The Green Papers: Louisiana 2017 General Election
 
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Elections for Statewide offices and Congress
✓ Open Primary - Special Election Treasurer: Saturday 14 October 2017
✓ Open General (runoff) Treasurer: Saturday 18 November 2017
Friday 14 July 2017 - Filing Deadline - Special Election Treasurer .
Saturday 14 October 2017 - Open Primary - Special Election Treasurer. Polling hours 7:00a-8:00p CDT (1200-0100 UTC).
Saturday 18 November 2017 - Open General (runoff) Treasurer. Polling hours 7:00a-8:00p CST (1300-0200 UTC).
 
Senators:2(Electoral Classes 2 and 3)
Governor:1 
2010 Census:4,553,962 (1.47% of 309,785,186)
2012, 2016, 2020 Electoral Votes:8(1.49% of 538)
2012-2020 Representatives:6(1.38% of 435)
Capital:Baton Rouge
 

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Louisiana State and Local Government


There are no party primaries in Louisiana. All candidates from all parties appear on the open primary ballot. If no candidate receives a majority (50% of the vote plus 1), a runoff is held between the top two vote getters.

  • Elections for Governor and statewide officers are held every 4 years. The primary is on the second to last Saturday in October and the runoff is on the fourth Saturday after the second to last Saturday in October.
  • Congressional elections are held every two years. The primary is on the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November and the run-off (where necessary) is held 32 days thereafter (on the first Saturday after the first Wednesday in December).

Candidates can withdraw until poll closing time on election day. Should a candidate withdraw after the ballots are printed, votes cast for that candidate are not counted.

Louisiana does not permit write-ins.


Candidate Inquiry from the Louisiana Department of State.


14 October 2017 election results graphical/html from the Louisiana Department of State.

 
           

U.S. Senate  6 year term. No Term Limit. 115th Senate  Senate Electoral Classes

Class 2 Republican Senator William M. "Bill" Cassidy
First elected: 2014
Seat up for regular election: Tuesday 3 November 2020
 Candidate list (1)
  Candidate Republican     Senator William M. "Bill" Cassidy
FEC S4LA00107

Class 3 Republican Senator John Neely Kennedy
First elected to the office of state Treasurer as a Democrat: 1999; re-elected: 2003; switched affiliation to Republican 27 August 2007; re-elected: 2007, 2011, 2015. First elected to the U.S. Senate: 2016.
Seat up for regular election: Tuesday 8 November 2022

Governor  4 year term, Election Cycle: 2015, 2019. Term Limit: 2 consecutive 4-year terms, All Governors

  Democratic Governor John Bel Edwards
First elected: 2015
Chair up for regular election: Saturday 26 October 2019
The current Governor is unaffected by the State's term limit.

Lieutenant Governor  4 year term, Election Cycle: 2015, 2019. Elected separately from Governor.

  Republican Lieutenant Governor "Billy" Nungesser
First elected: 2015
Seat up for regular election: Saturday 26 October 2019

115th U.S. House of Representatives  2-year term. Election Cycle 2018, 2020. No Term Limit. 115th House
Partisan Composition (primary disposition):
5 Republican (5 Undetermined);
1 Democratic (1 Undetermined)

Incumbent - 115th Congress
CD 1 Republican Congressman Stephen J. "Steve" Scalise
First elected in a special election 3 May 2008 to fill the vacancy re: Congresman Piyush "Bobby" Jindal election as Governor
Seat up for regular election: Tuesday 6 November 2018
14 June 2017: Shot in Alexandria, Virginia at a Congressional baseball team practice.
 Candidate list (1) - 116th Congress
  Candidate Republican     Congressman Stephen J. "Steve" Scalise
FEC H0LA01087; 30 Sep 17; Tot $1,382,058; Dsb $984,114

Incumbent - 115th Congress
CD 2 Democratic Congressman Cedric L. Richmond
First elected: 2010
Seat up for regular election: Tuesday 6 November 2018
 Candidate list (1) - 116th Congress
  Candidate Democratic     Congressman Cedric L. Richmond
FEC H8LA02054; 30 Sep 17; Tot $540,339; Dsb $350,522

Incumbent - 115th Congress
CD 3 Republican Congressman Clay Higgins
First elected: 2016.
Seat up for regular election: Tuesday 6 November 2018
 Candidate list (4) - 116th Congress
  Candidate Democratic     Phillip Conner
FEC H8LA03045; 30 Sep 17; Tot $20,000; Dsb $0
  Candidate Republican     Joshua S. "Josh" Guillory
FEC H8LA03037; 30 Sep 17; Tot $72,295; Dsb $23,112
  Candidate Republican     Congressman Clay Higgins
FEC H6LA03148; 30 Sep 17; Tot $293,689; Dsb $261,017
  Candidate Democratic     Charles David Metcalf, Jr.
FEC H8LA03052

Incumbent - 115th Congress
CD 4 Republican Congressman James Michael "Mike" Johnson
First elected: 2016.
Seat up for regular election: Tuesday 6 November 2018
 Candidate list (1) - 116th Congress
  Candidate Republican     Congressman James Michael "Mike" Johnson
FEC H6LA04138; 30 Sep 17; Tot $297,832; Dsb $117,694

Incumbent - 115th Congress
CD 5 Republican Congressman Ralph Lee Abraham, Jr.
First elected: 2014
Seat up for regular election: Tuesday 6 November 2018
 Candidate list (1) - 116th Congress
  Candidate Republican     Congressman Ralph Lee Abraham, Jr.
FEC H4LA05221; 30 Sep 17; Tot $347,591; Dsb $258,590

Incumbent - 115th Congress
CD 6 Republican Congressman Garret Graves
First elected: 2014
Seat up for regular election: Tuesday 6 November 2018
 Candidate list (3) - 116th Congress
  Candidate Democratic     Jason Dewitt
There are 2 similar filings with the FEC. One, H8LA06154, for Justin Dewitt the other, H8LA06147, for Jason Dewitt.

FEC H8LA06147
  Candidate Democratic     Justin Dewitt
There are 2 similar filings with the FEC. One, H8LA06154, for Justin Dewitt the other, H8LA06147, for Jason Dewitt.

FEC H8LA06154
  Candidate Republican     Congressman Garret Graves
FEC H4LA06153; 30 Sep 17; Tot $868,717; Dsb $353,976

Secretary of State  4 year term, Election Cycle: 2015, 2019

  Republican Secretary of State J. Thomas "Tom" Schedler
Appointed 22 November 2010 upon the election of Secretary of State "Jay" Dardenne as Lieutenant Governor; first elected: 2011; re-elected: 2015.
Seat up for regular election: Saturday 26 October 2019

Attorney General  4 year term, Election Cycle: 2015, 2019

  Republican Attorney General "Jeff" Landry
First elected: 2015
Seat up for regular election: Saturday 26 October 2019

Treasurer  4 year term, Election Cycle: 2015, 2019

  Republican Treasurer John M. Schroder, Sr.
First elected in a Special Election: 18 November 2017 (re: resignation of John Neely Kennedy (Republican) who was elected to the U.S. Senate Class 3 seat in 2016)
Seat up for regular election: Saturday 26 October 2019
 Treasurer John Neely Kennedy (Republican) who was first elected Treasurer as a Democrat in 1999; re-elected in 2003; switched affiliation to Republican 27 August 2007; re-elected in 2007, 2011, and 2015; ran for and won the Senate Class 3 seat in 2016; resigned effective 3 January 2017.
Treasurer Ron J. Henson (Republican) was appointed to the office to serve until the special election.
18 November 2017: former state Representative John M. Schroder, Sr. (Republican) is first elected in a special election.

Seat up for special election
Special Election
Republican
Seat up for special election: Saturday 18 November 2017
Special Election
 Candidate list (2)
  Elected Republican 208,118 55.74% former state Representative John M. Schroder, Sr.
Received 24% of the vote in the Saturday 14 October 2017 open primary. Proceeded to and won the Saturday 18 November 2017 Open General.
  Candidate Democratic 165,269 44.26% Derrick Edwards
Received 31% of the vote in the Saturday 14 October 2017 open primary. Proceeds to the Saturday 18 November 2017 Open General.
Total 373,387 100.00%  
 

There are no party primaries in Louisiana. All candidates from all parties appear on the Saturday 14 October 2017 open primary ballot. If no candidate receives a majority (50% of the vote plus 1), a Saturday 18 November 2017 runoff will held between the top two vote getters.

14 October 2017 election results graphical/html from the Louisiana Department of State.

Since no candidate received a majority in the Saturday 14 October 2017 open primary, the top two candidates, Derrick Edwards (Democratic) 31% and former state Representative John M. Schroder, Sr. (Republican) 24%, proceed to the Saturday 18 November 2017 Open General (runoff).

18 November 2017: election results graphical/html from the Louisiana Department of State.


Commissioner of Agriculture and Forestry  4 year term, Election Cycle: 2015, 2019

  Republican Agriculture and Forestry Commissioner Michael G. "Mike" Strain
First elected: 2007; re-elected: 2011, 2015
Seat up for regular election: Saturday 26 October 2019

Commissioner of Insurance  4 year term, Election Cycle: 2015, 2019

  Republican Insurance Commissioner James J. "Jim" Donelon
Appointed: 16 February 2006; first elected in Special Election 30 September 2006; re-elected: 2007, 2011, 2015
Seat up for regular election: Saturday 26 October 2019
 

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   Those parties which received electoral votes through winning a plurality of a state's [or the District of Columbia's] popular vote in any presidential election between 1984 and 2016. See Classification of Political parties.
  Democratic (affiliates): 2 incumbents, 6 candidates
  Republican: 14 incumbents, 8 candidates
 
Candidates running under the banner of more than one party are counted towards each party's total. A candidate who has lost a primary or is apparently no longer a candidate is not counted.

Notes

Candidates for office appear on this page in italics where 'The Green Papers' does not yet have independent confirmation from a legal election authority that the person has been officially certified to appear on the ballot.

Primary dates marked "presumably" and polling times marked "reportedly" are based on unofficial or estimated data (especially as regards local variations from a jurisdictionwide statutory and/or regulatory standard) and are, thereby, subject to change.

"FEC" indicates the Federal Election Commission (FEC) Campaign Finance Summary.

When available, we post each candidate's FEC identification number, the date of their most recently filed Report of Receipts and Disbursements, their "Tot" [Total Receipts (contributions received or what came in: FEC Form 3, Line 16, Column B)] and their "Dsb" [Total Disbursements (expenditures or what was spent: FEC Form 3, Line 23, Column B)]. A link is provided to the Federal Election Commission's Summary Report for those who might wish to explore the details.

If a candidate raises or spends $5,000 or less, he or she is not subject to FEC reporting requirements.


 


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