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Danil Faust
Danil Faust was a 2018 Democratic special election candidate for District 93 of the Louisiana House of Representatives.
Faust was a Green Party candidate for criminal court clerk of Orleans Parish, Louisiana. Faust was disqualified from the ballot prior to the primary election on October 14, 2017.
Elections
2018
A special primary election for Louisiana House of Representatives District 93 was called for March 24, 2018. The filing deadline for candidates wishing to run in this election was January 5, 2018.[1]
The seat became vacant on May 6, 2018, after Helena Moreno (D) resigned her seat to join the New Orleans City Council.
Royce Duplessis (D) defeated Eldon Anderson (D), Kenneth Bordes (D), and Danil Faust (D) in the special election.[2][3]
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
Special nonpartisan primary for Louisiana House of Representatives District 93
Royce Duplessis won election outright against Kenneth Bordes, Eldon Anderson, and Danil Faust in the special primary for Louisiana House of Representatives District 93 on March 24, 2018.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Royce Duplessis (D) | 71.5 | 3,003 |
| Kenneth Bordes (D) | 20.6 | 865 | ||
 | Eldon Anderson (D) | 4.7 | 198 | |
| Danil Faust (D) | 3.2 | 134 | ||
| Total votes: 4,200 | |||
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2017
Orleans Parish, Louisiana, held a primary election for parish coroner on October 14, 2017. Incumbents for four offices - sheriff, civil court clerk, criminal court clerk, and assessor - were automatically re-elected without appearing on the ballot due to a lack of opposition. A general election was not necessary because no primaries featured more than two candidates. The filing deadline for this election was July 14, 2017.[4][5]
See also
- Louisiana House of Representatives
- Louisiana House of Representatives District 93
- Louisiana state legislative special elections, 2018
- Louisiana State Legislature
External links
- Search Google News for this topic
- Louisiana House of Representatives
- Orleans Parish Criminal District Court
Footnotes
- ↑ Uptown Messenger, "Special election to fill Helena Moreno’s seat will be in March; Moreno will resign as soon as successor is chosen," December 13, 2017
- ↑ Louisiana Secretary of State, "Candidate Inquiry," accessed January 6, 2018
- ↑ Louisiana Secretary of State, "Election Results," accessed March 24, 2018
- ↑ Louisiana Secretary of State, "2017 Elections," February 2017
- ↑ Louisiana Secretary of State, "Candidate Inquiry," accessed July 14, 2017
