2025 General Election
The Fort Collins Area Chamber of Commerce has made it a priority to be the lead “voice of business” articulating the perspective of business and ensuring public officials and residents understand: the importance of a thriving business community to total community quality of life and the impact of the total business environment on business location decisions.
We are working to Advance a Business-Friendly Environment and elections are important to that effort. With Election Season fully upon us (ballots started being mailed last week), we invite you to take advantage of the resources and information about issues and candidates created by over 100 Chamber volunteers.
The November 4, 2025 ballot will invite all voters to elect a Mayor, and voters in Districts 1, 3, and 5 to elect City Council representatives. As well, we have 6 City of Fort Collins issues, 2 Larimer County issues and 2 State issues on the ballot.
To assist business owners, employees and residents in making informed voting decisions, we provide a number of election resources at the following
website: 2025 General Election - Fort Collins Area Chamber of Commerce
There you’ll find the written responses of each mayor and city candidate to questions covering a range of policy issues, with a focus on business and economic concerns. We have also included links to videos provided by the candidates. We are also sharing a ballot scorecard, highlighting the positions of each candidate on policy issues the Fort Collins Area Chamber has addressed on behalf of business community interests.
To be clear, the Fort Collins Area Chamber is not endorsing candidates this year. We’ve learned that our elected leaders are a more receptive audience when they recognize we go hard on policy, not the politics. That said, we are outspoken regarding the policy issues at stake in each election and on which side each candidate falls. After in-depth review of questionnaires, videos, public votes, public comments, websites and more by staff, the Election Committee and the Board, we are sharing insight into key business community interests at stake in this year’s City Council and Mayor election and what we’ll be looking for in each candidate. And make sure to pay attention to our change this year to Rank Choice Voting. The City and County have created wonderful tools to help you understand how this change in voting will work.
Finally, we are providing in-depth information about the various local ballot issues, tremendous community resources and more.
We are honored to be your resource and business voice.
