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A New York University study says that fairer maps increase voter turnout.

Attorneys representing Louisiana in a lawsuit against the state legislative redistricting plans passed in 2022 are arguing that a key piece of the Voting Rights Act is unconstitutional and should not be applied to the state.

Louisiana’s lone Democratic incumbent in the U.S. House of Representatives will keep his seat after securing an outright win against four challengers on Election Day.

Results of Louisiana's District 6 race between Quinten Anderson, Cleo Fields and Elbert Guillory.

Republican Rep. Clay Higgins won reelection to a U.S. House seat representing Louisiana on Tuesday.

Results of key races and ballot measures in Louisiana's 2024 November elections.

Louisiana lawmakers have so far filed seven maps to consider in a special session brought about after a federal court rejected a congressional redistricting proposal they approved earlier this year. The judge in the case has given legislators until Monday to submit a map with two majority-Black districts in order to comply with the Voting Rights Act.

A proposed Louisiana congressional map with two majority Black districts failed to advance Thursday from a state Senate committee after Republicans insisted on honoring a procedural tradition of letting the bill lay over for 24 hours.

It takes Gary Chambers no time at all to get to the point in his newest, and unprecedented, campaign ad for a seat in Congress: the video opens with the Baton Rouge activist talking about — and smoking — marijuana.

Patrick Madden and Stephanie Grace co-hosted Friday's "Politics Roundtable" on Louisiana Considered.Staff writer at The Advocate, Jeff Adelson, reports on…