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|party=[[Republican Party|Republican]]
|party=[[Republican Party|Republican]]
|religion=[[Southern Baptist]]
|religion=[[Southern Baptist]]
|office=Louisiana State Representative for District 66 (East Baton Rouge Parish)
|office=Louisiana State Senator for District 6 (East Baton Rouge, Livingston, and St. Helena parishes)
|term_start=January 11, 2016
|term_start=January 2024
|term_end=January 2024
|term_end=
|preceded=[[Darrell Ourso]]
|preceded=Mack White, Jr.
|succeeded=
|succeeded=
|office2=Louisiana State Representative<br> for District 66 (East Baton Rouge Parish)
|term_start2=January 11, 2016
|term_end2=January 2024
|preceded2=[[Darrell Ourso]]
|succeeded2=Pending runoff election
}}
}}
'''Richard Phillip Edmonds, Jr.''', known as '''Rick Edmonds''' (born September 12, 1956),<ref>{{cite web|url=https://voterportal.sos.la.gov/Home/Home?uid=2277537|title=Richard Edmonds, September 1956|publisher=Louisiana Secretary of State|accessdate=November 27, 2015}}</ref> is a [[Baptist|Southern Baptist]] pastor in [[Baton Rouge]], [[Louisiana]], and a [[Republican Party|Republican]] departing member of the Louisiana House of Representatives for District 66.
'''Richard Phillip Edmonds, Jr.''', known as '''Rick Edmonds''' (born September 12, 1956),<ref>{{cite web|url=https://voterportal.sos.la.gov/Home/Home?uid=2277537|title=Richard Edmonds, September 1956|publisher=Louisiana Secretary of State|accessdate=November 27, 2015}}</ref> is a [[Baptist|Southern Baptist]] pastor in [[Baton Rouge]], [[Louisiana]], and a [[Republican Party|Republican]] departing member of the Louisiana House of Representatives for District 66 and the incoming state senator for District 6.
Edmonds unseated the short-term incumbent Republican, [[Darrell Ourso]], a former member of the East Baton Rouge Parish Metro Council, in the runoff election held on November 21, 2015.<ref name=bra>{{cite web|url=http://theadvocate.com/news/14061578-123/district-66-incumbent-darrell-ourso|title=District 66 incumbent Darrell Ourso loses seat to Family Forum Vice President|date=November 21, 2015|publisher=''The Baton Rouge Advocate''|author=Rebekah Allen|accessdate=November 27, 2015}}</ref> Edmonds polled 7,109 votes (52.1 percent) to Ourso's 6,540 (47.9 percent).<ref>{{cite web|url=http://staticresults.sos.la.gov/11212015/11212015_Legislative.html|title=
Edmonds unseated the short-term incumbent Republican, [[Darrell Ourso]], a former member of the East Baton Rouge Parish Metro Council, in the runoff election held on November 21, 2015.<ref name=bra>{{cite web|url=http://theadvocate.com/news/14061578-123/district-66-incumbent-darrell-ourso|title=District 66 incumbent Darrell Ourso loses seat to Family Forum Vice President|date=November 21, 2015|publisher=''The Baton Rouge Advocate''|author=Rebekah Allen|accessdate=November 27, 2015}}</ref> Edmonds polled 7,109 votes (52.1 percent) to Ourso's 6,540 (47.9 percent).<ref>{{cite web|url=http://staticresults.sos.la.gov/11212015/11212015_Legislative.html|title=
In the nonpartisan blanket primary held on October 12, 2019, Edmonds handily won reelection. With 12,961 votes (70 percent), he overwhelmed two opponents, Democrat Morgan Lamandre, who received 5,015 votes (27 percent), and the [[Libertarian Party|Libertarian]] nominee, David Smith, who drew 646 votes (3 percent).<ref>Louisiana Secretary of State, Election Returns, October 12, 2019.</ref>
In the nonpartisan blanket primary held on October 12, 2019, Edmonds handily won reelection. With 12,961 votes (70 percent), he overwhelmed two opponents, Democrat Morgan Lamandre, who received 5,015 votes (27 percent), and the [[Libertarian Party|Libertarian]] nominee, David Smith, who drew 646 votes (3 percent).<ref>Louisiana Secretary of State, Election Returns, October 12, 2019.</ref>
In 2023, the conservative Edmonds challenged legislative colleague [[Barry Ivey]], a [[Moderate Republican]], for the District 6 state Senate seat vacated by Republican Mack White, Jr.
In 2023, the conservative Edmonds challenged legislative colleague [[Barry Ivey]], a [[Moderate Republican]], for the District 6 state Senate seat vacated by Republican Mack White, Jr. Edmonds won a large victory, 62 to 38 percent over Ivey.<ref>Louisiana Secretary of State, Election Returns, October 24, 2023.</ref>
==References==
==References==