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|office=Louisiana State Representative for District 69 (East Baton Rouge Parish)

|office=Louisiana State Representative for District 69 (East Baton Rouge Parish)

|term_start=January 11, 2016

|term_start=January 11, 2016

|preceded=Erich Ponti

|preceded=[[Erich Ponti]]

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'''Paula Pellerin Davis''' (born November 25, 1973)<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.mylife.com/paula-pellerindavis/e160576360836|title=Paula Davis|publisher=Mylife.com|accessdate=September 12, 2017}}</ref> is a government relations specialist and [[lobbyist]] from [[Baton Rouge]], [[Louisiana]], who is a [[Republican Party|Republican]] member of the Louisiana House of Representatives for East Baton Rouge Parish.

'''Paula Pellerin Davis''' (born November 25, 1973)<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.mylife.com/paula-pellerindavis/e160576360836|title=Paula Davis|publisher=Mylife.com|accessdate=September 12, 2017}}</ref> is a government relations specialist and [[lobbyist]] from [[Baton Rouge]], [[Louisiana]], who is a [[Republican Party|Republican]] member of the Louisiana House of Representatives for East Baton Rouge Parish.

Davis won the District 69 House position in the runoff election held on November 21, 2015 over fellow Republican Ryan Eugene Heck (born April 1978).<ref>{{cite web|url=https://voterportal.sos.la.gov/Home/Home?uid=2302680|title=Ryan Heck, April 1978|publisher=Louisiana Secretary of State|accessdate=November 29, 2015}}</ref> She also won the special election to fill the remaining six weeks of the unexpired term<ref name=ereturns>{{cite web|url=http://staticresults.sos.la.gov/11212015/11212015_Legislative.html|title=Results for Election Date: 11/21/2015|publisher=Louisiana Secretary of State|accessdate=November 29, 2015}}</ref> of Republican former Representative Erich Ponti, who resigned the seat in June 2015.

Davis won the District 69 House position in the runoff election held on November 21, 2015 over fellow Republican Ryan Eugene Heck (born April 1978).<ref>{{cite web|url=https://voterportal.sos.la.gov/Home/Home?uid=2302680|title=Ryan Heck, April 1978|publisher=Louisiana Secretary of State|accessdate=November 29, 2015}}</ref> She also won the special election to fill the remaining six weeks of the unexpired term<ref name=ereturns>{{cite web|url=http://staticresults.sos.la.gov/11212015/11212015_Legislative.html|title=Results for Election Date: 11/21/2015|publisher=Louisiana Secretary of State|accessdate=November 29, 2015}}</ref> of Republican former Representative [[Erich Ponti]], who resigned the seat in June 2015.

Davis led Heck in the primary by only eighty-two votes. She thereafter sent out a mailer claiming that Heck, a member since 2012 of the Baton Rouge Metro Council and the owner of Cajun Ready Mix Concrete Company, had made errors in judgment and that his council record did not commend him to serve in the state House. Davis also stressed her experience as deputy state insurance commissioner during [[Hurricane Katrina|Hurricanes Katrina]] and Rita.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://theadvocate.com/news/14062157-34/paula-davis-wins-house-district|title=Paula Davis wins House District 69 seat over challenger Ryan Heck|author=Andrea Gallo|date=November 21, 2015|publisher=''The Baton Rouge Advocate''|accessdate=November 29, 2015}}</ref> Davis received 6,679 votes (55.3 percent) to Heck's 5,400 (44.7 percent).<ref name=ereturns/>

Davis led Heck in the primary by only eighty-two votes. She thereafter sent out a mailer claiming that Heck, a member since 2012 of the Baton Rouge Metro Council and the owner of Cajun Ready Mix Concrete Company, had made errors in judgment and that his council record did not commend him to serve in the state House. Davis also stressed her experience as deputy state insurance commissioner during [[Hurricane Katrina|Hurricanes Katrina]] and Rita.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://theadvocate.com/news/14062157-34/paula-davis-wins-house-district|title=Paula Davis wins House District 69 seat over challenger Ryan Heck|author=Andrea Gallo|date=November 21, 2015|publisher=''The Baton Rouge Advocate''|accessdate=November 29, 2015}}</ref> Davis received 6,679 votes (55.3 percent) to Heck's 5,400 (44.7 percent).<ref name=ereturns/>