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Phil Weiser wins Colorado governor election

Democrat Phil Weiser has been projected as the winner of the Colorado gubernatorial race, defeating Republican Victor Marx.

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Phil Weiser wins Colorado governor election

What this story says

  • Democrat Phil Weiser has won the Colorado governor's election, defeating Republican Victor Marx.
  • The Associated Press called the race for Weiser shortly after polls closed on Tuesday, November 3.
  • Phil Weiser, the current Colorado Attorney General, will succeed term-limited Governor Jared Polis.
  • John Hickenlooper was also projected to win his race for the Colorado Senate.

Who covered it

Left 54%(22)Centre 31%(13)Right 15%(6)

Percentages are shares of the 41 outlets carrying a published leaning rating. 1 of the 42 outlets we know ran this story carry no rating and are not counted in them. Coverage measured .

Trust

42/100

Craft

59/100

Hype

41/100

42 sources · methodology

Thin on the right so far

Only 6 of the 41 outlets with a published leaning rating that ran this story are rated right.

This story is still being watched, so it is a count and not yet a finding. Coverage keeps arriving for hours after an event, and a side that has published nothing this morning may publish by tonight. If it is still true when we stop checking, we will say so plainly.

Democrat Phil Weiser has won the election for governor of Colorado, defeating Republican Victor Marx. The Associated Press called the race for Weiser shortly after polls closed on Tuesday, November 3. Weiser, who is the current Colorado Attorney General, will succeed term-limited Democratic Governor Jared Polis. John Hickenlooper was also projected to win his race for the Colorado Senate.

Vote tallies

Initial results reported by Ark Valley Voice showed Phil Weiser with 878,133 votes (61.01 percent) and Victor Marx with 485,742 votes (33.75 percent). In the Senate race, John Hickenlooper received 873,254 votes (60.38 percent) and Republican Mark Baisley had 515,535 votes (35.65 percent). These results were noted as not final.

What the coverage left out

None of the right-rated digests mention the specific vote percentages for Phil Weiser or Victor Marx in the governor's race, nor do they detail the vote counts for John Hickenlooper or Mark Baisley in the Senate race. The left and centre-rated reports also did not include the specific vote percentages or counts for the governor's race.

Still developing. We have re-checked which outlets are covering this 15 times, most recently on 4 Nov 2026, 08:30, and will add the sides that appear.

How each side covered it

Our own reading of the reporting listed below, written from the outlets’ articles rather than quoted from them. The reasoning is set out on our methodology page.

Left

22 rated outlets

  • Reports from the left highlighted Phil Weiser's victory and his position as the current Colorado Attorney General. Several outlets noted that he will succeed term-limited Governor Jared Polis. The Associated Press call for the race was mentioned as occurring immediately after polls closed. Some reports also included initial vote tallies for the governor's race, showing Weiser with a significant lead over Republican Victor Marx and other candidates.

Centre

13 rated outlets

  • Centre-rated reports focused on the projected win for Phil Weiser in the Colorado governor's race, identifying him as the state's attorney general. The Associated Press's call for the election was a common point, as was the defeat of Republican Victor Marx. Some digests also mentioned Weiser's prior work in the presidential administrations of Barack Obama and Bill Clinton, and that he would succeed Governor Jared Polis.

Right

6 rated outlets

  • Right-rated reports identified Democrat Phil Weiser as the winner of the Colorado governor's election, defeating Republican Victor Marx. These reports also stated that Weiser is the state's attorney general. One report from Greeley Tribune indicated that Colorado voters would render a verdict in an unusual governor's race, with polls closing at 7 p.m. on November 3.

Questions about this coverage

How did the left and right cover Phil Weiser wins Colorado governor election?
Of the 41 outlets on this story carrying a published leaning rating, 54% are rated left, 31% are rated centre, 15% are rated right. Those percentages are shares of the rated outlets, not of every outlet that ran it, which was 42. The sections above set out what each side emphasised, in its own terms.
Is Phil Weiser wins Colorado governor election left or right?
Neither side dominates it. Of the 41 rated outlets on this story, 54% are rated left, 31% are rated centre, 15% are rated right, and no side holds the 70% this site would want before calling a field one-sided. A story is not left or right in any case; the outlets that carried it are what carry ratings.
Is the coverage of Phil Weiser wins Colorado governor election biased?
Phil Weiser wins Colorado governor election is one event reported by 42 outlets, and this page does not rate the story as biased or unbiased. What it publishes is the spread: which outlets ran it, where named rating organisations place each of them on the spectrum, and what each side chose to lead with. A leaning rating describes an outlet's record over time, not this article, and the two should not be run together.
Which side is not reporting Phil Weiser wins Colorado governor election?
When we first saw this story, outlets rated right had barely covered it. Coverage accretes for hours after an event, so that is where to look rather than a verdict — the split above is the current count, and it is the one to read.
Which outlets covered Phil Weiser wins Colorado governor election?
42 that we know of, every one of them listed further up this page with a link to its own report and to what we hold on the publisher. Nothing here is a summary of somebody else's summary: the outlets are named so the original reporting can be read.
Who won the Colorado governor's election?
Democrat Phil Weiser won the election for governor of Colorado. He defeated Republican Victor Marx. The Associated Press called the race for Weiser shortly after polls closed on Tuesday, November 3.
Who is Phil Weiser?
Phil Weiser is the current Colorado Attorney General. He has won the election to become the state's next governor, succeeding term-limited Governor Jared Polis. Weiser previously served in the presidential administrations of Barack Obama and Bill Clinton.
What were the initial results for the governor's race?
Initial results reported by Ark Valley Voice showed Phil Weiser with 878,133 votes, representing 61.01 percent of the vote. Republican Victor Marx received 485,742 votes, which was 33.75 percent. These figures were noted as preliminary and not final.

Read it at the source

42 outlets, grouped by the leaning a published rating gives them. Every headline links to the original; an underlined outlet name opens our profile of that publisher.

Left

22
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Centre

13
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Right

6

Not rated

1

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