Ashley Stolzmann looks to be the next Boulder County commissioner after winning 81.3% of the vote in the second round of election results.
Stolzmann’s only opponent for County District Three was Libertarian candidate Bo Shaffer, who received 16,238 votes of the 87,114 counted so far for the commissioner election.
The results are unofficial but give Stolzmann a large enough margin to comfortably call. On Tuesday night, she thanked everyone who voted and all the people working on the election.
“I’m really excited to be the next county commissioner and really excited to get working right away,” Stolzmann said. “We’ve got a lot of things to work on, from climate to transportation to housing and human services. I just want to hit the ground running.”
Stolzmann is the current mayor of Louisville, leading the community through the Marshall fire and its aftermath throughout this year. Stolzmann said she would be resigning from her mayoral position as she is sworn into her position as commissioner in January.
Stolzmann said on her website that she would prioritize disaster response and preparedness, transportation, housing and homelessness prevention, and climate action as commissioner. She added that climate action would be a central theme in everything else she did in her new position.
“We really just need to get started reducing carbon emissions, so that is going to be a focus and definitely a thread through all the work that I focus on as county commissioner,” Stolzmann said. “There are so many issues that are intertwined with that — transportation issues directly relate to climate, housing issues directly relate to climate, we’ve seen the global pandemic that is directly related to climate. There are so many things that we need to work on to ensure that we have equity and justice as a center of the focus as we work on climate so we don’t leave anyone behind.”
No Republican ran for the commissioner office, and Stolzmann won the Democratic primary by 71 votes earlier this year. Stolzmann will replace Commissioner Matt Jones, who did not run for reelection following his first term.
This article was updated at 9:30 p.m. with the most recent election results.
