Control of Colorado Legislature in the balance

The Democrats’ control of the Colorado Legislature remained in question Wednesday.

Votes are still being counted in several close races in the Senate and House that can topple Democrat majorities in each chamber. Some of those contests are in the battleground counties of Adams and Jefferson.

The results will impact Democratic Gov. John Hickenlooper’s second-term agenda on issues like energy development and the state budget. A Republican majority in the Legislature can also force the governor to revisit difficult issues if the party tries to reverse Democrat-sponsored legislation like the gun-control measures passed in 2013 and new renewable energy mandates on rural cooperatives.

But neither party can definitively claim victory yet in the House, where Democrats have a 37-28 majority, or the Senate, where they have a 18-17 advantage.