BATON ROUGE, La. (BRPROUD) — Democrat Cleo Fields won the seat for Louisiana's 6th Congressional District, the state's new majority-Black district, according to complete but unofficial results on the Louisiana Secretary of State's website.
Fields, a Democrat, won 51% of the vote. Challenger Elbert Guillory, a Republican, drew 38% of the 296,011 votes cast. Quentin Anthony Anderson, a Democrat, drew 8% of the vote.
U.S. Rep. Garret Graves confirmed he would not seek reelection in June after the Supreme Court ordered Louisiana to use a congressional map with a second majority-Black district in the fall election. All five candidates for the seat were Black men.
In District 5, Republican Julia Letlow kept her seat with 63% of the vote. In District 4, Speaker of the House Mike Johnson also kept his seat with 86% of the vote.
Nationwide, voters cast ballots for the next president of the United States. Across Louisiana, voters decided on a proposed constitutional amendment and representation in the U.S. Congress.
According to the Louisiana Secretary of State's office, 22 parishes had local races and propositions; 22 had local races but no proposition; 15 had state and presidential elections only; and five had local propositions but no local races.
Any runoff elections will be held on Saturday, Dec. 7. Early voting for that election will be from 8:30 a.m. to 6 p.m. Nov. 22-30, excluding Sunday, Nov. 24, Thursday, Nov. 28, and Friday, Nov. 29.
Residents who want to vote early can use the GeauxVote mobile app to find their early voting locations, review their sample ballot and check out the Election Day voting site.
