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Websitehttps://denverauditor.org
Established May 15, 1917
Disbanded Still Active
Last ModifiedBrentinCO January 12, 2020 08:03pm
DescriptionThe City Charter establishes the position of Auditor. The Auditor is elected for a four-year term.

The Auditor is the general accountant for the City and County of Denver. Included in the Auditor's duties are the following:

Receiving and preserving all accounts, books, vouchers, documents and papers relating to the accounts and contracts of the City and County, its debts, revenues and other fiscal affairs not required to be kept by the Clerk, except as otherwise provided in the Charter or by Ordinance;

Providing and keeping tables of the finances, assets and liabilities of the City and County, keeping all contracts and names of contractors;

Listing names of employees in such manner as to show the department in which they are employed, their respective salaries, powers, duties and how appointed;

Requiring all claims, settlements, returns and reports made to him to be verified;

Signing all warrants, countersigning and registering all contracts, keeping a true and accurate account of the revenues, receipts and expenditures of the City and County and each of the different funds thereof; this also includes federal, state and local grants.

Furnishing to each department a monthly statement of the unexpended appropriation of that department;

Seeing that rules and regulations are prescribed and observed in relation to accounts, settlements and reports; that no appropriation of funds is overdrawn or misapplied; and that no liability is incurred, money disbursed or the property of the City and County disposed of contrary to law or ordinance;

Keeping an official record of all demands audited by him, showing the number, date, amount and name of the original holder, on what account allowed, against what appropriation drawn, out of what fund payable and by what officer or department previously approved;

Allowing no demand unless the same has been approved by every department, commission or officer required to act thereon;

Keeping a register of warrants showing the funds upon which they are drawn, the number, in whose favor, for what services and the appropriation applicable to the payment thereof.

RACES [Show Primaries]
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Date Type Results
Apr 04, 2023 General Election
 Timothy M. O’Brien(I)
84,856
59.13%
 Erik J. Clarke
58,657
40.87%
May 07, 2019 General Election
 Timothy M. O’Brien(I)
132,179
100.00%
May 05, 2015 General Election
 Timothy M. O’Brien
46,790
53.02%
 Chris Nevitt
41,466
46.98%
May 03, 2011 General Election
 Dennis Gallagher(I)
63,280
67.04%
 Marcus D. Richardson
16,840
17.84%
 Bill Wells
14,271
15.12%
May 01, 2007 General Election
 Dennis Gallagher(I)
56,083
78.11%
 Bill Wells
15,472
21.55%
  Write-In (W)
244
0.34%
Jun 03, 2003 General Election
 Dennis Gallagher
52,579
52.40%
 Edward P. Thomas
47,763
47.60%
May 05, 1999 General Election
 Donald J. "Don" Mares(I)
40,158
99.50%
  Write-In (W)
200
0.50%
Jun 06, 1995 General Election
 Donald J. "Don" Mares
57,178
50.55%
 Sandy Adams
55,930
49.45%
May 21, 1991 General Election
 Robert L. “Bob” Crider
54,211
57.55%
 Steve Weichert
31,504
33.45%
 Richard O. Grimes
8,480
9.00%
Jun 16, 1987 General Election
 Wellington Webb
91,316
63.36%
 William Schroeder
52,809
36.64%
May 19, 1987 General Election
 Wellington Webb
57,127
47.97%
 William Schroeder
29,302
24.60%
 Joe Ciancio, Jr.
26,643
22.37%
 Dave Lewis
3,683
3.09%
 Richard O. Grimes
2,338
1.96%
May 17, 1983 General Election
 Mike R. Licht
57,752
50.17%
 Charles D. Byrne(I)
57,360
49.83%
Jun 19, 1979 General Election
 Charles D. Byrne
18,132
63.33%
 John F. Dee(I)
10,499
36.67%
Jun 17, 1975 General Election
 John F. Dee
71,140
65.39%
 Lucius A. Ashby, Jr.
37,661
34.61%
May 18, 1971 General Election
 Charles D. Byrne(I)
92,353
76.26%
 George V. Kelly
28,742
23.74%
May 16, 1967 General Election
 Charles D. Byrne(I)
88,782
76.00%
 Andrew “Andy” Armatas
28,031
24.00%
Jun 18, 1963 General Election
 Charles D. Byrne
64,580
51.23%
 Victor B. Grandy
61,477
48.77%
May 19, 1959 General Election
 Thomas G. "Tom" Currigan(I)
102,467
100.00%
Jun 21, 1955 General Election
 Thomas G. "Tom" Currigan
1
100.00%
 Clarence M. Stafford
0
0.00%
May 15, 1951 General Election
 William H. McNichols, Sr.(I)
75,349
82.15%
 Edward L. Bloom
16,370
17.85%
May 20, 1947 General Election
 William H. McNichols, Sr.(I)
103,716
100.00%
May 18, 1943 General Election
 William H. McNichols, Sr.(I)
55,541
100.00%
May 16, 1939 General Election
 William H. McNichols, Sr.(I)
72,217
71.12%
 Fay H. Carroll
29,330
28.88%
May 16, 1933 General Election
 William H. McNichols, Sr.
52,609
47.23%
 Thomas H. Gibson
18,781
16.86%
 Donald A. Davenport
17,093
15.35%
 William S. Lail
7,923
7.11%
 Charles J. Newman
6,299
5.66%
 J. M. Dix
5,192
4.66%
 Reuel W. Likens
3,488
3.13%
May 21, 1929 General Election
 George D. Begole(I)
40,495
79.32%
 Alvin H. Pickens
7,731
15.14%
 Frank H. Rice
2,826
5.54%
May 19, 1925 General Election
 George D. Begole(I)
36,194
54.29%
 Alvin H. Pickens
30,480
45.71%
May 17, 1921 General Election
 George D. Begole
20,121
29.80%
 Alvin H. Pickens
14,568
21.58%
 Herbert C. Fairall
10,800
16.00%
 Harry A. Sullivan
10,689
15.83%
 William H.H. Cranmer
6,580
9.75%
 Roy D. Paul
4,751
7.04%
May 15, 1917 General Election
 Frederick D. Stackhouse
10,771
22.01%
 Roady Kenehan
10,663
21.79%
 Harry E. Mulnix
10,517
21.49%
 Clement F. Crowley
9,797
20.02%
 James D. Mahoney
3,174
6.48%
 Charles W. Cochran
2,221
4.54%
 Edward B. Bartholic
1,802
3.68%
  Julius Aichele
1
0.00%

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