November 17, 2010 06:51 AM UTC

Owen Hill Concedes in SD-11; HD-29 Still Unknown

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• by: Colorado Pols

UPDATE: FOX 31’s Eli Stokols on still-undecided HD-29:

In House District 29, Republican Robert Ramirez currently leads Democratic Rep. Debbie Benefield by 208 votes, the narrow margin by which Republicans are clinging to their new one-seat majority in the House of Representatives…

The Jefferson County Clerk’s office confirmed Tuesday that it has completed counting those remaining ballots, but that it won’t release the final results until Thursday afternoon or Friday.

…Republicans were quick to claim victory and to designate Rep. Frank McNulty as the next Speaker of the House two days after the election. McNulty, along with Majority Leader-designee Amy Stephens, have already appointed new committee chairs and even re-named some of the committees, irking their Democratic counterparts.

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Updating a race that was temporarily thrown into question last Friday, after a significant number of provisional ballots were noted as not yet counted in El Paso County. With those provisional ballots counted, incumbent Sen. John Morse increased his lead slightly over GOP challenger Owen Hill, and the final tally is out of automatic recount range. From Morse’s Facebook page:

We haven’t heard any updates as of this writing from two Colorado House races still being tabulated, including the HD-29 race that Democrats are yet hoping might decide control of the Colorado House in their favor. Naturally, we’ll let you know as soon as we hear ourselves, though we’ve learned that Jefferson County may not release the final results until Friday.