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Ryan Carter (Louisiana)
Ryan Carter (independent) (also known as Badd Biddness) ran for election for Mayor of Baton Rouge in Louisiana. Carter lost in the primary on November 5, 2024.
Elections
2024
See also: Mayoral election in Baton Rouge, Louisiana (2024)
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.
General election
General election for Mayor of Baton Rouge
Emile Edwards defeated incumbent Sharon Weston Broome in the general election for Mayor of Baton Rouge on December 7, 2024.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
✔ | ![]() | Emile Edwards (R) | 54.1 | 57,308 |
![]() | Sharon Weston Broome (D) | 45.9 | 48,587 |
Total votes: 105,895 | ||||
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Nonpartisan primary election
Nonpartisan primary for Mayor of Baton Rouge
The following candidates ran in the primary for Mayor of Baton Rouge on November 5, 2024.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
✔ | ![]() | Emile Edwards (R) | 34.4 | 64,862 |
✔ | ![]() | Sharon Weston Broome (D) | 31.2 | 58,844 |
![]() | Edward James (D) | 28.4 | 53,510 | |
Steve Myers (R) | 2.4 | 4,541 | ||
Tambra Cook (R) | 1.4 | 2,587 | ||
Nathaniel Hearn (R) | 1.1 | 2,120 | ||
Ryan Carter (Independent) | 0.8 | 1,527 | ||
William Roundtree (Independent) | 0.3 | 656 |
Total votes: 188,647 | ||||
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates
- Gregory Taylor (Independent)
Endorsements
Ballotpedia did not identify endorsements for Carter in this election.
Campaign themes
2024
Ballotpedia survey responses
See also: Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection
Ryan Carter did not complete Ballotpedia's 2024 Candidate Connection survey.
See also
2024 Elections
External links
Footnotes
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