W. Thomas La Fontaine Olson
W. Thomas La Fontaine Olson (independent) ran for election to the U.S. Senate to represent Louisiana. La Fontaine Olson lost in the primary on November 8, 2022.
La Fontaine Olson also ran for election to the U.S. Senate to represent Illinois. La Fontaine Olson did not appear on the ballot for the general election on November 8, 2022.
Elections
2022
See also: United States Senate election in Louisiana, 2022
Louisiana elections use the majority-vote system. All candidates compete in the same primary, and a candidate can win the election outright by receiving more than 50 percent 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.
Nonpartisan primary election
Nonpartisan primary for U.S. Senate Louisiana
The following candidates ran in the primary for U.S. Senate Louisiana on November 8, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | John Neely Kennedy (R) | 61.6 | 851,568 |
 | Gary Chambers (D) | 17.9 | 246,933 | |
 | Luke Mixon (D)  | 13.2 | 182,887 | |
 | Syrita Steib (D) | 2.3 | 31,568 | |
 | Devin Lance Graham (R) | 1.8 | 25,275 | |
 | M.V. Mendoza (D) | 0.9 | 11,910 | |
 | Beryl Billiot (Independent) | 0.7 | 9,378 | |
 | Salvador Rodriguez (D) | 0.6 | 7,767 | |
 | Bradley McMorris (Independent) | 0.4 | 5,388 | |
 | Aaron Sigler (L) | 0.4 | 4,865 | |
 | Xan John (Independent) | 0.2 | 2,753 | |
 | W. Thomas La Fontaine Olson (Independent) | 0.1 | 1,676 | |
| Thomas Wenn (Independent) | 0.1 | 1,322 | ||
| Total votes: 1,383,290 | |||
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates
- Albert Kyder (R)
2020
See also: Illinois' 8th Congressional District election, 2020
Illinois' 8th Congressional District election, 2020 (March 17 Democratic primary)
General election
General election for U.S. House Illinois District 8
Incumbent Raja Krishnamoorthi defeated Preston Nelson in the general election for U.S. House Illinois District 8 on November 3, 2020.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Raja Krishnamoorthi (D) | 73.2 | 186,251 |
 | Preston Nelson (L) | 26.8 | 68,327 | |
| Total votes: 254,578 | |||
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Democratic primary election
Democratic primary for U.S. House Illinois District 8
Incumbent Raja Krishnamoorthi defeated W. Thomas La Fontaine Olson and Inam Hussain in the Democratic primary for U.S. House Illinois District 8 on March 17, 2020.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Raja Krishnamoorthi | 79.9 | 51,829 |
| W. Thomas La Fontaine Olson | 13.0 | 8,441 | |
| Inam Hussain | 7.0 | 4,563 | ||
| Total votes: 64,833 | |||
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates
- Mohammed Faheem (D)
Campaign themes
2022
Ballotpedia survey responses
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2020
W. Thomas La Fontaine Olson completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2019. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by La Fontaine Olson's responses.
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- US citizens and residents are financing the incarceration and torture of children on account of such children being aliens.
- Members of the 116th US Congress have been derelict upon an oath and have failed to redress criminality in an Office of a President.
- Donald Trump, his dim children, and not a few of his criminal associates have violated title 18 of US Code Section 242, a crime which provisions 10 years imprisonment and, for acts of kidnapping, is capitally punishable.
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See also
2022 Elections
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