Charles Costello
A Mary Landrieu supporter waves a sign Saturday, trying to persuade motorists to vote for Landrieu in Louisiana’s U.S. Senate race. Landrieu garnered 46 percent of the vote, enough to take the lead but not enough to avoid a runnoff with Suzanne Haik Terrell.
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