Qualifying for Louisiana’s election candidates starts Wednesday

Workers with the Louisiana Secretary of State's office assemble voting machines in trailers at the Bourg Community Center in Terrebonne Parish on Nov. 8, 2021, ahead of the Nov. 13 statewide election. (Wes Muller/Louisiana Illuminator)

Candidate qualifying for the Nov. 5, 2024, election in Louisiana will take place Wednesday through Friday.

The Louisiana Secretary of State will register candidates from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. each day, July 17-19, at the Louisiana State Archives, 3851 Essen Lane in Baton Rouge. 

Aside from the presidential election, the most watched races in Louisiana will likely be for the newly drawn 6th Congressional District and the District 2 Louisiana Public Service Commission seat held by Craig Greene of Baton Rouge, who is not seeking reelection. 

At least three prospective candidates have announced their intentions to qualify for the new congressional seat, which is now in a majority-Black district. They include Elbert Guillory, a Republican and former state lawmaker from Opelousas, state Sen. Cleo Fields, a Baton Rouge Democrat who previously served in Congress during the mid-1990s; and political newcomer Quentin Anthony Anderson, also a Democrat from Baton Rouge. All three are Black men.

For the Public Service Commission race, three Republicans have announced their candidacy. They include state Sen. Jean-Paul Coussan of Lafayette and former state representatives Barry Ivey of Central and Scott McKnight of Baton Rouge. Democrats have yet to field any candidates for the PSC office.  

Also up for election are the rest of Louisiana’s six seats in the U.S. House of Representatives, the District 2 seat on the Louisiana Supreme Court, and nine Louisiana appellate court judgeships.

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