Since 2017, Ouray County residents had been represented in the state Senate by Don Coram of Montrose.

But that changed last month as a result of redistricting, a process by which new congressional and state legislative district boundaries are drawn.

Senate District 6, of which Ouray County is a part, was redrawn to include several counties in the San Luis Valley and southern Colorado. Coram was drawn out of District 6 and into District 5, whose representative isn’t up for election again until 20...