Lynda Zamora Wilson

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| state_senate = Colorado

| district = 9th

| term_start = July 8, 2025

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| predecessor = Paul Lundeen

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| party = Republican

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Lynda Zamora Wilson is an American politician and former United States Air Force officer from El Paso County, Colorado. A Republican, Zamora Wilson currently represents Colorado's 9th Senate district, which covers the northern suburbs of Colorado Springs in El Paso County, and parts of Falcon and Colorado Springs proper. The district is also home to the United States Air Force Academy.{{Cite web |title=Final Plans Approved by the Court |url=https://redistricting.colorado.gov/final-plans-approved-court |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200412195308/https://redistricting.colorado.gov/final-plans-approved-court |archive-date=April 12, 2020 |access-date=April 16, 2020 |publisher=Colorado Redistricting - General Assembly}}

Wilson was selected by vacancy committee to represent Senate District 9 following the resignation of Senator Paul Lundeen.{{Cite web |last=Ventrelli |first=Marissa |date=2025-07-01 |title=Colorado Senate District 9 vacancy filled by Lynda Zamora Wilson in El Paso County |url=https://www.coloradopolitics.com/elections/lynda-wilson-selected-senate-district-9/article_d618a719-567f-48a8-8f36-ef810a33301c.html |access-date=2025-07-08 |website=Colorado Politics |language=en}}

Background

Lynda Zamora Wilson served in the United States Air Force for 25 years where she served as an analyst at the Pentagon, and as an associate professor of economics at the United States Air Force Academy.{{Cite web |last=Ventrelli |first=Marissa |date=2025-07-01 |title=Colorado Senate District 9 vacancy filled by Lynda Zamora Wilson in El Paso County |url=https://www.coloradopolitics.com/elections/lynda-wilson-selected-senate-district-9/article_d618a719-567f-48a8-8f36-ef810a33301c.html |access-date=2025-07-09 |website=Colorado Politics |language=en}}

Electoral History

Wilson had previously sought the Republican nomination for Colorado's 9th Senate district in the 2022 Colorado Senate election, challenging incumbent Senator Paul Lundeen. Wilson decisively lost the primary election, securing 10,378 of the 30,849 total votes cast.{{Cite web |title=Election Night Reporting |url=https://results.enr.clarityelections.com/CO/113964/web.285569/#/summary?category=C_3 |access-date=2025-07-09 |website=results.enr.clarityelections.com |publisher=Colorado Secretary of State}} Wilson questioned the outcome of her primary loss to Lundeen{{Cite web |last=Goodland |first=Marianne |date=July 26, 2022 |title=More Republican candidates seek primary recounts with Secretary of State's Office |url=https://www.9news.com/article/news/local/local-politics/more-republican-candidates-seek-primary-recounts-colorado/73-f2b72e73-1d43-4d9d-9580-058309d9af4f |website=9News}}{{Cite news |date=2022-07-30 |title=After big losses, candidates still pay for recounts |url=https://kdvr.com/news/politics/tina-peters-lynda-zamora-recount-colorado/ |archive-url=http://web.archive.org/web/20221107060145/https://kdvr.com/news/politics/tina-peters-lynda-zamora-recount-colorado/ |archive-date=2022-11-07 |access-date=2025-07-09 |work=FOX31 Denver |language=en-US}} and fundraised over $20,000 to pay for a recount, which only reaffirmed her overwhelming defeat.{{Cite web |last=Metzger |first=HANNAH |date=2022-08-02 |title=Unsuccessful legislative candidate in Colorado more than triples fundraising for recount |url=https://www.coloradopolitics.com/legislature/unsuccessful-legislative-candidate-in-colorado-more-than-triples-fundraising-for-recount/article_791756ce-129e-11ed-9946-6f7f49cf3a4b.html |access-date=2025-07-09 |website=Colorado Politics |language=en}}{{Cite web |last=Goodland |first=MARIANNE |date=2022-10-24 |title=Tina Peters, Lynda Zamora Wilson to get refunds for unused recount money in Colorado |url=https://www.coloradopolitics.com/denver-gazette/tina-peters-lynda-zamora-wilson-to-get-refunds-for-unused-recount-money-in-colorado/article_5d8c1840-53d0-11ed-9143-33fe22aed963.html |access-date=2025-07-09 |website=Colorado Politics |language=en}}

In June 2025, Wilson was selected by a vacancy committee to represent the district after Lundeen resigned.

References

External links

[https://leg.colorado.gov/legislators/lynda-zamora-wilson Legislative website]

Category:Living people

Category:Republican Party Colorado state senators

Category:21st-century members of the Colorado General Assembly

Category:Women state legislators in Colorado

Category:21st-century American women politicians

Category:United States Air Force Academy alumni

Category:Year of birth missing (living people)