2024 Elections

Capitol Access reporter Brooke Thorington and LSU political science professor Robert Hogan review the year in politics.

There will be a new mayor-president in East Baton Rouge Parish.

Louisiana voters decided on four measures to amend the state’s constitution in Saturday’s election. Turnout was just over 10%, according to the Louisiana Secretary of State.

The Public Affairs Research Council (PAR), a nonpartisan governmental research organization led various public discussions regarding the four amendments and compiled a 13-page report detailing each measure.

Former Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards has endorsed Sharon Weston Broome as she seeks her third term as mayor-president of East Baton Rouge Parish.

The 2024 election was perhaps the biggest referendum on abortion rights since the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, and the results are a mixed bag, including for those living in the South.

People in Baton Rouge took to the polls Tuesday to vote for president, mayor and a number of local ballot measures. Here are the results for each measure.

Louisiana’s coastal restoration fund could get a boost from offshore wind revenues.

Results of Louisiana's District 6 race between Quinten Anderson, Cleo Fields and Elbert Guillory.

It is a crucial win for the former president, who carried the state twice before.