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unusual facts about jungle primary



Allison Kolb

Fellow Democrat Mary Landrieu of New Orleans was elected to succeed her in a special 1987 election held at the same time as the jungle primary for a full term.

Robert J. Barham

Republican State Representative Mike Walsworth of West Monroe was elected to succeed Barham in the October 20, 2007 jungle primary.

Stephen J. Windhorst

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.


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Donald G. Kelly

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.

Dud Lastrapes

A Republican, Lester Joseph "Joey" Durel, Jr., reclaimed for his party the combined mayor/presidency of the City of Lafayette and Lafayette Parish in the 2003 jungle primary.