Political party strength in Louisiana
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Political party strength in Louisiana
The following table indicates the party of elected officials in the U.S. state of Louisiana:
- Governor
- Lieutenant Governor
- Secretary of State
- Attorney General
- State Treasurer
- Auditor (until 1960)/Comptroller (1960–74; not an elected office after 1974)
- Commissioner of Agriculture and Forestry
- Commissioner of Insurance
- Commissioner of Elections (office abolished; in existence 1960-2004)
The table also indicates the historical party composition in the:
- State Senate
- State House of Representatives
- State delegation to the U.S. Senate
- State delegation to the U.S. House of Representatives
For years in which a presidential election was held, the table indicates which party's nominees received the state's electoral votes.
The parties are as follows: American Independent (AI), Anti-Jacksonian (Anti-J), Democratic (D), Democratic-Republican (DR), Independent (I), Jackson Democrat (J), National Republican (NR), Republican (R), States' Rights Democratic Party (Dix), Unionist Democrat (UD), Whig (W).
| Year | Executive offices | State Legislature | United States Congress | Electoral College votes | |||||||||||||
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| Governor | Lt. Governor | Secretary of State | Attorney General | Treasurer | Auditor/ Comptroller | Ag. and For. Comm. | Ins. Comm. | Comm. of Elections | State Senate | State House | U.S. Senator (Class II) | U.S. Senator (Class III) | U.S. House | ||||
| 1803 | William C. C. Claiborne (DR)[1] | no such office | James Brown (DR) | ||||||||||||||
| 1804 | George W. Morgan | ||||||||||||||||
| 1805 | John Graham (DR) | ||||||||||||||||
| 1806 | James Brown (DR) | ||||||||||||||||
| 1807 | |||||||||||||||||
| 1808 | |||||||||||||||||
| 1809 | Francois Xavier Martin | ||||||||||||||||
| 1810 | Thomas B. Robertson (DR) | Louis Moreau-Lislet | |||||||||||||||
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| 1812 | William C. C. Claiborne (DR) | Louis B. Macarty [2] (DR) | J. Montegut [2](DR) | 1 DR | James Madison and Elbridge Gerry (DR)  |
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| 1813 | Francois Xavier Martin(DR) | James Brown (DR) | Eligius Fromentin (DR) | ||||||||||||||
| 1814 | Jean Baptiste DeJean [2] (DR) | ||||||||||||||||
| 1815 | Etienne Mazureau(DR) | ||||||||||||||||
| 1816 | James Monroe and Daniel Tompkins (DR) |
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| 1817 | Jacques Villeré (DR) | Etienne Mazureau (DR) | Louis Moreau-Lislet (DR) | William C. C. Claiborne (DR) | |||||||||||||
| 1818 | Silve Arnaud [2] | 1 DR | |||||||||||||||
| 1819 | Thomas B. Robertson (DR) | Henry Johnson (DR) [3] | James Brown (DR) | ||||||||||||||
| 1820 | |||||||||||||||||
| 1821 | Thomas B. Robertson (DR)[4] | Pierre Derbigny (Anti-J) | Etienne Mazureau (Adams-Clay Rep.) | 1Anti-J | |||||||||||||
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| 1823 | 2Anti-J, 1J | ||||||||||||||||
| 1824 | Issac Trimble Preston | Charles Dominique Joseph Bouligny (Adams-Clay Rep.) |
Josiah S. Johnston (Anti-J) | John Quincy Adams and John C. Calhoun (Anti-J) |
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| Henry S. Thibodaux (DR)[5] | |||||||||||||||||
| 1825 | Henry Johnson (NR) | ||||||||||||||||
| 1826 | |||||||||||||||||
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| 1828 | Alonzo Morphy | Francois Gardere [2] | Andrew Jackson and John C. Calhoun (J) |
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| 1829 | Pierre Derbigny (NR/Anti-J)[6] | George A. Waggaman [2](Anti-J) | Edward Livingston (J) | 1J, 1W, 1Anti-J | |||||||||||||
| Armand Beauvais (W)[7] | |||||||||||||||||
| 1830 | Jacques Dupre (W)[5] | George Eustis Jr. (W) | |||||||||||||||
| 1831 | Andre B. Roman (W) | ||||||||||||||||
| 1832 | George A. Waggaman (Anti-J) |
Andrew Jackson and Martin Van Buren (J) |
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| 1833 | George Eustis Jr. (W) | Etienne Mazureau (W) | Alexander Porter (Anti-J) | ||||||||||||||
| 1834 | |||||||||||||||||
| 1835 | Edward Douglass White Sr. (W) | Martin Blache | |||||||||||||||
| 1836 | Robert C. Nicholas (J) | Martin Van Buren and Richard Johnson (D) |
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| 1837 | William C. C. Claiborne, Jr. | Alexander Mouton (J) | 2W, 1J | ||||||||||||||
| 1838 | Alfred E. Forstall | ||||||||||||||||
| 1839 | Andre B. Roman (W) | Henry Adams Bullard | 3W | ||||||||||||||
| 1840 | William Pierce [2] (W) | William Henry Harrison and John Tyler (W) |
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| 1841 | Christian Roselius (W) | William DeBuys [2] (W) | Alexander Barrow (W) | Charles Magill Conrad (W) | 2W, 1D | ||||||||||||
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| 1843 | Alexander Mouton (D) | Isaac Trimble Preston | Henry Johnson (W) | 4D | |||||||||||||
| 1844 | James K. Polk and George M. Dallas (D) |
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| 1845 | Pierre Soulé (D) | ||||||||||||||||
| 1846 | Isaac Johnson (D) | Charles Gayarré (D) | William Augustus Elmore (D) | Joseph Marshall Walker [2] (D) | |||||||||||||
| 1847 | Solomon W. Downs (D) | ||||||||||||||||
| 1848 | Zachary Taylor and Millard Fillmore (W) |
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| 1849 | P. E. D. Livaudais [2] (D) | Pierre Soulé (D) | 3D, 1W | ||||||||||||||
| 1850 | Joseph Marshall Walker (D) | Isaac Johnson (D) | Charles Greneaux [2] (D) | ||||||||||||||
| 1851 | 2D, 2W | ||||||||||||||||
| 1852 | George C. McWhorter [2] (D) | Franklin Pierce and William R. King (D) |
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| 1853 | Paul Octave Hebert (D) | W. W. Farmer (D) | Andrew S. Herron (D) | Judah P. Benjamin (W) | 4D | ||||||||||||
| 1854 | Isaac Edward Morse (D) | John Slidell (D) | |||||||||||||||
| 1855 | Robert C. Wickliffe (D) | Robert A. Hunter (D) | 3D, 1A | ||||||||||||||
| 1856 | Robert C. Wickliffe (D) | Charles Homer Mouton (D) | E. Warren Moise (D) | James Buchanan and John C. Breckinridge (D) |
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| 1857 | |||||||||||||||||
| 1858 | |||||||||||||||||
| 1859 | William F. Griffin (D) | ||||||||||||||||
| 1860 | Thomas Overton Moore (D) | Henry M. Hyams (D) | Pliny D. Hardy (D) | Thomas Jenkins Semmes (D) | B. L. DeFreeze (D) | John C. Breckinridge and Joseph Lane (D)  |
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| 1861 | |||||||||||||||||
| 1862 | Henry M. Hyams (D)[8] | James Madison Wells (R)[9] | |||||||||||||||
| Thomas Overton Moore (D)[8] | George Foster Shepley (general) (M/R)[9] | ||||||||||||||||
| 1863 | |||||||||||||||||
| 1864 | Benjamin W. Pearce (D)[8] | Albert Voorhies (R)[9]| | F. S. Goode (D) | No Electors Counted | |||||||||||||
| Henry Watkins Allen (D)[8][10] | Michael Hahn (R)[11][12] | ||||||||||||||||
| 1865 | |||||||||||||||||
| James Madison Wells (UD)[13][14][15] | Stanislas Wrotnoski (UD) | ||||||||||||||||
| 1866 | vacant | Andrew S. Herron (D) | Adam Giffin (UD) | ||||||||||||||
| 1867 | |||||||||||||||||
| Benjamin Flanders (R)[14][16][17] | George E. Bovee (R)[18] | B. L. Lynch (R) | John S. Harris (R) | William Pitt Kellogg (R) | 3R, 1D, 1 vac. | ||||||||||||
| 1868 | Joshua Baker (UD)[14][16][19] | Oscar Dunn (R) | Antoine Dubuclet (R) | Horatio Seymour and Francis Preston Blair, Jr. (D) |
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| Henry C. Warmoth (R)[20] | |||||||||||||||||
| 1869 | Simeon Beldon (R) | 4R, 1 vac. | |||||||||||||||
| 1870 | 5R | ||||||||||||||||
| 1871 | Joseph Rodman West (R) | ||||||||||||||||
| 1872 | P. B. S. Pinchback (R) | ||||||||||||||||
| P. B. S. Pinchback (R)[13] | vacant | F. J. Herron (R) | vacant | Ulysses S. Grant and Henry Wilson (R) |
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| 1873 | John McEnery (D)[21] | William P. Kellogg (R)[21] | Caesar Antoine (R) | Jack Wharton (R) | Alexander Pope Field (R) | 6R | |||||||||||
| William Pitt Kellogg (R) | |||||||||||||||||
| 1874 | P. G. Deslonde (R) | ||||||||||||||||
| 1875 | 3D, 3R | ||||||||||||||||
| 1876 | William H. Hunt (R) | James B. Eustis (D) | 4D, 2R | Rutherford B. Hayes and William Almon Wheeler (R) |
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| 1877 | Stephen B. Packard (R)[22] | Francis T. Nicholls (D)[23] | Louis A. Wiltz (D) | Hiram R. Steele (D) | William Pitt Kellogg (R) | ||||||||||||
| Francis T. Nicholls (D) | |||||||||||||||||
| 1878 | Will A. Strong (D) | Horatio Nash Ogden (D) | Edward A. Burke (D) | 6D | |||||||||||||
| 1879 | Benjamin F. Jonas (D) | ||||||||||||||||
| 1880 | Louis A. Wiltz (D)[6] | Samuel D. McEnery (D) | 30D, 5R, 1I | Winfield Scott Hancock and William Hayden English (D) |
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| 1881 | William A. Robertson (D) | James C. Egan (D) | |||||||||||||||
| Samuel D. McEnery (D)[24] | 5D, 1R | ||||||||||||||||
| 1882 | George L. Walton (D) | ||||||||||||||||
| 1883 | Randall L. Gibson (D) | ||||||||||||||||
| 1884 | Clay Knobloch (D) | Oscar Arroyo (D) | Milton J. Cunningham (D) | Grover Cleveland and Thomas A. Hendricks (D) |
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| 1885 | 29D, 7R | James B. Eustis (D) | |||||||||||||||
| 1886 | 6D | ||||||||||||||||
| 1887 | |||||||||||||||||
| 1888 | Francis T. Nicholls (D) | James Jeffries (D) | Leonard F. Mason (D) | Walter H. Rogers (D) | William Henry Pipes (D) | Grover Cleveland and Allen G. Thurman (D) |
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| 1889 | 5D, 1R | ||||||||||||||||
| 1890 | |||||||||||||||||
| 1891 | Edward Douglass White (D) | 6D | |||||||||||||||
| 1892 | Murphy J. Foster (D) | Charles Parlange (D) | T. S. Adams (D) | Milton J. Cunningham (D) | John Pickett(D) | Donelson Caffery (D) | Grover Cleveland and Adlai E. Stevenson I (D) |
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| 1893 | Hiram R. Lott (D) | ||||||||||||||||
| 1894 | Newton C. Blanchard (D) | ||||||||||||||||
| 1895 | Robert H. Snyder (D) | ||||||||||||||||
| 1896 | John T. Michel (D) | Alexander V. Fournet (D) | William Jennings Bryan and Arthur Sewall (4 votes) (D) and Thomas E. Watson (4 votes) (Pop) |
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| 1897 | Samuel D. McEnery (D) | ||||||||||||||||
| 1898 | |||||||||||||||||
| 1899 | |||||||||||||||||
| 1900 | William Wright Heard (D) | Albert Estopinal (D) | Walter Guion (D) | LeDoux E. Smith (D) | William Jennings Bryan and Adlai E. Stevenson I (D) |
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| 1901 | Murphy J. Foster (D) | ||||||||||||||||
| 1902 | |||||||||||||||||
| 1903 | H. C. Cage (D) | 7D | |||||||||||||||
| 1904 | Newton C. Blanchard (D) | Jared Y. Sanders, Sr. (D) | James M. Smith (D) | Alton B. Parker and Henry G. Davis (D) |
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| 1908 | Jared Y. Sanders, Sr. (D)[25] | Paul M. Lambremont (D) | O. B. Steele (D) | William Jennings Bryan and John Worth Kern (D) |
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| 1909 | |||||||||||||||||
| 1910 | John R. Thornton (D) | ||||||||||||||||
| 1911 | |||||||||||||||||
| 1912 | Luther E. Hall (D) | Thomas C. Barret (D) | Alvin Hebert (D) | Ruffin G. Pleasant (D) | LeDoux E. Smith (D) | Woodrow Wilson and Thomas Marshall (D) |
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| 1913 | Joseph E. Ransdell (D) | 8D | |||||||||||||||
| 1914 | |||||||||||||||||
| 1915 | W. F. Millsaps (D) | Robert F. Broussard (D) | 7D, 1 Pro | ||||||||||||||
| 1916 | Ruffin G. Pleasant (D) | Fernand Mouton (D) | James J. Bailey (D) | Adolphe V. Coco (D) | Henry Hunsicker (D) | ||||||||||||
| 1917 | Walter Guion (D) | ||||||||||||||||
| 1918 | |||||||||||||||||
| 1919 | Edward James Gay (D) | 8D | |||||||||||||||
| 1920 | John M. Parker (D) | Hewitt Bouanchaud (D) | Howell Morgan (D) | James M. Cox and Franklin D. Roosevelt (D) |
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| 1921 | Edwin S. Broussard (D) | ||||||||||||||||
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| 1923 | |||||||||||||||||
| 1924 | Henry L. Fuqua (D)[6] | Delos R. Johnson (D) | Percy D. Saint (D) | John W. Davis and Charles W. Bryan (D) |
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| Oramel H. Simpson (D) | |||||||||||||||||
| 1925 | |||||||||||||||||
| 1926 | Philip H. Gilbert (D) | ||||||||||||||||
| Oramel H. Simpson (D)[13] | |||||||||||||||||
| 1927 | |||||||||||||||||
| 1928 | Huey Long (D)[26][27] | Paul N. Cyr (D) | Al Smith and Joseph Taylor Robinson (D) |
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| 1929 | |||||||||||||||||
| 1930 | |||||||||||||||||
| 1931 | Vacant [28] | ||||||||||||||||
| 1932 | Alvin Olin King (D)[13][29] | John B. Fournet (D) | E. A. Conway (D) | Gaston L. Porterlie (D) | Huey Long (D)[6] | Franklin D. Roosevelt and John Nance Garner (D) |
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| Oscar K. Allen (D)[6] | |||||||||||||||||
| 1933 | John H. Overton (D) | ||||||||||||||||
| 1934 | |||||||||||||||||
| 1935 | James A. Noe (D) | ||||||||||||||||
| 1936 | James A. Noe (D)[13] | Earl Long (D) | A. P. Tugwell (D) | Rose McConnell Long (D) | |||||||||||||
| Richard W. Leche (D)[30] | |||||||||||||||||
| 1937 | Allen J. Ellender (D) [6] | ||||||||||||||||
| 1938 | |||||||||||||||||
| 1939 | Coleman Lindsey (D) | James B. Ellison (D) | |||||||||||||||
| Earl K. Long (D)[13] | Lessley P. Gardiner (D) | ||||||||||||||||
| 1940 | Sam H. Jones (D) | Marc M. Mouton (D) | Jack P. F. Gremillion (D) | Eugene Stanley (D) | Franklin D. Roosevelt and Henry Wallace (D) |
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| 1943 | |||||||||||||||||
| 1944 | Jimmie H. Davis (D) | J. Emile Verret (D) | Wade O. Martin, Jr. (D) | Fred S. Leblanc (D) | Franklin D. Roosevelt and Harry S. Truman (D) |
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| 1947 | |||||||||||||||||
| 1948 | Earl Long (D) | Bill Dodd (D) | Bolivar E. Kemp, Jr. (D) | William C. Feazel (D) [2] | Strom Thurmond and Fielding L. Wright (Dix) |
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| 1949 | Russell B. Long (D) | ||||||||||||||||
| 1950 | |||||||||||||||||
| 1951 | |||||||||||||||||
| 1952 | Robert F. Kennon (D) | C. E. "Cap" Barham (D) | Fred S. Leblanc (D) | Allison Kolb (D) | Dave L. Pearce (D) | Adlai Stevenson and John Sparkman (D) |
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| 1953 | |||||||||||||||||
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| 1955 | |||||||||||||||||
| 1956 | Earl Long (D) | Lether Frazar (D) | Jack P. F. Gremillion (D) | Bill Dodd (D) | Dwight D. Eisenhower and Richard Nixon (R) |
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| 1960 | Jimmie Davis (D) | Taddy Aycock (D) | Roy R. Theriot (D) | Sidney McCrory (D) | Rufus D. Hayes (D) | Douglas Fowler(D) | John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson (D) |
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| 1961 | |||||||||||||||||
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| 1964 | John McKeithen (D)[31] | Dave L. Pearce (D) | Dudley Guglielmo (D) | Barry Goldwater and William E. Miller (R) |
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| 1968 | Mary Evelyn Parker (D) | George Wallace and Curtis LeMay (I) |
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| 1969 | |||||||||||||||||
| 1970 | 38D, 1R | 104D, 1R | |||||||||||||||
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| 1972 | Edwin Edwards (D) | Jimmy Fitzmorris (D) | William J. Guste (D) | Sherman A. Bernard (D) | Elaine S. Edwards (D) [2] | Richard Nixon and Spiro Agnew (R) |
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| 1973 | Bennett Johnston (D) | 7D, 1R | |||||||||||||||
| 1974 | Appointed Position | ||||||||||||||||
| 1975 | 6D, 2R | ||||||||||||||||
| 1976 | Paul Hardy (D) | Gilbert L. "Gil" Dozier (D) | Jimmy Carter and Walter Mondale (D) |
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| 1979 | 5D, 3R | ||||||||||||||||
| 1980 | Dave Treen (R) | Robert "Bobby" Freeman (D) | James H. "Jim" Brown (D) | Bob Odom (D) | Jerry Fowler(D) | Ronald Reagan and George Bush (R) |
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| 1981 | 6D, 2R | ||||||||||||||||
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| 1983 | |||||||||||||||||
| 1984 | Edwin Edwards (D) | ||||||||||||||||
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| 1987 | John Breaux (D) | 5D, 3R | |||||||||||||||
| 1988 | Buddy Roemer (D) | Paul Hardy (R) | W. Fox McKeithen (D) | Mary Landrieu (D) | Douglas D. Green (D) | George Bush and Dan Quayle (R) |
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| 1989 | 4D, 4R | ||||||||||||||||
| W. Fox McKeithen (R)[32] | |||||||||||||||||
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| 1991 | Buddy Roemer (R)[33] | ||||||||||||||||
| 1992 | Edwin Edwards (D) | Melinda Schwegmann (D) | Richard Ieyoub (D) | James H. "Jim" Brown (D) | Bill Clinton and Al Gore (D) |
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| 1993 | 4D, 3R | ||||||||||||||||
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| 1995 | 5R, 2D | ||||||||||||||||
| 1996 | Murphy J. Foster, Jr. (R) | Kathleen Blanco (D) | Ken Duncan (D) | ||||||||||||||
| 1997 | Mary Landrieu (D) | ||||||||||||||||
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| 2000 | John Neely Kennedy (D) | Suzanne Haik Terrell (R) | George W. Bush and Dick Cheney (R) |
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| J. Robert Wooley (D)[34] | |||||||||||||||||
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| 2003 | 4R, 3D | ||||||||||||||||
| 2004 | Kathleen Blanco (D) | Mitch Landrieu (D) | Charles Foti (D) | Office Abolished | |||||||||||||
| 5R, 2D[35] | |||||||||||||||||
| 2005 | David Vitter (R) | ||||||||||||||||
| Al Ater (D) | |||||||||||||||||
| 2006 | |||||||||||||||||
| Jay Dardenne (R) | Jim Donelon (R)[34] | ||||||||||||||||
| 2007 | |||||||||||||||||
| John Neely Kennedy (R)[36] | |||||||||||||||||
| 2008 | Bobby Jindal (R) | Buddy Caldwell (D) | Mike Strain (R) | 23D, 16R | 53D, 50R, 2I | John McCain and Sarah Palin (R) |
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| 3R, 2D[37] | |||||||||||||||||
| 4R, 3D[38] | |||||||||||||||||
| 2009 | 6R, 1D | ||||||||||||||||
| 2010 | Scott Angelle (D) | ||||||||||||||||
| Scott Angelle (R) | |||||||||||||||||
| 2011 | Jay Dardenne (R) | Tom Schedler (R) | Buddy Caldwell (R) | 22R, 17D | 55R, 46D, 4I | ||||||||||||
| Year | Governor | Lt. Governor | Secretary of State | Attorney General | Treasurer | Auditor/ Comptroller | Ag. and For. Comm. | Ins. Comm. | Comm. of Elections | State Senate | State House | U.S. Senator (Class II) | U.S. Senator (Class III) | U.S. House | Electoral College votes | ||
| Executive offices | State Legislature | United States Congress | |||||||||||||||
Notes
- ^ From 1804 to 1812, what would later become the State of Louisiana was known as the Territory of Orleans. The contemporary Louisiana Territory was to the north and did not include modern Louisiana.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n Appointed by Governor.
- ^ Resigned to become Governor.
- ^ Resigned to take a seat on the United States District Court for the District of Louisiana.
- ^ a b As president of the state Senate, acted as governor for unexpired term.
- ^ a b c d e f Died in office.
- ^ As president of the state Senate, acted as governor until his term as Senate president expired.
- ^ a b c d Of Confederate-held territory in Louisiana.
- ^ a b c Of Union-held territory in Louisiana.
- ^ Removed from office after the Union took control of Louisiana following the surrender of the Confederacy; moved to Mexico City.
- ^ Governor of Union-held territory in Louisiana.
- ^ Resigned to take a seat in the United States Senate, but was denied his seat, Louisiana having not yet been readmitted to the Union.
- ^ a b c d e f As lieutenant governor, acted as governor for unexpired term.
- ^ a b c Reconstruction-era governor subordinate to U.S. military rule.
- ^ Removed from office by General Phillip Sheridan, who held Wells accountable for the unstable political conditions stemming from the granting of suffrage to blacks.
- ^ a b Appointed military governor.
- ^ Resigned.
- ^ Was removed from office by Governor Warmoth for misfeasance
- ^ When Louisiana was readmitted to the Union, Baker and General Winfield Scott Hancock, who had appointed him, were removed from power in the state.
- ^ Impeached but never convicted; however, Warmoth was still removed from office with 35 days remaining in his term. All charges were later expunged.
- ^ a b The State Returning Board declared McEnery the winner over William P. Kellogg in 1872, but a second election board was formed that declared Kellogg the winner. Both men were sworn in to office on the same day by opposing legislatures. After armed skirmishes erupted, President Ulysses S. Grant stepped in, declaring Kellogg the winner on September 20, 1873.
- ^ Packard was the Radical Republican candidate for governor in 1876. In a disputed outcome, both Packard and his Democratic opponent, Francis T. Nicholls, were inaugurated. Nicholls had led in the balloting by eight thousand votes, but the Republican-controlled State Returning Board cited fraud and declared Packard the victor. Pinchback, however, refused to support Packard and endorsed Nicholls.
- ^ Won the 1876 election over Stephen B. Packard, but the Republican-controlled State Returning Board declared Packard the winner. Nicholls took office anyway and assembled a government that was eventually recognized by the federal government as the proper state government.
- ^ As lieutenant governor, acted as governor for unexpired term and was later elected in his own right.
- ^ Elected to the United States Senate but refused the seat, choosing to remain governor.
- ^ Impeached on charges of bribery and corruption, but not convicted.
- ^ Resigned to take an elected seat in the United States Senate; was elected to the Senate in 1930, but did not take office until 1932, preferring to remain in office as governor.
- ^ Governor Huey Long was elected to the U.S. Senate in 1930 but delayed taking office until 1932 so his Lieutenant Governor, Paul N. Cyr, would not take over as Governor
- ^ Paul N. Cyr was lieutenant governor under Long and stated that he would succeed Long when Long left for the Senate, but Long demanded Cyr forfeit his office. King, as president of the state Senate, was elevated to lieutenant governor and later governor.
- ^ Resigned due to a fraud scandal; was later convicted of mail fraud and served five years in prison. He was pardoned by President Harry S. Truman in 1953.
- ^ First governor elected to consecutive terms after the 1921 constitution was amended in 1966 to allow governors to serve two consecutive terms.
- ^ Incumbent Democrat McKeithen switched parties in 1989.
- ^ Was elected as a Democrat in 1987 but switched parties to Republican in 1991.
- ^ a b Filled vacancy, then elected.
- ^ Incumbent Democrat Rodney Alexander switched parties in 2004.
- ^ Kennedy switched parties from Democratic to Republican on August 27, 2007.
- ^ Republicans Richard H. Baker and Bobby Jindal resigned.
- ^ Republican Steve Scalise and Democrat Don Cazayoux elected in special elections to succeed Jindal and Baker, respectively.
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