Republican Baton Rouge Mayor-elect Sid Edwards was a political novice and high school football coach before his election.

Even in Louisiana politics, two years before an election is unusually early for an incumbent U.S. senator to pick up a ...

Senate Democrats failed Wednesday to confirm a Democratic member of the National Labor Relations Board after independent Sens. Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema opposed the ...

Louisiana Congressman Troy Carter elevates state's influence in House with election to Black Caucus leadership post.

After Louisiana lawmakers passed a series of sweeping tax reforms to flatten the individual income tax to 3%, reduce ...

In partisan races, East Baton Rouge, Orleans and Caddo are the biggest of the state’s Democratic ... Louisiana’s primary ...

Democratic power is increasing in state legislatures despite losses for the party at the federal level, a new report from the ...

Although Louisiana is moderately conservative ... there were 19,396 contributions totaling $4 million to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $206 per contribution, according ...

Louisiana voters on Saturday will decide the fates of four proposed amendments to the state constitution, in the final ...

The Democratic Party raised a billion dollars for the 2024 ... Saloom Endowed Chair in Political Science at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette.

View live results of the Louisiana presidential election. See maps of county-by-county presidential election results in the race between Donald Trump and Kamala Harris.