Voter turnout for Tuesday’s election was 43-percent and there’s still one more election to go this year….:
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The incumbent Mayor of Melville – seeking re-election – died yesterday in a car crash just hours after the polls opened. Deputies in St. Landry Parish say 84-year-old Mayor Velma Hendrix was a passenger in a vehicle that was broadsided by a pickup at an intersection on Highway 190. Another period of qualifying for the mayoral election opens tomorrow until Monday for an election on December 10th.
And while it remains to be seen if Republicans will gain control of the Senate, Louisiana Senator John Kennedy was asked his thoughts on the tight races after he declared victory last night.
Kennedy recalled polls that indicated South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell would lose their races, but they won.
Five of the eight constitutional amendments on Tuesday’s ballot failed. Political analyst Bernie Pinsonat says voters are not interested in making changes to the current constitution….
Three more constitutional amendments will be on the December 10th ballot.