County-by-county early voting numbers in Colorado

DENVER — On the day before Election Day 2024, more than 2 million ballots have been returned in Colorado, with unaffiliated voters leading the way.

The early voting numbers are lagging behind where they were at this point in the 2020 election, which was the last time a presidential race was on the ballot. That’s true for Democrats, Republicans and unaffiliated voters, according to data released Monday by the Colorado Secretary of State’s Office.

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At the same point for the 2020 election, 2,539,690 ballots had been returned.

As of 11:59 p.m. Sunday, 2,092,035 ballots had been returned in Colorado. The number of ballots returned by party are:

• Democrat: 609,364 (29.13% of the total)
• Republican: 570,109 (27.25%)
• Unaffiliated: 881,010 (42.11%)
• Other: 3,607 (0.17%)

The counties with the most returns so far are El Paso and Jefferson, both with more than 250,000 ballots returned. Those two counties account for about a quarter of all ballots returned so far in Colorado.

Here’s the county-by-county breakdown on the number of ballots returned:

• El Paso: 251,180
• Jefferson: 250,764
• Denver: 209,620
• Arapahoe: 208,838
• Douglas: 173,031
• Larimer: 153,877
• Adams: 141,098
• Boulder: 135, 519
• Weld: 107, 803
• Mesa: 65,467
• Pueblo: 52,588
• Broomfield: 32,473
• La Plata: 24,961
• Garfield: 19,809
• Montrose: 19,275
• Eagle: 17,949
• Fremont: 17,418
• Delta: 13,719
• Elbert: 13,467
• Summit: 11,747
• Routt: 11,572
• Teller: 10,726
• Montezuma: 10,631
• Chaffee: 10,321
• Morgan: 8,340
• Park: 8,196
• Logan: 7,402
• Grand: 7,211
• Pitkin: 6,826
• Archuleta: 6,821
• Gunnison: 6,461
• Otero: 5,619
• Las Animas: 5,475
• Alamosa: 4,618
• Moffat: 4,237
• Rio Grande: 4,211
• Clear Creek: 3,937
• Huerfano: 3,364
• Prowers: 3,361
• Ouray: 3,163
• San Miguel: 3,083
• Yuma: 2,948
• Custer: 2,851
• Gilpin: 2,684
• Conejos: 2,633
• Rio Blanco: 2,470
• Saguache: 2,407
• Lake: 2,345
• Kit Carson: 2,132
• Washington: 1,923
• Lincoln: 1,699
• Bent: 1,495
• Phillips: 1,424
• Costilla: 1,470
• Baca: 1,332
• Crowley: 1,048
• Dolores: 999
• Sedgwick: 900
• Cheyenne: 670
• Kiowa: 556
• Mineral: 530
• Hinsdale: 483
• Jackson: 483
• San Juan: 375