Colorado off-year election turnout dips slightly in 2025

After a strong start in October, the pace of Colorado ballot returns slackened in the days leading up to Election Day this week, putting 2025 on pace for a middle-of-the-road turnout figure for an off-year election.

As of 11:59 p.m. on Wednesday, elections officials had counted a statewide total of 1,729,345 ballots, according to data released by the Colorado secretary of state’s office. That’s a slightly higher raw ballot total than had been counted at the same point in 2023 — but it represents 41.8% of the state’s 4.1 million active registered voters, a slight dip from the 43.5% turnout recorded two years ago.

Turnout will likely rise slightly in the coming days as ballots from military and overseas voters are added to the total, and as ballots are “cured” after being rejected because of signature discrepancies or other issues.

The 2025 election was the sixth off-year election held using the Colorado’s universal mail ballot system, which it adopted in 2014. As usual, the overwhelming majority of Colorado voters have opted to return their ballots through the mail or a drop box, with just over 30,000 voters — 1.7% of the total — casting a ballot in-person.


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