Louisiana gubernatorial election, 1991

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The Louisiana gubernatorial election of 1991 resulted in the election of Edwin Edwards to his fourth non-consecutive term as governor of Louisiana. The election received national and international attention due to the unexpectedly strong showing of David Duke, a former leader of the Ku Klux Klan, who had ties to other white supremacist and neo-Nazi groups.

1 Background
2 Results
3 See also
4 Sources

[edit] Background

In 1991 all elections in Louisiana—with the exception of U.S. presidential elections—followed a variation of the open primary system called the jungle primary (the system has since been abandoned for all federal elections but remains in use for state and local elections). 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 50% or more 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 19, 1991, and the runoff was held on November 16.

[edit] Results

First voting round, October 19

Candidate	Party affiliation	Votes received	Percentage of votes cast
Edwin Edwards	Democrat	523,096	34%
David Duke	Republican	491,342	32%
Buddy Roemer	Republican	410,690	27%
Clyde C. Holloway	Republican	82,683	5%
Sam S. Jones	Democrat	11,847	1%
Ed Karst	None/Other	9,663	1%
Fred Dent	Democrat	7,385	0%
Anne Thompson	Republican	4,118	0%
Jim Crowley	Democrat	4,000	0%
Albert Henderson Powell	Democrat	2,053	0%
Ronnie Glynn Johnson	None/Other	1,372	0%
Ken "Cousin Ken" Lewis	Democrat	1,006	0%