1997 Initiative General Election Results - Colorado
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  Initiative: Initiative 1: Colorado Tax and Fee Increases Funding Transportation ProjectsPopular Vote
No 585,055 84.21%
Yes 109,663 15.79%
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Election Notes:
  • State taxes shall be increased $172.8 million annually in the first full fiscal year of implementation, and by whatever additional amounts are raised annually thereafter, until the earlier of December 31, 2010, or the completion of projects described in the program approved on August 15, 1996, by the Colorado Transportation Commission, by an amendment to the Colorado Revised Statutes concerning transportation funding, and, in connection therewith, increasing the fuel excise tax by 54 cents per gallon; increasing the motor vehicle registration fee by $10; imposing a new tax of $100 on the initial registration of certain motor vehicles; creating the Colorado Long Term Highway Needs Account and the Colorado Long Term Multi-Modal Transportation Needs Account; authorizing the study and implementation, if feasible, of toll roads to the extent that the revenues available are not sufficient to carry out the purposes of the measure; specifying the revenues to be deposited therein, the amount of revenues allocated to the state, counties, and municipalities, the transportation purposes for which the revenues may be expended, and that such revenues be collected and spent by the state, counties, and municipalities as a voter-approved revenue change under article X, section 20 of the Colorado Constitution.
Demographic Data

2000 Population:4,301,261Enum.2000 Population Density:16.0persons/km2
1997 Population:4,018,293Est.1997 Population Density:15.0persons/km2
1990 Population:3,294,473Enum.1990 Population Density:12.3persons/km2
Land Area (2000):268,627km2Annual Pop Growth Rate:2.7%

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  • Source for Popular Vote data: Colorado Secretary of State. Official Publication of the Abstract of Votes Cast for the 1997 - Odd Year 1998 - Primary and General 1999 - Odd Year Elections, Colorado Secretary of State (http://www.sos.state.co.us/pubs/elections/Results/1997/abstract.pdf) (accessed 3 May 2015)
  • Source for Population data: U.S. Census Bureau.
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