DENVER — Roughly 55,000 Denver voters so far have cast a ballot with a week to go in the runoff election, which will decide the mayoral contest between Mike Johnston and Kelly Brough.
The ballots returned so far represent a little over 12% of Denver's electorate, which tracks better than the ballots mailed back at about the same time for the April 4 general election.
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For that election, election officials had received 9% of ballots by March 28.
The runoff returns point to a high interest among voters in the mayor's race, although it remains to be seen if the city surpasses the 39% of the ballots cast in the April 4 election, a relatively high number compared to previous elections.
So far, Republicans and Democrats are performing similarly in the runoff election, returning 15% of their ballots compared to their registration. Republicans make up about 42,000 of Denver's electorate, while Democrats have about 194,000.
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