United States House of Representatives elections in Louisiana, 2018

Elections in Louisiana, 2018

* Primary election: Nov. 6
* General election: Dec. 8
* Voter registration deadline: Oct. 9
* Early voting: Oct. 23 - Oct. 30
* Absentee voting deadline: Nov. 5

* Online registration: Yes
* Same-day registration: No
* Voter ID: Photo ID required
* Poll times: 6:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m.

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2018 U.S. House Elections in Louisiana

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General Election Date
December 8, 2018

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Primary Date
November 6, 2018

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Partisan breakdown • Candidates

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Louisiana's District Pages District 1 • District 2 • District 3 • District 4 • District 5 • District 6

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## Contents

* 1 Partisan breakdown
* 1.1 Incumbents
* 2 Candidates
* 2.1 District 1
* 2.2 Primary election candidates
* 2.3 District 2
* 2.4 Primary election candidates
* 2.5 District 3
* 2.6 Primary election candidates
* 2.7 District 4
* 2.8 Primary election candidates
* 2.9 District 5
* 2.10 Primary election candidates
* 2.11 District 6
* 2.12 Primary election candidates
* 3 Wave election analysis
* 4 See also
* 5 Footnotes

The 2018 U.S. House of Representatives elections in Louisiana took place on November 6, 2018. Voters elected six candidates to serve in the U.S. House, one from each of the state's six congressional districts.

Louisiana elections use the Louisiana majority-vote system. All candidates compete in the same primary, and a candidate can win the election outright by receiving more than 50% 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.

For information about which offices are nominated via primary election, see this article.

Candidate Filing Deadline  | Primary Election  | General Election

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July 20, 2018 | November 6, 2018 | December 8, 2018

## Partisan breakdown[edit]

Heading into the November 6 election, the Republican Party held five of the six congressional seats from Louisiana.

Members of the U.S. House from Louisiana -- Partisan Breakdown

Party  | As of November 2018  | After the 2018 Election
| Democratic Party | 1  | 1
| Republican Party | 5 | 5
Total |  6 |  6

### Incumbents[edit]

Heading into the 2018 election, the incumbents for the six congressional districts were:

Name | Party | District

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Steve Scalise |  Republican | 1
Cedric Richmond |  Democratic | 2
Clay Higgins |  Republican | 3
Mike Johnson |  Republican | 4
Ralph Abraham |  Republican | 5
Garret Graves |  Republican | 6

## Candidates[edit]

See also: Statistics on U.S. Congress candidates, 2018
Candidate ballot access

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### District 1[edit]

### Primary election candidates[edit]

Primary candidates

* Steve Scalise (Incumbent) (Republican Party) ✔
* Lee Ann Dugas (Democratic Party)
* Jim Francis (Democratic Party)
* Frederick Jones (Independent)
* Howard Kearney (Libertarian Party)
* Tammy Savoie (Democratic Party)

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= candidate completed the Ballotpedia Candidate Connection survey.

### District 2[edit]

### Primary election candidates[edit]

Primary candidates

* Cedric Richmond (Incumbent) (Democratic Party) ✔
* Belden Batiste (Independent)
* Shawndra Rodriguez (Independent)
* Jesse Schmidt (Independent)

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= candidate completed the Ballotpedia Candidate Connection survey.

### District 3[edit]

### Primary election candidates[edit]

Primary candidates

* Clay Higgins (Incumbent) (Republican Party) ✔
* Rob Anderson (Democratic Party)
* Aaron Andrus (Libertarian Party)
* Josh Guillory (Republican Party)
* Mildred Methvin (Democratic Party)
* Larry Rader (Democratic Party)
* Verone Thomas (Democratic Party)

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= candidate completed the Ballotpedia Candidate Connection survey.

### District 4[edit]

### Primary election candidates[edit]

Primary candidates

* Mike Johnson (Incumbent) (Republican Party) ✔
* Mark Halverson (Independent)
* Ryan Trundle (Democratic Party)

### District 5[edit]

### Primary election candidates[edit]

Primary candidates

* Ralph Abraham (Incumbent) (Republican Party) ✔
* Billy Burkette (Independent)
* Jessee Carlton Fleenor (Democratic Party)
* Kyle Randol (Libertarian Party)

### District 6[edit]

### Primary election candidates[edit]

Primary candidates

* Garret Graves (Incumbent) (Republican Party) ✔
* Justin DeWitt (Democratic Party)
* Devin Lance Graham (Independent)
* Andie Saizan (Democratic Party)

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= candidate completed the Ballotpedia Candidate Connection survey.

## Wave election analysis[edit]

See also: Wave elections (1918-2016)

The term wave election is frequently used to describe an election cycle in which one party makes significant electoral gains. How many seats would Republicans have had to lose for the 2018 midterm election to be considered a wave election?

Ballotpedia examined the results of the 50 election cycles that occurred between 1918 and 2016—spanning from President Woodrow Wilson's (D) second midterm in 1918 to Donald Trump's (R) first presidential election in 2016. We define wave elections as the 20 percent of elections in that period resulting in the greatest seat swings against the president's party.

Applying this definition to U.S. House elections, we found that Republicans needed to lose 48 seats for 2018 to qualify as a wave election.

The chart below shows the number of seats the president's party lost in the 11 U.S. House waves from 1918 to 2016. Click here to read the full report.

U.S. House wave elections

Year | President | Party | Election type | House seats change | House majority[1]
1932 | Hoover | R | Presidential | -97 | D
1922 | Harding | R | First midterm | -76 | R
1938 | Roosevelt | D | Second midterm | -70 | D
2010 | Obama | D | First midterm | -63 | R (flipped)
1920 | Wilson | D | Presidential | -59 | R
1946 | Truman | D | First midterm | -54 | R (flipped)
1994 | Clinton | D | First midterm | -54 | R (flipped)
1930 | Hoover | R | First midterm | -53 | D (flipped)
1942 | Roosevelt | D | Third midterm | -50 | D
1966 | Johnson | D | First midterm[2] | -48 | D
1974 | Ford | R | Second midterm[3] | -48 | D

## See also[edit]

* United States House of Representatives elections, 2018
* U.S. House battlegrounds, 2018
* U.S. House primaries, 2018

## Footnotes[edit]

1. ↑ Denotes the party that had more seats in the U.S. House following the election.
2. ↑ Lyndon Johnson's (D) first term began in November 1963 after the death of President John F. Kennedy (D), who was first elected in 1960. Before Johnson had his first midterm in 1966, he was re-elected president in 1964.
3. ↑ Gerald Ford's (R) first term began in August 1974 following the resignation of President Richard Nixon (R), who was first elected in 1968 and was re-elected in 1972. Because Ford only served for two full months before facing the electorate, this election is classified as Nixon's second midterm.

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Louisiana's current delegation to the United States Congress

Senators

Bill Cassidy (R)

John Kennedy (R)

Representatives

District 1

Steve Scalise (R)

District 2

Troy Carter (D)

District 3

Clay Higgins (R)

District 4

Mike Johnson (R)

District 5

Julia Letlow (R)

District 6

Garret Graves (R)

Republican Party (7)

Democratic Party (1)