Marx edges ahead of Kirkmeyer in tight GOP governor race
Marx moved ahead by 1,798 votes, after Logan County first showed Kirkmeyer up by 44 as the county's results fed a possible recount fight.
Victor Marx pulled ahead of Barb Kirkmeyer by 1,798 votes in Colorado’s Republican governor primary.
Logan County had initially shown Kirkmeyer ahead by 44 votes when the polls closed, but Marx overtook her as more ballots were tabulated.
The race stayed within Colorado’s automatic recount window. A recount is required when the vote differential falls within 0.5% of the winner’s total, and the governor’s primary remained in that range as counties kept curing ballots and adding late returns. Scott Bottoms trailed the two front-runners.
For Logan County, the early back-and-forth put Clerk & Recorder Pam Bacon at the center of the night’s count. Bacon was first elected in 2007 and has worked in the office since 1995. Ballots must be in the clerk’s hands by 7 p.m. on Election Day to be counted, and Colorado’s county results page updates totals every 15 minutes after polls close as counties submit new data.
Logan County is a small but spread-out county of 21,528 residents in the 2020 Census and an estimated 20,654 in 2025, covering 1,838.6 square miles of land.
Kirkmeyer, a former Weld County commissioner, had built her campaign around agriculture and oil and gas development. Marx is a U.S. Marine, high-risk humanitarian, and founder of All Things Possible Ministries, which says it has served more than 45,000 women and children. The GOP has not won statewide office in Colorado since 2016.
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