INCUMBENT: Franklin Foil (Republican) DESCRIPTION: House District 70 is located in south Baton Rouge and includes neighborhoods between Highland and Perkins Roads from the south gates of LSU all the way down to the outskirts of the Country Club of Louisiana. The overall tone of this district is upper middle income/white collar professional, although the […]
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RSS feed for this sectionDecision 2015: JMCEL’s “bite sized politics” (House District 63)
INCUMBENT: Dalton Honore (Democrat) DESCRIPTION: House District 63 is located in the northern portion of East Baton Rouge Parish and includes Southern University, Metro Airport, Baker, and all of Zachary south of LA 64/Church Street. This is a district that is a mixture of inner city neighborhoods, industry (there are several petrochemical plants located along […]
Decision 2015: JMCEL’s “bite sized politics” (House District 95)
INCUMBENT: Sherman Mack (Republican) DESCRIPTION: House District 95 is located in Livingston Parish and roughly includes territory east of Denham Springs and north of I-12, although the growing suburb of Walker is not in the district. This is a district that is in transition, as suburbanization has begun to spread into this district which still […]
Decision 2015: JMCEL’s “bite sized politics” (House District 93)
INCUMBENT: Helena Moreno (Democrat) DESCRIPTION: House District 93 is centered in downtown New Orleans and contains most of the city’s recognizable landmarks, like the French Quarter, the Superdome, the Crescent City Connection, and parts of Saint Charles Avenue. As with most of New Orleans, this is a district filled with contrasts, with both high and […]
Decision 2015: JMCEL’s “bite sized politics” (House District 97)
INCUMBENT: Joseph Bouie (Democrat) DESCRIPTION: House District 97 is located in New Orleans and is centered in Gentilly, although it also takes in parts of Midcity. DISTRICT MAP: RED/BLUE RATING (using 2008, 2012, and 2014 elections): 91% Democratic JMCEL’s SUMMARY: House District 97 is actually the […]
Decision 2015: JMCEL’s “bite sized politics” (House District 87)
INCUMBENT: Ebony Woodruff (Democrat) DESCRIPTION: House District 87 is located in the Westbank of Jefferson Parish, and is shaped like a hook – it was drawn this way to take in black majority precincts in Marrero and Harvey all the way down the Harvey Canal to the Intracoastal Waterway. This is a district that was […]
Decision 2015: JMCEL’s “bite sized politics” (House District 96)
INCUMBENT: Terry Landry (Democrat) DESCRIPTION: House District 96 is a district that generally follows Bayou Teche from Breaux Bridge to New Iberia, picking up black neighborhoods in Saint Martin, Lafayette, and Iberia Parishes. This is a district that was newly created after the 2011 reapportionment that simultaneously reduced the numerical clout of the Orleans Parish delegation […]
Decision 2015: JMCEL’s “bite sized politics” (House District 61)
INCUMBENT: Vacant (Alfred Williams (Democrat) passed away August 4, 2015) DESCRIPTION: House District 61 is located in inner-city Baton Rouge and was designed to be a black majority district when it was first created in 1983. It includes some blue collar neighborhoods along Plank Road and South Choctaw Drive, as well as the Eden Park […]
Decision 2015: JMCEL’s “bite sized politics” (House District 102)
INCUMBENT: Jeff Arnold (Democrat) DESCRIPTION: House District 102 is a Westbank district located in the Algiers section of New Orleans (Algiers is what you see when you look across the river from downtown New Orleans), and it contains all of Algiers except for three precincts off General DeGaulle. DISTRICT MAP: […]
Decision 2015: JMCEL’s “bite sized politics” (House District 60)
INCUMBENT: Karen St. Germain (Democrat) DESCRIPTION: House District 60 is a rural Westside district that consists of most of Iberville and Assumption Parishes. This is a district that is a mixture of agriculture (particularly sugarcane) and industry, as several petrochemical plants are located on both sides of the Mississippi River in Iberville Parish. And while it hasn’t noticeably […]