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Hunter Lundy
Hunter Lundy (independent) ran for election for Governor of Louisiana. He lost in the primary on October 14, 2023.
Lundy completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2023. Click here to read the survey answers.
Biography
Hunter Lundy attended McNeese State University and received a bachelor's degree from Millsaps College.[1] He earned a law degree from Mississippi College School of Law.[1] His work experience includes serving as a law clerk for a federal judge and working as an attorney at a law firm he founded—Lundy, Lundy, Soileau, & South L.L.P.[1]
Elections
2023
See also: Louisiana gubernatorial election, 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.
Nonpartisan primary election
Nonpartisan primary for Governor of Louisiana
The following candidates ran in the primary for Governor of Louisiana on October 14, 2023.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Jeff Landry (R) | 51.6 | 547,827 |
 | Shawn Wilson (D)  | 25.9 | 275,525 | |
 | Stephen Waguespack (R) | 5.9 | 62,287 | |
 | John Schroder (R) | 5.3 | 56,654 | |
 | Hunter Lundy (Independent) | 4.9 | 52,165 | |
| Daniel Cole (D) | 2.6 | 27,662 | ||
 | Sharon Hewitt (R) | 1.7 | 18,468 | |
 | Benjamin Barnes (Independent) | 0.5 | 5,190 | |
| Patrick Henry Barthel (R) | 0.4 | 4,426 | ||
 | Richard Nelson (R) (Unofficially withdrew) | 0.3 | 3,605 | |
| Jeffery Istre (Independent) | 0.3 | 3,400 | ||
 | Xavier Ellis (R) | 0.2 | 1,734 | |
| Keitron Gagnon (Independent) | 0.1 | 1,260 | ||
 | Xan John (R) | 0.1 | 1,164 | |
 | Frank Scurlock (Independent) | 0.1 | 1,131 | |
| Total votes: 1,062,498 | |||
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates
- Oscar Dantzler (D)
Endorsements
Ballotpedia did not identify endorsements for Lundy in this election.
Campaign themes
2023
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Ballotpedia survey responses
See also: Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection
Hunter Lundy completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2023. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Lundy's responses. Candidates are asked three required questions for this survey, but they may answer additional optional questions as well.
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His father served as the chairman of the board of Harbor Docking and Towing until his death in 2012. He has three children: Patricia "Tricia" Lundy Barrow, Trevor Edward Lundy, Johnny Kade Watkins, and 5 grandchildren.
Hunter began his college education at McNeese State University. He transferred to Millsaps College to play football in Jackson, Mississippi where he was awarded an athletic scholarship and graduated in 1976. Along the way, Hunter received the Scholar-Leader-Athlete award from the Mississippi College Sports Hall of Fame. Hunter earned his law degree in 1980 from Mississippi College School of law in Jackson, Mississippi. He was Editor-in-Chief of the Law Review and after graduation he served two years as law clerk to the Honorable Walter L. Nixon, Jr., U.S. District Judge for the Southern District of Mississippi. Hunter returned to Lake Charles in 1981 to practice law. In 1986, Hunter began the law firm currently known as Lundy, Lundy, Soileau, & South L.L.P.- Crime
- Education
- Poverty
Our teachers and local school administrators are so worried about their bosses at the state Department of Education that we don’t get our kids out of classrooms and onto the playground.
Evidence says kids do better when you let them be kids and give them time to learn through activity. They need PE, recess, and extracurricular activities to learn teamwork and good citizenship.
Forcing teachers to “teach to the test” has failed our kids. Real learning opportunities in the classroom and on the playgrounds and athletic fields are lost because people decided that measuring was more important than learning.
We know that early childhood education reduces a child’s chance of future incarceration by 20%. If we can cut crime 20% just by teaching kids to read and be good citizens when they are little, we have to do it.
This school year, Louisiana public schools were 2520 teachers short. We don’t pay them and we don’t let them do their jobs. In Arkansas, the LEARNS Act increases the state’s minimum teacher salary from $36,000 to $50,000 and guarantees all teachers at least a $2,000 raise. Louisiana's starting average for a first year teacher is just $40,500. We need to raise teacher pay substantially to attract and retain good teachers.
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See also
2023 Elections
External links
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