{{Infobox officeholder
| name=Michael Paul "Mike Pete" Huval
| image=Mike Pete Huval of LA.jpg|office=[[Louisiana]] State Representative for District 46 (Iberia, St. Landry,<br> and St. Martin parishes)
| party=[[Democratic Party|Democratic]]-turned-[[Republican Party|Republican]]
| term_start=April 2011
| term_end=January 2024| preceded=[[Fred Mills]] | succeeded=Chad M. Boyer (unopposed)| office2=District 4 member of the <br> St. Martin Parish Council
| term_start2=1996
| term_end2=2011
In the runoff election held on November 16, 2019, Huval narrowly won reelection to a third term by defeating another Republican businessman, Keith Baudin (born 1962), a drilling supervisor for a [[petroleum]] company. Huval polled 7,744 votes (51 percent) to Baudin's 7,480 (49 percent).<ref>Louisiana Secretary of State, Election Returns, November 16, 2019.</ref>
===Huval joins Democrats in choosing House Speaker=== On January 13, 2020, Huval was among twenty-three Republican lawmakers , known as the [[Louisiana Republican Fraud Squad|Fraud Squad]], who supported voted for the [[Moderate Republican ]] [[Clay Schexnayder]] of Ascension Parish, whose election as [[Speaker]] depended heavily on Democratic the votesof thirty-five Democratic lawmakers, along with two [[Independent]]s, and the Republican defectors. Statewide [[radio]] commentator [[Moon Griffon]] coined the term "Fraud Squad" for the twenty-three dissidents nominally in the Republican Party.<ref>''[[Moon Griffon|The Moon Griffon Show]],'' January 23, 2020.</ref> Huval was term-limited in the primary held on October 14, 2023.
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