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Antonito Daily Digest Wednesday, July 01, 2026

Ty McDuffey

01 Jul 2026 — 1 min read

Ty's Take

Primary season down here always feels like watching your neighbors decide who gets to carry their mail to the courthouse—half the valley shows up, half stays home, and everybody's got an opinion about it anyway. The returns from both counties are still preliminary, which means the real work starts now: the campaigns that actually matter happen between now and November, when folks who didn't bother with the primary suddenly remember they care. Out here where the Conejos River runs and the land-grant families have been voting the same way for generations, primary numbers can fool you—they tell you who showed up on a spring day, not who'll actually turn out when it counts. Expect the final tallies to shift a little, and expect the real story to be which candidate learned something useful from watching who came and who didn't.

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Conejos County Citizen

PRELIMINARY RESULTS: ALAMOSA COUNTY PRIMARY

Alamosa County voters cast their ballots in the 2026 primary election, with Democrat John Hickenlooper leading the gubernatorial race at 56% and Republican Mark Baisley running unopposed on his ticket. Across multiple county and state races, voters selected their preferred candidates for fall...

2026 PRELIMINARY RESULTS CONEJOS COUNTY PRIMARY - Unofficial

Conejos County's unofficial primary results show Democrat John Hickenlooper edging out Julie Gonzales with 61% of the vote for governor, while Republican Mark Baisley won his party's nomination uncontested. County voters also weighed in on races for state legislature, county commission, and clerk...

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