Louisiana
Early voting begins for April 27 municipal general election in La.
BATON ROUGE, La. (WAFB) – Early voting in Louisiana has started for the Saturday, April 27 municipal general election.
The early voting period will run from Saturday, April 13 through Saturday, April 20, excluding Sunday. The polls will be open from 8:30 a.m. to 6 p.m. each day.
There are 37 parishes with only local propositions on the ballot, while eight parishes have local propositions and runoffs on the ballot. In the Baton Rouge area, East Baton Rouge Parish, Ascension Parish, Livingston Parish, West Baton Rouge Parish, Iberville Parish, Pointe Coupe Parish, West Feliciana Parish, St. Helena Parish, and Assumption Parish all have items on the ballot.
There are 19 parishes with no elections, including East Feliciana Parish in the Baton Rouge area.
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Voters are encouraged to view their sample ballots on GeauxVote.com or on the Geaux Vote smartphone app.
Before casting a vote, you will need to show your ID. That can include a Louisiana driver’s license, a Louisiana special ID card, a passport, or a digital license via the LA Wallet app.
A person can vote early at his or her parish registrar of voter’s office. The below locations are also open for people to vote early:
Ascension Parish
- Governmental Annex located at 828 S. Irma Boulevard RM #209 in Gonzales, Louisiana
- Courthouse West located at 300 Houmas St. STE B in Donaldsonville, Louisiana
- Oak Grove Community Center located at 37433 Highway 42 in Prairieville, Louisiana
Assumption Parish
- Courthouse located at 4809 Highway 1 in Napoleonville, Louisiana
East Baton Rouge Parish
- Motor Vehicle Building located at 2250 Main St. in Baker, Louisiana
- Fire Station Building located at 11010 Coursey Boulevard in Baton Rouge, Louisiana
- Louisiana State Archives Building located at 3851 Essen Lane in Baton Rouge, Louisiana
- Central Branch Library located at 11260 Joor Road in Baton Rouge, Louisiana
- Baton Rouge City Hall located at 222 St. Louis St. room 607 in Baton Rouge, Louisiana
East Feliciana Parish
- 11048 Bank St. in Clinton, Louisiana
Iberville Parish
- Iberville Parish Courthouse located at 58050 Meriam St. – Room 209 in Plaquemine, Louisiana
Livingston Parish
- Denham Springs/Walker branch library located at 8101 U.S. Highway 190 in Denham Springs, Louisiana
- 20400 Government Boulevard in Livingston, Louisiana
Pointe Coupee Parish
- 1919 Hospital Rd. Suite 1 in New Roads, Louisiana
St. Helena Parish
- 17911 Highway 43 North in Greensburg, Louisiana
West Baton Rouge Parish
- Courthouse Annex Building located at 883 7th Street Suite A in Port Allen, Louisiana
- 158 E St. Francis St. in Brusly, Louisiana
West Feliciana Parish
- 5932 Commerce St. – Governmental Complex in St. Francisville, Louisiana
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Miss Louisiana preliminaries closed Friday with Miss Louisiana Port City sweeping health and fitness and evening wear, and a newcomer earning another night of preliminary wins.
Shelby Bordelon, Miss Louisiana Port City, won health and fitness and evening wear preliminaries. Miss Natchitoches City of Lights Eva Delatte won the talent preliminary.
Miss Heart of Pilot Lauryn Vernon won both the newcomer health and fitness and the newcomer evening wear awards, earning $500 in scholarships. Kelly Lohman, Miss Avoyelles Arts & Music Festival, received the $500 newcomer preliminary talent scholarship.
Other scholarships that were presented Friday night included:
- Women in Business ($1,000 Scholarship): Miss Louisiana Tech University De’Ahmya Whaley
- Women in Education ($1,000 Scholarship): Miss Southeastern Louisiana University Miranda Sensat
- Women in Health Sciences ($1,000 Scholarship): Miss Ruston Emma Calhoun
- Women in Marketing ($1,000): Miss Louisiana Tech University De’Ahmya Whaley
- Women in Mass Communication ($1,000 Scholarship): Miss Louisiana Port City Shelby Bordelon
- STEAM ($500): Miss Ruston Emma Calhoun, Miss Cane River Olivia Grace Dyrek, Miss Monroe Jalia Shepherd
- Champions of Faith ($1,000): Miss Louisiana Christian University Destanee Stewart
- Glenda Moss Memorial Passion for Dance Scholarship ($1,000): Miss Krewe of the Twin Cities Anna Claire Lemoine
- Origin Bank Leadership & Culture ($1,000): Miss Avoyelles Arts & Music Festival Kelly Lohman
- American Heart Association − Raised over $1,000: Miss CENLA Lauragrace Rader, Miss Louisiana Port City Shelby Bordelon, Miss Louisiana Tech University De’Ahmya Whaley
- AHA Winner − Raised over $5,000: Miss Union Parish Hannah Brotherton
- Sharon Turrentine Health Living ($1,000): Miss University of Louisiana Monroe Katherine McCullars
- Community Service 1st Runner Up: Miss Avoyelles Arts & Music Festival Kelly Lohman
Who are the Miss Louisiana contestants?
The Jazz Group consists of:
- Miss Slidell Maddie McMahan
- Miss Spirit of Fasching Caroline Pierce
- Miss Minden Sadie Brown
- Miss Belle of the Bayou Jansen McDonald
- Miss Spirit of the Red Elyce Thomas
- Miss Ouachita Parish Jasmine Henson
- Miss Bossier City Adreaunna Scott
- Miss Heart of Pilot Lauryn Vernon
- Miss Red River City Courtney Patterson
- Miss Lincoln Parish Sarah Cook
- Miss Twin Cities Addison Jackson
- Miss Southeastern Louisiana University Miranda Sensat
- Miss Union Parish Hannah Brotherton
- Miss University of Louisiana at Monroe Katherine McCullars
- Miss Louisiana Port City Shelby Bordelon
The Blues Group consists of:
- Miss Avoyelles Arts & Music Festival Kelly Lohman
- Miss Northwestern Lady of the Bracelet Nilah Pollard
- Miss Pride of Monroe Shelby Weaver
- Miss Krewe of the Twin Cities Anna Claire Lemoine
- Miss Louisiana Christian University Destanee Stewart
- Miss Louisiana Bayou Makenzie Tillery
- Miss Ruston Emma Calhoun
- Miss Natchitoches Parish Hannah Reeder
- Miss Louisiana Stockshow Jacie Brent
- Miss Cane River Olivia Grace Dyrek
- Miss Natchitoches City of Lights Eva Delatte
- Miss Monroe Jalia Shepherd
- Miss CENLA Lauragrace Rader
- Miss Louisiana Tech University De’Ahmya Wiley
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That pageant feeds into the Miss Louisiana pageant, which is part of the Miss America system. The winner of Miss Louisiana Saturday night will move on to the Miss America pageant.
Addison’s pageant platform is encouraging girls to build confidence in themselves — Confidence to Career, Jackson said.
“She competed last night for the preliminary in talent and on stage question and will compete tonight in beauty and fitness,” Jackson said.
On Saturday at the beginning of the pageant, the field will be cut to 11 contestants, and then the top five.
“One of the top five will get a crown,” Jackson said.
The preliminary competitions and the pageant will be streamed on MissLouisiana.com and the Saturday pageant will be broadcast live on KNOE-TV.
“They let me see her for five minutes yesterday,” she said. “This is the experience of a lifetime. She is making friendships and relationships that will last a lifetime. We are so proud of her. Addison is such a sweet girl.”
She is the youngest of three sisters, Allison and Anna Claire Jackson.
Angela said her husband, Craig Jackson, is particularly excited and proud of all three of his daughters.
“He’s a great girl dad,” she said. “They think he hung the moon, and he did.”
Louisiana
After redistricting battles, Southern gathers for Juneteenth celebration: ‘Continue the fight’
Hundreds of community members, alumni and students gathered Thursday to observe Juneteenth on the Southern University campus in Baton Rouge.
The theme of the festivities was “celebrating freedom through culture and community,” but weeks after Louisiana’s bitter redistricting battles, the speakers Thursday morning had one message driving their remarks: Get out and vote.
“Freedom does not come in on the wheels of inevitability,” Louisiana Supreme Court Associate Justice John Michael Guidry said to the crowd. “But it takes the prodigious work and the tireless efforts of those who are willing to continue the fight.”
Great Beginnings summer camper Myni, 4, gets a hello kitty face painting during Southern’s Juneteenth celebration on Thursday, June 18, 2026 in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Staff photo by Michael Johnson
The speech kicked off a day of discussions and cultural events centered on the holiday of Juneteenth, which commemorates June 19, 1865, when Union Gen. Gordon Granger brought news of emancipation to enslaved people in Texas more than two years after the Emancipation Proclamation was issued.
Speakers at Southern emphasized the need for protection of hard-won rights for Black Americans in the context of redistricting. The sentiments followed a contentious state legislative session that ended with the elimination of one of Louisiana’s two majority-Black congressional districts after the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling in Louisiana v. Callais.
“That Voting Rights Act is under attack,” Guidry said. “There’s voter intimidation, there’s voter suppression, there are voter ID laws and all types of laws and legal decisions that are trying to deny us our right to vote, and we are the ones who have to go forward and litigate these issues.”
The day opened with a libation ceremony and a rendition of “Lift Every Voice and Sing” by Southern University student Claire Floyd.
Southern University alumnus Jeanet Cazenave said she felt it was important to celebrate Juneteenth on campus as not only a relative of the first dean of Southern University but also a descendant of the GU272, a group of enslaved individuals who were sold to plantations in Louisiana in 1838 by Jesuit priests to pay the debts of what is now Georgetown University in Washington, D.C.
Juneteenth “means everything,” Cazenave said. “It means the past, the present and the future.”
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