Michelle Woodfork

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Michelle Woodfork

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Orleans Parish Sheriff

Date Elected

October 11, 2025

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Michelle Woodfork (Democratic Party) is the Orleans Parish Sheriff-elect in Louisiana. Woodfork assumes office on May 4, 2026.

Woodfork (Democratic Party) won election for Orleans Parish Sheriff in Louisiana outright in the primary on October 11, 2025, after the general election was canceled.

Elections

2025

See also: City elections in New Orleans, Louisiana (2025)

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 Orleans Parish Sheriff

The following candidates ran in the primary for Orleans Parish Sheriff on October 11, 2025.

		Candidate	%	Votes
✔	Submit photo	Michelle Woodfork (D)	52.9	54,019
	Submit photo	Edwin Shorty Jr. (D)	20.8	21,199
		Susan Hutson (D)	17.1	17,469
		Ernesteayo Lee (R)	4.5	4,614
	Submit photo	Julian Parker (D)	2.4	2,431
	Submit photo	Robert Murray (D)	2.3	2,369

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	Incumbents are bolded and underlined. Source 1 Source 2	Total votes: 102,101
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2025

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