House · Republican
Leah Cole
Data through FY2026; built October 19, 2026.
Residence
Peabody
First elected
House 2013 (special)
Left office
resigned (September 28, 2015); successor elected in special election March 1, 2016
| Session | Chamber | District | Lines | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 189th (2015–16) | House | 12th Essex | 2011 lines |
Posts and stipends
No stipend payments to Leah Cole are recorded for 2016–2026.
| Session | Posts | First year | Second year |
|---|---|---|---|
| 189th (2015–16) | No post recorded | not available | not available |
Posts: the Legislature’s leadership and roster records as compiled for this project; where those name no post, the member’s committee chair, vice-chair and ranking roles from the Legislature’s member profiles. Stipends: additional compensation in the Comptroller’s payroll data (CTHRU dataset 9ttk-7vz6), 2016–2026; 2026 is the year to date. Stipends for 2015 are not available. Base salary is not included.
The district
12th Essex on its 2011 lines: 1 city or town, 43,251 residents (2020).
Percentages are each place’s share of the district’s 2020 residents; for a town split between districts, the share of the town inside this one follows.
Population-weighted Fairness Index of the district’s cities and towns: 39 for all state aid and 20 for discretionary money (50 is a fair share).
Local earmarks are counted three ways. District money uses the first, clauses that name a place in the district; the second table adds organizations located in the district (placed in the district) and state facilities located there (everything placed). Three ways to count a local earmark.
| Session | District | Dollars | In corrective clauses | Per resident per budget, rank | Without corrective clauses, rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 189th (2015–16) | 12th Essex | $139,000 | $0 | $3.21 · 66th of 160 | $3.21 · 65th of 160 |
District money is where enacted earmarks land, by the place a clause names, mapped to districts by 2020 population; it is not attributed to the member and does not include leadership’s base-text money that names no place. Ranks are of district money per resident among the chamber’s districts, 1 = most. “In corrective clauses” is the part carried by a Ways and Means chair’s corrective amendments, which is leadership’s money; the last column gives the per-resident figure and rank without it. Sessions are labeled by the General Court that enacted each budget. Per-resident figures use the district as drawn for each session (2011 lines through the 192nd General Court, 2021 lines from the 193rd), so they will not equal a session’s dollars divided by the resident count above.
| Session | District | Placed in the district | Per resident per budget, rank | Everything placed | Per resident per budget, rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 189th (2015–16) | 12th Essex | $139,000 | $3.21 · 83rd of 160 | $139,000 | $3.21 · 85th of 160 |
Budget amendments
No budget amendments sponsored by Leah Cole are recorded for FY2017–FY2026.
The amendment corpus covers every amendment filed to the House and Senate budgets, FY2017–FY2026. Leadership shapes the budget mostly through base text and conference, which no member is credited with here.
Bills sponsored
Leah Cole filed 3 bills as lead sponsor in these sessions; zero were enacted on their own. In completed sessions, 0% of their lead bills were enacted on their own, against a chamber median of 6% for the same sessions.
Most bills die in every legislature, and many policies pass inside other bills; the chamber median for the same session is the fair comparison.
| Session | Chamber | Lead bills | Sent to study | Reported favorably, then died | Enacted rate | Chamber median | Cosponsored |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 189th (2015–16) | House | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0% | 6% | 238 |
Outcomes are the furthest point each bill reached in the record. “Folded into an enacted bill” means the history names the enacted bill that absorbed it. “Passed both branches; no chapter recorded” means the bill was enacted by both branches and laid before the Governor, with no chapter or veto in the history; in the 194th General Court such bills are shown as laid before the Governor (pending). The 194th General Court is in session until January 2027, so its open bills are pending, not dead, and its rates (*) are not comparable with completed sessions. Chairs and leaders control the calendar, which raises their rates. Source: malegislature.gov bill histories.
Recorded votes on accountability measures
No recorded votes for Leah Cole on the accountability measures in this file.
The file covers selected roll calls on the Legislature’s own rules, audits, public records, term limits and pay, 2017–2026.
Campaign money in
Leah Cole’s committee reported $539 in contributions of $250 or more in years the member served, 2015–2015.
| Year | Contributions |
|---|---|
| 2015 | $539 |
| Kind | Total | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Political committees and PACs | $289 | 54% |
| Unions and associations | $250 | 46% |
| Employer reported | Share |
|---|
The same committee also reported $125,000 in years the member was not in the Legislature (2022, 2023), for example while running for another office. Those receipts are not in the totals above.
| Employer or organization | Kind | Total | Contributions |
|---|---|---|---|
| REPUBLICAN STATE COMMITTEE | committee or PAC | $289 | 1 |
| MA & NO NEW ENGLAND LABORERS' DISTRICT COUNCIL | union or association | $250 | 1 |
Source: Office of Campaign and Political Finance, itemized receipts of $250 or more since 2015; OCPF filer record: Allen Committee (CPF 15567). Individuals are grouped by the employer they reported; no individual contributor is named, and an employer field that is a person’s name is withheld. Massachusetts bars business contributions to candidates. Employer shows affiliation, not instruction.
Sources
Every figure traces to a public record.
- Massachusetts Legislature, members, districts and roll calls
- Budget amendments and enacted budgets, FY2017–FY2026
- CTHRU payroll, Office of the Comptroller (stipends)
- Office of Campaign and Political Finance
- District lines: Acts of 2011 and 2021; Census 2020 block populations
- Official profile (prior offices, occupation)
- Election statistics (first elected, residence)
- Leaving office (press/secondary: Wikipedia)
- Leaving office (election statistics)
Facts only: posts, stipends, sponsored amendments, enacted items, roll-call votes and district money. No score or grade is computed. Associations shown here are not evidence of cause. Method.