With just one week to go before candidates can submit their qualifying papers, the elections for Mandeville mayor and city council are starting to take shape. Read More and Discuss

Nov. 17 election results won’t become official until next week — delayed because of the Thanksgiving holidays, Secretary of State Jay Dardenne said Tuesday. Read More and Discuss

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Louisiana is undergoing a major political realignment fueled in part by population losses after Hurricane Katrina, political analysts said. Read More and Discuss

While the special election to fill a vacancy on the New Orleans City Council may have caught political power-brokers off guard, it didn’t discourage a crowd of long-shot contenders from jumping into the contest. Read More and Discuss

The race to replace Rep. A.G. Crowe in the 76th House District features three political newcomers and an experienced municipal lawmaker, and each believes he has the most to offer the residents. Read More and Discuss

In Lafayette’s House District 44, where 66 percent of the registered voters are black, it could be the minority white voters who decide which candidates make it to the runoff. Read More and Discuss

BATON ROUGE—With less than three weeks to go before voters cast ballots in the Oct. 20 primary, about a fourth of the next Louisiana Legislature is already set, as almost three dozen candidates, most of them incumbents, escaped opposition. Read More and Discuss

At least a dozen area politicians haven’t paid fines levied against them for violating the state’s campaign finance disclosure law, according to the Louisiana Ethics Board. Read More and Discuss

GONZALES — The three candidates for Ascension Parish president agreed Sunday that poor road conditions and heavy traffic are major problems in the parish but differed on how to solve those problems and on whether taxes are necessary. Read More and Discuss

HAMMOND — Seven candidates hoping to represent Tangipahoa Parish in the Louisiana House of Representatives joined Wednesday night in criticizing past state spending and what several termed questionable ethical conduct in Baton Rouge. Read More and Discuss

BATON ROUGE—Based on the early rhetoric from the governor’s race, it might seem that south Louisiana’s recovery from the devastating hurricanes of 2005 is no longer an issue. Republican front-runner Bobby Jindal has named as his top priority reversing the state’s reputation for corruption. The Kenner congressman promises a written recovery plan, but the first three chapters of his self-described… Read More and Discuss

Qualifying for local and state elections took place just last week, but already campaign signs are disappearing from Lafayette roadsides. Read More and Discuss

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Candidates running for East Baton Rouge Parish sheriff defended their plans to make the area safer at a Monday Baton Rouge Press Club meeting. Read More and Discuss

BURAS, La.--A church is more than a building, and Faith Temple Ministries illustrates the point. This non-denominational congregation holds services in a large white tent behind the frame of its new structure, which is under construction. Two years ago Hurricane Katrina destroyed the old one. Buras, a community of about 3,500, is in lower Plaquemines Parish, the southeastern corner of… Read More and Discuss

About 40 percent of Louisiana House members and one-third of Senate members won re-election outright. No candidates stepped up to challenge them in Oct. 20 balloting. Twenty out of 49 state representatives seeking re-election won as did seven of 22 state senators when no one signed up to run against them by the time qualifying ended Thursday. Also, five legislative… Read More and Discuss

The conventional wisdom of presidential politics is that voters want their candidates to have strong personal faith. But at the moment the front-running candidacies of Democrat Hillary Clinton and Republican Rudy Giuliani seem to suggest that beyond a certain minimum, how religious a candidate appears to be doesn’t matter, according to pollsters at the Pew Research Center for the People… Read More and Discuss

John Roberts - First candidate to seriously challenge Alario in over quarter of a century Read More and Discuss

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A contest to fill an at-large seat on the New Orleans City Council got off to a slow start Tuesday as district Councilwoman Cynthia Willard-Lewis and community activist Dyan French signed up to run in the Oct. 20 special election. Read More and Discuss

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Confident of winning the Governor’s Mansion and a new majority in the House of Representatives, Louisiana Republicans are now focused for the first time on taking control of the state senate. Riding the unprecedented wave of support for gubernatorial candidate Bobby Jindal, GOP leaders want to make sure that the votes will be there in both chambers to pass historic… Read More and Discuss

BAKER—Filling their nostrils with the aroma of spiced shrimp and grilled burgers, most of the major candidates for governor mingled with the masses at outdoor festivals over the Labor Day holiday, the unofficial but undeniable beginning of the fall campaign season. Read More and Discuss

With schools, churches and other buildings that served as polling places in Orleans Parish before Hurricane Katrina once again available for use, many precincts in eastern New Orleans and elsewhere are being returned to sites closer to where voters live. Read More and Discuss

The election was over before Jefferson Parish voters even knew who was running. Read More and Discuss

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SCOTT — Family law attorney Nancy Landry on Thursday officially announced her candidacy for the District 31 seat in the state House of Representatives. Read More and Discuss

U.S. Rep. Bobby Jindal wants to toughen the penalties for suspected drunk drivers who refuse to take a blood-alcohol test. Jindal, R-Kenner, is pushing a gubernatorial platform that includes closing what he calls a loophole in the DWI law. Read More and Discuss

It’s time for Louisiana politicians to put their money where their mouths are. Read More and Discuss

U.S. Rep. Bobby Jindal represents Kenner in the U.S. Congress but it’s his old neighbors in south Baton Rouge who are most responsive in funding his campaign for governor. According to the latest campaign finance reports filed with the Louisiana Board of Ethics, almost 25 cents of every dollar collected by Jindal through July 14 — $1.25 million of $7.6… Read More and Discuss

This is a man who promotes a poll as positive momentum because it shows him at the higher edge of the margin of error with a hypothetical party affiliation, and that shows he scores somewhat better as voters’ second choice in the imaginary world where voters vote twice. Read More and Discuss

Independent gubernatorial candidate Anthony “Tony G” Gentile of Mandeville says he would not have even bothered entering the race without his ability to start an Internet grassroots campaign. Armed with a Web site, frequent posts on political message boards and more than 800 MySpace friends online, Gentile is relying heavily on the Internet for his long-shot gubernatorial bid. A strong… Read More and Discuss

Businessman Brian Trascher has announced his candidacy for the 98th District state House seat being vacated by Cheryl Gray. “I’m running to change the negative perception of Louisiana politics and to make our state a breeding ground for entrepreneurship,” he said. Trascher, a Republican, has been vocal in his criticism of Orleans Parish District Attorney Eddie Jordan and says a… Read More and Discuss

A group representing more than 1,000 Louisiana nonprofit organizations wants candidates for governor and other offices to commit to a poverty-fighting agenda, officials said Thursday. Louisiana Association of Nonprofit Organizations president Melissa Flournoy said gains have been made during Gov. Kathleen Blanco’s administration in such areas as early childhood education and tax relief for poor families. “We want to make… Read More and Discuss

he Council for A Better Louisiana on Thursday posted on its Web site the answers the four best-known candidates for governor gave to 27 questions about issues facing the state. The survey queried the candidates on issues such as, lower and higher education, business and job growth, fiscal responsibility and tax structure, health care, public safety and coast restoration. “Some… Read More and Discuss