11-6-24
Former President Donald Trump won Louisiana on Tuesday for the third consecutive presidential election, on his way to retaking the White House. In Louisiana, where the GOP currently holds each statewide elected office and controls the legislature, the Republican nominee for president has won every election since 1996. Trump won Louisiana with about 58% of the vote in both 2016 and 2020 and with 60% in this election. The Associated Press declared Trump the winner in Louisiana at 8:00 p.m., when the polls closed.
Republican Rep. Clay Higgins won reelection to a U.S. House seat representing Louisiana on Tuesday. Higgins has represented southwest Louisiana’s 3rd Congressional District, a Republican stronghold, since 2016. He easily won with seventy-one percent of the vote. Meanwhile, there will be no runoff in Louisiana’s sixth congressional district, which is the new black majority district stretching from Baton Rouge to Shreveport. Democrat Cleo Fields of Baton Rouge garnered fifty-one percent to avoid a runoff. His closest challenger was republican Elbert Guillory, who finished with thirty-eight percent. And Speaker of the house Mike Johnson of Louisiana was reelected.
ONE RACE CONSIDERED UP FOR GRABS IS THE POLICE CHIEF POSTION FOR YOUNGSVILLE. GEORGE FAUST HAS THE RESULT.
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THE LONGTIME POLICE CHIEF OF PINE PRAIRIE ONLY RECEIVED ELEVEN PERCENT OF THE VOTE IN HIS REELECTION BID. L-C DESHOTEL HAD BEEN ARRESTED ONLY DAYS BEFORE THE ELECTION ON A CHARGE OF OPERATING A VEHICLE WHILE INTOXICATED. CHALLENGERS GILBERT BORDELON AND SHANE GUILLORY WILL FACE EACH OTHER IN A RUNOFF TO SEE WHO SUCCEEDS DESHOTEL.
SEVEN PROPERTY TAXES WERE UP FOR RENEWAL IN SAINT MARTIN PARISH. VOTERS APPROVED EACH OF THEM. MEANWHILE TWO PROPERTY TAX RENEWALS THAT WERE REJECTED BY VOTERS IN APRIL WERE ON THE BALLOT AGAIN IN VERMILLION PARISH. THEY WERE BOTH APPROVED. THAT INCLUDED A THREE-POINT-TWO-SIX MILL TAX FOR THE WHOLE PARISH THAT RAISES MORE THAN A MILLION DOLLARS A YEAR FOR MAINTAINING PUBLIC ROADS AND HIGHWAYS.
VOTERS IN IBERIA PARISH CHOSE ASHLIE SPIKER TO SERVE AS PARISH ASSESSOR. SHE RECEIVED FIFTY-FIVE PERCENT TO AVOID A RUNOFF. SPIKER TOOK OVER AS PARISH ASSESSOR EARLIER THIS YEAR WHEN THE FORMER ASSESSOR RESIGNED.
TWO TOWNS IN JEFF DAVIS PARISH HAVE NEW MAYORS. MIKE PIEROTTI GOT SIXTY-THREE PERCENT OF THE VOTE TO SUCCEED FORMER MAYOR KEISHA LEMOINE, WHO WAS SUCCESSFULLY RECALLED. IN FENTON, REPUBLICAN PHIL CORMIER DEFEATED THE INCUMBENT, EDDIE ALFRED. THERE’S ALSO A NEW MAYOR OF OAKDALE, INDEPENDENT DAVID VIDRINE. HE REPLACES GENE PAUL, WHO DID NOT RUN FOR REELECTION.
AN E-F-ONE TORNADO TOUCHED DOWN IN BASILE YESTERDAY, DESTROYING RHEA’S SPECIALTY MEATS. FIVE OF THE EMPLOYEES WERE IN THE MEAT ROOM, WHICH IS NO LONGER STANDING. THREE EMPLOYEES WERE INJURED, INCLUDING ONE CRITICALLY. ONE EMPLOYEE, MELBA HEBERT, TOLD KLFY TV THAT THERE WAS A LOT OF CEMENT ON TOP OF HER, WHICH SHE BELIEVES MAY HAVE SAVED HER. ANOTHER TORNADO TOUCHED DOWN IN ACADIA PARISH
FIVE SCHOOL BUSES AND A TRUCK PULLING A BAND TRAILER FOR CHALMETTE HIGH SCHOOL IN SAINT BERNARD PARISH, WERE INVOLVED IN A CRASH ON I-TEN NEAR THE I-FORTY-NINE EXIT YESTERDAY AFTERNOON. THEY WERE ON THE WAY TO A MARCHING BAND COMPETITION AT MCNEESE STATE UNIVERSITY. ONE BUS COLLIDED WITH ANOTHER BUS IN FRONT OF IT, CAUSING A CHAIN REACTION. SCHOOL OFFICIALS SAY NINE STUDENTS WERE TREATED FOR INJURIES AT AREA HOSPITALS AND RELEASED.
