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Joe Nicola
2025 - Present
2029
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Joe Nicola (Republican Party) is a member of the Missouri State Senate, representing District 11. He assumed office on January 8, 2025. His current term ends on January 3, 2029.
Nicola (Republican Party) ran for election to the Missouri State Senate to represent District 11. He won in the general election on November 5, 2024.
Nicola completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2023. Click here to read the survey answers.
Biography
Joe Nicola was born in Kansas City, Missouri. He served in the U.S. Navy Reserve from 1984 to 1990. His career experience includes working as a pastor.[1][2]
Sponsored legislation
The following table lists bills this person sponsored as a legislator, according to BillTrack50 and sorted by action history. Bills are sorted by the date of their last action. The following list may not be comprehensive. To see all bills this legislator sponsored, click on the legislator's name in the title of the table.
Elections
2024
See also: Missouri State Senate elections, 2024
General election
General election for Missouri State Senate District 11
Joe Nicola defeated Robert Sauls in the general election for Missouri State Senate District 11 on November 5, 2024.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Joe Nicola (R)  | 52.4 | 37,008 |
 | Robert Sauls (D) | 47.6 | 33,680 | |
| Total votes: 70,688 | |||
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Democratic primary election
Democratic primary for Missouri State Senate District 11
Robert Sauls advanced from the Democratic primary for Missouri State Senate District 11 on August 6, 2024.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Robert Sauls | 100.0 | 9,777 |
| Total votes: 9,777 | |||
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Republican primary election
Republican primary for Missouri State Senate District 11
Joe Nicola defeated Aaron McMullen and David Martin in the Republican primary for Missouri State Senate District 11 on August 6, 2024.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Joe Nicola | 48.5 | 6,211 |
 | Aaron McMullen | 39.4 | 5,043 | |
 | David Martin | 12.0 | 1,540 | |
| Total votes: 12,794 | |||
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Endorsements
Ballotpedia did not identify endorsements for Nicola in this election.
Pledges
Nicola signed the following pledges.
2022
See also: Missouri State Senate elections, 2022
General election
General election for Missouri State Senate District 8
Incumbent Mike Cierpiot defeated Antoine Jennings in the general election for Missouri State Senate District 8 on November 8, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Mike Cierpiot (R) | 55.8 | 38,018 |
 | Antoine Jennings (D) | 44.2 | 30,100 | |
| Total votes: 68,118 | |||
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Democratic primary election
Democratic primary for Missouri State Senate District 8
Antoine Jennings advanced from the Democratic primary for Missouri State Senate District 8 on August 2, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Antoine Jennings | 100.0 | 12,713 |
| Total votes: 12,713 | |||
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Republican primary election
Republican primary for Missouri State Senate District 8
Incumbent Mike Cierpiot defeated Joe Nicola and Rachl Aguirre in the Republican primary for Missouri State Senate District 8 on August 2, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Mike Cierpiot | 50.0 | 9,085 |
| Joe Nicola | 30.8 | 5,600 | |
 | Rachl Aguirre | 19.2 | 3,500 | |
| Total votes: 18,185 | |||
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Endorsements
To view Nicola's endorsements in the 2022 election, please click here.
Campaign themes
2024
Ballotpedia survey responses
See also: Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection
Joe Nicola completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2023. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Nicola's responses. Candidates are asked three required questions for this survey, but they may answer additional optional questions as well.
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- Constitutional Freedom and Liberty for all our citizens
- Support Traditional Family, Parental Rights, Education Freedom
- Repeal Personal Property tax, Repeal Corporate tax, Lower Real Estate tax
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2022
Joe Nicola completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2022. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Nicola's responses. Candidates are asked three required questions for this survey, but they may answer additional optional questions as well.
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I owned a profitable small business for nearly a decade. I served as a youth minister and I worked for the Blue Springs School District while pastoring a church. I am also an author of two theological books.
I have volunteered as a mentor to young men with the Youth Friends Organization. I have also volunteered with Habit for Humanity, the Salvation Army, City Union Mission, the Independence School District and several other non-profits over a couple of decades. In all, I have over forty years of ministry and business leadership experience including leading teams overseas for ministry and humanitarian purposes. I currently pastor a church and I lead a pastor's prayer group.- Constitutional freedom and liberty
- Public education
- Election integrity
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Campaign finance summary
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Scorecards
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See also
2024 Elections
External links
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Missouri State Senate District 11 2025-Present |
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