Baton Rouge: who represents it, and who is running

U.S. general election (federal, state and parish offices) votes on 2026-11-03. It elects on the East Baton Rouge ballot (per news only, not from an official list): U.S. Senator (Cassidy seat), U.S. Representatives for the districts covering the city, District Attorney, 19th JDC and Family Court judgeships, EBR school board, justices of the peace, constables and parish propositions. No Governor, state legislative, Mayor-President or Metropolitan Council seat is on the November 3 ballot. A special election for State Senate District 14 is reported (news) for December 12, 2026. No official Louisiana candidate list could be read, so no candidates are recorded..

Holding office19

the sitting council

On the ballot0

0 sitting members running again

· What Baton Rouge is like — the /local page

Congressional district (city hall): Louisiana's 6th congressional district (City Hall, current 119th-Congress map); the city is split between LA-6 and LA-5. On the Census 120th-Congress layer (the map for the 2026 election) City Hall is in LA-2 and the city is split between LA-6 and LA-2. — Julia Letlow (Republican)

Mayor

Name	Office	Party / slate	Seat	Source
Sid Edwards ✉️ Elected	Mayor-President	Independent		City of Baton Rouge / Parish of East Baton Rouge

Metropolitan Council Member

Name	Office	Party / slate	Seat	Source
Aaron Moak ✉️ Elected	Metropolitan Council Member	Independent	District 4	City of Baton Rouge / Parish of East Baton Rouge
Anthony Kenney, Jr. ✉️ Elected	Metropolitan Council Member	Independent	District 2	City of Baton Rouge / Parish of East Baton Rouge
Brandon Noel ✉️ Elected	Metropolitan Council Member	Independent	District 1	City of Baton Rouge / Parish of East Baton Rouge
Carolyn Coleman ✉️ Elected	Metropolitan Council Member	Independent	District 10	City of Baton Rouge / Parish of East Baton Rouge
Cleve Dunn Jr. ✉️ Elected	Metropolitan Council Member	Independent	District 6	City of Baton Rouge / Parish of East Baton Rouge
Darryl Hurst ✉️ Elected	Metropolitan Council Member	Independent	District 5	City of Baton Rouge / Parish of East Baton Rouge
Denise Amoroso ✉️ Elected	Metropolitan Council Member	Independent	District 8	City of Baton Rouge / Parish of East Baton Rouge
Dwight Hudson ✉️ Elected	Metropolitan Council Member	Independent	District 9	City of Baton Rouge / Parish of East Baton Rouge
Jennifer Racca ✉️ Elected	Metropolitan Council Member	Independent	District 12	City of Baton Rouge / Parish of East Baton Rouge
Laurie Adams ✉️ Elected	Metropolitan Council Member	Independent	District 11	City of Baton Rouge / Parish of East Baton Rouge
Rowdy Gaudet ✉️ Elected	Metropolitan Council Member	Independent	District 3	City of Baton Rouge / Parish of East Baton Rouge
Twahna P. Harris ✉️ Elected	Metropolitan Council Member	Independent	District 7	City of Baton Rouge / Parish of East Baton Rouge

Governor

Name	Office	Party / slate	Seat	Source
Jeff Landry Elected	Governor	—		Office of Governor Jeff Landry

State Representative — HD-67

Name	Office	Party / slate	Seat	Source
Terry Landry, Jr. ✉️ Elected	State Representative	Democratic		Louisiana House of Representatives

U.S. Senator

Name	Office	Party / slate	Seat	Source
Bill Cassidy Elected	U.S. Senator	Republican		Official Congressional Directory, 119th Congress (GPO, 20 Feb 2026)
John Kennedy Elected	U.S. Senator	Republican		Official Congressional Directory, 119th Congress (GPO, 20 Feb 2026)

U.S. Representative — LA-5

Name	Office	Party / slate	Seat	Source
Julia Letlow Elected	U.S. Representative	Republican		Office of the Clerk, U.S. House

U.S. Representative — LA-6

Name	Office	Party / slate	Seat	Source
Cleo Fields Elected	U.S. Representative	Democratic		Office of the Clerk, U.S. House

Notes on this record

How the lists were read, and what could not be.

CANDIDATE GAP: the only official Louisiana candidate list is the Secretary of State's. www.sos.la.gov has robots.txt 'Disallow: /' and voterportal.sos.la.gov disallows /CandidateInquiry/Parish/ and /Statewide/; per Jim's instruction neither host (nor any alternate data path on voterportal returning the same data) was fetched. The EBR Clerk of Court qualifies only local offices (DA, judges, school board, JP, constable) and no published qualified-candidate list for federal or state offices was found; the EBR Registrar of Voters sample ballot is served through the SOS portal. So this record holds officeholders only, and every status is 'elected'. Re-check if Jim approves another official source.
Congressional districts: Census geocoder at City Hall coordinates (30.44880, -91.18760). ACS2025 vintage (119th Congressional Districts, the current map) gives LA-6; Current vintage (120th Congressional Districts) gives LA-2. A 0.02-degree grid over the city (53 points inside the Census 'Baton Rouge city' place) gave 119th: LA-6 44, LA-5 9; 120th: LA-6 36, LA-2 17. The 120th layer appears to be a new map for the 2026 election (the New Orleans record notes House races re-qualified in August 2026); the reason could not be read from an official Louisiana source. Sitting members are from the Clerk's MemberData.xml (October 1, 2026): LA-5 Julia Letlow, LA-6 Cleo Fields. LA-2 (Troy A. Carter) does not cover the city on the current map, so he is not listed.
State legislature: City Hall is in SD-14 and HD-67 (Census geocoder, 2026 legislative layers). The coarse grid found at least 4 Senate districts (14, 15, 16, 6) and at least 10 House districts (29, 61, 63, 65, 66, 67, 68, 69, 70, 101) inside the city; a coarse grid undercounts small districts. The SD-14 member page (senate.la.gov/smembers?ID=14) reads 'State Senator Vacant - District 14'. News (Louisiana Illuminator) reports Sen. Larry Selders died July 7, 2026 and a special election is called for December 12, 2026 (runoff January 9, 2027) with qualifying October 14-16; not verified from an official list, so no candidates are recorded.
Municipal: Mayor-President Sid Edwards (brla.gov/588) and all 12 Metropolitan Council members from their district pages on brla.gov, read 2026-10-22. The Metropolitan Council page says the council has 'twelve members elected from single-member districts', elected for four-year terms, and that the districts overlap the city limits and parish ward lines; it still says 'The next Metropolitan Council member election will be in the fall of 2024' (stale). Members took office in January 2025 after the fall 2024 election, so the next regular Mayor-President and council election would be fall 2028; that year is inferred from the four-year term, not read from an official list. No City-Parish office is on the November 3, 2026 ballot. Not included: Baton Rouge City Court judges and City Constable (city-wide but judicial/state-created), parish officers, the District Attorney (19th JDC is parish-wide, not city-coterminous) and the school board. The City of St. George and other municipalities in the parish also fall under the Metropolitan Council.
Party: city and Metro Council pages print no party, so party is null for them; the Governor's page prints none either. Federal parties from the Clerk's MemberData.xml / Congressional Directory; HD-67 party from the House member page.
Emails: only official @brla.gov and @legis.la.gov addresses printed on the pages are recorded (council-distN@brla.gov where offered, otherwise the member's own @brla.gov address). Staff addresses were not recorded. No home addresses or phones are recorded; office mailing addresses printed on the pages were also left out. standsFor is null for everyone (no campaign statements read). Wikipedia, Ballotpedia and news were not used as a source for anyone's status.
Robots/terms: www.brla.gov (generic rules allow the pages read; Crawl-delay 10 honoured; ClaudeBot block lists only the same admin/search paths), senate.la.gov and house.louisiana.gov ('Allow: /', Disallow /private/), gov.louisiana.gov (Disallow /admin), clerk.house.gov (no robots.txt, 404), govinfo.gov (content paths allowed), geocoding.geo.census.gov (no robots.txt, 404). Blocked: www.senate.gov (HTTP 403 Akamai, even on robots.txt). Not fetched: www.sos.la.gov (Disallow: /), voterportal.sos.la.gov (per instruction). brla.gov's 'Copyright Notices' page has no terms text; no page read states reuse terms. Photos are linked, not copied.

Sources

Prepared 2026-10-22. Nomination papers are never opened: they carry home addresses. After voting day a candidate list becomes a result; these rows are reconciled, not deleted.