Last updated Monday, November 9, 2026, with unofficial results
The counts below are the unofficial ones from the November 3 election, the latest posted as of Saturday, November 7. The counties finish their canvass by November 25. Seven of the 14 statewide measures are passing, and so are the rail tax (7A) and the two fire district taxes (7C and 7D). Jeffco schools' 5B is failing, and 5A, five votes apart district-wide, isn't settled.
Two neighbors in 80127 opened their ballots this October and found different lengths of paper. Most of the zip is unincorporated Jefferson County, so the City of Littleton's questions never reached it, and which fire district or water district you pay decided which local questions you saw. This page sorts the November 3 ballot by who voted on what, in plain English, with what each measure does and what it costs where the certified paperwork says. Every entry comes from the certifying body's own document, not from a campaign.
This page covers ballot measures only. Hogback Post doesn't cover candidates. For the races and their results, the Jefferson County Clerk's election results page is the nonpartisan place to start.
The Secretary of State certified 14 statewide measures on September 4. Thirteen came from citizen petitions and one from the legislature. Amendments change the state constitution and usually need at least 55% to pass. The Blue Book says Amendment 87 needs only a simple majority. Propositions change state law and need a simple majority. The state's Blue Book, with the official fiscal analysis of each one, is posted on the Legislative Council's site, and the state's deadline to mail it was October 2.
Amendment 81, law enforcement reporting to federal authorities. Requires law enforcement to notify federal immigration authorities when someone is charged with a violent crime, or any crime after a prior felony conviction, and law enforcement can't determine that the person is lawfully present.
Result for Amendment 81: failing, 44.70% yes in the state's unofficial count as of November 7.
Amendment 82, a right to natural gas. Writes a right to buy natural gas for cooking and heating, and for utilities to sell it, into the constitution.
Result for Amendment 82: failing, 46.27% yes in the state's unofficial count as of November 7.
Amendment 83, a right to hunt and fish. Establishes a constitutional right to hunt, fish, and harvest wildlife by traditional methods, with the state keeping its authority to regulate for conservation and safety.
Result for Amendment 83: failing, 45.12% yes in the state's unofficial count as of November 7.
Amendment 84, ID on mail ballots. Requires you to write the last four digits of your Social Security number or your Colorado driver's license or ID number on the outside of your mail-ballot envelope, with a cure process. An envelope that isn't fixed doesn't get counted.
Result for Amendment 84: failing, 36.62% yes in the state's unofficial count as of November 7.
Amendment 85, plain-language ballots. Requires state and local ballot questions to be written at an eighth-grade reading level or below.
Result for Amendment 85: failing, 51.12% yes in the state's unofficial count as of November 7, a majority but short of the 55% Amendment 85 needs.
Amendment 86, congressional redistricting. Reenacts the current congressional redistricting process, which is already in the constitution, and bars changes to a final map unless at least three public meetings are held, the changes don't divide communities of interest or purposefully favor one political party, and both the redistricting commission and the Colorado Supreme Court approve.
Result for Amendment 86: failing, 46.86% yes in the state's unofficial count as of November 7.
Amendment 87, a graduated income tax. The certified title opens with the number: state taxes increased by $2.7 billion a year. It replaces Colorado's flat income tax with graduated rates, keeps the 4.4% rate on gains from selling your primary residence, and directs the money to K-12, health care, and early child care. The certified table shows the average tax bill falling $210 for incomes between $50,001 and $100,000 and rising $4,764 between $1,000,001 and $2,000,000.
Result for Amendment 87: passing, 51.62% yes in the state's unofficial count as of November 7. Amendment 87 is the one amendment on this ballot that needs only a simple majority.
Proposition NN, K-12 funding. Raises state K-12 investment 2% a year for ten years for teacher pay, retention, smaller classes, and career-technical programs, paid for by raising the state's TABOR spending limit by the amount spent on K-12 education as a voter-approved revenue change, with an annual independent audit. Referred by the legislature (Senate Bill 26-135). An earlier version of this page said NN was funded inside the existing TABOR cap, and it raises the cap instead.
Result for Proposition NN: passing, 56.95% yes in the state's unofficial count as of November 7.
Proposition 132, fentanyl penalties. Raises felony classifications for distributing, making, selling, and possessing fentanyl and certain synthetic opioids, mandates treatment for some possession felonies, and narrows sentencing exemptions.
Result for Proposition 132: passing, 52.63% yes in the state's unofficial count as of November 7.
Proposition 133, trafficking of a minor. Expands the offense to include trading anything of value for sexual activity with a minor and raises the penalty to life without parole.
Result for Proposition 133: passing, 62.10% yes in the state's unofficial count as of November 7.
Proposition 134, school sports by sex. Restricts K-12 and college sports participation by sex as the measure defines it, requires male, female, and coed team designations, and lets females play on male teams where no female team exists.
Result for Proposition 134: passing, 52.19% yes in the state's unofficial count as of November 7.
Proposition 135, surgeries on minors. Bars surgery on a minor to alter sex characteristics and bars state and federal funds, Medicaid, or insurance from paying for it.
Result for Proposition 135: passing, 51.92% yes in the state's unofficial count as of November 7.
Proposition 136, an income tax cap. Caps the state income tax rate at 4.4% of federal taxable income for individuals and corporations.
Result for Proposition 136: failing, 47.18% yes in the state's unofficial count as of November 7.
Proposition 137, sporting-goods tax for conservation. Lets the state keep and spend a share of the sales tax it already collects on sporting goods, no new tax, for water, land, and forest conservation, wildfire prevention, and outdoor recreation.
Result for Proposition 137: passing, 51.88% yes in the state's unofficial count as of November 7.
Full certified text for all 14 is on the Secretary of State's 2026 ballot measures page.
Jefferson County's own government referred no countywide question this year. The county clerk's On the Ballot page lists every local question in the county and links its sample ballot PDF. The one regional question that touched 80127 reached only the part of the zip inside Littleton's city limits.
Ballot Issue 7A, Front Range Passenger Rail. A new 0.333% sales and use tax, one-third of a cent per dollar, inside the rail district, to build and run passenger rail along the Front Range, with Littleton named among the connected communities. The certified title puts it at $295 million a year in new taxes and authorizes $580 million in debt with a repayment cost of $785 million. Groceries, gas, home utilities, prescriptions, and medical supplies are exempt. Referred by the Front Range Passenger Rail District board under Senate Bill 26-172. The district is a list of whole cities and towns from Fort Collins south to the Trinidad area, Littleton and Denver among them, plus the Sterling Ranch metro districts, and unincorporated Jefferson County isn't in it, so in 80127 the question was on your ballot only if your address is inside Littleton's city limits. Ken Caryl and the rest of the zip outside the city didn't see it. The district's own notice for 7A is printed in the Blue Book. An earlier version of this page said 7A was on every 80127 ballot, and it was only on the ballots inside Littleton's city limits.
Result for 7A: passing, 55.84% yes in the latest unofficial county counts posted through November 7, the rail district's total across its counties.
Littleton elects its city council in odd years, and the city clerk's page lists no 2026 question. If your address is inside city limits, your ballot carried the statewide items above, the district items below that apply to you, and 7A, the passenger rail tax, which was on the ballot inside the city and not in the unincorporated county around it. Nothing city-specific.
Jeffco Public Schools, two mill levy questions. Every 80127 address feeds a Jeffco school, so both were on every ballot here. The school board referred them August 20. Ballot Issue 5A is a mill levy override for staff pay and retention and career-technical programs, with spending reviewed by a citizens' committee. It raises $73 million in its first year of collections, 2027, and in the years after it can go up to the cap state law sets on the district's overrides. Ballot Issue 5B raises $60 million a year, a special-purpose mill under the Debt-Free Schools Act for construction, technology, and maintenance, and its title lets that amount grow with inflation after the first full fiscal year. The district's own math says that if both pass, you pay $3.50 a month for every $100,000 of your home's actual value, so a $650,000 house pays about $22.75 a month, or about $273 a year. Both numbers and the example are the district's, from its ballot page.
Result for 5A: too close to call. District-wide, Jefferson County plus Broomfield, the latest unofficial counts (Jefferson's from November 5, Broomfield's from November 6) add up to 150,892 yes to 150,897 no, five votes apart. On the current count that's inside Colorado's automatic-recount margin, half a percent of the leading side. Jefferson County is still adding cured ballots, plus military and overseas ballots, through November 12, and its next update posts by the end of the day on November 13. This one could flip.
Result for 5B: failing, 48.74% yes district-wide, Jefferson County plus Broomfield, in the latest unofficial counts (November 5 and 6).
West Metro Fire, Ballot Issue 7C. A new 0.75% sales tax inside the fire district, 75 cents on a $100 purchase, excluding groceries, gas, and medicine, for firefighting and paramedic staffing, equipment, and wildfire response, with monthly board review and an annual audit. The certified title puts it at up to $36.3 million in the first year. Referred by the district board. Whether it was on your ballot depended on which fire district you're in. West Metro's own page says it covers sections of Jefferson and Douglas counties and unincorporated Littleton, and South Metro's page lists the City of Littleton. The district name is on your property tax statement, and the question was on the ballot only if you're inside West Metro. The district's own page is here.
Result for 7C: passing, 61.38% yes district-wide, Jefferson and Douglas counties, in the latest unofficial counts (both from November 5).
Conifer Fire, Ballot Issue 7D. A property tax increase of four mills inside the fire district, about $2 a month for every $100,000 of a home's value by the title's own math, for firefighter and paramedic staffing, keeping up the stations, and replacing engines and ambulances. The title puts it at $400,000 a year in the first full year, starting January 1, 2027, and it also asks to adjust the district's total levy each year to make up for refunds and abatements, and to keep the money outside the TABOR limits. The district put it on the ballot. Conifer Fire's own site says it was formed through the unification of the Inter-Canyon and North Fork fire districts, and the county's fire-district map puts the foothills along the west edge of 80127 inside it, including addresses on South Deer Creek Road and Kuehster Road. Not every foothills address is inside the district, and 7D was on your ballot only if you live inside it. The fire district named on your property tax statement is the quickest check. It's listed with the rest of the county's questions on the clerk's On the Ballot page.
Result for 7D: passing, 62.64% yes district-wide, Jefferson and Douglas counties, in the latest unofficial counts (both from November 5).
Foothills Park & Recreation, Ken-Caryl Ranch Metropolitan District, Platte Canyon, Southwest Metro: nothing. None of the four posted a November question, and Ken-Caryl's own mill-levy page still describes the 2024 measure as archived history.
The county clerk started mailing ballots October 5, and the drop boxes and vote centers closed at 7 p.m. on Election Day, November 3. Jefferson County is still adding cured ballots and military and overseas ballots through November 12, and the counties finish their canvass by November 25.
The county's TABOR notice, the booklet with summaries of the public's comments for and against the local tax questions, had an October 2 mailing deadline for every address with a registered voter, and the county has posted it as a PDF. The Jeffco Public Schools questions, 5A and 5B, start on pages 13 and 16, West Metro's 7C on page 33, and Conifer's 7D on page 36. There are comments on both sides for 5A, 5B, and 7C. For 7D there are comments in favor and none against, so its against section says no comments were filed by the constitutional deadline. The 7A notice is in the Blue Book instead. If you want the arguments for and against, those two booklets are where they live by law, and this page isn't going to add its own.
If I've got a result wrong or a district question is missing, tell me: [email protected]. This page gets updated again once the counties certify the results, and the free Friday newsletter covers the rest of what happens in 80127.
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