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Byron Cole
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 | ||
| ✔ |  | LaToya Cantrell (D) | 64.7 | 48,750 |
 | Vina Nguyen (R) | 13.5 | 10,133 | |
 | Leilani Heno (No party preference)  | 8.8 | 6,605 | |
 | Belden Batiste (D) | 5.1 | 3,863 | |
 | Joseph Amato (Independent) | 1.7 | 1,256 | |
 | Eldon Anderson (D) | 1.3 | 987 | |
| Byron Cole (No party preference) | 1.2 | 919 | ||
 | Luke Fontana (D) | 1.0 | 720 | |
 | Manny Chevrolet Bruno (No party preference) | 0.8 | 578 | |
 | Johnese Smith (D) | 0.7 | 553 | |
 | Matthew Hill (Independent) | 0.7 | 535 | |
 | Nathaniel Jones (Independent) | 0.3 | 231 | |
 | Douglas Bentley I (Independent) | 0.2 | 163 | |
| Reginald Merchant (No party preference) | 0.0 | 32 | ||
| Total votes: 75,325 | |||
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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 |  LaToya Cantrell |
39.00% | 32,025 | |
| Democratic | 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
Byron Cole did not complete Ballotpedia's 2021 Candidate Connection survey.
2017
Cole's campaign website included the following themes:
| “ |
The only grassroots candidate willing to address racism and inequality with a comprehensive strategy for reform.[1][2] |
” |
| —Byron Cole (2017) | ||
See also
2021 Elections
External links
Footnotes
- ↑ Facebook, "Byron Cole for Mayor," accessed August 3, 2017
- ↑ Note: This text is quoted verbatim from the original source. Any inconsistencies are attributable to the original source.
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