2014 United States Senate election in Louisiana
November 4, 2014 (first round)
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| Turnout | 51.5% (first round) 43.6% (runoff) | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Cassidy: 30–40% 40–50% 50–60% 60–70% 70–80% 80–90% >90% Landrieu: 30–40% 40–50% 50–60% 60–70% 70–80% 80–90% >90% Maness: 30–40% 40–50% 50–60% 60–70% 80–90% >90% Ables: >90% Tie: 30–40% 40–50% No votes Cassidy: 30–40% 40–50% 50–60% 60–70% 70–80% 80–90% >90% Landrieu: 30–40% 40–50% 50–60% 60–70% 70–80% 80–90% >90% Maness: 30–40% 40–50% 50–60% 60–70% 80–90% >90% Ables: >90% Tie: 30–40% 40–50% No votes Cassidy: 30–40% 40–50% 50–60% 60–70% 70–80% 80–90% >90% Landrieu: 30–40% 40–50% 50–60% 60–70% 70–80% 80–90% >90% Maness: 30–40% 40–50% 50–60% 60–70% 80–90% >90% Ables: >90% Tie: 30–40% 40–50% No votes Cassidy: 50–60% 60–70% 70–80% 80–90% >90% Landrieu: 50–60% 60–70% 70–80% 80–90% >90% Cassidy: 50–60% 60–70% 70–80% 80–90% >90% Landrieu: 50–60% 60–70% 70–80% 80–90% >90% Cassidy: 50–60% 60–70% 70–80% 80–90% >90% Landrieu: 50–60% 60–70% 70–80% 80–90% >90% | |||||||||||||||||||||
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The 2014 United States Senate election in Louisiana was held on November 4, 2014, to elect a member of the United States Senate to represent the State of Louisiana.
Incumbent senator Mary Landrieu ran for re-election to a fourth term in office against U.S. Representative Bill Cassidy and several other candidates. This was one of the seven Democratic-held Senate seats up for election in a state that Mitt Romney won in the 2012 presidential election.
Under Louisiana's jungle primary system, all candidates appear on the same ballot, regardless of party and voters may vote for any candidate, regardless of their party affiliation. Louisiana is the only state that has a jungle primary system (California and Washington have a similar "top two primary" system). Since no candidate received a majority of the vote in the primary election, a runoff election was held on December 6, 2014, between the top two candidates, Landrieu and Cassidy.
In the December 6 runoff, Cassidy defeated Landrieu by 11.86 percentage points (55.93% to 44.07%), settling the fate of the final Senate seat of the 2014 midterms, becoming the first Republican to hold this seat since 1883, and giving Senate Republicans 54 seats in the 114th Congress. Since Cassidy took office in 2015, Republicans have held both of Louisiana's Senate seats, which they had not done since William Pitt Kellogg resigned in 1872. Cassidy's victory in the 2014 runoff also rendered Cedric Richmond as Louisiana's only congressional Democrat.