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In 2025, four special elections were called to fill vacant seats in the Louisiana State Legislature.

Click here to read more about the special election.

Senate special elections called:

• District 14: February 15
• District 23: February 15

House special elections called:

• District 45: May 3 (canceled)
• District 67: May 3

How vacancies are filled in Louisiana

If there is a vacancy in the Louisiana State Legislature, the vacant seat must be filled by a special election. An election is required if there are six months or more left in the unexpired term. The presiding officer in the house where the vacancy happened must call for an election no later than 10 days after the vacancy occurred. The presiding officer must determine the dates for the election along with all filing deadlines. The person elected to the seat serves for the remainder of the unexpired term.

See sources: Louisiana Rev. Stat. Ann. § 18:601

About the legislature

The Louisiana State Legislature is the state legislature of Louisiana. It is a bicameral body, comprising the lower house, the Louisiana House of Representatives, and the upper house, the Louisiana State Senate.

The boxes below show the partisan composition of both chambers directly before and after the most recent general elections prior to 2025. For the most up-to-date numbers on partisan composition in this legislature, see here (Senate) and here (House).

Louisiana State Senate
Party		As of November 18, 2023	After November 19, 2023
	Democratic Party	12	11
	Republican Party	27	28
Total		39	39

Louisiana House of Representatives
Party		As of November 18, 2023	After November 19, 2023
	Democratic Party	33	32
	Republican Party	71	73
	Vacancy	1	0
Total		105	105

Special elections

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May 3

Louisiana House of Representatives District 45

See also: Louisiana state legislative special elections, 2025 A special primary election for Louisiana House of Representatives District 45 was called for May 3, 2025. The election was canceled after only one candidate filed for the seat. A general election was scheduled to take place on June 7, 2025, but it was not necessary. The candidate filing deadline was March 14, 2025. The special election was called after incumbent Brach Myers (R) was elected to the state Senate. 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. Nonpartisan primary election The primary election was canceled. Annie Spell (R) won the election without appearing on the ballot.

Historical data

There were 1,007 state legislative special elections that took place from 2010 to 2024. Louisiana held 51 special elections during the same time period. The largest number of special elections in Louisiana took place in 2019 when seven special elections were held.

The table below details how many state legislative special elections were held in a state in a given year.

Special elections throughout the country

See also: State legislative special elections, 2025

In 2025, 95 state legislative special elections have been scheduled for 2025 in 23 states. One special election has also been called to fill a vacancy in the Puerto Rico House of Representatives. Between 2011 and 2024, an average of 70 special elections took place each year.

Breakdown of 2025 special elections

In 2025, special elections for state legislative positions were held for the following reasons:

• 39 due to appointment, election, or the seeking of election to another position
• 26 due to resignation
• 14 due to redistricting
• 15 due to the death of the incumbent
• 1 due to the officeholder leaving at term end

Impact of special elections on partisan composition

The partisan breakdown for the special elections was as follows:

• 51 Democratic seats
• 44 Republican seats

As of January 7th, 2026, Republicans controlled 55.32% of all state legislative seats nationally, while Democrats held 43.45%. Republicans held a majority in 57 chambers, and Democrats held the majority in 39 chambers. Two chambers (Alaska House and Alaska Senate) were organized under multipartisan, power-sharing coalitions. One chamber (Minnesota House of Representatives) was split evenly between both parties.

Partisan balance of all 7,386 state legislative seats
Legislative chamber			Other	Vacant
State senates	832	1,120	6	15
State houses	2,377	2,966	21	49
Total:	3,209	4,086	27	64

The table below details how many seats changed parties as the result of a special election in 2025. The number on the left reflects how many vacant seats were originally held by each party, while the number on the right shows how many vacant seats each party won in the special elections.

Note: This table reflects information for elections that were held and not the total number of vacant seats.

Partisan Change from Special Elections (2025)
Party		As of Special Election	After Special Election
	Democratic Party	51	57
	Republican Party	44	35
	Independent	0	1
Total		95	93

Flipped seats

In 2025, seven seats changed party hands as a result of state legislative special elections.

Seats that changed from R to D

• Iowa State Senate District 35 (January 28)
• Pennsylvania State Senate District 36 (March 25)
• Iowa State Senate District 1 (August 26)
• Mississippi State Senate District 2 (November 4)
• Mississippi State Senate District 45 (November 4)
• Mississippi House of Representatives District 22 (November 4)
• Georgia House of Representatives District 121 (December 9)

See also

• State legislative special elections, 2025
• State legislative special elections, 2024
• State legislative special elections, 2023
• State legislative special elections, 2022
• State legislative special elections, 2021
• State legislative special elections, 2020
• Louisiana State Legislature

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