Democrats looked poised to hold on to the majority of seats on the Colorado State Board of Education as early election results Tuesday night showed Republicans trailing in races for seats they’d need to flip.
One incumbent on the board — and Rebecca McClellan, a Democrat — was ahead in early results. No results were in yet for the race involving incumbent Steve Durham, a Republican. They were both elected to the board in 2016.
Two other seats also were being filled in Tuesday’s election as the state board is growing from seven members to nine, Chalkbeat Colorado reported.
The current board is comprised of four Democrats and three Republicans. The board has spent the past couple of months debating what K-12 students should learn in history and civics classes and could vote on revisions to the state’s social studies standards during their meeting later this week.
Below are the latest unofficial results from races:
McClellan had received 94,252 votes or 58.19% of the total, for the District 6 seat on the board. Republican Molly Lamar had 67,722 votes or 41.81% of the total.
There were four candidates — Democrat Kathy Plomer, Republican Dan Maloit, Libertarian Ryan Van Gundy and Unity Party of Colorado’s Eric Bodenstab — running for the at-large seat on the board.
In the lead was Plomer, with 451,103 votes or 54.14% of the total. Maloit followed with 356,058 votes or 42.73% of the total.
Three candidates — Republican Peggy Propst, Democrat Rhonda Solis and the American Constitution Party’s James K. Treibert — were running for the District 8 seat on the board.
Propst was in the lead with 31,368 votes, or 57.27%
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