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2026 Louisiana House race, District 5

Nine candidates, regardless of party, are on the November 3, 2026 open primary ballot for U.S. House in Louisiana District 5, as recorded September 21, 2026 from the Louisiana Secretary of State.

The open primary

9 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.

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

The seat

Julia Letlow

Republican · Holds the seat now

First took office 2021 · Age 45

Not on the November ballot

257
Trades disclosed
$2.1M
Estimated volume
17
Committee overlaps
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.

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How to vote in Louisiana

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

Register 30 days before the election (20 days before if registering online).

All dates and rules
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The money on this race

Raised by candidates
$3.7M
Outside money
$390K

Where each candidate's money comes from

Michael EcholsRepublicanMisti CordellRepublican
<1%$3.5KSmall donors$4.4K<1%
17%$506KLarge donors$332K60%
<1%$14KPACs$13K2%
82%$2.4MSelf-funding$207K37%
<1%$26KOther--

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.

Who is spending on this race

The largest groups spending independently here, ranked; open a row for whose race the money went into.

1 to 5 of 6 groups

Independent expenditures reported to the FEC; direction is each group's own declared filing.

Not on the November ballot

7 filed

Filed with the FEC for this seat and not on the Secretary of State's list of qualified candidates. Being here is a filing fact, not a mark against anyone.

The district

Census context
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.

How this seat voted last time

R+37 in 2024

  • Julia Letlow Won: 62.9%
  • Michael Vallien, Jr.: 25.9%

319,851 votes for candidates. Other candidates and write-ins took the remaining 11.2%. 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.

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Candidates and financing from the FEC, public domain. Candidate totals are each campaign's latest FEC report, ending between June 30, 2026 and July 18, 2026. Outside money is the FEC's processed total of independent expenditures plus the 24- and 48-hour reports filed since each group's latest regular report. It covers this two-year cycle, the same as the candidate totals. Dataset built 2026-10-12. Nothing here is a forecast, a grade, or a ranking of candidates.