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Seth Bloom
Seth Bloom (Democratic Party) was a member of the Orleans Parish School Board in Louisiana, representing District 5.
Bloom (Democratic Party) ran in a special election to the Louisiana House of Representatives to represent District 93. He did not appear on the ballot for the special primary on February 18, 2023.
Bloom was a Democratic candidate for District B representative on the New Orleans City Council in Louisiana. Bloom was defeated in the general election on November 18, 2017. Click here to read Bloom's campaign themes for 2017.
Biography
Bloom received his J.D. from Loyola University. He is an attorney. Bloom served for eight years as the District 5 representative on the Orleans Parish School Board.[1]
Elections
2023
See also: Louisiana state legislative special elections, 2023
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
Special general election for Louisiana House of Representatives District 93
Alonzo Knox defeated Sibil Fox Richardson in the special general election for Louisiana House of Representatives District 93 on March 25, 2023.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Alonzo Knox (D) | 54.3 | 1,718 |
 | Sibil Fox Richardson (D)  | 45.7 | 1,443 | |
| Total votes: 3,161 | |||
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Nonpartisan primary election
Special nonpartisan primary for Louisiana House of Representatives District 93
The following candidates ran in the special primary for Louisiana House of Representatives District 93 on February 18, 2023.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Sibil Fox Richardson (D) | 37.2 | 760 |
| ✔ | | Alonzo Knox (D) | 30.6 | 625 |
| Steven Kennedy (D) | 10.5 | 214 | ||
| Morgan Clevenger (D) | 10.3 | 211 | ||
 | Matthew Hill (R) | 7.0 | 142 | |
| Naj Wallace (D) | 4.4 | 89 | ||
| Total votes: 2,041 | |||
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates
- Seth Bloom (D)
2017
The city of New Orleans, Louisiana, held primary elections for mayor and seven city council seats on October 14, 2017. A general election took place on November 18, 2017, for races where no candidate received 50 percent of the primary vote. The filing deadline for this election was July 14, 2017.[2][3] Jay Banks (D) defeated Seth Bloom (D) in the general election for the District B seat on the New Orleans City Council.
| New Orleans City Council, District B General Election, 2017 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Vote % | Votes | |
| Democratic |  Jay Banks |
50.41% | 8,016 | |
| Democratic | Seth Bloom | 49.59% | 7,885 | |
| Total Votes | 15,901 | |||
| Source: Louisiana Secretary of State, "Saturday, November 18, 2017," accessed November 18, 2017 | ||||
The following candidates ran in the primary election for the District B seat on the New Orleans City Council.
| New Orleans City Council, District B Primary Election, 2017 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Vote % | Votes | |
| Democratic | Seth Bloom |
39.66% | 5,617 | |
| Democratic | Jay Banks |
27.41% | 3,882 | |
| Democratic | Timothy David Ray | 17.47% | 2,475 | |
| Democratic | Catherine Love | 9.67% | 1,369 | |
| Democratic | Eugene Ben-Oluwole | 3.35% | 475 | |
| Democratic | Andre Strumer | 2.44% | 346 | |
| Total Votes | 14,164 | |||
| Source: Louisiana Secretary of State, "Saturday, October 14, 2017," accessed October 14, 2017 | ||||
Endorsements
The following table displays group endorsements issued in New Orleans' 2017 primary election. Endorsing organizations may offer endorsements to more than one candidate in anticipation of a top-two general election or if they believe more than one candidate meets their criteria for official support.
| Candidate endorsements | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Endorser | Mayor | At-large 1 | At-large 2 | A | B | C | D | E |
| Alliance for Good Government[4] | Michael Bagneris | Helena Moreno | Jason Williams (i) | Joe Giarrusso III | Seth Bloom | Kristin Palmer | N/A | N/A |
| Greater New Orleans AFL-CIO[5] | Desiree Charbonnet | Joseph Bouie Helena Moreno |
Jason Williams (i) | Joe Giarrusso III | Jay Banks Timothy David Ray |
Nadine Ramsey (i) | Jared Brossett (i) | James Gray (i) |
| Independent Women's Organization[6] | LaToya Cantrell | Helena Moreno | Jason Williams (i) | Aylin Acikalin Maklansky Joe Giarrusso III |
Seth Bloom Timothy David Ray |
Nadine Ramsey (i) Kristin Palmer |
Jared Brossett (i) | James Gray (i) |
| New Orleans Coalition[7] | Michael Bagneris LaToya Cantrell |
Helena Moreno | Jason Williams (i) | Joe Giarrusso III | Timothy David Ray | Kristin Palmer | Jared Brossett (i) | James Gray (i) |
Campaign themes
2023
Ballotpedia survey responses
See also: Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection
Seth Bloom did not complete Ballotpedia's 2023 Candidate Connection survey.
2017
Bloom's campaign website listed the following themes for 2017:
| “ |
CRIME EDUCATION
INFRASTRUCTURE AND DEVELOPMENT
|
” |
| —Seth Bloom (2017) | ||
See also
2023 Elections
External links
Footnotes
- ↑ Seth Bloom, "Home," accessed August 1, 2017
- ↑ Louisiana Secretary of State, "2017 Elections," February 2017
- ↑ Louisiana Secretary of State, "Candidate Inquiry," accessed July 14, 2017
- ↑ Twitter, "Alliance for Good Government," accessed September 18, 2017
- ↑ Facebook, "Greater New Orleans AFL-CIO," accessed August 13, 2017
- ↑ The New Orleans Advocate, "Several candidates disqualified in New Orleans, and other area political news," July 30, 2017
- ↑ New Orleans Coalition, "Endorsements," accessed August 22, 2017
- ↑ Seth Bloom, "Issues," accessed August 1, 2017
- ↑ Note: This text is quoted verbatim from the original source. Any inconsistencies are attributable to the original source.
