Louisiana gubernatorial election, 1999

The Louisiana gubernatorial election of 1999 resulted in the re-election of Mike Foster to his second term as governor of Louisiana.

Background

In 1999 all elections in Louisiana—with the exception of U.S. presidential elections—followed a variation of the open primary system called the jungle primary (the system has since been abandoned for all federal elections but remains in use for state and local elections). Candidates of any and all parties are listed on one ballot; voters need not limit themselves to the candidates of one party. Unless one candidate takes more than 50% of the vote in the first round, a run-off election is then held between the top two candidates, who may in fact be members of the same party. [2] In this election, the first round of voting was held on October 23, 1999. Since Foster won over 50% of the vote, there was no runoff.

Results

First voting round, October 23Election box candidate with party link
party = Republican Party (US)
candidate = Mike Foster
votes = 805,203
percentage = 62.17
change = Election box candidate with party link
party = Democratic Party (US)
candidate = Bill Jefferson
votes = 382,445
percentage = 29.53
change = Election box candidate with party link
party = Republican Party (US)
candidate = Tom Greene
votes = 35,434
percentage = 2.74
change = Election box candidate with party link
party = Democratic Party (US)
candidate = Phil Preis
votes = 23,445
percentage = 1.81
change = Election box candidate with party link
party = Democratic Party (US)
candidate = Berl Bush
votes = 12,496
percentage = 0.96
change = Election box candidate
party = Reform
candidate = Belinda Alexandrenko
votes = 8,978
percentage = 0.69
change =Election box candidate with party link
party = Democratic Party (US)
candidate = Messiah Darryl Paul Ward
votes = 7,645
percentage = 0.59
change = Election box candidate with party link
party = Democratic Party (US)
candidate = Bob McElroy
votes = 7,511
percentage = 0.58
change = Election box candidate with party link
party = Democratic Party (US)
candidate = Charles V. Bellone
votes = 5,432
percentage = 0.42
change = Election box candidate with party link
party = Independent (politician)
candidate = Sid Baron
votes = 3,669
percentage = 0.28
change = Election box candidate with party link
party = Independent (politician)
candidate = Ronnie Glynn Johnson
votes = 2,946
percentage = 0.23
change = Election box turnout
votes = 1,295,204
percentage =
change = Election box hold with party link
winner = Republican Party (US)
loser = Democratic Party (US)
swing =

Runoff did not occur due to Foster winning outright

sequence
prev=1995 gubernatorial election
list=Louisiana gubernatorial elections
next=2003 gubernatorial election

Sources

[http://www.sos.louisiana.gov:8090/cgibin/?rqstyp=elcinq&rqsdta=start Louisiana Secretary of State Elections Division. Official Election Results Database]