St. James Parish, where Lutcher and Gramercy are located, is about 48.9% White and about 48.1% Black. Louis beat the sheriff's chief deputy with 50.81% of the vote — a margin of 144 votes .

The 1st District would become 73% white and 17% Black, the 2nd District projects 70% white and 20% Black and the 6th District 69% white and 16% Black. Johnson noted his version of the map split fewer ...

Louisiana state lawmakers approved a new congressional map on Friday, drawing a second majority-Black district to comply with a court order. A federal court had ruled in 2022 that Louisiana’s ...

A proposed Louisiana congressional map with a second majority-Black district, which could deliver another U.S. House seat to Democrats, received bipartisan support and advanced through a legislativ… ...

Two Donald Trump-appointed federal judges handed down a ruling Tuesday that would block Louisiana from using a newly authorized voter map that established an additional majority-Black district.

Louisiana lawmakers on Friday approved a new congressional map that would create a second district with a majority of Black voters, after a federal court found that the existing map appeared to ...

Jan. 19 (UPI) --To comply with a previous court ruling, Louisiana lawmakers approved a new congressional map Friday that increases the total number of majority-Black districts. While Louisiana's ...

(CN) — One day after a federal panel of judges approved a court-drawn congressional map for Alabama’s 2024 congressional election, a nearly identical argument was considered by a panel of the Fifth ...

SB255 passed with 85 yeas and nine nays on Thursday, April 24. The bill says that the state should split into seven Supreme Court districts. Each district should have one justice elected from it.

“Right now, Louisiana has no map,” said state Sen. Cleo Fields, a Black Democrat and former member of Congress, who is one of the candidates running in the new 6th Congressional District ...

The rising number of "white fortresses" throughout Louisiana and Georgia is a new form of white flight that punishes the ... Considering East Baton Rouge Parish’s 47.2% Black population, ...

Under the current map, in Graves’ district 23% of the voting-age population is Black. With the proposed map, that number would increase to 54%. Louisiana is among the list of states still wrangling ...