Democratic
Brittany Pettersen
Incumbent representative for CO-7. Voting record, ideology and biography →
VotePredictor forecast
Brittany Pettersen favored
Safe D · predicted margin D+20.9
99%
chance to win
2024 presidential lean
D+15.02026 national environment
D+6.5District polls
noneForecast spread
±7.8 pointsMargin from the district's presidential lean on its 2026 lines, one fitted intercept and the national environment as a uniform swing; the win probability adds a decaying incumbency premium (Democratic incumbent running). No district poll is blended in.
Republican
Tim Bennett
Major-party general-election nominee.
Other listed candidates
- Lawrence Clark · Constitution
- Susan Hall · Unity
- Joe Krzeczkowski · Independent
- Dan Sallis · Libertarian
Polls
No district-level 2026 general-election poll is currently in VotePredictor's verified polling feed for CO-7. The forecast above is the model alone: lean, incumbency and the national environment.
Other forecasts
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Past results
Every election in Colorado's 7th district we hold a result for. District numbers are reused across redistricting, so older rows may cover different ground than the seat does today.
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