Louisiana politics have been dominated this year by new Republican Gov. Jeff Landry’s special legislative sessions to address crime and adopt new congressional maps.
FILE - Former President Donald Trump, left, and Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry visit Caf du Monde in New Orleans, July 25, 2023. Louisiana politics has been dominated so far this year by new Republican Gov. Jeff Landry's special legislative sessions to address crime and adopt new congressional maps, but the focus will shift briefly Saturday, March 23, 2024, to the state's presidential primaries.
There are 47 pledged Republican delegates at stake. They are awarded on a “winner-take-all” basis to the top statewide vote-getter.Louisiana’s presidential primaries once again are not competitive because Biden and Trump have unofficially clinched their nominations and face no major candidates on the ballot. The release of vote results tends to begin shortly after polls close.
The amount of pre-Election Day voting in Louisiana’s presidential primaries jumped significantly from 2016 to 2020 because of the pandemic. In 2016, about 17% of Democratic primary voters and 16% of Republican primary voters cast ballots before primary day. In 2020, after the state expanded early voting and mail-in balloting options, the level rose to 42% for Democrats and 36% for Republicans. In the 2023 gubernatorial primary, pre-Election Day voting was at about 34% of total votes cast.
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