Lauren Boebert loses Colorado House seat
The gist
Democrat Eileen Laubacher leads Republican Rep. Lauren Boebert by 2,276 votes in Colorado's 4th District.
The seat is uncalled, and the margin is too wide for an automatic recount.
How it unfolded
- 2020Boebert won a seat representing Colorado's 3rd Congressional District, unseating a five-term Republican incumbent in the primary.
- 2022Boebert won reelection by just 546 votes, the closest U.S. House race in the country that year.
- 2024Boebert switched to the 4th Congressional District and won it by about 11 points.
Key terms
- automatic recount
- A repeat tabulation of votes, often triggered when the initial tally is extremely close.
- primary
- An election in which voters of a political party choose that party's candidate for an upcoming general election.
Source: Wikipedia