Election results source · DDHQ call Nov. 3, 9:00 p.m. EST; returns Nov. 4, 1:30 a.m. EST, estimated 68% counted. National geographic dashboard: DDHQ Nov. 4, 3:14:11.818 a.m. CST; within-state seat-count bands, not district boundaries. Red Republican, blue Democratic, gold Independents, gray undecided; stripes mark called flips.
Democrat Melat Kiros won Colorado’s 1st Congressional District, according to Decision Desk HQ, keeping the seat in Democratic hands. Its reported count showed Kiros with 169,159 votes, or 78.28%, while Republican Christy Peterson had 30,046 votes, or 13.90%.
DDHQ called the race Tuesday night. Its later returns snapshot showed 216,089 votes reported and an estimated 68% counted. Kiros’s general-election victory follows her Democratic primary win over longtime incumbent Diana DeGette.