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2026 Colorado House race, District 8

Gabe Evans (Republican), Manny Rutinel (Democrat) and Dave Wood (Libertarian) are on the November 3, 2026 ballot for U.S. House in Colorado District 8, as recorded September 21, 2026 from the Colorado Secretary of State.

The November ballot

Evans
$5.4M
Rutinel
$4.3M

Raised so far, filed with the FEC

Also in this race: Dave Wood (Libertarian).

Certified list: Colorado Secretary of State. Faces and bars are the campaigns that hold the seat or have $25,000 raised or outside spending on file; being outside that group is a filing fact, not a mark. Not a prediction.

The seat

Gabe Evans

Republican · Holds the seat now

First took office 2025 · Age 40

Discloses no individual stock trades.

Cosponsored H.R. 7008, the Stop Insider Trading Act

From the member's own disclosures and congress.gov. Not cosponsoring is not a vote against a ban.

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How to vote in Colorado

  • General electionNovember 3, 2026 

Register 8 days before by mail or online, or same-day through Election Day in person.

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How they won the primary

The primary · 80,274 votes

  • Manny Rutinel Won: 62.8% 50,435
  • Shannon Bird: 32.5% 26,122
  • Evan Munsing (withdrawn): 4.6% 3,717

Primary results as recorded October 12, 2026, ordered by votes. Source: Colorado Secretary of State certified primary abstract. Certified July 24, 2026. A primary result is a recorded fact about a past contest, not a prediction of November.

The money on this race

Raised by candidates
$13M
Outside money
$17M

Outside money, for and against

Supporting Evans$1.7M
Opposing Evans$5.3M
Supporting Rutinel$4.6M
Opposing Rutinel$2.8M

Independent expenditures; direction is each filer's own declared filing. The other $2.9M of the race's $17M was spent on candidates not listed here. No outside money is on file for or against the other name on this ballot.

Where each candidate's money comes from

15%$785KSmall donors$2.1M47%
24%$1.3MLarge donors$2.2M50%
26%$1.4MPACs$93K2%
<1%$5KParty--
35%$1.9MOther$24K<1%

Small donors give $200 or less; PACs are political action committees. Shares of each candidate's own receipts on file with the FEC. Outside money is not part of these figures.

Other includes money transferred in from committees the candidate authorized, such as a joint fundraising committee, which reports its own donors to the FEC: Gabe Evans $1.8M.

Who is spending on this race

The largest groups spending independently here, ranked; open a row for whose race the money went into.

1 to 5 of 46 groups

Independent expenditures reported to the FEC; direction is each group's own declared filing.

Not on the November ballot

9 filed

Primary candidates who did not advance, committees still on file, and candidacies that ended. Being here is a filing fact, not a mark against anyone.

The district

Census context
People
740K
Median household income
$95K
Unemployment
4.6%
Living below the poverty line
9.5%
Without health insurance
9.7%

U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 2024 5-year estimates. Context about the district, not a statement about any candidate.

How this seat voted last time

R+0.7 in 2024

  • Gabe Evans Won: 49.0%
  • Yadira Caraveo: 48.2%

333,616 votes for candidates. Other candidates and write-ins took the remaining 2.8%. A past result is a filed fact, not a prediction of November.

Certified returns via MIT Election Data and Science Lab, from the House Clerk's election statistics and state canvasses.

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Candidates and financing from the FEC, public domain. Candidate totals are each campaign's latest FEC report, ending between June 30, 2026 and September 30, 2026. Outside money is the FEC's processed total of independent expenditures plus the 24- and 48-hour reports filed since each group's latest regular report. It covers this two-year cycle, the same as the candidate totals. Dataset built 2026-10-12. Nothing here is a forecast, a grade, or a ranking of candidates.