The jungle primary, a race in which candidates of all parties appear on the same ballot, was called for Landry late Saturday night after he consolidated over 50% of the vote. Behind Landry with 26% of the vote was former state Transportation Secretary Shawn Wilson, a Democrat who received the endorsement of the state’s current two-term incumbent Governor John Bel Edwards.
Landry and Democrat Shawn Wilson were considered the front-runners in the crowded race to replace term-limited Democrat Gov. John Bel Edwards. Landry competed alongside more than a dozen other people in the jungle primary, in which candidates appear on the same ballot regardless of party. If no candidate received more than 50 percent of the vote, the race would have headed to a runoff between the top two vote-getters. But because Landry won more than half the vote as of...
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