None of the federal races in Louisiana were expected to be in doubt, and none were.
Donald Trump carried Louisiana by about 20 percentage points, and all six congressional races went as expected.
In the sixth district, Democrat Cleo Fields emerged victorious in a field of five candidates to flip that seat.
With all precincts reporting, Fields got 51% of the vote to win the seat outright and avoid a runoff.
“(The district) was created for him,” says political consultant Bernie Pinsonat. “It was created to be a Black district. So the Democrats got their wish. The district was created so that they would dominate it, control it and win it, and they did.”
The lone Republican in the race, Elbert Guillory, started off strong, jumping out to an early lead when the first early and absentee vote totals were posted, but he could not hold on.
The other three Democrats — Quentin Anderson, Wilken Jones Jr. and Peter Williams — all finished well back.
The five incumbents – Steve Scalise, Troy Carter, Clay Higgins, Mike Johnson and Julia Letlow — all won handily.
Scalise got 67% of the vote, Carter got 60%, Higgins got 71%,Johnson got 86%, and Letlow got 63%.
While Johnson’s seat was never in doubt, his speakership may be.
National results are still coming in, and pre-election forecasts suggested that the race for majority in the House is razor thin, with a potential majority for either party of just one seat.
“Adding a Democrat to the ledger on the Democratic side, we still don’t know who will control the house,” says Pinsonat. “So Cleo does add one vote to the Democrats and takes away one from the Republicans.”
For Public Service Commission District 2, Jean-Paul Coussan got 54% of the vote to beat fellow Republican Julie Quinn and Democrat Nick Laborde.
Constitutional Amendment 1 passed by a 73%-27% split.
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