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Colorado Senate race

John Hickenlooper holds this seat and is running to keep it against Mark Baisley.

The November ballot

Hickenlooper
$10M
Baisley
$138K

Raised so far, filed with the FEC

General-election ballot as recorded August 27, 2026. Not a prediction.

The seat

John Hickenlooper

Democrat · Holds the seat now

124
Trades disclosed
$17M
Estimated volume
13
Committee overlaps
Has not cosponsored a bill that would ban it

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, 2026In 10 weeks

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 · 895,358 votes

  • John HickenlooperWon52.8%472,870
  • Julie Gonzales47.2%422,488

Primary results as recorded August 25, 2026, in the canvass's own published order. Source: the state's canvass, via Wikipedia (CC BY-SA). A primary result is a filed fact about a past contest, not a prediction of November.

The money on this race

Raised by candidates
$15M
Outside money
$741K

Outside money, for and against

Supporting Hickenlooper$514K
Opposing Hickenlooper-
Supporting Baisley-
Opposing Baisley-

Independent expenditures; direction is each filer's own declared filing.

Where each candidate's money comes from

19%$1.9MSmall donors$28K21%
55%$5.6MLarge donors$107K77%
10%$1.1MPACs--
<1%$62KParty$999<1%
--Self-funding$2.2K2%
15%$1.6MOther$76<1%

Small donors give under $200; 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.

Who is spending on this race

The 7 groups spending independently here, ranked; open a row for whose race the money went into.

1 to 5 of 7 groups

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

Not on the November ballot

19 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.

How this seat voted last time

D+9 in 2020

  • John W. HickenlooperWon53.5%
  • Cory Gardner44.2%

3,235,790 votes for candidates. 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; money figures carry their own coverage dates. Dataset built 2026-08-27. Nothing here is a forecast, a grade, or a ranking of candidates.