{
 "topic": "senate",
 "site": "electiondata.dev",
 "place": {
  "id": "us-la",
  "name": "Louisiana",
  "level": "us-state",
  "parent": "usa",
  "path": "us/la",
  "slug": "la",
  "state": "la",
  "state_name": "Louisiana",
  "state_id": "us-la"
 },
 "question": "How did Louisiana vote for the Senate?",
 "answer": {
  "verdict": "John Kennedy (Republican) won by 43.7 points",
  "value": 43.7,
  "unit": " pts",
  "digits": 1,
  "label": "Senate, 2022: winner's margin",
  "lines": [
   "John Kennedy (Republican) 61.6%, Gary Chambers Jr. (Democrat) 17.9%, \\luke\\\" Mixon\" (Democrat) 13.2%",
   "1,383,290 votes for Senate candidates"
  ]
 },
 "as_of": "2022",
 "as_of_label": "2022",
 "charts": [
  {
   "id": "senate-margin",
   "title": "Every regular Senate election in Louisiana since 1980",
   "description": "12 regular elections; Democrats were ahead in 6 and Republicans in 6.",
   "indicator": "Democratic candidate's share of Senate votes minus the Republican's, points (regular elections; special elections are in the table)",
   "subtitle": "Democratic share minus Republican share, in points. Above the line: the Democrat got more votes.",
   "x": {
    "kind": "year"
   },
   "y": {
    "digits": 1,
    "unit": " pts",
    "format": "party-margin"
   },
   "layers": [
    {
     "type": "bars",
     "name": "Margin",
     "base": 0,
     "points": [
      [
       1980,
       93.547,
       "dem"
      ],
      [
       1986,
       5.64,
       "dem"
      ],
      [
       1996,
       0.34,
       "dem"
      ],
      [
       1998,
       32.586,
       "dem"
      ],
      [
       2002,
       0.25,
       "dem"
      ],
      [
       2004,
       -3.546,
       "rep"
      ],
      [
       2008,
       6.387,
       "dem"
      ],
      [
       2010,
       -18.881,
       "rep"
      ],
      [
       2014,
       -9.879,
       "rep"
      ],
      [
       2016,
       -26.747,
       "rep"
      ],
      [
       2020,
       -25.889,
       "rep"
      ],
      [
       2022,
       -28.612,
       "rep"
      ]
     ],
     "legend": [
      {
       "label": "Democrat ahead",
       "cls": "dem"
      },
      {
       "label": "Republican ahead",
       "cls": "rep"
      }
     ]
    }
   ]
  }
 ],
 "limits": [
  "Statewide totals say nothing about who voted or why.",
  "Candidates with a party's support under another name (Minnesota's DFL, New York's fusion lines) are counted with that party, as the MIT data's simplified party does; independents stay independents."
 ],
 "method": "Each candidate's votes are summed over every ballot line; blank, over- and under-votes are left out. The margin is the winner's share of the votes minus the runner-up's. A runoff, where held, is the result.",
 "sources": [
  {
   "name": "electiondata.dev senate-results, version 2026-10-25.247421eda6",
   "url": "https://electiondata.dev/",
   "license": "CC0 1.0"
  },
  {
   "name": "MIT Election Data and Science Lab, U.S. Senate statewide 1976-2024",
   "url": "https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/PEJ5QU",
   "license": "CC0 1.0"
  }
 ],
 "check": {
  "races": [
   {
    "year": 1980,
    "special": false,
    "runoff": false,
    "total": 841013,
    "votes": {
     "Russell B. Long": 484770,
     "Louis Woody Jenkins": 325922,
     "Jerry C. Bardwell": 13739,
     "Robert Max Ross": 10208,
     "Naomi Bracey": 6374
    }
   },
   {
    "year": 1986,
    "special": false,
    "runoff": false,
    "total": 1369897,
    "votes": {
     "John B. Breaux": 723586,
     "W. Henson Moore": 646311
    }
   },
   {
    "year": 1996,
    "special": false,
    "runoff": false,
    "total": 1700102,
    "votes": {
     "Mary L. Landrieu": 852945,
     "Louis \"woody\" Jenkins": 847157
    }
   },
   {
    "year": 1998,
    "special": false,
    "runoff": false,
    "total": 969165,
    "votes": {
     "John B. Breaux": 620502,
     "\"jim\" Donelon": 306616,
     "Raymond Brown": 12203,
     "Sam Houston Melton Jr.": 9893,
     "Darryl Paul Ward": 7964,
     "L. D. \"nota\" Knox Sr.": 6366,
     "Jeffrey H. Diket": 3227,
     "Martin A. Rosenthal": 2394
    }
   },
   {
    "year": 2002,
    "special": false,
    "runoff": false,
    "total": 2481629,
    "votes": {
     "Mary L. Landrieu": 1212001,
     "Suzanne Haik Terrell": 936148,
     "John Cooksey": 171752,
     "\"tony\" Perkins": 119776,
     "Raymond Brown": 23553,
     "Patrick E. \"live Wire\" Landry": 10442,
     "James Lemann": 3866,
     "Gary D. Robbins": 2423,
     "Ernest Edward Skillman Jr.": 1668
    }
   },
   {
    "year": 2004,
    "special": false,
    "runoff": false,
    "total": 1848056,
    "votes": {
     "David Vitter": 943014,
     "Christopher John": 542150,
     "John Kennedy": 275821,
     "Arthur A. Morrell": 47222,
     "Richard M. Fontanesi": 15097,
     "R. A. \"skip\" Galan": 12463,
     "Sam Houston Melton Jr.": 12289
    }
   },
   {
    "year": 2008,
    "special": false,
    "runoff": false,
    "total": 1896574,
    "votes": {
     "Mary L. Landrieu": 988298,
     "John Kennedy": 867177,
     "Richard Fontanesi": 18590,
     "\"jay\" Patel": 13729,
     "Robert Stewart": 8780
    }
   },
   {
    "year": 2010,
    "special": false,
    "runoff": false,
    "total": 1264994,
    "votes": {
     "David Vitter": 715415,
     "\"charlie\" Melancon": 476572,
     "Randall Todd Hayes": 13957,
     "Michael Karlton Brown": 9973,
     "Michael Lane \"mike\" Spears": 9190,
     "Ernest D. Woolon": 8167,
     "R. A. \"skip\" Galan": 7474,
     "William R. Mcshan": 5879,
     "William Robert \"bob\" Land Jr.": 5734,
     "Milton Gordon": 4810,
     "Thomas G. \"tommy\" Lafargue": 4043,
     "Sam Houston Melton": 3780
    }
   },
   {
    "year": 2014,
    "special": false,
    "runoff": false,
    "total": 3523183,
    "votes": {
     "Bill Cassidy": 1712379,
     "Mary L. Landrieu": 1561210,
     "\"rob\" Maness": 202556,
     "Thomas Clements": 14173,
     "Brannon Lee Mcmorris": 13034,
     "Wayne Ables": 11323,
     "William P. Waymire Jr.": 4673,
     "Vallian Senegal": 3835
    }
   },
   {
    "year": 2016,
    "special": false,
    "runoff": false,
    "total": 1997218,
    "votes": {
     "John Kennedy": 536191,
     "Foster Campbell": 347816,
     "Charles W. Boustany Jr.": 298008,
     "Caroline Fayard": 240917,
     "John Fleming": 204026,
     "\"rob\" Maness": 90856,
     "David Duke": 58606,
     "Derrick Edwards": 51774,
     "Gary Landrieu": 45587,
     "Donald \"crawdaddy\" Crawford": 25523,
     "\"joseph\" Cao": 21019,
     "Beryl Billiot": 19352,
     "Thomas P. Clements": 11370,
     "Troy Hebert": 9503,
     "Joshua Pellerin": 7395,
     "Peter Williams": 6855,
     "M. V. \"vinny\"mendoza": 4927,
     "Kaitlin Marone": 4108,
     "Leroy Gillam": 4067,
     "Charles Marsala": 3684,
     "Abhay Patel": 1576,
     "Arden Wells": 1483,
     "William Robert Lang Jr.": 1424,
     "Gregory Taylor Jr.": 1151
    }
   },
   {
    "year": 2020,
    "special": false,
    "runoff": false,
    "total": 2071543,
    "votes": {
     "\"bill\" Cassidy": 1228908,
     "Adrian Perkins": 394049,
     "Derrick \"champ\" Edwards": 229814,
     "Antoine Pierce": 55710,
     "Dustin Murphy": 38383,
     "David Drew Knight": 36962,
     "Beryl Billiot": 17362,
     "John Paul Bourgeois": 16518,
     "Peter Wenstrup": 14454,
     "Aaron C. Sigler": 11321,
     "M.v. \"vinny\" Mendoza": 7811,
     "Melinda Mary Price": 7680,
     "Jamar Montgomery": 5804,
     "Reno Jean Daret Iii": 3954,
     "\"xan\" John": 2813
    }
   },
   {
    "year": 2022,
    "special": false,
    "runoff": false,
    "total": 1383290,
    "votes": {
     "John Kennedy": 851568,
     "Gary Chambers Jr.": 246933,
     "\\luke\\\" Mixon\"": 182887,
     "Syrita Steib": 31568,
     "Devin Lance Graham": 25275,
     "Mv \\vinny\\\" Mendoza\"": 11910,
     "Beryl A. Billiot": 9378,
     "Salvador P. Rodriguez": 7767,
     "Bradley Mcmorris": 5388,
     "Aaron C. Sigler": 4865,
     "\\xan\\\" John\"": 2753,
     "W. Thomas La Fontaine Olson": 1676,
     "Thomas Wenn": 1322
    }
   }
  ],
  "dataset": "senate-results",
  "version": "2026-10-25.247421eda6"
 },
 "table": {
  "title": "Every Senate race since 1976",
  "columns": [
   "Race",
   "Winner",
   "Runner-up",
   "Margin",
   "Votes"
  ],
  "num": [
   3,
   4
  ],
  "rows": [
   [
    "2022",
    "John Kennedy (R) 61.6%",
    "Gary Chambers Jr. (D) 17.9%",
    "43.7 pts",
    "1,383,290"
   ],
   [
    "2020",
    "\"bill\" Cassidy (R) 59.3%",
    "Adrian Perkins (D) 19.0%",
    "40.3 pts",
    "2,071,543"
   ],
   [
    "2016",
    "John Kennedy (R) 26.8%",
    "Foster Campbell (D) 17.4%",
    "9.4 pts",
    "1,997,218"
   ],
   [
    "2014",
    "Bill Cassidy (R) 48.6%",
    "Mary L. Landrieu (D) 44.3%",
    "4.3 pts",
    "3,523,183"
   ],
   [
    "2010",
    "David Vitter (R) 56.6%",
    "\"charlie\" Melancon (D) 37.7%",
    "18.9 pts",
    "1,264,994"
   ],
   [
    "2008",
    "Mary L. Landrieu (D) 52.1%",
    "John Kennedy (R) 45.7%",
    "6.4 pts",
    "1,896,574"
   ],
   [
    "2004",
    "David Vitter (R) 51.0%",
    "Christopher John (D) 29.3%",
    "21.7 pts",
    "1,848,056"
   ],
   [
    "2002",
    "Mary L. Landrieu (D) 48.8%",
    "Suzanne Haik Terrell (R) 37.7%",
    "11.1 pts",
    "2,481,629"
   ],
   [
    "1998",
    "John B. Breaux (D) 64.0%",
    "\"jim\" Donelon (R) 31.6%",
    "32.4 pts",
    "969,165"
   ],
   [
    "1996",
    "Mary L. Landrieu (D) 50.2%",
    "Louis \"woody\" Jenkins (R) 49.8%",
    "0.3 pts",
    "1,700,102"
   ],
   [
    "1986",
    "John B. Breaux (D) 52.8%",
    "W. Henson Moore (R) 47.2%",
    "5.6 pts",
    "1,369,897"
   ],
   [
    "1980",
    "Russell B. Long (D) 57.6%",
    "Louis Woody Jenkins (D) 38.8%",
    "18.9 pts",
    "841,013"
   ]
  ]
 },
 "api": {
  "now": "/data/places/us-la/senate.json",
  "source": "https://api.electiondata.dev/v1/senate-results/download/senate-results.csv",
  "source_label": "Every Senate race, every state, from electiondata.dev (live, no key)"
 },
 "generated_at": "2026-10-26T20:05:12+00:00"
}