The open primary
10 on the ballotEvery 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.
- Monique AppeaningRepublican$104K
- Chauna BanksDemocrat-
- Rufus Craig Jr.Libertarian-
- Larry Davis IIIRepublican$22K
- Rick EdmondsRepublican$512K
Also on the ballot, with no FEC filing on record: Patrick "Pat" Forbes (Democrat).
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
Cleo Fields
Democrat · Holds the seat now
First took office 1993 · Age 63
Not on the November ballot
From the member's own disclosures and congress.gov. Not cosponsoring is not a vote against a ban.
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).
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The money on this race
- Raised by candidates
- $7.4M
- Outside money
- $1.6M
Where each candidate's money comes from
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.
Independent expenditures reported to the FEC; direction is each group's own declared filing.
Not on the November ballot
3 filedFiled 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.
How this seat voted last time
D+13 in 2024
- Cleo Fields Won: 50.8%
- Elbert Guillory: 37.7%
296,033 votes for candidates. Other candidates and write-ins took the remaining 11.5%. 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 district
Census context- People
- 758K
- Median household income
- $49K
- Unemployment
- 8.8%
- Living below the poverty line
- 25.0%
- Without health insurance
- 8.6%
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.
| RepublicanMonique Appeaning | DemocratChauna Banks | LibertarianRufus Craig Jr. | RepublicanLarry Davis III | RepublicanRick Edmonds | DemocratLindsay Garcia | RepublicanMichael Mebruer | RepublicanBlake Miguez | RepublicanStephen Wagley | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Raised | $104K | - | - | $22K | $512K | $65K | $71K | $6.6M | - |
| Small donors | $450 | - | - | $1.8K | $1.1K | $44K | - | $443K | - |
| Large donors | $46K | - | - | $16K | $340K | $16K | - | $3.0M | - |
| PACs | - | - | - | $2K | $16K | - | - | $68K | - |
| Self funded | $51K | - | - | $1.5K | $155K | $2.9K | $71K | $3.0M | - |
| Outside for | - | - | - | - | $238K | - | - | $40K | - |
| Outside against | - | - | - | - | $1.1M | - | - | $198K | - |
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.
Candidates and financing from the FEC, public domain. Candidate totals are each campaign's latest FEC report, ending between July 18, 2026 and September 30, 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.