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United States House elections in Louisiana, 2020 (November 3 primaries)
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The 2020 U.S. House of Representatives elections in Louisiana took place on November 3, 2020. Voters elected six candidates to serve in the U.S. House, one from each of the state's six congressional districts. This page focuses on the elections that took place in Louisiana on November 3, 2020.
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Louisiana does not conduct typical primary elections. Instead, all candidates running for a local, state, or federal office appear on the same ballot in either October (in odd-numbered years) or November (in even-numbered years), regardless of their partisan affiliations. If a candidate wins a simple majority of all votes cast for the office (i.e., 50 percent, plus one vote), he or she wins the election outright. If no candidate meets that threshold, the top two finishers advance to a second election in either November (in odd-numbered years) or December (in even-numbered years), regardless of their partisan affiliations. In that election, the candidate who receives the greatest number of votes wins. Ballotpedia refers to Louisiana's electoral system as the Louisiana majority-vote system. It is also commonly referred to as a jungle primary. Because it is possible for a candidate to win election in the first round of voting, Louisiana's nominating contest is not a traditional primary.
- Note: Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry (R) signed HB17 into law by on Jan. 22, 2024, creating closed partisan primaries and primary runoffs for Congress, the state Board of Elementary and Secondary Education, the Louisiana Public Service Commission and Louisiana Supreme Court beginning in 2026.
Candidates
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District 1
Primary candidates
- Steve Scalise (Incumbent) (Republican Party) ✔
- Lee Ann Dugas (Democratic Party)
- Howard Kearney (Libertarian Party)
Did not make the ballot:
= candidate completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey
District 2
Primary candidates
- Cedric Richmond (Incumbent) (Democratic Party) ✔
- Belden Batiste (Independent)
- Glenn Harris (Democratic Party)
- Colby James (Independent)
- David Schilling (Republican Party)
- Sheldon Vincent Sr. (Republican Party)
= candidate completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey
District 3
Primary candidates
- Clay Higgins (Incumbent) (Republican Party) ✔
- Rob Anderson (Democratic Party)
- Braylon Harris (Democratic Party)
- Brandon LeLeux (Libertarian Party)
Did not make the ballot:
= candidate completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey
District 4
Primary candidates
- Mike Johnson (Incumbent) (Republican Party) ✔
- Ben Gibson (Republican Party)
- Kenny Houston (Democratic Party)
- Ryan Trundle (Democratic Party)
= candidate completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey
District 5
Primary candidates
- Candy Christophe (Democratic Party)
- Allen Guillory Sr. (Republican Party)
- Lance Harris (Republican Party) ✔
- Matt Hasty (Republican Party)
- Jesse Lagarde (Democratic Party)
- Martin Lemelle (Democratic Party)
- Luke Letlow (Republican Party) ✔
- Randall Scott Robinson (Republican Party)
- Phillip Snowden (Democratic Party)
Did not make the ballot:
= candidate completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey
District 6
Primary candidates
- Garret Graves (Incumbent) (Republican Party) ✔
- Shannon Sloan (Libertarian Party)
- Richard Torregano (Independent)
- Dartanyon Williams (Democratic Party)
= candidate completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey
Pivot Counties
- See also: Pivot Counties by state
There are no Pivot Counties in Louisiana. Pivot Counties are counties that voted for Barack Obama (D) in 2008 and 2012 and for Donald Trump (R) in 2016. Altogether, the nation had 206 Pivot Counties, with most being concentrated in upper midwestern and northeastern states.
See also
- United States House Democratic Party primaries, 2020
- United States House Republican Party primaries, 2020
- United States House of Representatives elections, 2020
- U.S. House battlegrounds, 2020
- United States House of Representatives elections in Louisiana, 2018
Footnotes
