(Colorado Newsline) Republican Representative Lauren Boebert won in Colorado’s 4th Congressional District  Tuesday.

The Associated Press called the race at 9:18 p.m., when Boebert had 52.9 percent of the vote.

She will replace Republican Representative Greg Lopez, who was picked by Republicans earlier this year for the remainder of former Representative Ken Buck’s term after he stepped down in March.

The district includes parts of Douglas County and Colorado’s rural Eastern Plains. It is the most conservative-leaning congressional district in the state. The Cook Political Report rated it as a solid Republican seat this election cycle.

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“We hit the bullseye on this one,” Boebert said in her victory speech. “We’ve got so much work to do and I am so honored to do that work alongside each and every one of you — to serve you and hear about the issues that are particular to you.”

“This is about the policies that change our future. This is how we stand up for our farmers, for our ranchers. This is how we get a booming economy once again, and this is how we stand up to the school boards, the unions, the Department of Education at the federal level.”

Boebert, a firebrand conservative and ally of former President Donald Trump, is in her second term representing the 3rd Congressional District at the opposite end of the state. In 2022, she won by 546 votes against her Democratic opponent, Adam Frisch. She then moved to Windsor late last year and entered the open Republican primary in the 4th District when Buck announced he would not run for reelection. Though she was branded a “carpetbagger” by her opponents, she beat five other primary candidates by a double-digit margin.

“I’m not going to allow the left-wing media to diminish this victory in any way, because the people know that our policies are ones to put our country back on track. That’s exactly what I’m going to continue to fight for, hopefully alongside President Trump,” she said.

Trisha Calvarese was a first-time candidate and grew up in Highlands Ranch. She has worked at the AFL-CIO and the National Science Foundation. Calvarese was an impressive fundraiser, outraising Boebert by five times in the third quarter of this year.

Boebert called out that financial discrepancy as evidence of rampant outside spending.

“I was out working with constituents and my opponent was spending millions of dark money dollars on the airwaves,” she said. “It doesn’t surprise me that the first time millions are spent in this district that the margins are different.”

The race was closer this year than in 2022, when Buck beat his Democratic opponent by 25 percentage points.

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