Louisiana gubernatorial election, 1995

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The Louisiana gubernatorial election of 1995 resulted in the election of Mike Foster as governor of Louisiana, after defeating Cleo Fields in the runoff.

[edit] Background

Elections in Louisiana—with the exception of U.S. presidential elections—follow a variation of the open primary system called the jungle primary. Candidates of any and all parties are listed on one ballot; voters need not limit themselves to the candidates of one party. Unless one candidate takes more than 50% of the vote in the first round, a run-off election is then held between the top two candidates, who may in fact be members of the same party.[2] In this election, the first round of voting was held on October 21, 1995, and the runoff was held on November 18, 1995.

[edit] Results

First voting round, October 21

Candidate	Party affiliation	Votes received	Percentage of votes cast
Mike Foster	Republican	385,267	26%
Cleo Fields	Democrat	280,921	19%
Mary Landrieu	Democrat	271,938	18%
Buddy Roemer	Republican	263,330	18%
Phil Preis	Democrat	133,271	9%
Melinda Schwegmann	Democrat	71,288	5%
Robert Adley	Democrat	27,534	2%
Arthur D. "Jim" Nichols	None/Other	16,616	1%
Gene H. Alexander	Democrat	5,688
Kenneth Woods	None/Other	4,964
Darryl Paul Ward	None/Other	4,210
Belinda Alexandrenko	Democrat	3,161
Lonnie Creech	None/Other	2,338
Ronnie Glynn Johnson	None/Other	1,884
Anne Thompson	None/Other	1,416