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| House1: 435 seats | Senate: 33 seats | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GOP | Dems | Total | GOP | Dems | Total | |
| Confirmed primary challenges | 63 | 32 | 95 | 4 | 4 | 8 |
| Possible primary challenges | 13 | 5 | 18 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Open seats* | 7 | 15 | 26 | 2 | 6 | 92 |
2. Includes Joe Lieberman, who is retiring from his Conn. senate seat.
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Contents
2012 election
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2012 fundraising data for LA-02
available when OpenSecrets.org updates for 2012.Race status
Incumbent: Cedric Richmond Incumbent running? Yes Primary challenge? Incumbent has possible primary challenge. Candidates
Name Party Status Reference URL Reference date Reference note Cedric Richmond Democratic Confirmed candidate FEC Source July 16, 2011 Anh Cao Republican Out of race Media Story Source September 21, 2011 2010 candidate & fmr congressman Lambert Boissiere III Democratic Potential candidate Daily Kingfisher Source July 16, 2011 (Candidate classification criteria)
Results2012 primary winners 2012 general election winner TBD TBD
2010 election
Candidates
Name Party Status Reference URL Reference date Reference note Anh Cao Republican Confirmed candidate Campaign Website Source March 22, 2009 Cedric Richmond Democratic Confirmed candidate Campaign Website Source September 16, 2009 Cheryl Grey Democratic Out LA SOS Source September 1, 2010 Did Not File Juan LaFonta Democratic Out LA SOS Source September 9, 2009 Lost Primary Grey Evans Democratic Out LA SOS Source August 9, 2010 Did Not File Eugene Green Democratic Out LA SOS Source September 1, 2010 Lost Primary Gary Johnson Democratic Out LA SOS Source September 1, 2010 Lost Primary Norman Billiot Republican Out LA SOS Source September 1, 2010 Withdrew (Candidate classification criteria)
Results2010 primary election winners 2010 general election winner Anh Cao, Cedric Richmond Cedric Richmond
2008 election
Incumbent: William Jefferson
CandidatesName Party Status Reference URL Reference date Reference note Anh Cao Republican Confirmed candidate (source needed) March 22, 2009 William Jefferson Democratic Confirmed candidate (source needed) March 22, 2009 (Candidate classification criteria)
Results2008 primary election winners 2008 general election winner Anh Cao, William Jefferson Anh Cao 2008 Presidential election results
Republican Democratic 2000 22% George W. Bush 76% Al Gore 2004 24% George W. Bush 75% John Kerry 2008 25% John McCain 74% Barack Obama District map and incumbent offices
Cedric Richmond's district offices - No district office information entered.
District map layers graciously provided by GovTrack.Us.
See the incumbent's page for more contact info.
Articles and resources
See also
- Index for all the Louisiana congressional districts and candidates.
- The full House 2012 elections report.
- The RaceTracker homepage.
External articles
Elections.DailyKos posts tagged "LA-02" (link) Want this data? All information is open-source and free (as in beer and speech). Most data is available via API, RDF, CSV or other methods. See details or email us.
Campaign contribution methodology: Information is updated daily from the Center for Responsive Politics (OpenSecrets.org), which downloads their data from the Federal Election Commission on the first weekday of each work week. Candidates must have filed a report with the FEC to show up in the widget and inactive candidates are screened out by CRP.
