Tracie Crites · Frederick, Colorado
Election History
Tracie Crites has stood for election four times across town and special district offices and has won all four contests. She is the only person in the town’s published election record to be elected both Trustee and Mayor.
Voters elected Crites to the Carbon Valley Parks and Recreation District Board of Directors in 2016, elected her a Frederick Town Trustee in 2018, elected her Mayor in 2020 from a field of six candidates, and re-elected her Mayor in 2024.
The results below are the official figures certified by the Frederick Town Clerk.
| Year | Office | Result | Votes | Field |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | Mayor, Town of Frederick | Re-elected, unopposed | 1,134 | Sole candidate |
| 2020 | Mayor, Town of Frederick | Elected | 1,173 | 6 candidates |
| 2018 | Trustee, Town of Frederick | Elected | 670 | 6 candidates, 3 seats |
2024 Mayoral Election
Crites was re-elected Mayor of Frederick on April 2, 2024, receiving 1,134 votes as the only candidate for the office, nearly twice the total recorded in the town’s previous single-candidate mayoral race. The Town Clerk mailed 12,892 ballots to registered voters, and election judges processed 1,242 ballots.
Her second term runs through November 2028.
2020 Mayoral Election
Crites was elected Mayor of Frederick on April 7, 2020, in a six-candidate race that included two sitting trustees and a former trustee. She received 1,173 of the 2,426 votes cast for mayor, a 48.4 percent share, more than double the total of the closest challenger.
Her 1,173 votes remain the most any mayoral candidate has received in the town’s published election record.
The election drew 2,511 total ballots, a record turnout for a Frederick election and 87 percent above the 2018 election. Crites, then 35, succeeded Tony Carey, who had been elected in 2016 and was subject to a special recall election in 2017.
2018 Trustee Election
Voters first elected Crites to the Frederick Board of Trustees on April 3, 2018, with 670 votes in a six-candidate field contesting three seats, outpolling an incumbent trustee to win her seat.
Profiling her 2020 mayoral candidacy, the Longmont Times-Call quoted: Tracie Crites is the youngest elected trustee in Frederick’s history.
She served as Trustee until April 2020, when she resigned the seat upon her election as Mayor.
2017 Recall Election
Crites first appeared on a Frederick ballot as a replacement candidate in the recall special election of September 5, 2017, which targeted five of the town’s seven board members over growth and development decisions.
Voters retained every incumbent.
The recall drew 1,984 ballots, which CBS Colorado reported as the most cast in the town’s history at that time, a record that stood until the 2020 election that made Crites mayor. Her first elected office followed a year later.
Carbon Valley Parks and Recreation District
Crites’s electoral record began outside Town Hall.
In 2016 she was elected to the Board of Directors of the Carbon Valley Parks and Recreation District, the special district serving Frederick, Firestone, and Dacono, and the board selected her as its President for 2017 to 2018.
Her district service concluded in 2018, the year she won her first town election.