Louisiana LA-06 House2024
RACE AT A GLANCE
SEAT FLIPPED
Cleo Fields
RACE WINNER
Cleo Fields
Seat flipped
RACE TYPE
OPEN
Garret Graves (R)
Retiring
RACE RATING
Last updated : Jan 23, 2024COOK PARTISAN VOTING INDEX
Last updated : Mar 6, 2023Race summary
Democratic state Sen. Cleo Fields is the frontrunner for this seat — which ironically is quite similar to the congressional seat Fields held from 1993 to 1997.Key Dates
Filing Deadline: Jul 19, 2024
Primary Election: Nov 5, 2024
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Garret Graves
First Elected: 2014
Last General Election: 80.4%
Last Primary Election: -
Full Bio:
GRAVES, Garret, a Representative from Louisiana; born in Baton Rouge, East Baton
Rouge Parish, Louisiana, on January 31, 1972; graduated from Catholic High
School, Baton Rouge, La., 1990; attended the University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa,
Ala., Louisiana Tech University, Ruston, La., and American University,
Washington, D.C.; staff, United States Senator John Breaux of Louisiana; staff,
United States Representative Billy Tauzin of Louisiana; staff, United States
Senator David Vitter of Louisiana; staff, United States Senate Committee on
Commerce; staff, United States Senate Committee on Science and Transportation;
staff, United States House Committee on Energy and Commerce; appointed to
National Resource Damage Assessment, Gulf Coast; chairman, the Coastal
Protection and Restoration Authority of Louisiana; vice chairman of the Gulf
Coast Ecosystem Restoration Task Force, United States Environmental Protection
Agency; elected as a Republican to the One Hundred Fourteenth and to the
succeeding Congress (January 3, 2015-present).
Source: Bioguide
CANDIDATES
Republicans
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DISTRICT DATA
Louisiana - 06
Baton Rouge, Alexandria, Shreveport
Population Breakdown
Source: 2020 Census (VAP)
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Past Presidential Results from this District
2020 Election Results
Source: Dave's Redistricting/VEST
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2016 Election Results
Source: Dave's Redistricting/VEST
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RACE ANALYSIS
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Updated: Jul 16, 2024
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