BRIGHTON -- Adams County voters sided with the rest of the state on such things as spending limitations, the governor's race and the two congressional district elections.

Voters were not inclined to support Amendments 60, 61 and Proposition 101, which would have reduced governments' abilities to collect taxes and incur debt, went down to lopsided defeats statewide. At 10 p.m., the margins were in the range of 70 percent against and 30 percent support. Statewide, as of 10 p.m., the margin of defeat was closer to 3-to-1.

Denver Mayor John Hickenlooper is the new governor. He easily beat the challenges of Tom Tancredo and Dan Maes. In Adams County, Hickenlooper beat Tancredo by nine percentage points. Maes was a distant third.

In the 7th Congressional District, local voters supported the winner, Democrat Ed Perlmutter, by a 50 percent to 44 percent margin over challenger Ryan Frazier. It's the closest race for Perlmutter since he won his first race in 2006. In the 2nd Congressional District, Jared Polis earned a second, four-year term by 17 percentage points. He won by almost seven percentage points among local voters.

Michael Bennet officially won the Senate race Wednesday afternoon. The margin was about 15,000 votes statewide, or about one percentage point. Adams County voters favored Bennet by seven percentage points in the county's latest returns.