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On election day, all candidates for the same office appear together on the ballot, often including several candidates from each major party. If one candidate receives over half of the vote in the first round, that candidate wins outright. Otherwise, the top two candidates, regardless of partisan affiliation, proceed to a runoff election.
In elections from 1812 to 1824, Louisiana did not conduct a popular vote. Each Elector was appointed by state legislature. The election of 1824 was a complex realigning election following the collapse of the prevailing Democratic-Republican Party , resulting in four different candidates each claiming to carry the banner of the party, and ...
This was the first presidential election in Louisiana since 1984 where a candidate received over 60% of the statewide vote. Trump became the first Republican to win majority-African American Tensas Parish since George H.W. Bush in 1988, as well as the first since Richard Nixon in 1972 to achieve likewise in the slimly majority-minority [23 ...
If no candidate receives a majority in Saturday’s election, the top two vote-getters will advance to the general election on Nov. 18. Republican hopefuls include state Sen. Sharon Hewitt, state ...
Candidates who aren't members of the Republican or Democratic parties can advance directly to the general election, but they must secure 1,000 signatures of voters who aren't Democrats or Republicans.
Incumbent Republican Congressman Steve Scalise of Metairie has been endorsed by the Louisiana Republican Party and U.S. Speaker of the House Mike Johnson of Shreveport. Scalise, who has served as ...
Republicans captured both seats in the election of 2014 for the first time since 1872. In the election of 2008, the state voted for a losing presidential candidate for the first time since 1968. Democrats won less than 40% of the presidential popular vote in the state in the elections of 2016 and 2020.
Louisiana voters will elect all six members of their U.S. House of Representatives delegation this year beginning with the Nov. 5 primary election that will include a new Black majority voter ...