New Orleans Votes- Chapter Three

I'm looking at the early returns, and so far, the incumbent, C. Ray Nagin, is in third place- at 22 percent (as of 8:35PM CDT/6:35PM PDT), with 7 of the 4222, or 2% of the precincts reporting. Ron Forman, the Audubon Institute Director is leading at 31%, followed by Lieutenant Governor Mitch Landrieu. As I have just mentioned, Nagin is in third, followed by Republican Robert Couhig, at 11%. Virginia Boulet has 2% thus far, Tom Wilson and the other Republican, Peggy Wilson each as 1% (source: WWL-TV http://www.wwltv.com).

With all of this business of the mayoral election- however important- there are other offices at stake. For Orleans Parish Criminal Sheriff, Marlin Gusman and Gerald DeSalvo are vying for the position once held by now Louisana Attorney General Charles Foti. For Civil Sheriff, the incumbent Paul Valteau is fighting off Kevin Gremillion and Justin Zitler. In the city council race, in District A, the incumbent Jay Batt leads by 46%, with 6% of the precincts reporting For District B, Renee "Gill" Brown is the incumbent. No results yet. No results on the District C race, either... In the District D race, it looks like Cynthia Hedge-Morrell is costing to victory, with 58% of the vote. 2% of the precincts reporting so far here. And in the Council District E race, Cynthia Willard-Lewis holds a commanding lead with 76% of the vote. 3% of the precincts reporting.

The latest, at 8:50PM CDT/6:50PM PDT, on the mayoral race, Mitch Landrieu has moved out in front with 28% of the vote. Ray Nagin has leaped ahead of Ron Forman, although both Nagin and Forman are at 27%, with 12 of the 442 Precincts- or 3%- reporting in.

Stay with http://www.wwltv.com (WWL-TV 4); http://www.wdsu.com (WDSU-TV 6); http://www.fox8live.com (WVUE-TV 8), and http://www.abc26.trb.com (WGNO-TV 26) for live New Orleans election results. I'll give you my thoughts tomorrow on those results.

Hold on...I'm getting these results from WDSU.com (http://www.wdsu.com/politics/8832975/detail.html is the source to check all night), Ray Nagin, the incumbent has pulled ahead of Landrieu and Forman, with 8% of the precincts reporting in so far. Stay with all of the New Orleans TV and radio stations, and also http://www.nola.com, the website of the Times-Picayune for the latest election results.

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