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United States House of Representatives elections in Louisiana, 2022
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The U.S. House of Representatives elections in Louisiana were on December 10, 2022. Voters elected six candidates to serve in the U.S. House, one from each of the state's six U.S. House districts.
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 primary was scheduled for November 8, 2022. The filing deadline was July 22, 2022.
Partisan breakdown
| Members of the U.S. House from Louisiana -- Partisan Breakdown | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Party | As of November 2022 | After the 2022 Election | |
| Democratic Party | 1 | 1 | |
| Republican Party | 5 | 5 | |
| Total | 6 | 6 | |
Candidates
District 1
General election candidates
The general election was canceled.
Primary candidates
- Steve Scalise (Incumbent) (Republican Party) ✔
- Katie Darling (Democratic Party)
- Howard Kearney (Libertarian Party)
= candidate completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey
District 2
General election candidates
The general election was canceled.
Primary candidates
- Troy Carter (Incumbent) (Democratic Party) ✔
- Dan Lux (Republican Party)
= candidate completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey
District 3
General election candidates
The general election was canceled.
Primary candidates
- Clay Higgins (Incumbent) (Republican Party) ✔
- Holden Hoggatt (Republican Party)
- Lessie LeBlanc (Democratic Party)
- Tia LeBrun (Democratic Party)
- Guy McLendon (Libertarian Party)
- Thomas Payne Jr. (Republican Party)
- Jake Shaheen (Republican Party)
- Gloria Wiggins (Independent)
Did not make the ballot:
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District 4
General election candidates
The general election was canceled.
Primary candidates
This primary was canceled and this candidate was elected:
- Mike Johnson (Incumbent) (Republican Party) ✔
Did not make the ballot:
= candidate completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey
District 5
General election candidates
The general election was canceled.
Primary candidates
- Julia Letlow (Incumbent) (Republican Party) ✔
- Oscar Dantzler (Democratic Party)
- Allen Guillory Sr. (Republican Party)
- Walter Huff (Democratic Party)
- Hunter Pullen (Republican Party)
District 6
General election candidates
The general election was canceled.
Primary candidates
- Garret Graves (Incumbent) (Republican Party) ✔
- Brian Belzer (Republican Party)
- Rufus Craig (Libertarian Party)
Did not make the ballot:
= candidate completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey
General election race ratings
- See also: Race rating definitions and methods
Ballotpedia provides race ratings from four outlets: The Cook Political Report, Inside Elections, Sabato's Crystal Ball, and DDHQ/The Hill. Each race rating indicates if one party is perceived to have an advantage in the race and, if so, the degree of advantage:
- Safe and Solid ratings indicate that one party has a clear edge and the race is not competitive.
- Likely ratings indicate that one party has a clear edge, but an upset is possible.
- Lean ratings indicate that one party has a small edge, but the race is competitive.[1]
- Toss-up ratings indicate that neither party has an advantage.
Race ratings are informed by a number of factors, including polling, candidate quality, and election result history in the race's district or state.[2][3][4]
Click the following links to see the race ratings in each of the state's U.S. House districts:
- Louisiana's 1st Congressional District
- Louisiana's 2nd Congressional District
- Louisiana's 3rd Congressional District
- Louisiana's 4th Congressional District
- Louisiana's 5th Congressional District
- Louisiana's 6th Congressional District
Ballot access
For information on candidate ballot access requirements in Louisiana, click here.
Election analysis
Click the tabs below to view information about voter composition, past elections, and demographics in both the district and the state.
- District maps - A map of the state's districts before and after redistricting.
- Competitiveness - Information about the competitiveness of 2022 U.S. House elections in the state.
- Presidential elections - Information about presidential elections in the district and the state.
- State party control - The partisan makeup of the state's congressional delegation and state government.
District map
Below were the district maps in use at the time of the election, enacted as part of the 2020 redistricting cycle, compared to the maps in place before the election.
Louisiana Congressional Districts
before 2020 redistricting cycle
Click a district to compare boundaries.
Louisiana Congressional Districts
after 2020 redistricting cycle
Click a district to compare boundaries.
Competitiveness
This section contains data on U.S. House primary election competitiveness in Louisiana.
Post-filing deadline analysis
The following analysis covers all U.S. House districts up for election in Louisiana in 2022. Information below was calculated on October 26, 2022, and may differ from information shown in the table above due to candidate replacements and withdrawals after that time.
Twenty-two candidates filed to run for Louisiana’s six U.S. House districts, a decade-low. The candidates included six Democrats, 12 Republicans, one independent, and three libertarians. That’s 3.7 candidates per district, fewer than the five candidates per district in 2020 and the 4.7 in 2018.
This was the first election to take place under new district lines following the 2020 census. Louisiana was apportioned six districts, the same number it was apportioned after the 2010 census.
The 22 candidates who filed to run this year were six fewer than the 30 candidates who ran in 2020, and four fewer than the 28 candidates who ran in 2018. Thirty-nine candidates ran in 2016, thirty-five ran in 2014, and 23 ran in 2012.
No seats were open this year. One seat was open in 2020, no seats were open in 2018, two seats were open in 2016, and one seat was open in 2014.
There were five contested primaries this year, one fewer than in 2020 and 2018, and the same number as in 2016 and 2014. Four Republican incumbents and a Democratic one ran in contested primaries. That number was the same as in 2020, when five incumbents faced contested primaries as well. There were six incumbents in contested primaries in 2018 and three in 2016 and 2014.
One Republican incumbent, Mike Johnson, did not face any primary challengers. The fourth and sixth districts were guaranteed to Republicans because no Democrats filed.
Presidential elections
As a result of redistricting following the 2020 census, many district boundaries changed. As a result, analysis of the presidential vote in each of these new districts is not yet available. Once that analysis is available, it will be published here.
Louisiana presidential election results (1900-2020)
- 17 Democratic wins
- 12 Republican wins
- 2 other wins
| Year | 1900 | 1904 | 1908 | 1912 | 1916 | 1920 | 1924 | 1928 | 1932 | 1936 | 1940 | 1944 | 1948 | 1952 | 1956 | 1960 | 1964 | 1968 | 1972 | 1976 | 1980 | 1984 | 1988 | 1992 | 1996 | 2000 | 2004 | 2008 | 2012 | 2016 | 2020 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Winning Party | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | SR[5] | D | R | D | R | AI[6] | R | D | R | R | R | D | D | R | R | R | R | R | R |
State party control
Congressional delegation
The table below displays the partisan composition of Louisiana's congressional delegation as of November 2022.
| Congressional Partisan Breakdown from Louisiana, November 2022 | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Party | U.S. Senate | U.S. House | Total |
| Democratic | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Republican | 2 | 5 | 7 |
| Independent | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Vacancies | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Total | 2 | 6 | 8 |
State executive
The table below displays the officeholders in Louisiana's top four state executive offices as of November 2022.
| State executive officials in Louisiana, November 2022 | |
|---|---|
| Office | Officeholder |
| Governor |  John Bel Edwards
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| Lieutenant Governor |  Billy Nungesser
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| Secretary of State | Kyle Ardoin
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| Attorney General | Jeff Landry
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State legislature
The tables below highlight the partisan composition of the Louisiana State Legislature as of November 2022.
Louisiana State Senate
| Party | As of November 2022 | |
|---|---|---|
| Democratic Party | 11 | |
| Republican Party | 26 | |
| Vacancies | 2 | |
| Total | 39 | |
Louisiana House of Representatives
| Party | As of November 2022 | |
|---|---|---|
| Democratic Party | 34 | |
| Republican Party | 68 | |
| Independent | 3 | |
| Vacancies | 0 | |
| Total | 105 | |
Trifecta control
As of November 2022, Louisiana was a divided government, with Democrats controlling the governorship and Republican majorities in both chambers of the state legislature. The table below displays the historical trifecta status of the state.
Louisiana Party Control: 1992-2022
Eight years of Democratic trifectas • Five years of Republican trifectas
Scroll left and right on the table below to view more years.
| Year | 92 | 93 | 94 | 95 | 96 | 97 | 98 | 99 | 00 | 01 | 02 | 03 | 04 | 05 | 06 | 07 | 08 | 09 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Governor | D | D | D | D | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | D | D | D | D | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | D | D | D | D | D | D | D |
| Senate | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R |
| House | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R |
Redistricting following the 2020 census
On February 19, 2024, the state appealed a U.S. District Court for Middle Louisiana decision that struck down the state's legislative maps.[7]
The lower court's February 8, 2024, ruling found the state's legislative maps to be in violation of the Voting Rights Act.[8][9] According to the ruling, the court found the following:
| “ | [T]he Enacted State House and Senate Maps crack or pack large and geographically compact minority populations such as Black voters in the challenged districts 'have less opportunity than other members of the electorate to participate in the political process and to elect representatives of their choice,' and the Illustrative Plan offered by the Plaintiffs show that additional opportunity districts can be 'reasonable configured.'[9][10] | ” |
See also
External links
Footnotes
- ↑ Inside Elections also uses Tilt ratings to indicate an even smaller advantage and greater competitiveness.
- ↑ Amee LaTour, "Email correspondence with Nathan Gonzalez," April 19, 2018
- ↑ Amee LaTour, "Email correspondence with Kyle Kondik," April 19, 2018
- ↑ Amee LaTour, "Email correspondence with Charlie Cook," April 22, 2018
- ↑ States' Rights Democratic Party
- ↑ American Independent Party
- ↑ American Redistricting Project, "Nairne v. Landry," accessed November 20, 2024
- ↑ NOLA.com. "Louisiana must redraw its legislative districts, federal judge rules. Here's why." February 8, 2024
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 Twitter. "RedistrictNet," February 8, 2024
- ↑ Note: This text is quoted verbatim from the original source. Any inconsistencies are attributable to the original source.
