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Jay Suire was a 2017 Republican special election candidate for District 42 of the Louisiana House of Representatives.

Elections

2017

LA House District 42
See also: Louisiana state legislative special elections, 2017

A special election for the position of Louisiana House of Representatives District 42 was called for March 25, 2017. The state scheduled a general election to take place on April 29, 2017, if needed. The filing deadline for candidates wishing to run in this election was January 27, 2017.[1]

Louisiana elections use the Louisiana majority-vote system. All candidates compete in the same primary, and a candidate can win the election outright by receiving more than 50% 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.

For information about which offices are nominated via primary election, see this article.

The seat became vacant following Jack Montoucet's (D) appointment as the new secretary of the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries by Gov. John Bel Edwards (D). Montoucet won reelection in 2011 with 63 percent of the vote. In 2015, he ran unopposed. District 24 is located in Acadia Parish. In the 2016 presidential election, Republican Donald Trump won Acadia with 77 percent of the vote.[2] Based on voter registration data as of March 1, 2017, Democrats outnumbered Republicans in District 42 12,013 to 6,562.[3]

John Stefanski (R) defeated Jay Suire (R) in the special election. No Democrats filed for the seat. The District 42 seat was the first state legislative seat to switch parties as a result of a special election in 2017.[4][5]

Louisiana House of Representatives, District 42, Special Election, 2017
Party Candidate Vote % Votes
     Republican Green check mark transparent.pngJohn Stefanski 54.2% 3,594
     Republican Jay Suire 45.8% 3,037
Total Votes 6,631
Source: Louisiana Secretary of State

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