Poll: Stapleton, Polis lead Gov. race; many still undecided

With less than a month to the Colorado primary elections, Walker Stapleton and Jared Polis lead the Republican and Democratic candidate fields for governor, respectively.

But despite their leads, their supporters are outnumbered by voters who still haven’t decided on who they’ll choose on June 26, according to poll data released by Magellan Strategies.

Magellan conducted two separate surveys: one for Republican voters in Colorado’s 5th Congressional District on May 20-21 , and another for Democratic voters across the state on May 30-31.

Thirty-two percent of voters in the 5th Congressional District who responded to the Republican survey said they favored Walker Stapleton. Victor Mitchell was the next most favored with 18 percent; Doug Robinson and Greg Lopez both received eight percent. But 34 percent of those surveyed voters still haven’t made a decision, with the majority of undecided voters being women.

Magellan also asked those responders for their thoughts on the Republican primary race for the 5th District’s congressional seat, and it appears that incumbent Doug Lamborn’s popularity hasn’t waned much after his battle to get back onto the ballot.

Lamborn pulled 37 percent of the survey responses, leading El Paso County Commissioner Darryl Glenn by about 10 points. Glenn got 27 percent of the responses while state Sen. Owen Hill was favored by 10 percent of responders. Tyler Stevens and Bill Rhea rounded out the rest of the survey with three and two percent, respectively. Twenty-one percent of those voters were still undecided.

While the Republican responses were limited to voters in the state’s 5th Congressional District, the Democratic poll sourced answers from voters across the state.

Magellan found that 31 percent of the voters they surveyed for the Democratic primary favored Rep. Jared Polis. That’s a 13 point lead over Cary Kennedy, who was favored by 18 percent of the voter group. Mike Johnston earned about nine percent and Donna Lynne gained three percent of the support. Thirty-nine percent of those voters were undecided.

Like the Republican race, the majority of the undecided voters were women.

Magellan says it isn’t linked to any party or interest connected to either race.