Overview
- With about 83% of ballots reported on Wednesday, the Associated Press had not called the race and Eileen Laubacher held roughly 49.2% to Lauren Boebert’s 47.7%.
- The gap between Laubacher and Boebert was about 5,000 votes in mid-count totals and is smaller than the Libertarian candidate Douglas Mangeris’s reported 10,717 votes, making those votes consequential to the final result.
- Lauren Boebert is the Republican incumbent running for a fourth term who relocated to the 4th District after recent personal controversies, and she was photographed appearing relaxed at her election-night watch party as counts shifted.
- Eileen Laubacher is a longtime military and public servant who recently registered as a Democrat after earlier affiliations and mounted a close challenge in a district long held by Republicans.
- The 4th District has not elected a Democrat since 2008 so a Laubacher victory would signal a local partisan shift, but thousands of ballots—many remaining in Douglas and Larimer counties—still must be tallied before a winner is declared.