In 1994, the citizens of Colorado passed Amendment 17 which established term limits for all local elected offices. Amendment 17 contains a provision allowing local governments to place term limit exemption questions on the ballot. To date 58 counties have successfully removed or extended term limits for one or more elected offices. The following is a listing of counties that have successfully repealed or extended term limits, the offices that were affected, and the year in which the term limit was repealed.
Resources
- County Term Limits by Office
- Yearly Attempts with ballot language (download Excel doc)
- Comprehensive Successes & Failures to Extend, Eliminate or Re-Instate Term Limits, by Year
- Comprehensive Successes & Failures to Extend, Eliminate or Re-Instate Term Limits, by County
Stats
- Term Limits eliminated for all positions: 16 counties
- Term Limits eliminated for all positions, except Commissioner: 15 counties
- Two Term Limit intact for all positions: 11 counties
- Commissioner, 2 x 4 year term limit: 32 counties
- Commissioner, 3 x 4 year term limit: 7 counties
- Commissioner term limits eliminated: 25 counties
CCI houses sample ballots from each county’s General Election, to request a county’s ballot, please email Kieran Boes at kboes@ccionline.org