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

Misti Cordell

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

1%from small donors

Small donors: 1%$4K
Large donors: 60%$332K
PACs: 2%$13K
Party: --
Self-funding: 37%$207K
Other: --

Separately, $35K in independent expenditures was reported for and against 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

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

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 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.

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