Early voting begins this week. Here's what's on the ballot in Lafayette
Early voting for the Nov. 18 runoff election begins Friday, and Lafayette Parish voters will have several key races on the ballot.
The early voting period will run from Friday through Nov. 11, excluding Sunday and the Veterans Day holiday on Nov. 10. Lafayette Parish has three early voting sites: the registrar of voters office at 1010 Lafayette St. in Lafayette, the Martin Luther King Recreation Center at 309 Cora St. in Lafayette and the East Regional Library at 215 La Neuville Rd. in Youngsville.
Election day will be Nov. 18. Here’s what all is on the ballot for Lafayette voters:
Statewide races
Three statewide runoff races will be on the ballot, including attorney general, secretary of state and treasurer.
The Louisiana Secretary of State’s runoff will feature Republican Nancy Landry and Democrat Gwen Collins-Greenup. Landry, a former state representative and currently the first assistant secretary of state, received the most votes in the October general election, narrowly edging out Collins-Greenup, who is an attorney and heads a law firm in Baton Rouge.
Both Landry and Collins-Greenup received about 19% of the vote. There were six other candidates in the general election, including four other Republicans and one other Democrat. Republicans received about 68.3% of the vote in the general election, and the Democratic candidates got about 30.4%.
The race to replace Gov.-elect Jeff Landry as the state’s attorney general will be a runoff between Republican Liz Baker Murrill and Democrat Lindsey Cheek. Murrill, the state’s solicitor general, received 45% of the vote in the general election. Cheek, an attorney in New Orleans who founded her firm in 2015, received 23% of the vote.
In the general election, the three Republican candidates received about 69.3%, and the two Democrats got 30.7%.
The Louisiana Treasurer’s runoff will see Republican John Fleming up against Democrat Dustin Granger. Fleming, a former U.S. representative who later worked in former President Donald Trump’s administration, received 44% of the vote in the general election. Granger, a small business owner and financial advisor, got 32% of the vote.
One other candidate, Republican Scott McKnight, received 24% of the vote in the general election.
Local races
There are three runoffs for local and area races, including Lafayette’s mayor-president, one Lafayette city council seat and a Louisiana Board of Elementary and Secondary Education seat.
Incumbent Lafayette Mayor-President Josh Guillory and former Acadiana Planning Commission CEO Monique Blanco Boulet were the two candidates for mayor-president who advanced from October’s general election. The general election featured three candidates, all Republicans.
Guillory received 40% of the vote in October, followed by Boulet with 34%. Jan Swift, a lawyer and former Lafayette Consolidated Government assistant city-parish attorney, received 26% of the vote.
The only Lafayette city or parish council seat that was not resolved in October’s general election was the race for the city council’s first district. Democrat Elory Broussard, a current Lafayette Parish School Board member, received 35% of the vote. Republican Melissa Matthieu-Robichaux, who runs an office equipment company, received 31%.
Two Independent candidates received 35% of the vote during the general election.
The District 7 seat for BESE also will be decided during the runoff. Former Lafayette school board member Erick Knezek and farmer and business owner Kevin Berken will be on the ballot, with both being Republicans. Knezek received 47% of the vote in the general election, while Berken received 29%.
A third Republican, Cathay Banks, received 25% of the vote in the general election.
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