INCUMBENT: Tom Willmott (Republican) DESCRIPTION: House District 92 is in the New Orleans metropolitan area and includes parts of two parishes: in Jefferson Parish, it includes the part of Kenner south of Esplanade Avenue. It then crosses over into Saint Charles Parish to pick up a single precinct immediately adjacent to the Louis Armstrong International Airport. […]
Archive | 2015 Election
RSS feed for this sectionDecision 2015: JMCEL’s “bite sized politics” (House District 44)
INCUMBENT: Vincent Pierre (Democrat) DESCRIPTION: House District 44 is located in Lafayette Parish and includes precincts in Lafayette Parish on either side of I-49/the Evangeline Thruway between Carencro and the Lafayette Regional Airport. DISTRICT MAP: RED/BLUE RATING (using 2008, 2012, and 2014 elections): 74% Democratic JMCEL’s SUMMARY: A […]
Decision 2015: JMCEL’s “bite sized politics” (House District 89)
INCUMBENT: Tim Burns (Republican) DESCRIPTION: House District 89 is located in Saint Tammany Parish and can simply be thought of as “the Mandeville district”: it includes Mandeville and surrounding neighborhoods along US Highway 190 that have seen much recent suburban development from New Orleans, as the terminus of the Pontchartrain Causeway is at the southern border of […]
Decision 2015: JMCEL’s “bite sized politics” (House District 42)
INCUMBENT: Jack Montoucet (Democrat) DESCRIPTION: House District 42 is located in the heart of Acadiana, and includes both the southern portions of Acadia Parish (roughly everything south of I-10) and two precincts in Lafayette Parish immediately adjacent to Acadia Parish. DISTRICT MAP: RED/BLUE RATING (using 2008, 2012, […]
Decision 2015: JMCEL’s “bite sized politics” (House District 40)
INCUMBENT: Ledricka Thierry (Democrat) DESCRIPTION: House District 40 is located in Saint Landry Parish, and was reconfigured after the 1991 reapportionment to be a black majority district. Geographically, this district is centered along I-49, and includes black majority neighborhoods both to the north and south of Opelousas all the way to the Lafayette Parish line. […]
Decision 2015: JMCEL’s “bite sized politics” (House District 90)
INCUMBENT: Greg Cromer (Republican) DESCRIPTION: House District 90 is located in Saint Tammany Parish and includes most of the Slidell west of I-10, as well as the town of Pearl River. This is a district that includes both high income neighborhoods along Lake Pontchartrain and more modest neighborhoods in Slidell along either side of US […]
Decision 2015: JMCEL’s “bite sized politics” (House District 88)
INCUMBENT: “Johnny” Berthelot (Republican) DESCRIPTION: House District 88 is located in northeastern Ascension Parish and includes most of the habitable areas east of LA 44 such as the Saint Amant community, Gonzales, and Sorrento. This is a district that has seen a fair amount of suburbanization, although the underlying blue collar character of the district […]
Decision 2015: JMCEL’s “bite sized politics” (House District 34)
INCUMBENT: A.B. Franklin (Democrat) DESCRIPTION: House District 34 is located in the inner city area of Lake Charles and includes roughly the area between Wardline Road in the east, the Calcasieu River in the west, and Gauthier Road in the south. DISTRICT MAP: RED/BLUE RATING (using […]
Decision 2015: JMCEL’s “bite sized politics” (House District 82)
INCUMBENT: Cameron Henry (Republican) DESCRIPTION: House District 82 is located in the Eastbank of Jefferson Parish and includes portions of Metairie and Jefferson. This is a district that contains lower, middle and upper income precincts (Old Metairie was added to the district after the 2011 reapportionment), although the predominant tone of this district is middle class. […]
Decision 2015: JMCEL’s “bite sized politics” (House District 32)
INCUMBENT: Dorothy Sue Hill (Democrat) DESCRIPTION: House District 32 is located in an area of the state between Lake Charles and Alexandria. It contains all of Allen Parish, the eastern and western fringes of Beauregard Parish, and the town in DeQuincy in northern Calcasieu Parish. This is a primarily rural district. DISTRICT MAP: […]