Seven candidates are vying for a spot on the Erie Town Council, where a seat in each of the town’s three voting districts is up for grabs.
Polls close at 7 p.m. today. The Daily Camera and Colorado Hometown Weekly will have continued coverage on election results tonight. This story will be updated as votes are counted.
Bob Braudes and Andrew Sawusch is running in District 1, where Councilmember John Mortellaro’s term is expiring. Mortellaro did not run for another term, despite being eligible.
Dipak Basnet, Delaney Dreckman and Ben Hemphill are running for the District 2 seat, where current Mayor Pro Tem Brandon Bell is term limited. Bell plans to take the mayor’s seat this month, following current Mayor Andrew Moore’s expected resignation.
Councilmember Brian O’Connor of District 3, with a term also expiring in January, is running to keep his seat against Amy Becker.
Erie straddles the border between Weld and Boulder counties. A map of the town’s voting districts is available via its Home Rule Charter webpage at tinyurl.com/ErieHomeRule.
The election could be a shakeup for the Erie Town Council, which, last sworn in January 2025 alongside Moore, has in several high-profile instances been split by 4-3 votes.
Among those occasions, councilmembers were divided 4-3 in a June 2025 vote to prohibit Pride flags from being flown on town-owned flagpoles, a lawsuit settlement over land known as Redtail Ranch, and, more recently, in a decision to approve a controversial sale of town-owned mineral rights to oil and gas operator SM Energy. That deal has since been abandoned by the company.
Erie residents in today’s election also voted on two local tax measures: a sales tax to fund the expansion and renovation of the Erie Community Center, and a lodging tax for short-term rentals and hotel stays in the town.