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Byron Cole

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Elections and appointments
Last election

November 13, 2021

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Byron Cole (No party preference) ran for election for Mayor of New Orleans in Louisiana. Cole lost in the primary on November 13, 2021.

Cole was a candidate for mayor of New Orleans, Louisiana. Cole was defeated in the primary election on October 14, 2017. Click here to read Cole's campaign themes for 2017.

Elections

2021

See also: Mayoral election in New Orleans, Louisiana (2021)


Louisiana elections use the majority-vote system. All candidates compete in the same primary, and a candidate can win the election outright by receiving more than 50 percent of the vote. If no candidate does, the top two vote recipients from the primary advance to the general election, regardless of their partisan affiliation.

Nonpartisan primary election

Nonpartisan primary for Mayor of New Orleans

The following candidates ran in the primary for Mayor of New Orleans on November 13, 2021.

Candidate
%
Votes
Image of LaToya Cantrell
LaToya Cantrell (D)
 
64.7
 
48,750
Image of Vina Nguyen
Vina Nguyen (R)
 
13.5
 
10,133
Image of Leilani Heno
Leilani Heno (No party preference) Candidate Connection
 
8.8
 
6,605
Image of Belden Batiste
Belden Batiste (D)
 
5.1
 
3,863
Image of Joseph Amato
Joseph Amato (Independent) Candidate Connection
 
1.7
 
1,256
Image of Eldon Anderson
Eldon Anderson (D) Candidate Connection
 
1.3
 
987
Byron Cole (No party preference)
 
1.2
 
919
Image of Luke Fontana
Luke Fontana (D) Candidate Connection
 
1.0
 
720
Image of Manny Chevrolet Bruno
Manny Chevrolet Bruno (No party preference)
 
0.8
 
578
Image of Johnese Smith
Johnese Smith (D) Candidate Connection
 
0.7
 
553
Image of Matthew Hill
Matthew Hill (Independent) Candidate Connection
 
0.7
 
535
Image of Nathaniel Jones
Nathaniel Jones (Independent) Candidate Connection
 
0.3
 
231
Image of Douglas Bentley I
Douglas Bentley I (Independent) Candidate Connection
 
0.2
 
163
Reginald Merchant (No party preference)
 
0.0
 
32

Total votes: 75,325
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2017

See also: Municipal elections in New Orleans, Louisiana (2017)

The following candidates ran in the primary election for mayor of New Orleans.

Mayor of New Orleans, Primary Election, 2017
Party Candidate Vote % Votes
     Democratic Green check mark transparent.png LaToya Cantrell 39.00% 32,025
     Democratic Green check mark transparent.png Desiree Charbonnet 30.48% 25,028
     Democratic Michael Bagneris 18.76% 15,405
     Democratic Troy Henry 6.42% 5,270
     Democratic Tommie Vassel 1.36% 1,120
     Independent Hashim Walters 0.56% 462
     Democratic Thomas Albert 0.56% 456
     Independent Edward Bruski 0.55% 450
     Democratic Frank Scurlock 0.47% 385
     No Party Manny Chevrolet Bruno 0.32% 264
     No Party Derrick O'Brien Martin 0.29% 238
     Independent Patrick Van Hoorebeek 0.28% 232
     Democratic Charles Anderson 0.28% 230
     No Party Byron Cole 0.26% 212
     No Party Matthew Hill 0.13% 108
     Democratic Edward Collins Sr. 0.12% 96
     Democratic Brandon Dorrington 0.11% 92
     Democratic Johnese Smith 0.05% 38
Total Votes 82,111
Source: Louisiana Secretary of State, "Saturday, October 14, 2017," accessed October 14, 2017

Campaign themes

2021

Ballotpedia survey responses

See also: Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection

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2017

Cole's campaign website included the following themes:

  • Economic growth
  • Jail reform
  • Drug rehabilitation
  • Fair Wages
  • Free the ferries
  • Urban renewal
  • Systemic relief

The only grassroots candidate willing to address racism and inequality with a comprehensive strategy for reform.[1][2]

—Byron Cole (2017)

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External links

Footnotes

  1. Facebook, "Byron Cole for Mayor," accessed August 3, 2017
  2. Note: This text is quoted verbatim from the original source. Any inconsistencies are attributable to the original source.