BATON ROUGE, La.
— As Louisiana’s election polls closed Saturday night and gubernatorial candidates await results, Republicans are hoping to reclaim the governor’s mansion after an eight-year hiatus while Democrats try to keep the position in a state where Donald Trump garnered a majority of the votes in the last two presidential elections.
In total, 14 candidates are competing to succeed Edwards under a “ jungle primary"system in which all candidates, regardless of party affiliation, appear together on the same ballot on Saturday. If no candidate tops 50% of the votes, the top two vote-getters will advance to a runoff on Nov. 18. The other major candidates running for governor are GOP state Sen. Sharon Hewitt; Hunter Lundy, a Lake Charles-based attorney running as an independent; Republican state Treasurer John Schroder; Stephen Waguespack, the Republican former head of a powerful business group and former senior aide to then-Gov. Bobby Jindal; and Shawn Wilson, a Democrat and former head of Louisiana’s Transportation and Development Department.
Saturday’s election also features a slew of statewide contests, four ballot measures and localized races, including all 39 Senate seats and 105 House seats, although a significant number of incumbents are running unopposed. Also advancing to a runoff in the state treasurer race is John Fleming, Republican, and Dustin Granger, Democrat.
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