U.S. Senator
Raymond Brown 2% 23,550John Cooksey 14% 171,706Mary Landrieu 46% 572,731Patrick E. “Live Wire” Landry 1% 10,430James Lemann 0% 3,865″Tony” Perkins 10% 119,765Gary D. Robbins 0% 2,610Ernest Edward Skillman Jr. 0% 1,667Suzanne Haik Terrell 27% 339,311
Landrieu and Terrell will face each other in a Dec. 7 runoff election.
U.S. Representative, 2nd District
Wayne E. Clement 3% 3,778Irma Muse Dixon 20% 28,376Clarense “Buddy”Hunt 3% 4,122William J. Jefferson 64% 90,076″Silky” Sullivan 11% 15,390
Constitutional Amendments
#1: To change general legislative sessions and fiscal sessions years.For 55% 559,623Against 45% 450,679
#2:To increase income tax; to reduce taxes on necessities and utilities.For 51% 534,410Against 49% 506,397
#3:To authorize establishment procedures related to deficit avoidance.For 58% 580,429Against 42% 425,145
#4:To require provision by general law for the removal of any state or local public employee convicted of a felony.For 70% 713,380Against 30% 305,086
#5:Authorizes the State Board of Commerce and Industry, to contract with developers of retirement communities for the exemption from taxes. For 39% 389.880Against 61% 603,333
#6:To require the governor’s recommended budget estimate include amounts fully sufficient to pay for full-time local law enforcementand fire protection officers.For 63% 645,857Against 37% 382,091
#7:To provide that persons qualifying for the special assessment level for certain seniors shall not be required to reapply annually.For 68% 676,764Against 32% 317,791
#8:To authorize the institutions of higher education to invest in stocks of certain funds received from gifts and grants, endowments, and other funds.For 49% 489,395Against 51% 507,761
#9:To authorize the investment in stocks of up to thirty-five percent of the Medicaid Trust Fund for the Elderly.For 48% 485,096Against 52% 515,723
#10:To authorize the legislature to assist farmers who voluntarily forgo irrigating with groundwater.For 46% 452,095Against 54% 541,071
#11:To exempt from ad valorem taxation drilling rigs.For 48% 467,248Against 52% 516,183
#12: To allow the incumbant coronor of Livingston Parish, who is not a doctor, to run for the position even if a doctor qualifies to run against him.For 45% 436,478Against 55% 543,793
