Republicans in Louisiana have swept three runoff races for powerful statewide offices: attorney general, secretary of state and treasurer. The GOP success secures control over all of Louisiana's statewide elected positions.

Come January, the GOP will control every elected statewide office in Louisiana after Republicans swept three runoff races for attorney general, secretary of state and treasurer Saturday night.

The GOP success, in a state that has had a Democrat in the governor’s office for the past eight years, means that Republicans secured all of Louisiana’s statewide offices for the first time since 2015. In addition, the GOP holds a two-third supermajority in the House and Senate.

Liz Murrill was elected as attorney general, Nancy Landry as secretary of state and John Fleming as treasurer. The results also mean Louisiana will have its first female attorney general and first woman elected as secretary of state.

Saturday’s election completes the shaping of Louisiana’s executive branch, where most incumbents didn’t seek reelection and opened the door for new leadership in some of the most powerful positions.

  • TWeaK@lemm.eeEnglish
    311·
    1 year ago

    This article feels like it’s trying to spin things into something less than Republicans restoring the hold they had in a state that has been predominantly Republican for a very, very long time.

    • die444die@lemmy.worldEnglish
      132·
      1 year ago

      As someone who has lived in Louisiana for a long time , it used to be MUCH more balanced than it is now. We had democratic governers and state senators. It has inched further and further right over the past few decades, and they’ve run off anyone worth enough sense and money to get out of this shithole. The election results have been terrible this year and honestly I blame the Louisiana Democratic Party which seems to have either fallen apart or sabotaged our candidates this year by doing absolutely nothing and ceding control to the republicans. My friends and I all went and voted but there’s basically no uniting force in the Democratic Party here to even attempt to get the truth out anymore. Just hatred and stupidity running rampant now is what it feels like.