Cooksey edged out the comeback attempt of former 8th District Republican U.S. Representative Clyde Holloway of Forest Hill in south Rapides Parish and then defeated in the general election the Democrat Francis C. Thompson of Delhi in Richland Parish.
Cooksey edged out the comeback attempt of former 8th District Republican U.S. Representative Clyde Holloway of Forest Hill in south Rapides Parish the Democrat Francis C. Thompson of Delhi in Richland Parish. Cooksey then defeated in the general election the Democrat Francis C. Thompson of Delhi in Richland Parish.