Keisling is a chief proponent of open primaries in Oregon, contributing to and later promoting a 2004 white paper sponsored by the non-partisan Oregon Progress Forum.
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He was elected outright in the nonpartisan blanket primary held on October 22, 2011 for the right to succeed the term-limited Democratic Senator Butch Gautreaux of Morgan City.
Had he sought a second term in the state House, Roy would have faced two Republicans in the October 22 nonpartisan blanket primary, Lance Harris and Barett Byrd of Woodworth in south Rapides Parish, a graduate of the University of Arkansas and a retired colonel in the United States Marine Corps.
In the 1975 nonpartisan blanket primary, also known as the jungle primary, the first ever held in Louisiana in which all candidates regardless of party appear on the same primary ballot, Kelly upset freshman Senator Paul Lee Foshee, Sr., of Natchitoches.
He was unseated for the District 23 seat (parts of Lafayette and Acadia parishes) in the 1999 nonpartisan blanket primary by then State Representative Michael J. Michot, also a Republican.
However, he was surprisingly defeated for a ninth term in the House in the 1999 nonpartisan blanket primary by his fellow Democrat, Thomas Taylor Townsend, who is a nephew and law partner of former Democratic State Senator Donald G. Kelly of Natchitoches.
In the nonpartisan blanket primary, also known as the jungle primary, held on November 16, 1991, Windhorst upset and unseated fellow Republican Representative Terry W. Gee, who had served since 1980, beginning with the gubernatorial term of Governor David C. Treen, then of Jefferson Parish.
In the mayoral race of 2006, The Times-Picayune endorsed right-leaning Democrat Ron Forman in the primary election and Lieutenant Governor Mitch Landrieu in the runoff.
In 2002, Orr contributed to the unsuccessful candidacy of his then Fifth District U.S. representative, John Cooksey, a Republican who ran unsuccessfully in the nonpartisan blanket primary for the U.S. Senate.
He had two opponents in the nonpartisan blanket primary, both Democrats, Orleans Parish District Attorney Harry A. Connick, Sr., (the father of the popular entertainer Harry Connick, Jr.,) and Manuel A. "Manny" Fernandez, a state senator from nearby Chalmette in St. Bernard Parish.