Kenny Cox

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Kenny Cox
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Prior offices
Louisiana House of Representatives District 23
Successor: Shaun Mena

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Kenny Cox (Democratic Party) was a member of the Louisiana House of Representatives, representing District 23. He assumed office on January 9, 2012. He left office on January 8, 2024.

Cox (Democratic Party) won re-election to the Louisiana House of Representatives to represent District 23 outright in the primary on October 12, 2019, after the general election was canceled.

Biography

Kenny Cox, as of March 2020, lived in Natchitoches, Louisiana. He graduated from Coushatta High School. Cox served in the United States Army. He earned a bachelor of science from Northwestern State University and a master's degree equivalent from the U.S. Army Command General Staff College.[1]

Committee assignments

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2023-2024

Cox was assigned to the following committees:

2021-2022

Cox was assigned to the following committees:

2019-2020

Cox was assigned to the following committees:

2015 legislative session

At the beginning of the 2015 legislative session, Cox served on the following committees:

Louisiana committee assignments, 2015
Commerce
Health and Welfare
Labor and Industrial Relations

2012-2013

In the 2012-2013 legislative session, Cox served on the following committees:

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

2023

See also: Louisiana House of Representatives elections, 2023

Kenny Cox was not able to file for re-election due to term limits.

2019

See also: Louisiana House of Representatives elections, 2019


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 Louisiana House of Representatives District 23

Incumbent Kenny Cox won election outright in the primary for Louisiana House of Representatives District 23 on October 12, 2019.

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Kenny Cox (D)

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2015

See also: Louisiana House of Representatives elections, 2015

Elections for the Louisiana House of Representatives took place in 2015. A primary election was held on October 24, 2015, with a general election held in districts where necessary on November 21, 2015. The signature filing deadline for candidates wishing to run in this election was September 10, 2015, at 4:30 p.m. CDT.[2]
Louisiana elections use the Louisiana majority-vote system. All candidates compete in the same primary, and a candidate can win the election outright by receiving more than 50% 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.

For information about which offices are nominated via primary election, see this article. Incumbent Kenny Cox (D) was unopposed in the October 24 blanket primary.[3][4]

2011

See also: Louisiana House of Representatives elections, 2011

On November 19, 2011, Cox won election to District 23 of the Louisiana House of Representatives. He faced incumbent Rick Nowlin (R) and Ralph Wilson (D) in the primary election on October 22, 2011. Because Louisiana uses a blanket primary system, a candidate can be declared the overall winner of the seat by garnering 50 percent +1 of the vote in the primary. However, since no candidate reached this threshold, a general election took place on November 19, 2011 between Cox and Nolan.[5] Cox defeated Nowlin to win the seat.[6]

Louisiana House of Representatives District 23 General Election, 2011
Party Candidate Vote % Votes
     Democratic Green check mark transparent.pngKenny Cox 53.4% 5,556
     Republican Rick Nowlin Incumbent 46.6% 4,847
Total Votes 10,403
Louisiana House of Representatives, District 23 Blanket Primary, 2011
Party Candidate Vote % Votes
     Republican Green check mark transparent.pngRick Nowlin Incumbent 43.6% 5,662
     Democratic Kenny Cox 42.4% 5,506
     Democratic Ralph Wilson 13.9% 1,805
Total Votes 12,973

Campaign themes

2019

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Campaign finance summary


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Kenny Cox campaign contribution history
YearOfficeStatusContributionsExpenditures
2019Louisiana House of Representatives District 23Won primary$37,916 N/A**
Grand total$37,916 N/A**
Sources: OpenSecretsFederal Elections Commission ***This product uses the openFEC API but is not endorsed or certified by the Federal Election Commission (FEC).
** Data on expenditures is not available for this election cycle
Note: Totals above reflect only available data.

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2023

In 2023, the Louisiana State Legislature was in session from April 10 to June 8.

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Political offices
Preceded by
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Louisiana House of Representatives District 23
2012-2024
Succeeded by
Shaun Mena (D)


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