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Louisiana's 6th congressional district is a congressional district in the U.S. state of Louisiana. The district covers a backslash-shaped region stretching from Shreveport to the state capital of Baton Rouge, encompassing most of the majority-Black areas in between. The district is currently represented by Democrat Cleo Fields.
The U.S. state of Louisiana currently has six congressional districts.The state has had as many as eight districts; the eighth district was eliminated on January 9, 1993 after results of the 1990 census, and the seventh district was eliminated in 2013, following results of the 2010 census, largely because of people moving interstate after Hurricane Katrina hit the state.
The Congressional District 6 map, stretches from East Baton Rouge Parish through St. Landry, parts of Rapides, all of Natchitoches, half of DeSoto Parish, and a section of Caddo Parish.
6th Congressional District Quentin Anthony Anderson, D-Baton Rouge; Cleo Fields, D-Baton Rouge; Elbert Guillory, R-Opelousas; Wilken Jones Jr., D-Opelousas; Peter Williams, D-Baton Rouge.
Louisiana's old congressional districts since 2023 [1] These are tables of congressional delegations from Louisiana to the United States House of Representatives and the United States Senate . The current dean of the Louisiana delegation is Representative and House Majority Leader Steve Scalise (LA-1) , having served in the House since 2008.
Baton Rouge state Sen. Cleo Fields is first out of the gate in the campaign for Louisiana's new majority Black 6th Congressional District, but others are also considering the race from the ...
The 6th district has been reformed after the decision of Allen v. Milligan into the second majority Black district, giving it a stronger lean to the Democratic Party. It encompasses much of Baton Rouge, Shreveport, and Lafayette. [41]
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Poised to flip a once reliably Republican congressional seat in Louisiana, Democrats’ are placing their hopes with state Sen. Cleo Fields, who has been a fixture in ...