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Louisiana voters will try to select a new governor on Saturday, and if no candidate is named on more than 50 percent of the ballots, the top two finishers will square off in a winner-take-all runoff on Nov. 18.
The six major candidates for governor and more than 1,000 men and women running for other offices throughout Louisiana made last-minute appeals to voters Friday, hours before polling booths open
With a November runoff expected, some context for this weekend’s jungle primary.KEY POINTS FROM THIS ARTICLE— On Saturday, Louisiana voters will go to the polls to begin selecting a replacement for term-limited Gov. John Bel Edwards (D-LA).— In the all-party primary, state Attorney General Jeff Landry (R) has been the frontrunner for much of the campaign and will likely advance to a runoff.— The state Democratic establishment has thrown its weight behind former state Transportation Secretary Shawn Wilson, who will probably join Landry in a runoff.— Despite Edwards’s success in rec...
The gubernatorial primary is set for Saturday, with a full slate of decisions for voters - from the governor's office to propositions.
We won’t know the early voting results in Saturday’s statewide primary elections until election night, but we can read quite a bit into the early voting statistics released by the