Nearly every state shifted distinctly to the right in Tuesday’s election — but Colorado is looking like a rare exception.

The law was not active in 2024. If it takes effect, it will commit states to award their electoral votes to the national popular vote winner.

Follow CBS Colorado's live updates to see who Coloradans have chosen to vote for and find out which ballot measures are passing.

From banning mountain lion hunts to overhauling the election system to putting abortion in the state constitution — Here are all the 2024 ballot results at a glance

A postal worker and her friend have been arrested in connection with the forging of stolen mail ballots in Colorado in an alleged attempt to test the security of the state's voting system.

Colorado's ballot was packed with more than a dozen measures with far-reaching impacts, ranging from the right to an abortion and the definition of marriage to ranked choice voting and hunting wild cats.

Republican Jeff Hurd has won the U.S. House seat in Colorado that Rep. Lauren Boebert left. Hurd’s victory fulfills the congresswoman’s hope that her mid-election departure from the race would make it easier for a different Republican to retain the seat after she nearly lost it in 2022.

Historically, state leaders have written the particulars of river management rules, and the federal Bureau of Reclamation implements the states’ ideas.

Tuesday was Election Day, and the Coloradoan team was here for the long haul. We shared live updates in this story.

CBS News projects that Amendment 79 has passed on election night and a section will be added to Colorado's state constitution recognizing the right to abortion. Colorado law already protects the right to abortion.

Colorado Democrats needed all four remaining Senate contests to swing their way to gain a supermajority in the state Senate. At 11:49 a.m. on Thursday, AP called state Senate district 15 for Republican Marc Catlin over his Democratic opponent, Cole Buerger. Catlin bested Buerger by about 4%, or 3,500 votes.

Election results show a majority of voters rejected a proposed ban on mountain lion and bobcat hunting in Colorado, though the outcome is not yet final. Of the nearly 2.4 million votes tallied as of midnight,