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Pylant's successor as sheriff is his chief deputy and fellow Republican, Kevin Wayne Cobb (born 1970) of Winnsboro, who defeated the Democrat Emmitt Coleman, with a vote of 5,860 votes (80.8 percent) to 1,391 (19.2 percent).<ref>{{cite web|url=http://staticresults.sos.la.gov/10222011/10222011_21.html|title=Franklin Parish election returns, October 22, 2011|publisher=staticresults.sos.la.gov|accessdate=October 24, 2011}}</ref>
Pylant's successor as sheriff is his chief deputy and fellow Republican, Kevin Wayne Cobb (born 1970) of Winnsboro, who defeated the Democrat Emmitt Coleman, with a vote of 5,860 votes (80.8 percent) to 1,391 (19.2 percent).<ref>{{cite web|url=http://staticresults.sos.la.gov/10222011/10222011_21.html|title=Franklin Parish election returns, October 22, 2011|publisher=staticresults.sos.la.gov|accessdate=October 24, 2011}}</ref>
In 2016, Pylant opposed the House bipartisan majority for a one-cent increase in the state [[sales tax]]. State representatives voted 76 to 28 for the tax hike, a part of the revenue-raising measures pushed by Democratic Governor [[John Bel Edwards]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://710keel.com/state-house-of-representatives-vote-to-increase-sales-tax/|title=State House of Representatives Vote to Increase Sales Tax|date=February 25, 2016|publisher=KEEL Radio|accessdate=March 28, 2016}}</ref> A House and Senate conference committee subsequently trimmed the five years for the duration of the tax to expire instead after twenty-seven months, effective from April 1, 2016 to June 30, 2018.
Also in 2016, Pylant announced in a House committee meeting that he no longer supports [[capital punishment]] because of the legal costs involved. Since 2000, Louisiana has implemented only three executions, the most recent in 2010. The state spends $10 million a year on capital defense, with another $23 million for local indigent defender boards.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://theadvocate.com/news/opinion/15477863-171/james-gill-gop-ex-sheriff-changes-lifelong-view-questions-death-penalty|author=James Gill|title=GOP ex-sheriff changes lifelong view, questions death penalty|
publisher=''The Baton Rouge Advocate''|date=April 13, 2016|accessdate=April 16, 2016}}</ref>
On February 27, 2019, Pylant disclosed that he will not seek a third term in the state House in the nonpartisan blanket primary scheduled for October 12. Nor will be seek to succeed the term-limited Neil Riser in District 32 in the Louisiana State Senate. Pylant said that after thirty-seven years in the public sector, he will retire to his farm and raise [[cattle]]. Had he entered the Senate contest, his opponents may have included fellow Republican John Stephens of LaSalle Parish and Democrat Representative Andy Anders of Concordia Parish.<ref>Sam Hanna, Jr., "Who Wants to Serve?", ''The Colfax Chronicle'', January 31, 2019, p. 4.</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.thenewsstar.com/story/news/2019/02/27/rep-pylant-wont-seek-re-election-senate-seat/3002246002/|title=Rep. Pylant won't seek reelection or Senate seat|author=[[Greg Hilburn]]|publisher=''the Monroe News-Star''|date=February 27, 2019|accessdate=February 28, 2019}}</ref>
==Personal life==
==Personal life==