The Green Papers: 2021 General Election |
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117th Congress (2021-2023) House Seats by State |
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Louisiana 2-year term. Election Cycle 2020, 2024. No Term Limit. | |||||
Partisan Composition: 4 Republican, 2 Vacancies | |||||
Incumbent - 117th Congress | |||||
CD 2 Vacant |
Democratic | Member of Congress Cedric L. Richmond First elected: 2010 Seat up for regular election: Tuesday 8 November 2022 Vacant Office - 7 January 2021: Member of Congress Cedric L. Richmond submitted his resignation effective 15 January 2021. |
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17 November 2020: Member of Congress Cedric L. Richmond, who was first elected in 2010, announced his resignation to become Senior Adviser to the President and White House Public Engagement Director in the Biden Administration. 7 January 2021: Louisiana Governor John Bel Edwards (Democratic) called a 20 March 2021 special election to fill this seat. All candidates from all parties appear on the open primary ballot. If no candidate receives a majority (50% of the vote plus 1), a 24 April runoff will be held between the top two vote getters. 7 January 2021: Member of Congress Cedric L. Richmond submitted his resignation effective 15 January 2021. |
Political Parties Parties appear in parenthesis and italics when a candidate receives the endorsement of a given Party and/or official sources indicate a candidate's association with a particular Party but only where the Party in question does not appear on the actual ballot as such. |
Major Parties | |
Democratic | |
Democratic-Farmer Labor | |
Republican | |
Major Third Parties | |
Constitution | |
Green | |
Libertarian | |
Other Third Parties | |
Legal Marijuana Now | |
Unity | |
Independents | |
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Independent | |
No Party | |
No Party Affiliation | |
No Party Preference | |
Non Affiliated | |
Nonparty | |
Unaffiliated |
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