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

Misti Cordell

Republican On the November 3 open primary ballot

In the open primary

Cordell is one of 9 candidates on the November 3, 2026 ballot for this seat, every party on one ballot.

This seat is decided in an open primary. A candidate who wins a majority is elected; if no one does, the top two meet in an open general election on December 12, 2026. The 8 other candidates and the money behind the field are on the race page.

Official candidate list: Louisiana Secretary of State, as recorded September 21, 2026.

The whole field

Where the money comes from

<1%from small donors

Small donors: <1%$4.4K
Large donors: 60%$332K
PACs: 2%$13K
Party: --
Self-funding: 37%$207K
Other: --

Separately, $35K in independent expenditures was reported supporting this candidate by outside committees. That money is not the candidate's receipts and is not part of the mix above.

Receipts reported through July 18, 2026. Source: FEC.

How to vote in Louisiana

Open primaryNovember 3, 2026
Open general, if neededDecember 12, 2026

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. These figures describe the district as drawn before its lines changed for 2026; estimates for the new lines are not yet published.

Against the field for this seat

Each campaign's reported receipts on one shared scale, incumbent first and then by name, never in money order.

A hollow row is a candidate with no finance report on file yet, not one who raised nothing.

The whole race

Spending to support them

$35K

Conservative Leaders of America$35K

Spending to oppose them

No committee has filed independent spending in this direction.

How these directions are decided

Independent expenditures reported to the FEC. The supporting or opposing direction is each committee's own declared filing, not an interpretation, and a group spending against a candidate is not necessarily spending for their opponent. Outside money is not the campaign's money and is never added to what they raised.

In their own words

What Cordell's campaign says it would work on.

The priorities Cordell's own campaign site lists, quoted as written there. They are what the campaign says. Nobody has voted on them.

“Louisiana Jobs: Protect Our People”
“Economy and Taxes: Stop the Rip-Off”
“Law, Order, and Gun Rights: Increase Public Safety”
“Border Security: Defend the Homeland”
“Parents and Education: Take Back Our Schools”
“Health Care: Lower Costs”
“American Values: Standing up to the Radical Left”
“Faith and Freedom: Uphold Louisiana Values”

Quoted from cordellforcongress.com, read August 14, 2026. A campaign site changes; this is what it said on that date. Curia quotes these and does not check, rate or rank them.

Record in office

Cordell does not hold a seat in Congress now, so there is no current voting record, cosponsorships or committee service to show here.

That absence is not a position for or against anything.

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

Cite this page

Project Curia. "Misti Cordell: Louisiana House candidate, 2026." Sources: Federal Election Commission candidate and committee filings; National Conference of State Legislatures election dates and voter-registration rules; U.S. Census Bureau American Community Survey 5-year estimates; https://www.cordellforcongress.com campaign website. Data as of 2026-10-12. /elections/candidate/H-LA-05/H6LA05200

The citation names the source data used for this record.