elections

Election day is set for Oct. 24 in elections for governor, parish president and the Louisiana Legislature.

Candidates Dee Stanley and Joel Robideaux will field questions posed from a panel of local media representatives.

Could the voting machine we know become the election day dinosaur of our past? Louisiana's Secretary of State is thinking they just might be.

Voter turnout on Tuesday could be larger than expected based upon the number of Louisiana citizens that took advantage of early voting.

Voters in Louisiana's 6th Congressional District will have a lot of candidates to consider when they go to the polls later this fall.

Here is how your vote counted in Saturday's elections

Saturday's elections approved new taxes for some areas and saw close races in others.

8 Acadiana parishes are holding elections today. Races for mayor, school board, chief of police and aldermen will be decided.

A proposal is being discussed in the Louisiana Senate that ties implementation of tax measures to a minimum voter turnout.

The question for Louisiana's 5th Congressional District voters today is "which Republican will head to Washington?" Neil Riser and Vance McAllister, both GOP candidates, are in the runoff for the Congressional seat previously held by Rodney Alexander...

Did reality show superstar Phil Robertson influence a special election for Congress? The short answer is yes. By no means are we insinuating that there was any impropriety or wrong doing. This is basically a story of one man voicing his support for a candidate and others reacting to his endorsement.

The run-off election will be November 16th.

The special election was called when Rodney Alexander announced in August that he was resigning to take a job with Gov. Bobby Jindal's administration.

See complete election results.

As of now, 17 states have laws requiring voters to present photo ID before voting. Some have suggested these regulations may act to disenfranchise poor and minority voters, who could be less likely to have such identification. Last month a judge in Pennsylvania blocked the state from enforcing its voter ID laws in the 2012 election.

Newt Gingrich has surged to the front of the field among Republican presidential hopefuls, despite questions about his past failed marriages. In fact, Gingrich seemed to score points with GOP voters when he lambasted CNN’s John King during a South Carolina debate for bringing up one of Gingrich’s ex-wives’ allegations of infidelity.