John Scarffe, Gilpin and Boulder counties.  The November 8, 2016, elections provided voters in Gilpin and Boulder counties an astounding number of candidates and constitutional questions to decide on, with polls closing at 7 p.m. Locally two seats were open for both the Gilpin County Board of County Commissioners and the Boulder County Commission.

According to preliminary and unofficial election results as of 8 p.m., in Gilpin County, for County Commission District 1 Ron Engels with 1,363 votes led Craig Holmes, who had 1,331. Steve Boulter had 767. For County Commission District 3, Gail Watson led with 1,435 votes followed by Rebecca Shirey with 1,055 and Doug Lupo with 975.

For Central City Aldermen, Jeff Aiken with 287 votes was leading Kathy Heider with 269. In Boulder County, for County Commissioner District 1, Elise Jones, Democratic, with 79,614 led Kevin Sipple, Republican, 36,895. For County Commissioner District 2, Deb Gardner, Democratic with 75,034 votes led Paul Danish, Republican, 42,651.

For U.S. President, Boulder County handed the Hillary Clinton / Tim Kaine, Democratic, ticket with 92,408 and Gilpin County gave them 1,634 votes. Donald J. Trump / Michael R. Pence, Republican,  received 26,648 votes in Boulder and 1564 in Gilpin County.

Boulder voters gave United States Senate Candidate Michael Bennet, Democratic, 89,135votes, Darryl Glenn, Republican, 29,581 and Lily Tang Williams, Libertarian, 3,175. Gilpin County gave them 1,727, 1,501 and 171, respectively.

Boulder and Gilpin County voted the following way on other elected officials and issues with Boulder County numbers followed by Gilpin County.

Representative to the 115th United States Congress - District 2

Jared Polis, Democratic, 71,719; 1,740

Nicholas Morse, Republican, 17,544; 1,410

Richard Longstreth, Libertarian, 3,186; 303

Representative to the 115th United States Congress - District 4

Bob Seay, Democratic, 17,605

Ken Buck, Republican, 13,168

Bruce Griffith, Libertarian, 1,383

Regent of the University of Colorado - At Large

Alice Madden, Democratic, 83,596; 1,630

Heidi Ganahl, Republican , 34,047; 1,600

Regent of the University of Colorado - Congressional District 4

Suzanne M. Sharkey, Republican, 13,500

Bob Owens, Democratic, 16,525

State Senator - District 18

Stephen Fenberg, Democratic, 47,862

M. Peter Spraitz, Republican, 11,098

Amendment T (CONSTITUTIONAL) Removal of the exception to the prohibition of slavery YES/FOR     82,531; 1,681              NO/AGAINST 36,977; 1,751

Amendment U (CONSTITUTIONAL) An exemption from property taxation

YES/FOR 51,651; 1,375        NO/AGAINST 62,469; 1,968

Amendment 69 (CONSTITUTIONAL) Establishing a health care payment system to fund health care for all individuals whose primary residence is in Colorado

YES/FOR   46,817; 947        NO/AGAINST 34,471; 2,580

Amendment 70 (CONSTITUTIONAL) Increasing the minimum wage to $9.30 per hour  YES/FOR 90,602; 2,130        NO/AGAINST 75,302; 1,425

Amendment 71 (CONSTITUTIONAL) Making it more difficult to amend the Colorado constitution

YES/FOR 44,769; 1,674         NO/AGAINST 75,564; 1,780

Amendment 72 (CONSTITUTIONAL) Increasing tobacco taxes

YES/FOR   77,268; 1,458        NO/AGAINST 47,454; 2,078

Proposition 106 (STATUTORY) To receive a prescription to bring about death

YES/FOR 99,869; 2,681        NO/AGAINST 24,066; 841

Proposition 107 (STATUTORY) Recreating a presidential primary election

YES/FOR 83,707; 2,350        NO/AGAINST 37,185; 1,164

Proposition 108 (STATUTORY) Allowing an unaffiliated elector to vote in the primary election YES/FOR 59,144; 1,908        NO/AGAINST 59,911; 1,540