Troy Carter wins reelection in the 2nd District with about 80 percent of the vote
Complete but unofficial returns from the Nov. 3 election give the New Orleans Democrat 192,258 votes, more than five times the total of his nearest challenger, in a district redrawn this year to reach Baton Rouge.
NEW ORLEANS: U.S. Rep. Troy Carter, a Democrat from New Orleans, won reelection on Tuesday, Nov. 3, in Louisiana's 2nd Congressional District, taking 192,258 votes, or 79.91 percent, in complete but unofficial returns.
Republican Peter Williams finished second with 36,367 votes, or 15.12 percent. Libertarian Lisa Ballay received 6,405 votes, or 2.66 percent, and independents Renada Collins and Rocky Beach split the remaining votes, each drawing under 4 percent. In all, 240,582 votes were cast in the district. The Associated Press called the race for Carter, and its tabulation shows all 613 precincts in the district reporting.
The size of the win settles the seat without another round. Under Louisiana's election system, a candidate who wins a majority of the vote on Nov. 3 wins the office outright, and Carter's majority means his race will not go to the Dec. 12 runoff round. Runoffs will be needed in the state's 5th and 6th Districts, where no candidate won a majority.
Carter has represented the 2nd District since 2021. The district he will serve in the new Congress is not drawn the way it was when he first won it. After the Legislature redrew the state's congressional map during its 2026 regular session, the 2nd District now includes most of Baton Rouge, alongside New Orleans, Jefferson and St. Bernard parishes and the river parishes between them.
Carter was one of four Louisiana incumbents returned to the U.S. House on Nov. 3, alongside Speaker Mike Johnson, Majority Leader Steve Scalise and Rep. Clay Higgins. Rep. Cleo Fields, the delegation's other Democrat, declined to run again after his 6th District was redrawn to favor Republicans. With Fields departing and the two Dec. 12 runoffs still to be decided, the Shreveport Times assessed that Carter will likely be Louisiana's only Democratic member of Congress next year.
The results remain unofficial until they are certified by the Louisiana Secretary of State.
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