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

Tania Nyman

Democrat 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

5%from small donors

Small donors: 5%$2K
Large donors: 24%$8K
PACs: --
Party: --
Self-funding: 64%$21K
Other: 7%$2K

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

How to vote in Louisiana

General electionNovember 3, 2026In 10 weeks

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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

Nyman 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.