1:08am: Finally — 100% in. The final result was 28% for Dardenne, 24% for Fayard. Glad to see that a Dem was able to make it out of this jungly mess!
11:12pm: 3,115 precincts are now in, and Dardenne’s lead has softened to 28-24 over Fayard.
10:56pm: The needle’s sitting at 2,809 precincts, and Dardenne enjoys a 29-24 lead over Fayard.
10:42pm: 2,530 precincts are now in, and it’s a 29-23 lead for Dardenne over Fayard. So far, so good!
10:33pm: We’re now up to 2,032 precincts reporting (just over half of the vote), and it’s a 30-23 Dardenne-Fayard race. (Fayard also has a 9000-vote cushion over Kershaw now.)
10:28pm: And in the Lt. Governor’s race, we’re up to 1,560 precincts reporting. Dardenne’s at 31% while Fayard inched up to 23%. She’s got 6000 votes worth of padding over Sammy Kershaw.
10:27pm: It’s done. The AP has called the LA-03 GOP nomination for Jeff Landry, who is beating Hunt Downer in a blowout. With that, the House field is set for November.
10:18pm: Finally, some big movement. With 1,023 of 3,877 precincts reporting, Dardenne sits in first with 33%, followed by Fayard at 22% and Kershaw 3000 votes behind at 20%. In LA-03, with just under half of the vote in, Landry is leading Downer by 68-32. Stick a fork in that one…
10:00pm: We’re up to 321 precincts, and Fayard has inched up to second place, with 22% to Kershaw’s 19%.
9:54pm: 258 precincts now in, and it’s 36% Dardenne, 20% Kershaw, and 19% Fayard. In LA-03, Landry is romping with a 68-32 lead.
9:48pm: The SoS has now emerged as the most up-to-date source, and they have Dardenne at 36%, with Kershaw and Fayard tied at 19% with 71 precincts reporting. In the LA-03 runoff, Landry leads Downer by 64-36 with 16 precincts reporting.
9:37pm: WWLTV is now up to 52 precincts: their tab for the Lt. Governor’s race is 34% Dardenne, 22% for Sammy Kershaw, and 18% for Dem Caroline Fayard.
9:29pm: The LA SoS also has some early numbers (absentees?) from the 3rd. Landry is eating Downer’s lunch, with a 74-26 lead.
9:20pm: Some action from the Lt. Governor’s race: With 16 precincts reporting, Dem Caroline Fayard leads with 33% to Jay Dardenne’s 30%. Kevin Davis and Roger Villere, a pair of Republicans, trail with 22 and 15%, respectively.
This is it. The last primary night of the year. Polls have now closed in Louisiana, where there are two races to keep an eye on tonight: the GOP primary run-off between Hunt Downer and Jeff Landry in the 3rd District, and the open primary for the Lt. Governor’s office. We’ll be using this thread to follow the results.
RESULTS: LA-03 SoS | LA-Lt. Gov SoS | Associated Press | WWLTV (Lt.-Gov)
The SoS and AP are behind, just like in the 1st primary. New Orleans news station WWLTV has the first results in the Lt. Gov race (none in LA-03 yet).
SoS (maybe thats why the SoS site is not updating!) Jay Dardenne leads with 40%, while St. Tammany Parish President Kevin Davis is in 2nd with 33%. They are both the moderate Republicans in the race. LA GOP Chair Roger Villere (MY endorsed candidate) Roger Villere is in 3rd with 18%. Dem Caroline Fayard is in 4th with 13%. OF course, this is only 3 precincts. The other major Dem, Sen. Butch Geautreaux is in last place, behind perennial candidate JAmes Crowley. http://www.wwltv.com/news/elec…
The SoS has it 75-25 Landry.
Caroline Fayard leads by 10% now. This is a race that Dems almost let go uncontested, until Fayard and Butch Geautreax filed at the last minute.
We normally count our votes fast. In the federal primaries it was slow too.
Got closer – less than 700 votes between Kershaw and Fayard. Hold on, Sammy!
I think Kerhsaw is done. Fayard is in 2nd without anything from Orleans Parish, where she should clean up. Dardenne is up big without anything from EBR, the 2nd (or 3rd) largest parish that has reported higher turnout than the rest of the state, and that is Dardenne’s base. Villere’s base in Jefferson Parish, the largest parish, has not reported. The rural parishes are the ones that have the most reporting, and they are Kershaw’s base. Kevin Davis’s base in St. Tammany, where he has been elected parish wide 3 times with big margins, has not reported anything yet either.
Homegirl is attractive!
President Clinton–nevermind–he’s on her web site and the joke is way too obvious.
I didn’t know about her till y’all started mentioning her recently.
She’ll probably hang back till the current guv is out of office.
Jefferson Parish, tonight elected a new parish president. Councilman John Young (R) was elected with 81% of the vote. This is a pick up for Republicans, after scandal plagued President Aaron Broussard (D) resigned in the winter. He is best known for breaking down on national TV after Katrina. You may remember this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v…
This is a big win for Republicans, as they now control the government of the largest parish in the state. John Young will be a name we hear about in the future, as potential Governor and Congressional (LA-01) candidate. He actually started fundraising for the special election in 2008, but dropped out when Steve Scalise looked strong.
We are waiting on Jefferson, 2/3’s of Orleans, 1/2 of St. Tammany, and, up North, Monroe. Expect that to mean much change in the final percentages?
Dardenne and Fayard into the runoff.
Runoff between generally sane Republican (not teabagging style) and absolutely reasonable Democrat without any crazies is, possibly, the best that could be expected of present day Louisiana. LA-03 – as expected. It’s interesting what would happen in this district in November if this year would be slightly more Democratic and Sangisetty would have a Cajun name…
It predicted a 66-34 Landry win, very close to the actual results. I thought it was overestimating him (and a bit weird for having no undecides) but apparently not.
Would he be the 2nd highest ranking Jewish Republican behind Eric Cantor?
One of SSP’s least favorite people, Suzanne Haik Terrell is interested in the special election for SoS and could get her back into politics.
Billy Nungesser won a landslide to be reelected President of Plaquemines Parish, defeating two opponents (including one he only beat by 200 votes four years ago). Nungesser gained nationwide attention during the height of the oil spill and I can easily see him going on to higher office.
In a NOLA based state Senate district former Councilwoman Cynthia Willard-Lewis easily won. She narrowly was defeated in February when she ran for Council-at-large, so she seems to have landed on her feet.
She looks like a cross between Amy Acker & Anna Pacquin, has a Cajun name, loves her some justice, and according to the pictures on her website, black people love her. Her very existence is basically is a win for America, let alone Louisiana Democrats.
I must say, though, that Butch Gautreaux may be the best-named Louisiana politician in existence. It’s certainly the best that I’ve ever heard, but I will defer to any locals who know of a name that can beat it.