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Abi Winget
From Ballotpedia
Abigail "Abi" Winget was a candidate for the District 5 seat on the Metro Council of Baton Rouge in Louisiana. She was defeated in the primary election on November 8, 2016.
Biography
Winget ran for the District 5 Metro Council seat when she was 18 and attending Southern University and Agricultural and Mechanical College in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.[1]
Elections
2016
| Baton Rouge Metro Council District 5, Primary Election, 2016 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Vote % | Votes | |
| Democratic |  Erika Green Incumbent |
42.01% | 5,416 | |
| Democratic | Linda Dewey |
29.88% | 3,852 | |
| Democratic | Daniel Banguel | 20.08% | 2,588 | |
| Republican | Joe Dorsey | 6.78% | 874 | |
| Democratic | Abi Winget | 1.25% | 161 | |
| Total Votes | 12,891 | |||
| Source: Louisiana Secretary of State, "Official Results," accessed November 8, 2016 | ||||
Campaign themes
2016
Winget emailed Ballotpedia the following campaign themes from this election:
| “ | My platform consisted of access to healthcare for North Baton Rouge, encouraging youth and young adults to get politically involved, and helping to fix the racial and economic inequity in the city. I am a progressive and an avid Bernie Sanders supporter. My campaign was a grassroots campaign with only donations from citizens. I ran to give young progressives in Baton Rouge a voice in the 2016 Metropolitan Council election. If no one else was going to speak out, I would.[2] | ” |
| —Abi Winget[1] | ||
See also
- Baton Rouge, Louisiana
- Municipal elections in Baton Rouge, Louisiana (2016)
- United States municipal elections, 2016
External links
Footnotes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Ballotpedia's Elections Team, “Email communication with Abigail Winget," July 5, 2018
- ↑ Note: This text is quoted verbatim from the original source. Any inconsistencies are attributable to the original source.
