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Timolynn Sams
Timolynn Sams (Democratic Party) (also known as Tim) ran for election to the New Orleans City Council to represent District D in Louisiana. She lost in the primary on November 13, 2021.
Sams completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2021. Click here to read the survey answers.
Biography
Timolynn Sams was born in New Orleans, Louisiana. She earned a bachelor's degree from the Southern University at New Orleans in 1998. Sams' career experience includes working as a community engagement director, the executive director of Neighborhood Partnership Network, and the founder and principal of One Degree Impact.[1]
Elections
2021
See also: City elections 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.
General election
General election for New Orleans City Council District D
Eugene Green defeated Troy Glover in the general election for New Orleans City Council District D on December 11, 2021.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Eugene Green (D) | 50.2 | 6,631 |
| Troy Glover (D) | 49.8 | 6,573 | ||
| Total votes: 13,204 | |||
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Nonpartisan primary election
Nonpartisan primary for New Orleans City Council District D
The following candidates ran in the primary for New Orleans City Council District D on November 13, 2021.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Eugene Green (D) | 35.3 | 5,836 |
| ✔ | Troy Glover (D) | 12.0 | 1,979 | |
| Kevin Griffin-Clark (D) | 9.0 | 1,494 | ||
 | Mariah Moore (D) | 8.4 | 1,385 | |
 | Kourtney Youngblood (D) | 7.7 | 1,279 | |
 | Chelsea Ardoin (R) | 7.0 | 1,153 | |
 | Chantrisse Burnett (D) | 5.2 | 861 | |
 | Timolynn Sams (D) | 5.0 | 824 | |
| Mark Lawes (D) | 3.0 | 495 | ||
| Morgan Clevenger (D) | 2.7 | 439 | ||
| Robert Murray (D) | 2.3 | 377 | ||
| Keith Parker (D) | 1.4 | 224 | ||
| Anthony Doby (No party preference) | 0.8 | 127 | ||
| Dulaine Vining (D) | 0.3 | 47 | ||
| Total votes: 16,520 | |||
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Campaign themes
2021
Ballotpedia survey responses
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Timolynn Sams completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2021. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Sams' responses. Candidates are asked three required questions for this survey, but they may answer additional optional questions as well.
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Timolynn served as the Executive Director of Neighborhoods Partnership Network, (NPN) a citywide network of neighborhoods established after the Hurricane Katrina disaster to facilitate neighborhood collaboration through civic process.
Timolynn has served as an ambassador to the city of Kobe Japan since 2009 and has been recognized as Utne Reader’s “50 People Changing the World”, a Young Leadership Council Role Model recipient, and a Neighborhood Development Foundation leadership recipient.- Making our communities safer
- Developing an economy that empowers everyone
- Advocating for housing and utility affordability
Bridging the gap between research and practice will require “knowledge activation.” Our policy platform is more than a vision. It’s a promise to all residents to take on our hardest challenges and to center our efforts on the pursuit of racial, economic, and environmental justice
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See also
2021 Elections
External links
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Candidate New Orleans City Council District D |
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Footnotes
- ↑ Information submitted to Ballotpedia through the Candidate Connection survey on September 21, 2021
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