Hart Van Denburg/CPR NewsAs his mom Hollie Wood, carries him, little Trace Walker Wood, 6 months old, waits patiently for her, and dad Cody Wood, vote on Election Day at Castle Rock Library, Nov. 5, 2024. Castle Rock is in Colorado’s 4th District, which sent Republican Lauren Boebert back to Congress.
From first-time voters to seasoned politicians, Coloradans across the state turned out on Nov. 5 to cast their ballots and watch 2024 election results roll in.
Here are some people we met and events we saw on Nov. 5, 2024 — Election Day.
Dan Boyce/CPR NewsColorado Springs Mayor Yemi Mobolade watches results come in for local road issue 2C at the El Paso County GOP election night watch party. The issue passed with 73% of the vote.
Kevin J. Beaty/DenveriteSnow falls over Number 38, the RiNo bar in Denver where Democrats held an election-night watch party.
Dan Boyce/CPR NewsA Jeff Crank supporter watching as election results come in at Boot Barn Hall, Colorado Springs.
Hart Van Denburg/CPR NewsVoters on Election Day, including one in military uniform, at the busy Centre Point polling station in Aurora.
Hart Van Denburg/CPR NewsIn Aurora, Abdulrahman Hassan, at left, helps his mother Maandeeq Barkhadle cast her ballot at the busy Centre Point polling station on Election Day.
Hart Van Denburg/CPR NewsElection judges, at right, check in voters early on Election Day at the Castle Rock Library polling station.
Kevin J. Beaty/DenveriteDenver Elections' polling station at the Southwest Recreation Center in Marston.
Sam Brasch/CPR NewsSara Haveman, 31, voted in the U.S. for the first time in her life on Tuesday at a Lakewood polling place. Canadian by birth, she has lived in the U.S. for much of her life, but just became a citizen on Monday and proudly shows off her naturalization certificate.
Hart Van Denburg/CPR NewsElection Day workers load full ballot boxes into a van at Centre Point in Aurora, to be taken for counting.
Kevin J. Beaty/DenveriteSen. Michael Bennet speaks during the Colorado Democratic Party's election-night watch party at Number 38, in RiNo, Denver.
Kevin J. Beaty/DenveriteRep. Jason Crow gives a victory speech during the Colorado Democratic Party's election-night watch party at Number 38, in RiNo.
Hart Van Denburg/CPR NewsRepublican activist David Cook shows off his Donald Trump cowboy hat and t-shirt at Lauren Boebert’s Election Day watch party, in Windsor, at The Grainhouse. Cook’s shirt features an image of Trump after he survived an assassination attempt earlier in the campaign.
Hart Van Denburg/CPR NewsRepublican Lauren Boebert with a Make America Great Again hat, at a watch party in Windsor, Colorado, on Election Day evening as she awaited results that will determine whether she represents the Fourth District in the U.S. House.
Dan Boyce/CPR NewsColorado's 5th Congressional Republican candidate Jeff Crank speaking with some “young Republicans” at the GOP watch Party at Boot Barn Hall, Colorado Springs
Tony Gorman/CPR NewsIt’s hugs and high-fives all around for Donald Trump pulling ahead in the electoral map at JJ’s Place in Aurora on election night, Nov. 5, 2024.
Tom Hesse/CPR NewsRepublican congressional candidate Jeff Hurd speaks with a supporter at his election night watch party. Hurd and Democrat Adam Frisch both ended their watch parties Tuesday night with calls for patience as the race remains undecided. Hurd led by more than 8,000 votes, 2.78 percent of the vote so far, when he told supporters they could call it a night.
Hart Van Denburg/CPR NewsRepublican candidate for Congress Gabe Evans, center, shares a light moment with supporter Allen Campbell, left, on Election Day evening at his watch party at Bella Sera Event Center in Brighton. He’s in a too-tight-to-call race with Democratic incumbent Yadira Caraveo in Colorado’s 8th District.
Hart Van Denburg/CPR NewsAn impromptu prayer circle takes place at Republican candidate for Congress Gabe Evans’s watch party on Election Day evening in Brighton.
Kevin J. Beaty/DenveriteLindsay Johnson Baumgartner (second from left) reacts to ongoing coverage of the U.S. presidential election with her friends, during the Colorado Democratic Party's election-night watch party at Number 38, in Denver.
Hart Van Denburg/CPR NewsAs she watches Fox News coverage of Election Day with a packed room of supporters at the Grainhouse in Windsor, Republican Lauren Boebert waits to learn whether voters will send her to Congress in former Rep. Ken Buck’s 4th District, which covers the Eastern Plains of Colorado. She previously represented the 3rd District.
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