Matt Benjamin, Mark Wallach, Nicole Speer and Rob Kaplan have all emerged as likely winners of the Boulder City Council election.

The four candidates have pulled away from their seven competitors after the penultimate ballot drop on Wednesday night. Benjamin, Wallach and Speer were all running as incumbents. Kaplan, a challenger, is a former captain for Boulder Rural Fire Rescue.

Benjamin had the highest share of votes ahead of the final ballot drop with 17.8%. Wallach had 15.3% of the vote, Speer had 14.1%, and Kaplan had 13.9%.

These are unofficial results as one more ballot drop remained on Thursday, and the county clerk still needs to finalize the results.

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