Colorado's 7th congressional district
Coverage: this seat is included in the 2026 national listing. State candidate coverage class: candidate coverage verified from the state's official list. Absence of candidate rows is not evidence that a race has no candidates — see the coverage ledger.
Candidate source
Candidate source: Colorado Secretary of State — 2026 General Election Official Candidate List (retrieved 2026-09-28). Absence of a candidate row is never evidence that a race has no candidates.
How the candidate list was checked
Rows read from the official source: 404 · published here: 47 · left out by rule: 357 · held back for review: 0. Official 2026 General Election Official Candidate List table. All 8 House districts (01-08) present: 01,02,03,04,05,06,07,08. 9 US Senate candidates (incl. 3 certified write-ins: Donald Willoughby, Will Powers, Ryan Apelbaum). Excluded rows are state/local offices (State House 135, State Senate 46, judicial, RTD, Regents, etc.). Party listed as printed; write-in rows carry status write_in. [Re-fetched same URL later on 2026-09-28 after incidental deletion; page bytes differ upstream (page self-updates) but all 47 federal rows re-parsed byte-identical: 47/47 match, zero add/remove. raw_sha256 and manifest updated to the re-fetched bytes.] Senate rows carry senate_class=2 designation=regular: CO is in the official Senate Class II registry (the state's only scheduled 2026 Senate race), so the seat identity is derived from the registry, not defaulted.
Boundaries and sources
County–district classifications come from official block-assignment files, cross-checked against Census representations; render geometry is display-only.
Current officeholder
Brittany Pettersen · Democratic · current term began January 3, 2025 (elected November 5, 2024)
Upcoming contests
2026-11-03 — general
Brittany Pettersen · Democratic Party
Qualified for the general-election ballot
Dan "Kilo" Sallis · Libertarian Party
Qualified for the general-election ballot
Joe Krzeczkowski · Unaffiliated
Qualified for the general-election ballot
Lawrence Kyle Clark · American Constitution Party
Qualified for the general-election ballot
Susan Hall · Unity Party
Qualified for the general-election ballot
Tim Bennett · Republican Party
Qualified for the general-election ballot
Economic profile at this seat’s exact geography
FederalCensus Bureau American Community Survey 2020-2024 (5-year) · survey period 2020-2024 · Congressional District 7 (119th Congress), Colorado
- Median household income$103,971± $1,460
- Poverty rate7.3%± 0.4 ppPopulation for whom poverty status is determined
- Rent burden (30%+ of income on gross rent)51.6%± 1.8 ppRenter-occupied households paying cash rent for which rent burden is computed
- Homeownership rate70.1%± 0.6 ppOccupied housing units
- Bachelor's degree or higher (age 25+)49.6%± 0.7 ppPopulation 25 years and over
Technical definitions (ACS tables)
- Rent burden (30%+ of income on gross rent)
- Renter-occupied households paying cash rent for which rent burden is computed: B25070_001 minus B25070_011 (Not computed)
Census block equivalency files show this state's 119th- and 120th-Congress representations are block-identical, so the 119th-Congress ACS district product binds exactly to this district.
Structural five-year survey conditions — not current monthly conditions. Uncertainties are 90% margins of error: the published ACS margin for median income; Census-formula approximations (ACS handbook ch. 8) for the rates. “Margin unavailable” means the source supplies no usable margin — never zero.
Campaign finances
2025-2026 two-year period (FEC cycle 2026). Committee totals are the FEC’s own candidate-level aggregation — never summed from committee rows here. Independent spending is reported separately and is never part of a candidate’s receipts. An FEC registration is not proof of ballot qualification; candidacy status comes verbatim from the accepted release.
General election · November 3, 2026
“No matching FEC candidate record” means no filing was located — it is never evidence that a candidacy does not exist, and never a ballot-status claim. Candidates’ coverage dates can differ; each row carries its own.
Current officeholder — Congress.gov context
Brittany Pettersen · Democratic · Colorado · served in 2 Congresses since 2023
Identity verified against the official Congress.gov member record (Bioguide P000620), recorded through 2026-10-04T02:54:23Z. Current officeholding is separate from 2026 candidacy status. Official member website.
Recent housing, employment, energy and infrastructure legislation
From the member's sponsored then cosponsored legislation lists (newest first, limit 30 each), the newest items whose CONFIRMED official legislative subjects intersect {Housing and Community Development, Labor and Employment, Energy, Transportation and Public Works, Water Resources Development} are selected, at most 3 sponsored and 2 cosponsored, 5 total. Items whose relevance cannot be confirmed via the official /subjects endpoint are omitted.
- HR.10216-119 — Public Transit Mental Health Awareness Actsponsor latest action 2026-09-01: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure. · subjects: Transportation and Public Works
- HR.7631-119 — Rural Water Security Actsponsor latest action 2026-02-21: Referred to the Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment. · subjects: Water Resources Development
- HR.7408-119 — Water Project Navigators Actsponsor latest action 2026-02-05: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources. · subjects: Water Resources Development
- HR.8579-119 — To direct the Administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration to issue regulations to include strollers in the contract of carriage of air carriers and set a liability limit for damaged strollers, and for other purposes.cosponsor latest action 2026-04-29: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure. · subjects: Transportation and Public Works
- HR.8567-119 — UNLEADED Actcosponsor latest action 2026-04-29: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure. · subjects: Transportation and Public Works
Sponsorship is a record of introduction or support — not passage, effectiveness, or economic impact.
Counties and this district
County boundaries for this seat are not published in this release. Explore individual counties on the county map.