2026 ELECTION · GOVERNORS
Colorado governor: Weiser’s reported lead reaches 594,887
NBC projects Phil Weiser as the winner. Colorado’s state table shows a 27.33-point reported margin, with county reporting and estimated vote completion measuring different things.
NBC NEWS: PROJECTED WINNER
The reported result
Democratic candidate Phil Weiser leads Republican candidate Victor Marx in Colorado’s governor election by 594,887 votes in the state’s current published results version. The Colorado Secretary of State’s Governor / Lieutenant Governor table lists 1,326,924 votes for the Weiser–Lesley Dahlkemper ticket and 732,037 for the Marx–George Washington Markert ticket. NBC News separately identifies Weiser as its projected winner.
The margin in context
The state table contains 2,176,916 votes across seven tickets. Weiser’s ticket holds 60.95% of those reported votes; Marx’s has 33.63%. Subtracting the unrounded shares gives a 27.33-point lead. The remaining five tickets account for 117,955 votes, or 5.42%. The charts retain those votes in the total rather than presenting a two-candidate share as though it were the whole election.
County reports are not a ballot estimate
Colorado’s official summary shows 25 of 64 reporting units for the governor contest. These are counties. Their 39.1% share is a count of county units, not a claim that only 39.1% of statewide ballots have been counted. Counties differ in population and can have partial vote totals before their reporting status changes. NBC’s page separately estimates 77.2% of expected votes counted and roughly 642,000 remaining. That estimate belongs to NBC and should not be substituted for the state’s county-unit count.
A dated, reproducible snapshot
This story uses official results version 385650, selected by the state site’s current_ver.txt pointer when checked at 4:05 PM Eastern on November 4. In that version, electionsettings.json gives websiteupdatedat as November 4 at 2:00:02 PM Mountain Standard Time, which is 4:00:02 PM Eastern and 21:00:02 UTC. The summary file’s HTTP Last-Modified time is 20:59:24 UTC. These are publishing clocks; neither identifies the moment a specific ballot was counted.
The call and the next update
NBC’s projected-winner designation was independently verified in its Colorado governor page retrieved at 4:05:34 PM Eastern. This story does not infer a call from the size of the lead or claim a new call at the retrieval time. Updated official returns can change totals and percentages while the projection remains in place. The current table is an unofficial reported snapshot, and certification is a separate step.
| Ticket | Party | Votes | Reported share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Phil Weiser / Lesley Dahlkemper | DEM | 1,326,924 | 60.95% |
| Victor Marx / George Washington Markert | REP | 732,037 | 33.63% |
| Greg Lopez / Taralyn Romero | UAF | 60,583 | 2.78% |
| Eric Mulder / Wayne Harlos | LBR | 33,296 | 1.53% |
| Stephen T. Hamilton / James K Treibert | ACN | 13,276 | 0.61% |
| Erik Underwood / Frank Atwood | APV | 6,594 | 0.30% |
| Jeff Peckman / T.J. Cole | UNI | 4,206 | 0.19% |
| Total | 2,176,916 | 100.00% |
Sources and method
Original official vote file; NBC News race page. Vote share = candidate or ticket votes ÷ all reported votes. Margin = leader votes − runner-up votes; margin in points uses unrounded shares. No final certification is claimed.