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The 2024 Baton Rouge mayoral election was held on November 5, 2024, with a runoff for December 7 to elect the mayor-president of Baton Rouge, Louisiana.With no candidate receiving a majority of votes in the initial round of the election, a runoff election was held on December 7.
Emile "Sid" Edwards is an American politician who is the mayor-president of Baton Rouge, Louisiana. [1] A Republican, he was elected mayor-president in a runoff election held on December 7, 2024, defeating incumbent Mayor-President Sharon Weston Broome. [2] He would be sworn in on January 2, 2025. [3]
This was the first presidential election in Louisiana since 1984 where a candidate received over 60% of the vote. Trump became the first Republican to win Tensas Parish since 1988 , and Iberville Parish and St. James Parish since 1972 .
(The Center Square) — Republican Sid Edwards has been elected Mayor-President of Baton Rouge, defeating Democratic incumbent Sharon Weston Broome in a decisive victory. Edwards, a first-time ...
6th Congressional District (Baton Rouge): This sprawling open seat snakes from Baton Rouge in the center of the state all the way up to Shreveport in the northwest corner.
Trump won Louisiana on the day of the election 58.5% to 39.9%, a margin of 18.6%, down from 19.4% in 2016. Per exit polls by the Associated Press , his strength in Louisiana came from White born-again / Evangelical Christians as well as conservative Roman Catholics who have a high population in Louisiana, who supported Trump with 91% and 80% of ...
Sharon Weston Broome, Mayor of Baton Rouge [11] (endorsed Wilson) [12] Gary Chambers, community organizer, runner-up for U.S. Senate in 2022, and candidate for Louisiana's 2nd congressional district in 2021 [13] (endorsed Wilson) [14] Hillar Moore, East Baton Rouge Parish District Attorney [15]
The 2020 Baton Rouge mayoral election was held on November 3, 2020, and December 5, 2020, to elect the mayor-president of Baton Rouge, Louisiana. [ 1 ] Elections in Louisiana