| − | '''Michael Gabriel Firment''', known as '''Gabe Firment''' (born April 6, 1971), is the incoming [[Republican Party|Republican]] state representative for District 22 in Grant, LaSalle, Natchitoches, Red River, and Winn parishes in north [[Louisiana]]. The district is north of [[Alexandria, Louisiana|Alexandria]]. | + | '''Michael Gabriel Firment''', known as '''Gabe Firment''' (born April 6, 1971), is the [[Republican Party|Republican]] state representative for District 22 in Grant, LaSalle, Natchitoches, Red River, and Winn parishes in north [[Louisiana]]. The district is north of [[Alexandria, Louisiana|Alexandria]]. |
| | With 8,796 votes (65 percent), Firment defeated a fellow Republicans, Carl Ray Lasyone (born 1951) of Colfax, who polled 4,785 votes (35 per cent). The turnout of registered voters was 55.4 percent.<ref>Louisiana Secretary of State, Election Returns, October 12, 2019.</ref> Firment succeeds Terry Ralph Brown (born 1946), an [[Independent]] who declined to seek a third legislative term. | | With 8,796 votes (65 percent), Firment defeated a fellow Republicans, Carl Ray Lasyone (born 1951) of Colfax, who polled 4,785 votes (35 per cent). The turnout of registered voters was 55.4 percent.<ref>Louisiana Secretary of State, Election Returns, October 12, 2019.</ref> Firment succeeds Terry Ralph Brown (born 1946), an [[Independent]] who declined to seek a third legislative term. |