United States House of Representatives elections in Louisiana, 2012

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	2012 U.S. Senate Elections

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The 2012 U.S. House of Representatives elections in Louisiana took place on November 6, 2012. Voters elected six candidates to serve in the U.S. House, one from each of the state's six congressional districts.

Candidate Filing Deadline	Primary Election	General Election
August 17, 2012	November 6, 2012	December 8, 2012

Primary: Louisiana has a open primary system, in which any registered voter can choose which party's primary to vote in, without having to be a member of that party.

Voter registration: Louisiana does not hold a primary before the November 6 general election. If candidates do not receive a sufficient majority of the vote on that date, they go to a runoff, to be held on December 8. Voters were required to register to vote in the November 6 election by October 9; for the December 8 runoff, the voter registration deadline was November 7.^[1]

See also: Louisiana elections, 2012

Unlike most states, Louisiana uses the blanket primary - under this system all candidates, regardless of party, run in the same primary. A candidate can be declared the overall winner of the seat by garnering more than 50 percent of the vote in the primary. However, if no candidate reaches this threshold, then a general election will take place on December 8, 2012 between the top-two vote getters.

The Center for Voting and Democracy (Fairvote) projected that Democrats would win one district while Republicans would win five seats.^[2]

Partisan breakdown

Heading into the November 6 election, the Republican Party held six of the seven Congressional seats from Louisiana. However, the state lost one seat after the 2010 census and elected six representatives.

Members of the U.S. House from Louisiana -- Partisan Breakdown
Party		As of November 2012	After the 2012 Election
	Democratic Party	1	1
	Republican Party	6	5
Total		7	6

Incumbents

Heading into the 2012 election, the incumbents for the seven congressional districts were:

Name	Party	District
Bill Cassidy	Republican	6
Cedric Richmond	Democratic	2
Charles Boustany Jr.	Republican	7
Jeff Landry	Republican	3
John Fleming	Republican	4
Rodney Alexander	Republican	5
Steve Scalise	Republican	1

Margin of victory for winners

There were a total of 6 seats up for election in 2012 in Louisiana. The following table shows the margin of victory for each district winner, which is calculated by examining the percentage difference between the top-two vote getters. If the race was uncontested, the margin of victory is listed as 100%.

District	Winner	Margin of Victory	Total Vote	Top Opponent
Louisiana, District 1	Steve Scalise	45.4%	290,410	Vinny Mendoza
Louisiana, District 2	Cedric Richmond	30.1%	287,354	Gary Landrieu
Louisiana, District 3	Charles Boustany Jr.	21.8%	96,584	Jeff Landry
Louisiana, District 4	John Fleming	50.6%	249,531	Randall Lord
Louisiana, District 5	Rodney Alexander	63.4%	260,216	Ron Ceasar
Louisiana, District 6	Bill Cassidy	68.9%	306,713	Rufus Holt Craig,Jr

General election candidates

District	General Election Candidates	Incumbent	2012 Winner	Partisan Switch?
1st	M.V. Mendoza Steve Scalise Gary King David Turknett Arden Wells	Steve Scalise	Steve Scalise	No
2nd	Cedric Richmond Gary Landrieu Dwayne Bailey Josue Larose Caleb Trotter	Cedric Richmond	Cedric Richmond	No
3rd	Ron Richard Jeff Landry Charles Boustany Jr. Bryan Barrilleaux Jim Stark	Jeff Landry	Charles Boustany Jr.	No
4th	John Fleming Randall Lord	John Fleming	John Fleming	No
5th	Rodney Alexander Clay Steven Grant Ron Ceasar	Rodney Alexander	Rodney Alexander	No
6th	Bill Cassidy Rufus Holt Craig Jr. Richard Torregano	Bill Cassidy	Bill Cassidy	No
7th	District Removed in Redistricting	Charles Boustany Jr.	N/A	N/A

Candidates

Note: Election results were added on election night as races were called. Vote totals will be added when official election results are certified. For more information about Ballotpedia's election coverage plan, click here. If you find any errors in this list, please email: Geoff Pallay.