Elections · U.S. House · Louisiana

2026 Louisiana House race, District 2

Five candidates, regardless of party, are on the November 3, 2026 open primary ballot for U.S. House in Louisiana District 2, as recorded September 21, 2026 from the Louisiana Secretary of State.

The open primary

5 on the ballot

Every qualified candidate, of every party, on one ballot on November 3, 2026. 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.

Also on the ballot, with no FEC filing on record: Walter "Rocky" Beach and Renada "Honey" Collins.

Official candidate list. How the open primary works. Order is the incumbent first, then alphabetical; bars are FEC money and never the order.

How this seat voted last time

D+47 in 2024

Troy Carter Won: 60.3%
Christy Lynch: 13.6%

305,184 votes for candidates. Other candidates and write-ins took the remaining 26.1%. The district's lines have changed since this result. A past result is a filed fact, not a prediction of November.

Certified returns via MIT Election Data and Science Lab, from the House Clerk's election statistics and state canvasses.

The seat

Troy Carter

Democrat · Holds the seat now

First took office 2021 · Age 62

Discloses no individual stock trades.

Has not cosponsored a bill that would ban it

From the member's own disclosures and congress.gov. Not cosponsoring is not a vote against a ban.

See their record

How to vote in Louisiana

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

All dates and rules

Where each candidate's money comes from

Troy Carter

<1%from small donors

Small donors: <1%$4.1K
Large donors: 30%$417K
PACs: 67%$951K
Other: 3%$41K

Small donors give $200 or less; PACs are political action committees. Shares of each candidate's own receipts on file with the FEC. Outside money is not part of these figures.

The district

Census context

People: 764K
Median household income: $55K
Unemployment: 7.8%
Living below the poverty line: 21.1%
Without health insurance: 9.5%

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.

Compare the candidates side by side

Each column is one candidate's own filed record; nothing is sorted to pick a winner.

	DemocratTroy Carter	LibertarianLisa Ballay	RepublicanPeter Williams
Raised	$1.4M	-	-
Small donors	$4.1K	-	-
Large donors	$417K	-	-
PACs	$951K	-	-
A bill to ban stock trading	Has not cosponsored	-	-

Money from the FEC. Trades and cosponsorship come from the disclosures and the congress.gov record of candidates who sit in Congress now. A hyphen is a figure not on file, not a zero. Not cosponsoring is not a vote against a ban.

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Candidates and financing from the FEC, public domain. Candidate totals are reported to the FEC through July 18, 2026. Dataset built 2026-10-12. Nothing here is a forecast, a grade, or a ranking of candidates.