Colorado Colorado is a U.S. state, state in the Western United States. It is one of the Mountain states, sharing the Four Corners region with Arizona, New Mexico, and Utah. It is also bordered by Wyoming to the north, Nebraska to the northeast, Kansas ...

's 17th Senate district is one of 35 districts in the

Colorado Senate The Colorado State Senate is the upper house of the Colorado General Assembly, the state legislature of the US state of Colorado. It is composed of 35 members elected from single-member districts, with each district having a population of abou ...

. It was previously represented by

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Sonya Jaquez Lewis from 2021 until her resignation in 2025.

Katie Wallace Katie Wallace is an American politician and political organizer from Longmont, Colorado. A Democrat, Wallace currently represents Colorado's 17th Senate district, which covers eastern Boulder County, southwestern Weld County, and northwestern ...

was selected to represent the district by vacancy committee in March 2025.

Geography

District 17 is based in eastern Boulder County, southwestern Weld County, and northwestern Broomfield County, covering Lafayette,

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, and Erie. The district is predominantly located in Colorado's 2nd congressional district, extends into a portion of the 7th congressional district, and overlaps with the 11th, 12th, 19th and 49th districts of the

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Recent election results

Colorado state senators are elected to staggered four-year terms; under normal circumstances, the 17th district holds elections in presidential years.

2020

In 2018, Senator Matt Jones was elected to the Boulder County Board of County Commissioners, and then-State Rep. Mike Foote was chosen to replace him in the Senate. Foote chose not to seek a full term in

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, however, and his successor in the State House, Sonya Jaquez Lewis, ran instead.

Geography

Recent election results

2020

2016

2012

Federal and statewide results

References