![]() Stay with Colorado Politics online and in next week's print edition for coverage of election results. “I think that does have a driving effect.” Floyd Ciruli, a leading political pollster in the state with Ciruli Associates, said local media outlets don’t conduct the polls they once did and industry consolidation has taken survey jobs. “I think it’s going to increase voter participation," said Brown, who opposes the measure. She also said to watch for a late spike in ballots returned from the northeast neighborhoods of Montbello and Green Valley Ranch, where residents traditionally have waited until the last days before voting.īrown and Ciruli both said they expect the well-funding opposition to Initiative 300 – which would repeal the city’s ban on urban camping and give the homeless the right to live on the street – will drive some voters to the polls. ![]() This year, Giellis, a Platt Park resident, is the only candidate who lives below Sixth Avenue, although she is best known for her work in the River North neighborhood.Ĭiruli said one thing to watch is how the mayoral candidates fare in that part of Denver.īartels said to watch for a heavier than usual turnout in northwest Denver’s District 1 where seven candidates are vying for an open city council seat. Hancock finished second that May but then defeated former state lawmaker Chris Romer in the runoff by 16 points.Ĭiruli pointed out that historically most of the ballots in Denver elections are cast by voters who live south of Sixth Avenue.īrown added that those voters tend to vote early and lean more conservative than the city overall. That year saw a 38.9% turnout by election day. That’s less than half of the 19.72% of ballots returned by the same day in the 2011 municipal election in which there was an open seat for mayor. Fritz Mayer, left, dean of the dean of the Josef Korbel School of International Studies at the University of Denver, and Floyd Ciruli, founder and director fo the Crossley Center for Public Opinion Research at DU, analyzed 2020 election results against expectations on Wednesday, Nov. As of April 30, just under 8.8% of the mail ballots had been returned. Bartels said she expects there will be an “incredibly low” turnout – even for a spring municipal election that normally averages about a 30 percent turnout of registered voters.Įarly numbers on ballots returned to the Denver Elections Division seem to bear this out.
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