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      The 2023 Louisiana gubernatorial election was held on October 14, 2023, to elect the governor of Louisiana. Incumbent Governor John Bel Edwards was term-limited and could not seek re-election to a third consecutive term in office. This race was one of two Democratic-held governorships up for election in 2023 in a state that voted for Donald Trump in 2020.
      Under Louisiana's two-round system, all candidates appear on the same ballot, regardless of party, and voters may vote for any candidate regardless of that person's party affiliation. If no candidate had received an absolute majority of the vote during the primary election on October 14, 2023, a runoff election would have been held on November 18, 2023, between the top two candidates in the primary.
      State Attorney General Jeff Landry won with over 51% of the vote in the primary. This was the first time a candidate won a Louisiana gubernatorial election without a runoff since fellow Republican Bobby Jindal was re-elected in 2011. Landry easily prevailed over several Republican opponents, including former state chamber of commerce CEO Stephen Waguespack and State Treasurer John Schroder. Former state Transportation Secretary Shawn Wilson was the leading Democratic candidate. All the Republican candidates collectively won 65.52% of the vote, including a candidate who got 0.34% of the vote as he dropped out of the race but remained on the ballot. All the Democrats collectively won 28.53% of the vote, and all the Independents collectively won 5.95% of the vote. This was the only governorship to flip parties in the 2023 elections.


      Background


      Louisiana, like much of the Deep South, is a socially conservative "Bible Belt" state. Democrats were the favored party at all levels of government as recently as the 1990s; however, the Republican Party has since rapidly gained ground, first at the federal level and gradually at the state and local level as well. Today, the state is strongly Republican-leaning and, at the time of the election, Republicans held both of the state's U.S. Senate seats, all but one of its U.S. House seats, majorities in both of its state legislative chambers, and every statewide executive office except the governorship.
      John Bel Edwards, a moderate Democrat, was able to win two terms as governor and overcome the state's partisan lean by diverging from the national party on certain policy matters, such as abortion, while also appealing to Louisiana's contemporary Democratic voting base. However, as Edwards was term-limited going into the election, most analysts expected the governorship to flip back to the Republican Party in 2023, primarily due to the lack of Democratic candidates with Edwards' crossover appeal.


      Democratic candidates




      = Declared

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      Danny Cole, Pentecostal pastor
      Shawn Wilson, former Secretary of the Louisiana Department of Transportation and Development


      = Declined

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      Katie Bernhardt, chair of the Louisiana Democratic Party (endorsed Wilson)
      Sharon Weston Broome, Mayor of Baton Rouge (endorsed Wilson)
      Gary Chambers, community organizer, runner-up for U.S. Senate in 2022, and candidate for Louisiana's 2nd congressional district in 2021 (endorsed Wilson)
      Hillar Moore, East Baton Rouge Parish District Attorney
      Cedric Richmond, former Director of the Office of Public Engagement, former Senior Advisor to the President, and former U.S. Representative from Louisiana's 2nd congressional district
      Jason Williams, Orleans Parish District Attorney


      Republican candidates




      = Declared

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      Patrick "Dat" Barthel, engineer and Democratic candidate for governor in 2003
      Xavier Ellis, teacher
      Sharon Hewitt, Majority Leader of the Louisiana Senate from the 1st district
      Xan John, businessman and independent candidate for U.S. Senate in 2020 and 2022
      Jeff Landry, Louisiana Attorney General
      John Schroder, Louisiana State Treasurer
      Stephen Waguespack, former president and CEO of the Louisiana Association of Business and Industry and former chief of staff to then-governor Bobby Jindal


      = Withdrawn

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      Richard Nelson, state representative from the 89th district (endorsed Landry)


      = Declined

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      Bill Cassidy, U.S. Senator
      Garret Graves, U.S. Representative from Louisiana's 6th congressional district (endorsed Waguespack)
      John Kennedy, U.S. Senator
      Billy Nungesser, Lieutenant Governor of Louisiana (ran for re-election)
      Clay Schexnayder, Speaker of the Louisiana House of Representatives (ran for Secretary of State)
      Mike Strain, commissioner of the Louisiana Department of Agriculture and Forestry (ran for re-election)
      Rick Ward III, former state senator from the 17th district


      Independent candidates




      = Declared

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      Benjamin Barnes
      Keitron Gagnon
      Jeffery Istre, oilfield worker and U.S. Army veteran
      Hunter Lundy, attorney and Democratic candidate for Louisiana's 7th congressional district in 1996
      Frank Scurlock, retired businessman and Democratic candidate for mayor of New Orleans in 2017


      Jungle primary




      = Campaign

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      The Louisiana Republican Party endorsed Attorney General Jeff Landry's campaign on November 7, 2022, a year before the election. The party had had a full-body meeting scheduled for October 29, but it was canceled, and instead the endorsement was voted on in an exclusive meeting held over Zoom. Landry and Eddie Rispone, a member of the Republican State Central Committee who supported him, had pushed the party to make an early endorsement, arguing that the Republicans' best chance of flipping the governorship was to unite around one candidate well in advance of the election. This move was heavily criticized by other Republicans who had expressed interest in running for governor. Lieutenant Governor Billy Nungesser said the party's endorsement process "looks more like communist China than the Louisiana we know and love," State Treasurer John Schroder claimed it was driven by "money and inside party politics," and Louisiana Senate Majority Leader Sharon Hewitt proclaimed "the citizens of Louisiana do not need backroom deals and political insiders telling them who should be our next governor." Michael DiResto, a member of the Republican State Central Committee, believed "the idea that a small cabal would preempt the democratic process literally under the cover of darkness and in a smoke-filled Zoom goes against the foundational values of our party." In response, Louisiana Republican Party chair Louis Gurvich said "others who are crying over this endorsement are just upset because they didn't have the support within our party to win the endorsement for themselves."


      = Endorsements

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      = Predictions

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      = Polling

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      = Results

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      By congressional district


      Landry won five of six congressional districts.


      Aftermath


      In his victory speech, Governor-elect Landry stated that the "election says that our state is united", adding, "it's a wake up call and it's a message that everyone should hear loud and clear, that we the people in this state are going to expect more out of our government from here on out".


      See also


      2023 Louisiana elections


      Notes



      Partisan clients


      References




      External links


      Official campaign websites

      Benjamin Barnes (I) for Governor
      Sharon Hewitt (R) for Governor
      Jeff Landry (R) for Governor
      Hunter Lundy (I) for Governor
      John Schroder (R) for Governor
      Stephen Waguespack (R) for Governor
      Shawn Wilson (D) for Governor

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