Richard Bond
Richard Bond was a 2015 special election Republican candidate for District 66 of the Louisiana House of Representatives.[1]
Elections
2015
A special election for the position of Louisiana House of Representatives District 66 was called for February 21, with a runoff, if necessary, on March 28. The filing deadline for candidates wishing to run in this election was January 9.[2]
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 was vacant following Hunter Greene's (R) election as a family court judge.[3]
Buddy Amoroso (R), Richard "Rick" Bond (R), Darrell Ourso (R) and Susan Nelson (Nonpartisan) faced off in the special election on February 21.[4] Because no candidate received more than 50 percent of the vote, the top two vote-getters, Amoroso and Ourso, met in a runoff election on March 28, which Ourso won.[1][5]
| Louisiana House of Representatives, District 66, Special Runoff Election, 2015 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Vote % | Votes | |
| Republican |  Darrell Ourso |
50.9% | 1,958 | |
| Republican | Buddy Amoroso | 49.1% | 1,886 | |
| Total Votes | 3,844 | |||
| Louisiana House of Representatives, District 66, Special Election, 2015 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Vote % | Votes | |
| Republican | Buddy Amoroso |
35.6% | 1,512 | |
| Republican | Darrell Ourso |
34.8% | 1,477 | |
| Republican | Richard "Rick" Bond | 18.2% | 771 | |
| Nonpartisan | Susan Nelson | 11.4% | 483 | |
| Total Votes | 4,243 | |||
Recent news
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See also
- Louisiana House of Representatives
- Louisiana House of Representatives District 66
- Louisiana State Legislature
- State legislative special elections, 2015
External links
Footnotes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Louisiana Secretary of State, "Election results," accessed March 18, 2015
- ↑ Louisiana Secretary of State, "Get Election Information," accessed January 27, 2015
- ↑ The New Orleans Advocate, "Republican candidates for open House seat participate in GOP forum," January 16, 2015
- ↑ Louisiana Secretary of State, "Official candidate list," accessed January 28, 2015
- ↑ Louisiana Secretary of State, "Official Election Results Results for Election Date: 3/28/2015," April 8, 2015
