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Election Results

Results from yesterday’s election are trickling in.

A statewide ballot measure, Proposition HH, which would lower property tax rates over the next 10 years, is failing to pass. About 60% of Coloradans voted against it and about 40% voted for it.

The other statewide ballot measure, Proposition II, is passing, with 66% of voters for it while 33% voted against it. Proposition II will allow the government to use tobacco and nicotine product tax for the Universal Preschool Program.

Ballot Issue 2A, allowing the city of Boulder to allocate half of sales tax towards the funding of arts and culture, is passing. The other half will go into the city’s general fund. About 73% of voters were for the measure, with about 27% voting against it.

Boulder’s Safe Zones 4 Kids, also appears to be passing. The measure proposes an amendment to an existing provision, prohibiting tents and propane tanks from being located closer than 500 feet from a school and fifty feet from a sidewalk About 62% of voters approved the measure while about 38% voted against it.

In Boulder, Bob Yates is in the lead by a small margin in the mayoral race and in Longmont, incumbent Joan Peck leads in her re-election for mayor.

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