On October 14, Louisiana held a special election for State Treasurer. The ballot contained four Republicans, one Democrat, and one Libertarian. Here are the results. However, one must manipulate the box that has the election date. It defaults to November 18; it is necessary to convert that box to October 14.
The former State Treasurer John Kennedy was elected to the US Senate in 2016. An interim Treasurer was appointed, and the special election (Open Primary) was held at the next general election date, October 14. Since no candidate had a majority, the runoff is November 18.
Louisiana elects its executive and legislature for four-year terms in the odd year before the presidential election (2015, 2019, etc.). Very few offices are contested the other three years. There were also two legislative special elections on October 14, one which was decided, and the other will go to a runoff. One had four Democratic candidates, and the other three Republican and one No Party candidate. In backward regimes, there would have been partisan primaries before a special election.
@Jim Riley
This was not an open primary, if someone got 50%+1 votes they would have been elected. Stop trying to change the meaning of an election primary.
@Brandon Lyon,
The Louisiana Secretary of State said:
“The following is important information for the Oct. 14, 2017 Open Primary/Orleans Municipal Parochial Primary/Special Primary Election”
Obvious problem is putting ANY adjectives in front of noun *election* — making choices.
NO *primaries*.
ONE *election* day.
PR and AppV.