Elections · U.S. House, District 5 · Louisiana

Samuel Wyatt

Republican Running for an open seat

In this race

15 candidates have filed with the FEC for this seat, 8 of them with a funded campaign. The nominees for November are not on record yet.

U.S. House uses the November 3 majority-vote election (runoff December 12). The full field, the money behind it, and the outside spending on the seat are on the race page.

The whole field

Where the money comes from

26%from small donors

Small donors: 26%$78K
Large donors: 10%$29K
PACs: --
Party: --
Self-funding: 64%$191K
Other: <1%$1K

Receipts reported through June 30, 2026. Source: FEC.

How to vote in Louisiana

General electionNovember 3, 2026In 10 weeks

All dates and rules

The district they want to represent

People: 779K
Median household income: $62K
Unemployment: 6.2%
Living below the poverty line: 19.5%
Without health insurance: 6.8%

U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 2024 5-year estimates. Context about the district, not a statement about any candidate.

Against the field for this seat

Each campaign's reported receipts on one shared scale, in ballot order, not money order.

The whole race

Record in office

Wyatt has not held this office, so there is no federal voting record, no cosponsorships and no committee service to report.

That absence is not a position for or against anything; it is what a first federal campaign looks like in the public record.

What the campaign says, on sammywyatt.com

Candidates and financing from the FEC, public domain. Nothing here is a forecast, a grade, or a ranking of candidates.