law International Human Rights Fellowship. Griswold moved to Washington, D.C. in 2011, and worked for President Barack Obama's 2012 campaign as a voter protection attorney. In 2013, Governor John Hickenlooper appointed her to be h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Phil Weiser
Philip Jacob Weiser (born May 10, 1968) is an American lawyer and politician who has served as the 39th Attorney General of Colorado since 2019. He is the Hatfield Professor of Law and Telecommunications, executive director and Founder of the Silicon Flatirons Center for Law, Technology, and Entrepreneurship, and Dean Emeritus at the University of Colorado Law School.Professor Philip J. Weiser faculty profile University of Colorado. Retrieved September 15, 2017. He previously served in the Presidency of Barack Obama, Obama and Presidency of Bill Clinton, Clinton Administrations in the White House and United States Department of Justice, Justice Department. A member of the Democratic Party, he was elected Colorado Attorney General, Attorney General for the State of Colorado in the 2018 Colorado Atto ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Heidi Ganahl
Heidi Ganahl (born September 9, 1966) is an American businesswoman, entrepreneur, author, and formerly an elected member of the University of Colorado Board of Regents. She is the founder and former CEO of Camp Bow Wow, an international pet care franchise. In November 2016, she was elected Regent of the University of Colorado. As of , she is the most recent Republican to hold statewide office in Colorado. Ganahl was the Republican nominee for governor of Colorado in the 2022 election, losing to Democrat Jared Polis. Background and education Ganahl was born in Orange County, California where she lived until she was 12. Her family then moved to Monument, Colorado, where she attended Lewis-Palmer High School. She earned a bachelor's degree in business from the University of Colorado Boulder, followed by a master's degree in healthcare administration from the University of Denver. In the spring of 1994, her husband, Bion Flammang, died in a plane crash. Career In her early year ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jared Polis
Jared Schutz Polis ( ; ; born May 12, 1975) is an American politician and businessman serving as the 43rd governor of Colorado since 2019. He served one term on the Colorado State Board of Education from 2001 to 2007, and five terms as the United States House of Representatives, United States representative from from 2009 to 2019. He was the only Democratic Party (United States), Democratic member of the libertarian conservatism, libertarian conservative Liberty Caucus, and was the third-wealthiest member of United States Congress, Congress, with an estimated net worth of $122.6 million. He was elected governor of Colorado in 2018 Colorado gubernatorial election, 2018 and 2022 Colorado gubernatorial election, reelected in 2022. As an openly gay man, Polis has made history several times through his electoral success. In 2008, he became the List of LGBT members of the United States Congress, first openly gay man and second openly LGBT person (after Tammy Baldwin) elected to United ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Barbara Kirkmeyer
Barbara Jean Kirkmeyer (born September 15, 1958) is an American politician serving as a member of the Colorado Senate for District 23, which encompasses parts of Weld and Larimer counties in north-central Colorado. She was the Republican nominee for Colorado's 8th congressional district in the 2022 election, losing to Yadira Caraveo in a close race. Kirkmeyer declined to run for the U.S. House in 2024, instead running for re-election. Early life and education Kirkmeyer has lived in Weld County for 40 years. She earned a Bachelor of Science degree in physical education from the University of Colorado Boulder in 1980. Career Kirkmeyer served for a total of 19 years as a County Commissioner for Weld County, Colorado, having been elected and re-elected five times. Representing the third district, she served from 1993 to 2000 and again from 2009 to 2020. In the interim, Kirkmeyer served as acting director of the Colorado Department of Local Affairs under Colorado Governor Bil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yadira Caraveo
Yadira D. Caraveo ( ; born December 23, 1980) is an American politician and pediatrician who served as the U.S. representative for from 2023 to 2025. A Democrat, she was Colorado's first Latina member of Congress. She represented the 31st district in the Colorado House of Representatives from 2019 to 2023. The district covered parts of Adams and Weld counties. Caraveo lost re-election in 2024 to Republican Gabe Evans. In April 2025, she announced that she will run for her old seat in 2026. Early life and education Caraveo was born in Denver to Mexican undocumented parents who arrived in the 1970s but were granted amnesty under the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986. She volunteered for Barack Obama's 2008 presidential campaign while in medical school. She received her bachelor's degree from Regis University and later her Doctor of Medicine degree from the University of Colorado School of Medicine. Caraveo completed a residency in pediatrics at the Univer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brittany Pettersen
Brittany Louise Pettersen (born December 6, 1981) is an American politician serving as the U.S. representative from Colorado's 7th congressional district since 2023. She previously served as a member of the Colorado Senate from the 22nd district, and in the Colorado House of Representatives, representing the 28th district. She is a member of the Democratic Party. Education Pettersen earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in political science from the Metropolitan State University of Denver. Early political career Before running for state representative, Pettersen worked for New Era Colorado, a nonprofit progressive political advocacy group that works to increase youth participation in politics and the government process. 2013 legislative session In 2013, Pettersen opposed a repeal of the death penalty in Colorado. 2019 recall effort In July 2019, the Colorado secretary of state approved the circulation of a recall petition against Pettersen. The recall's organizers had until Se ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ed Perlmutter
Edwin George Perlmutter (born May 1, 1953) is an American lawyer and politician who served as the U.S. representative for from 2007 to 2023. A member of the Democratic Party, his district was located in the northern and western suburbs of the Denver metropolitan area. He previously served as the Colorado state senator from the 20th district from 1995 to 2003. On January 10, 2022, he announced he would not seek re-election in 2022. Early life, education, and career Perlmutter was born in Denver, the son of Alice Love (née Bristow) and Leonard Michael Perlmutter on May 1, 1953. His father was Jewish, the son of immigrants from Poland; his mother was Christian, and was of English and Irish descent. Perlmutter describes himself as a Christian. Perlmutter graduated from Jefferson High School in Edgewater, Colorado and went on to graduate from the University of Colorado at Boulder in 1975. He received his Juris Doctor at Colorado in 1978. Colorado Senate Perlmutter was a Colorado ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jason Crow
Jason Crow (born March 15, 1979) is an American politician, lawyer, and former U.S. Army officer serving since 2019 as the United States representative for . Crow is the first member of the Democratic Party to represent the district, which encompasses eastern and southern portions of the Denver metropolitan area, including Aurora, Littleton and Centennial. During his first term in Congress, Crow was an impeachment manager for President Donald Trump's first impeachment trial. Early life and career Crow was born in Madison, Wisconsin, in 1979. He earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Wisconsin–Madison in 2002, and a Juris Doctor from the University of Denver Sturm College of Law in 2009. Crow is a former Army Ranger. He completed three tours of duty in Iraq and Afghanistan as part of the 82nd Airborne Division and 75th Ranger Regiment. In 2003, as a platoon leader in the 82nd Airborne Division, he participated in the Battle of Samawah and was a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
