LA-02 Louisiana's 2nd District

Candidate

Predicted Vote %

Predicted Win %

Cedric Richmond

near 100%

100.0%

None

near 0%

0.0%

BPI

Blair Partisan Index

Measures how strongly a district leans toward the Democratic or Republican Party compared to the nation as a whole.

 

25.6%

SEER Prediction

SEER Prediction

Forecasted Democratic % of vote, without considering national mood or polling.

 

79.2%

District Profile Last Updated: Oct. 5, 2018, 11:47 a.m.

Louisiana’s second congressional district contains all of New Orleans. It’s 96% urban with a population of 792,390. 30% of the population is white and 61% is black, with the median income residing at $36,798. The only candidate is Cedric Richmond (D). Cedric Richmond is on both the House Committee on Homeland Security and the House Committee on the Judiciary. In 2012, Obama won 76.88% of the two party vote during the presidential election, Cedric Richmond won 100% of the two-party vote in 2014, Clinton won 77.07% of the two-party vote in 2016 and Cedric Richmond won 69.8% of the two-party vote in 2016.

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