Julia Letlow won a special election outright Saturday to represent the 5th Congressional District and will succeed her husband Luke, who captured the seat in December only to die of COVID three weeks later.
Youngsville Council Member Jamey Abshire has resigned from his elected position to accept a leadership role in the parks and recreation department of Lafayette Consolidated Government.
Now that the polls have closed, election results for Acadiana and Louisiana will gradually update.
Louisiana voters will head to the polls once again this weekend to vote on a statewide constitutional amendment, judges, a Lafayette City marshal and more.
A Dec. 5 runoff election will decide who will be the next 15th District Court Judge for Division C in Vermilion Parish.
Michelle Odinet will be the next judge for Division A of Lafayette City Court.
Voters in Iberia, St. Martin and St. Mary parishes handed District Attorney Bofill “Bo” Duhé reelection by a wide margin Tuesday.
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Republican U.S. Rep. Garret Graves, of Baton Rouge was re-elected to his fourth term Tuesday night, according to The Associated Press.
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A ballot measure that would allow betting on football games and other sports won lopsided approval Tuesday night across south Louisiana, including in Baton Rouge, New Orleans and Lafayette.
Republican U.S. Rep. Garret Graves, of Baton Rouge, breezed to reelection Tuesday.
U.S. Sen. Bill Cassidy easily secured a second term Tuesday after a low-key election against 14 opponents.
As polls open and election results roll in, follow the latest Acadiana Election Day results here.
With the president and a number of local races on the ballot, officials believe Louisiana could see the largest turnout for a presidential election in more than two decades.
Young and first-time election commissioners are stepping up to man local polling locations Tuesday as national campaigns encourage electoral involvement beyond voting and concerns linger about older commissioners’ safety during the novel coronavir…
Incumbent Clay Higgins’ decision to bypass last week’s televised 3rd Congressional District debate may have reduced that hourlong event field to three men who can’t win and one who didn’t show.
Candidates running to represent Louisiana’s Third Congressional District will meet in forum at 7 p.m. in the Moncus Theatre at the Acadiana Center for the Arts.
The two candidates vying to be a city court judge in Lafayette include a father who has overseen the district's drug court program and a mother who has firsthand experience working in city court.
The three candidates vying to be one of the family court judges in the 15th Judicial District include the city attorney for Youngsville, a partner of a local law firm and a former family court judge.
Sitting District Attorney Bofill “Bo” Duhé and retired district Judge Lori Landry are going head to head in the first competitive race for the 16th Judicial District Attorney’s Office in 20 years.
Though all of Louisiana’s incumbent congressmen seeking another two-year term drew opponents, only Acadiana’s U.S. Rep. Clay Higgins’ race is being called competitive – but that’s not really accurate, experts say.
Recently retired 16th Judicial District Court Judge Lori Landry on Thursday qualified to challenge sitting District Attorney Bo Duhé for his seat this fall, months after a contentious legal face off between the two when Duhé’s office attempted to …
Louisiana voters on Saturday chose Donald Trump and Joe Biden for the Republican and Democratic presidential primaries in an election that was postponed twice because of the coronavirus pandemic.
Lafayette Parish residents said they felt comforted and encouraged by the safety precautions taken at the polls Saturday, but the real challenge will be maintaining that sense of safety as voter numbers increase exponentially come the fall general…
Lafayette Parish voters should expect a different look to the ballot casting experience when polls open for the closed presidential primary and party elections on Saturday.
Roughly 150 Lafayette Parish residents trickled to the polls Saturday for the first day of presidential primary early voting as Louisiana undergoes its first test balancing voting access and coronavirus mitigation in the lead-up to fall’s general …
Local leaders have approved funding for a new early voting site in Lafayette Parish that's expected to be up and running in time for the presidential election this fall.
Lafayette Parish residents could have a new early voting site on the south side in time for the presidential election this fall.
When election seasons end, the campaign yard signs littered throughout the state have no place to go but the garbage can, creating a large carbon footprint — until now.
About half of qualified voters in Lafayette Parish cast ballots in Saturday's general election, up by about 10 percentage points over the last gubernatorial election.
Saturday's election for Lafayette mayor-president was a decisive win for Republican Josh Guillory, who captured 56% of the vote in an election in which more than half the parish's 153,718 registered voters participated.
Republican Josh Guillory was elected Saturday as Lafayette Parish's next mayor-president.
Youngsville Mayor Ken Ritter on the eve of the election for Lafayette mayor-president endorsed no party candidate Carlee Alm-LaBar over her Republican opponent Josh Guillory.
Lafayette mayor-president hopeful Josh Guillory has backed out of a forum he proposed two weeks ago, while his opponent, Carlee Alm-LaBar, has declined to participate in a forum Guillory proposed that was to be moderated by her former boss, outgoi…
Lafayette mayor-president hopeful Josh Guillory has backed out of a forum he proposed two weeks ago, while his opponent, Carlee Alm-LaBar, has declined to participate in a forum Guillory proposed that was to be moderated by her former boss, outgoi…
Early voting for the Nov. 16 general election in Lafayette Parish was up by 4,348 ballots compared with the Oct. 12 primary election.
Poll workers in Breaux Bridge experienced a hiccup with early voting Saturday when the computers used for voting went down, forcing a switch to paper ballots.
Democratic Gov. John Bel Edwards and his Republican rival, Eddie Rispone, are neck and neck in the governor’s race that tops the ballot.
The Lafayette Parish Home Rule Charter says the mayor-president's position, with a $119,000 annual salary, is a full-time job and the mayor-president cannot do anything unrelated to city-parish government that would interfere with or detract from …
The two Lafayette mayor-president candidates may face off in as many as three forums before the Nov. 16 runoff election.
Advertisements in the runoff for an open seat on the Louisiana Supreme Court show candidates Will Crain and Hans Liljeberg grilling on patios, schmoozing on sidewalks, and of course, commanding courtrooms.
Last week brought endorsements for both candidates for Lafayette mayor-president, but the prospects of a head-to-head debate before the Nov. 16 election are uncertain.
The candidates for Lafayette mayor-president each picked up an endorsement Thursday, one from a congressman, the other from a former congressman.
Carlos Harvin, the lone Democrat in the Lafayette mayor-president's race who was eliminated Oct. 12, will not endorse either of the candidates in the runoff.
President Donald Trump's team has inquired about whether the Cajundome or Convention Center in Lafayette are available for a rally before the Nov. 16 runoff for Louisiana governor.
Josh Guillory, the Republican candidate for Lafayette mayor-president, this week picked up two endorsements.
