2016_United_States_Senate_election_in_Louisiana

2016 United States Senate election in Louisiana

2016 United States Senate election in Louisiana

Election of John Neely Kennedy as US Senator.


The 2016 United States Senate election in Louisiana took place on November 8, 2016, to elect a member of the United States Senate to represent the State of Louisiana, concurrently with the 2016 U.S. presidential election, as well as other elections to the United States Senate in other states and elections to the United States House of Representatives and various state and local elections.

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Under Louisiana's "jungle primary" system, all candidates appeared on the same ballot, regardless of party, and voters could vote for any candidate. Since no candidate received a majority of the vote during the primary election, a runoff election was held December 10[1] between the top two candidates in the primary, Republican John Neely Kennedy and Democrat Foster Campbell, where Kennedy won with 60.65% of the vote, giving Senate Republicans 52 seats in the 115th Congress. Louisiana is the only state that has a jungle primary system (California and Washington have a similar "top two primary" system). Kennedy had previously unsuccessfully ran for this seat in 2004 as a Democrat and the state's other U.S. Senate seat in 2008 as a Republican.

Incumbent Republican Senator David Vitter unsuccessfully ran for Governor of Louisiana in 2015,[2] and in his concession speech he announced that he would not seek re-election to the Senate in 2016.[3]

In addition to Kennedy and Campbell, four other candidates — Republicans Charles Boustany, John Fleming, and David Duke, and Democrat Caroline Fayard — qualified to participate at a debate at Dillard University, a historically black college, on November 2, 2016[4][5] This election is the last United States Senate runoff election in Louisiana.

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Charles Boustany
Foster Campbell
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David Duke
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Caroline Fayard
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John Fleming
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John Neely Kennedy
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Rob Maness
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Parishes that flipped from Republican to Democratic

Parishes that flipped from Democratic to Republican


References

Additional candidates
  1. Joshua Pellerin (D) with 4%
  2. Joshua Pellerin (D) with 5%
  3. Joshua Pellerin (D) with 4%
  4. Joshua Pellerin (D) with 4%
  5. Joshua Pellerin (D) with 3%
  6. "Others" with 5% and Joseph Cao (R) with 2%
  7. "Others" with 7%, Joseph Cao (R) with 1% and Abhay Patel (R) with 1%
  8. "Others" with 2%, Derrick Edwards (D) with 1%, Gary Landrieu (D), Vinny Mendoza (D), Joshua Pellerin (D), and Peter Williams (D) all with 0%
  9. "Others", Joseph Cao (R), and Peter Williams (D) each with 2% and Troy Hebert (I) with 1%
  10. Troy Hebert (I) with 3%, Peter Williams (D) and "Others" each with 1%
  11. Troy Hebert (I) with 7%, Joseph Cao (R) with 3%, and Peter Williams (D) 2%
  12. Troy Hebert (I) with 2% and Eric Skrmetta (R) with 1%
  13. Troy Hebert (I) with 5%, Joseph Cao (R) with 4%, and Peter Williams (D) with 3%
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