COLORADO
      Nov. 8, 2016 U.S. Senate

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+Michael Bennet (D) i
 1,370,710
 49.97%
Darryl Glenn (R)
 1,215,318
 44.31%
Lily Tang Williams (L)
 99,277
 3.62%
Arn Menconi (G)
 36,805
 1.34%
Bill Hammons (Uni.)
 9,336
 0.34%
Dan Chapin (UAF)
 8,361
 0.30%
Paul Noel Fiorino (UAF)
 3,216
 0.12%

2,743,023
Registered Voters: 3,840,159.  Ballots Cast: 2,859,216.
Plurality: 155,392 votes (5.66 percentage points).
 CO Secretary of State



Notes:  Sen. Michael Bennet (D), appointed to the Senate in 2009 and elected in 2010, defeated El Paso county commissioner Darryl Glenn (R) in what proved to be a fairly close race. 

A field of five candidates ran in the June 28 Republican primary (>).  Glenn was the surprise winner at 37.7%, followed by two well funded candidates.  Jack Graham, who served as CSU athletic director after a business career, finished second with 24.6%.  Businessman Robert Blaha, who had also run for Congress in 2012, obtained 16.5%.  Rounding out the field were State Rep. Jon Keyser (12.5%) and Ryan Frazier (8.7%).  Bennet was unopposed for the Democratic nomination.

In the general election there was one televised debate between the two major candidates, on Oct. 11 at the History Colorado building in Denver (>). 

According to the FEC, for 2015-16 the Bennet campaign reported disbursements of $16.2 million compared to $4.0 million for the Glenn campaign; the Libertarian and Green campaigns each spent slightly less than $20,000 (>).
Campaign Managers:
Michael Bennet:  Dan McNally
(Jan. 2015)  DSCC regional political director in the 2014 cycle.  Campaign manager on Mark Pocan's successful 2012 campaign for Congress in WI-2.  Assistant director of intergovernmental affairs for the City of Syracuse, NY, Jan.-Sept. 2011.  Campaign manager on Dan Maffei for Congress in 2010.  Campaign manager on Stephanie Miner for Mayor of Syracuse in 2009.  Worked on Rep. Louise Slaughter's campaign.  Worked on the Jon Powers primary campaign in NY-26 in 2008.  Undergraduate degree in political science from SUNY at Geneseo, 2008.
Darryl Glenn:  ?


See also:
John Frank  and Ellis Arnold.  "Colorado Republican primary for U.S. Senate is a high stakes crapshoot." The Denver Post, June 22, 2016.




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