BATON ROUGE, La. (BRPROUD) — Democrat Cleo Fields won the seat for Louisiana’s 6th Congressional District, the state’s new majority-Black district, according to complete but unofficial results on the Louisiana Secretary of State’s website.
Fields, a Democrat, won 51% of the vote. Challenger Elbert Guillory, a Republican, drew 38% of the 296,011 votes cast. Quentin Anthony Anderson, a Democrat, drew 8% of the vote.
U.S. Rep. Garret Graves confirmed he would not seek reelection in June after the Supreme Court ordered Louisiana to use a congressional map with a second majority-Black district in the fall election. All five candidates for the seat were Black men.
In District 5, Republican Julia Letlow kept her seat with 63% of the vote. In District 4, Speaker of the House Mike Johnson also kept his seat with 86% of the vote.
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