Elections Division
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Election History: Introduction and Explanation
The results available on this website are for elections held in Boulder County, Colorado, and reflect only those votes cast in Boulder County -- NOT
STATEWIDE. They are provided by the Boulder County Clerk's office for your
information, but should not be considered official results.
What follows in the Introduction/Explanation is a
guide to interpreting the Election Results pages. If you are familiar with these pages and
how results are presented, then you will probably want to skip
the introduction/explanation and go directly to the List
of Available Results to select a particular election.
For the 2006 and 2007 Elections~
The lefthand column has a series of links to registration/turnout
figures or to specific contests.
For registration/turnout, the right-hand column shows the total number
of active registered voters, the total number of ballots cast, and
how many ballots of each type were voted (precinct, early voting,
absentee). For contests, to the right of each choice is the number
of votes counted for that choice, followed by its percentage of the
total votes for the contest. The percentage is calculated by dividing
the number of votes received by the number of votes counted. Blank
votes and over votes are not included in the percentages.
For the 2004 and 2005 Elections~
The lefthand column has a series of links to registration/turnout
figures or to specific contests. The column can be scrolled up or
down.
For registration/turnout, the right-hand column shows the total number
of active registered voters, the total number of ballots cast, and how many
ballots of each type were voted (precinct, early voting, absentee).
For contests, to the right of each choice is the number
of votes counted for that choice, followed by its percentage of the total votes for the
contest. The percentage is calculated by dividing the number of votes received by the
number of votes counted. Blank votes and over votes are not included in the
percentages. This column can also be scrolled up or down.
For the 2001 and 2003 Coordinated Mail Ballot
Elections~
Election results are presented as a set of similar or
related contests, questions or issues - e.g., state contests, county questions and issues.
Each contest/question is shown with a contest/question title, followed by a list of
choices (candidates for races, yes/no for questions), as illustrated below.
| CONTEST TITLE |
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|
|
Total |
| Number of
Precincts |
|
25 |
|
| Precincts
Reporting |
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25 |
100.00% |
| Times
Counted |
|
1162/4237 |
27.43% |
| Total Votes |
|
1039 |
|
| Times Blank
Voted |
|
123 |
|
| Times Over
Voted |
|
0 |
|
|
| CANDIDATE #1 |
|
473 |
45.52% |
| CANDIDATE #2 |
|
566 |
54.48% |
| QUESTION TITLE |
|
|
|
|
Total |
| Number of
Precincts |
|
229 |
|
| Precincts
Reporting |
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229 |
100.00% |
| Times
Counted |
|
35716/154617 |
23.10% |
| Total Votes |
|
35009 |
|
| Times Blank
Voted |
|
704 |
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| Times Over
Voted |
|
3 |
|
|
| YES |
|
19725 |
56.34% |
| NO |
|
15284 |
43.66% |
For each contest/question,
Number of Precincts - number of total
precincts for the particular jurisdiction (e.g., the City of Boulder, the
St. Vrain School District, etc.)
Precincts Reporting - number of precincts
counted for the jurisdiction. For the mail ballot election, ballots
are counted County-wide and not separated by precinct before counting.
Because of this type of counting, all precincts report automatically as
having voted.
Times Counted - voter turnout, shown as a
fraction of the number of ballots
cast divided by the number of active
registered voters in the jurisdiction
(see below for an explanation of "active"
and "inactive" voters). The turnout percentage is shown to the right.
Total Votes - total number of votes
counted
Times Blank Voted - number of blank votes (no choice made)
Times Over Voted - number of overvotes
(too many choices made for a contest, e.g. both "yes" and "no"
selected for a question)
To the right of each choice for the contest is the number
of votes counted for that choice, followed by its percentage of the total vote for the
contest. The percentage is calculated by dividing the number of votes received by the
number of votes counted. Blank votes and overvotes are not included in the
percentages.
For all other
Elections:
Election results are presented as a set of similar or
related contests, questions or issues - e.g., state contests, county questions and issues.
Each contest/question is shown with a contest/question title, followed by a list of
choices (candidates for races, yes/no for questions), as illustrated below.
| CONTEST TITLE |
91
/ 208 / 43.8% |
| CANDIDATE #1 |
1174 |
43.5% |
| CANDIDATE #2 |
1527 |
56.5% |
| QUESTION TITLE |
156
/ 208 / 75.0% |
| QUESTION |
YES 3135 |
43.3% |
| DESCRIPTION |
NO
2978 |
41.1% |
To the right of CONTEST/QUESTION TITLE are
a set of three figures, separated by slash (/) characters. These are shown here in color
(red, blue, magenta) for purposes of illustration, but do not appear as such on the
election results pages.
The first (red 91 or 156) is the number of precincts counted as of the time the report
was generated (every 5 - 10 minutes during ballot counting), and the second (blue 208) is the total number of precincts that will be counted by the
end. The last (magenta 43.8% or 75.0%) is the percentage of all precincts counted thus far.
To the right of each choice for the contest is the number
of votes counted for that choice, followed by its percentage of the total vote for the
contest. The percentage is calculated by dividing the number of votes received by the
number of voters. For elections before November 1998, the percentages for the choices
typically do not add up to 100%, due to blank votes (no choice made) and overvotes
(too many choices made for a contest, e.g. both "yes" and "no"
selected for a question). This was also true when voters were asked to vote for more than
one candidate in a contest, as in city council races. Starting with the 1998 General
Election, blank votes and overvotes were not included in the percentages, so the choices
for the elections since then add up to 100%.
For registration and turnout figures, see the statistical
blocks at the end of the contests for each party or jurisdiction, as illustrated here.
REGISTRATION AND
TURNOUT (party/jurisdiction)
REGISTERED
VOTERS
67301
BALLOTS
CAST
7502 11.1
The figure shown as REGISTERED VOTERS
above includes all active and inactive
voters in Boulder County for elections prior to the March 2000 Presidential Primary. For
elections since
then, only the number of active voters is shown.
[A voter is inactive if they did not vote in the
previous General Election and have not responded to any subsequent mailings to update
their record.]
The percentage shown to the right of BALLOTS CAST is
calculated by dividing the number of ballots cast by the number of registered voters in
the counted precincts.
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