Election Results Are In: 3 Races Headed to December 6th Runoff

Election results are from the Louisiana Secretary of State website.  For more detailed election results, visit www.sos.la.gov.
    Each of the three incumbents running for the Central Community School Board kept their seats for another four years.  District 4’s Will Easley won his race with 58.66% of the vote.  District 6’s Ruby Foil received 53.19%, and District 7’s Sharon Browning got 72.38% of the vote.
    The races for U.S. Senator and U.S. Representative are both headed to a runoff on December 6th.  In the Senate race, Bill Cassidy (R), who received 40.96% of Tuesday’s vote, will face Mary Landrieu (D), who got 42.08%.  Representative candidates for the 6th Congressional District who made it to the runoff are Edwin Edwards (D), with 30.12% of Tuesday’s vote, and Garret Graves (R), with 27.36%.
    Only one of the District Judge races for the 19th Judicial District Court will be decided the December 6th runoff.  Cleveland Coon (D), who got 42.71% of the vote, will face Beau Higginbotham (R), who received 28.97% in Division M.  The other District Court races were won outright by Todd Hernandez (R) in Division A with 52.91% of the vote, Richard Anderson (R) in Division G with 54.32%, and Mike Erwin (D) in Division L with 57.02%.  Juvenile Court Judge in Elec. Sect. 1A will be Adam Haney (R), who won with 50.38% of Tuesday’s vote.
    The PW Metro Council 1.00 Mill 10 year renewal passed with 56.87% of the vote.  The following amendments to the Louisiana Constitution also passed: CA 1 (56.16%), CA 2 (56.21%), CA 6 (51.16%), CA 7 (74.39%), CA 8 (57.16%), and CA 10 (54.26%).  Amendments 3 (35.77%), 4 (32.48%), 5 (41.84%), 9 (46.9%), 11 (29.85%), 12 (41.13%), 13 (40.54%), and 14 (41.44%) all failed.