The Secretary of State announced late Thursday that the second of two automatic recounts tied to the November election has been completed, and the outcome remained the same.

That outcome, along with the results of two other races, officially confirmed that Democrats have lost their supermajority numbers in the state House.   

Republican and former state Rep. Dan Woog of Erie was earlier declared the unofficial winner with a margin of 109 votes out of 56,730 votes cast in House District 19, which includes a small portion of eastern Boulder County and southern Weld County. 

Woog took 50.1% of the votes; his Democratic opponent, Jillaire McMillan of Longmont, took 49.9% of the votes.

That was well within the margin for an automatic recount.

State law requires an automatic recount when the margin between the top vote-getter and second place is 0.5% or less. 

After the recount, Woog gained one more vote, so the official result meant he won by 110 votes.

With that recount — and another for House District 16 in Colorado Springs that was also declared for the Republican candidate, Rebecca Keltie — the House is now split with 43 Democrats to 22 Republicans, with the latter gaining three seats following the 2024 general election.

The third seat was in House District 50 in Greeley, where Republican Ryan Gonzalez defeated three-term incumbent Democratic Rep. Mary Young.

The three-seat switch means Democrats dropped below the 44 seats needed for a supermajority. In the 2023-24 session, Democrats held 46 seats to Republicans’ 19.

The House District 16 recount resulted in a tie, but the three-member canvass board, comprised of one Democrat, one Republican and the county clerk, voted to rescind three votes for Democratic Rep. Stephanie Vigil, giving Keltie a three-vote margin of victory. The board then certified the results, and the the Secretary of State accepted the outcome. The total vote in the district was 41,279 votes, with Keltie winning with 50.00004% of the vote to Vigil’s 49.99996%.

It’s unknown what the vote of the canvassing board was and whether it was unanimous, and if not, if there was a minority report, as had happened with certification of results in El Paso County multiple times in the past. 

Vigil vowed to examine her legal options.

It’s the second time this year that a margin of three votes decided who would move forward. In House District 58, a central Western Slope seat that covers eight counties, the June 25 primary resulted in a three-vote lead for the winner, now-Representative-elect Larry Don Suckla of Cortez. An automatic recount confirmed that margin of victory over his opponent, Mark Roeber of Paonia.

Friday was the last day for all recounts to be completed.

The Colorado General Assembly begins its 2025 session on Wednesday, Jan. 8.