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Who Is Running For State Representative In Louisiana 2023

Governor • Lt. Gov • Attorney General • Secretary of State • State executive offices • State Senate • State House • Special state legislative • Appellate courts • State ballot measures • Local ballot measures • School boards • Municipal • Recalls • How to run for office Louisiana state executive official elections Election details Filing deadline: August 10, 2023 Primary: October 14, 2023General: November 18, 2023 How to vote Poll times: 6 a.m. to 8 p.m.Voting in Louisiana Ballotpedia analysis Federal and state primary competitivenessState executive elections in 2023Impact of term limits in 2023State government trifectas and triplexes Other state executive elections

Eight state executive offices were up for election in Louisiana in 2023:

Governor Lieutenant Governor Attorney General Secretary of State Treasurer Commissioner of Agriculture and Forestry Commissioner of Insurance Board of Elementary and Secondary Education (8 seats) Louisiana elections use the Louisiana majority-vote system. All candidates compete in the same primary, and a candidate can win the election outright by receiving more than 50% of the vote. If no candidate does, the top two vote recipients from the primary advance to the general election, regardless of their partisan affiliation.

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For information about which offices are nominated via primary election, see this article.

Governor

General election candidates

The general election was canceled.

Primary candidates

  • Benjamin Barnes (Independent)
  • Patrick Henry Barthel (Republican Party)
  • Daniel Cole (Democratic Party)
  • Xavier Ellis (Republican Party) Candidate Connection
  • Keitron Gagnon (Independent)
  • Sharon Hewitt (Republican Party)
  • Jeffery Istre (Independent)
  • Xan John (Republican Party) Candidate Connection
  • Jeff Landry (Republican Party) ✔
  • Hunter Lundy (Independent) Candidate Connection
  • Richard Nelson (Republican Party)
  • John Schroder (Republican Party)
  • Frank Scurlock (Independent)
  • Stephen Waguespack (Republican Party)
  • Shawn Wilson (Democratic Party) Candidate Connection

Did not make the ballot:

  • Oscar Dantzler

Candidate Connection = candidate completed Ballotpedia’s Candidate Connection survey

Lieutenant Governor

General election candidates

The general election was canceled.

Primary candidates

  • Billy Nungesser (Incumbent) (Republican Party) ✔
  • Elbert Guillory (Republican Party) Candidate Connection
  • Tami Hotard (Republican Party)
  • Willie Jones (Democratic Party)
  • Bruce Payton (Independent) Candidate Connection
  • Gary Rispone (Independent)

Did not make the ballot:

  • Chester Pritchett
  • Clay Schexnayder

Candidate Connection = candidate completed Ballotpedia’s Candidate Connection survey

Attorney General

General election candidates

  • Lindsey Cheek (Democratic Party)
  • Liz Murrill (Republican Party) ✔

Primary candidates

  • Lindsey Cheek (Democratic Party) ✔
  • Marty Maley (Republican Party)
  • Liz Murrill (Republican Party) ✔
  • John Stefanski (Republican Party)
  • Perry Walker Terrebonne (Democratic Party)

Did not make the ballot:

  • John Belton

Secretary of State

General election candidates

  • Gwen Collins-Greenup (Democratic Party)
  • Nancy Landry (Republican Party) ✔

Primary candidates

  • Gwen Collins-Greenup (Democratic Party) ✔
  • Mike Francis (Republican Party)
  • Thomas Kennedy III (Republican Party)
  • Nancy Landry (Republican Party) ✔
  • Arthur Morrell (Democratic Party)
  • Clay Schexnayder (Republican Party)
  • Amanda Smith Jennings (Independent) Candidate Connection
  • Brandon Trosclair (Republican Party)
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Candidate Connection = candidate completed Ballotpedia’s Candidate Connection survey

Treasurer

General election candidates

  • Dustin Granger (Democratic Party) Candidate Connection
  • John Fleming (Republican Party) ✔ Candidate Connection

Candidate Connection = candidate completed Ballotpedia’s Candidate Connection surveyPrimary candidates

  • John Fleming (Republican Party) ✔ Candidate Connection
  • Dustin Granger (Democratic Party) ✔ Candidate Connection
  • Scott McKnight (Republican Party)

Candidate Connection = candidate completed Ballotpedia’s Candidate Connection survey

Commissioner of Agriculture and Forestry

General election candidates

The general election was canceled.

Primary candidates

This primary was canceled and this candidate was elected:

  • Michael Strain (Incumbent) (Republican Party) ✔

Commissioner of Insurance

General election candidates

The general election was canceled.

Primary candidates

This primary was canceled and this candidate was elected:

  • Tim Temple (Republican Party) ✔

Did not make the ballot:

  • R.D. Weaver

Board of Elementary and Secondary Education

District 1

General election candidates

The general election was canceled.

Primary candidates

  • Paul Hollis (Republican Party) ✔
  • Lauren Jewett (Democratic Party) Candidate Connection

Candidate Connection = candidate completed Ballotpedia’s Candidate Connection survey

District 2

General election candidates

The general election was canceled.

Primary candidates

This primary was canceled and this candidate was elected:

  • Sharon Latten Clark (Democratic Party) ✔

Did not make the ballot:

  • Eric Jones

District 3

General election candidates

The general election was canceled.

Primary candidates

This primary was canceled and this candidate was elected:

  • Sandy Holloway (Incumbent) (Republican Party) ✔

District 4

General election candidates

  • Emma Shepard (Democratic Party)
  • Stacey Melerine (Republican Party) ✔

Primary candidates

  • Paige Hoffpauir (Republican Party)
  • Stacey Melerine (Republican Party) ✔
  • Emma Shepard (Democratic Party) ✔
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District 5

General election candidates

The general election was canceled.

Primary candidates

  • Toby Brazzel (Republican Party)
  • Lance Harris (Republican Party) ✔

District 6

General election candidates

The general election was canceled.

Primary candidates

  • Ronnie Morris (Incumbent) (Republican Party) ✔
  • Jodi Rollins (Republican Party) Candidate Connection

Candidate Connection = candidate completed Ballotpedia’s Candidate Connection survey

District 7

General election candidates

  • Kevin Berken (Republican Party) ✔
  • Erick Knezek (Republican Party)

Primary candidates

  • Cathy S. Banks (Republican Party)
  • Kevin Berken (Republican Party) ✔
  • Erick Knezek (Republican Party) ✔

District 8

General election candidates

The general election was canceled.

Primary candidates

  • Preston Castille (Incumbent) (Democratic Party) ✔
  • Dolores Cormier-Zenon (Democratic Party)

Voting information

See also: Voting in Louisiana

Context of the 2023 elections

Party control in Louisiana

Louisiana Party Control: 1992-2024 Eight years of Democratic trifectas • Six years of Republican trifectas Scroll left and right on the table below to view more years.

Past elections

2022

There were no state executive elections in Louisiana in 2022.

See also

Louisiana State Executive Elections News and Analysis Louisiana State Executive Offices Louisiana State Legislature Louisiana Courts 2024 • 2023 • 2022 • 2021 • 2020 • 2019 • 2018 • 2017 • 2016 Louisiana elections: 2024 • 2023 • 2022 • 2021 • 2020 • 2019 • 2018 • 2017 • 2016 Party control of state government State government trifectas State of the state addresses Partisan composition of governors

External links

  • State of Louisiana official website

Footnotes

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