Louisiana held the first round of their state elections this weekend with little fanfare. As expected, Republican governor Bobby Jindal was re-elected with over 65% of the vote. He topped a field of 9 largely unknown challengers. Libertarian Scott Lewis finished in 7th place with 1.22% of the vote.
Reform Party candidate Belinda Alexandrenko won 5.7% of the vote as the only alternative party candidate in a 3-way race for Agriculture Commissioner.
The top two candidates in any race where the winner failed to secure 50% of the vote will be forced into the state’s run-off election, scheduled for November 19, 2011.
State Representative District 22…
No Party candidate Terry Brown polled 4,724 votes or 33.3% in a three-way race, beating the Republican who had 25% of the vote. Brown is retired from Louisiana Department of Transportation and Development’s Real Estate Division and has remained active in his community serving as Chairman of a local Hospital Board and Vice-Chairman of the Grant Parish Library Board. His showing is good enough for him to advance into a run-off.
State Representative District 39…
No Party candidate James “Jamie” Arnaud polled 2,103 for 20.5% in a three-way race. Arnaud is a licensed plumber and owns a plumbing company in Carencro.
State Representative District 45…
Libertarian W. David Chance polled 1,918 for 21.2% in a one-on-one race against incumbent Joel Robideaux, a Republican.
State Representative District 54…
No Party candidate Micah Hebert polled 41.4% of the vote in a one-on-one race with Democrat Jerry “Truck” Gisclair.
State Representative District 55…
No Party incumbent Jerome “Dee” Richard was re-elected by a wide-margin, easily defeating Republican Bobby “Beck” Grabert.
State Representative District 57…
No Party candidate Russ Wise ran second in a five-way race, capturing 29.5% of the vote. He will face Democrat Randal L. Gaines in a run-off election.
State Representative District 96…
Eric Martin, an independent, finished first with 40% of the vote. He will face Democrat Terry Landry in the run-off election.
Also…
Democrat-turned-Republican-turned Independent Ernest Wooton lost a race for Plaquemines Parish Sheriff, finishing a distant third with 11% of the vote. Wooton had previously served as Sheriff of Plaquemines Parish from 1984 until 1992, as a Democrat. He was defeated for re-election in 1991. Wooten was elected to the state house in 1999 as a Democrat, re-elected in 2003 as a Democrat and then switched to being a Republican in 2005. In 2007, he was re-elected as a Republican. Then in 2010 he decided to run for U.S. Senate as an independent, but his campaign failed to catch fire and he won only 0.7% of the vote.
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