2011 Initiative General Election Results

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Initiative: Proposition 103: Colorado Sales and Income Tax Increase Initiative

Popular Vote

663,444

63.18%

Yes

386,673

36.82%

Turnout

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Election Notes:

Shall state taxes be increased $536.1 million annually in the first full fiscal year and by such amounts as are raised annually thereafter by amendments to the Colorado Revised Statutes concerning a temporary increase in certain state taxes for additional public education funding, and, in connection therewith, increasing the rate of the state income tax imposed on all taxpayers from 4.63% to 5% for the 2012 through 2016 income tax years; increasing the rate of the state sales and use tax from 2.9% to 3% for a period of five years commencing on January 1, 2012; requiring that the additional revenues resulting from these increased tax rates be spent only to fund public education from preschool through twelfth grade and public postsecondary education; specifying that the appropriation of the additional tax revenues be in addition to and not substituted for moneys otherwise appropriated for public education from preschool through twelfth grade and public postsecondary education for the 2011-12 fiscal year; and allowing the additional tax revenues to be collected, kept, and spent notwithstanding any limitations provided by law?

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Source for Popular Vote data: Colorado Secretary of State. Odd-Year Election Results - November 1, 2011, Colorado Secretary of State (http://www.sos.state.co.us/pubs/elections/Results/Abstract/2012/oddYear/index.html) (accessed 11 May 2015)
Source for Population data: U.S. Census Bureau.

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