Voters were leaning toward rejecting Referred Question 2O, which would have let developers carry out a plan to build housing and commercial space in the 155 acres of vacant land that used to be the Park Hill Golf Course. Two other open council seats - Districts 7 and 8 - with multiple candidates also appear headed to the runoff.Ĭouncil members are considered full-time and are paid nearly $97,000 a year. Incumbents Chris Hinds, in District 10, and Candi CdeBaca, in District 9, looked like they were headed to the runoff as of 11:30 p.m.

In the race for 11 other council seats - in which there is a runoff if no candidate gets more than 50% of the votes - incumbents Amanda Sandoval, Kevin Flynn, Jamie Torres, Amanda Sawyer, Paul Kashmann and Stacie Gilmore were all set to handily win reelection.ĭiana Romero Campbell was beating Tony Pigford with 56% of the vote in the open District 4 seat. About $8 million went to match donations of $50 and less by a factor of nine. Venture capitalist Reid Hoffman, one of the cofounders of LinkedIn, put at least $780,000 into the group, while former DaVita CEO Kent Thiry gave the political action committee at least $300,000.Ī Better Denver spent more than $974,000 to support Brough, with $471,000 of that coming from the National Association of Realtors Fund.īut candidates for mayor and other offices also benefited for the first time from the city’s Fair Elections Fund, intended to discourage big donors from influencing municipal contests. Much of that outside cash supported Johnston, with a super PAC, Advancing Denver, spending more than $2.2 million on TV ads and mailers backing his campaign. Candidates raised $6.6 million and outside groups spent nearly $3.7 million. Turnout in the contest for one of the most powerful elected positions in the state was about 26% on Tuesday evening just before voting ended.īig money was raised and spent in the mayoral contest.

Mike Johnston and Kelly Brough poised to advance to Denver’s mayoral runoff election in June Close

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