Election results: How New Orleans voted

By the numbers: About 975,000 people voted early in Louisiana, including in-person and absentee ballots, according to the Secretary of State's Office yesterday. That's a little shy of the 986,428 who voted early in the 2020 presidential election.

• Just more than 2 million Louisiana voters turned out for Tuesday's election, the Secretary of State's office reported.
• See full election results, including splits by party, race and gender, on the Secretary of State's website.

Presidential election

The big picture: Louisiana will cast its eight electoral college votes for former President Trump.

• The AP called the state for Trump shortly after polls closed Tuesday. Go deeper.

Congressional contests

Zoom in: All six of Louisiana's congressional districts were up for grabs in their primary yesterday, but none were hotly contested.

• In the New Orleans metro, Majority Leader Steve Scalise and Rep. Troy Carter will keep their seats. So, too, will Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, who represents a portion of North Louisiana around the Shreveport area.

The intrigue: Votes are still being tallied in perhaps the state's most interesting congressional race this election season. Cleo Fields, a Democrat, had 50.8% of the vote as of 6am with 94.4% of precincts reporting.

• He needs to maintain the 50% threshold to avoid a runoff with Republican challenger Elbert Guillory. AP had not called the race as of early Wednesday.
• That seat is currently held by Rep. Garret Graves, who declined to run again after state lawmakers redrew his district to fulfill a federal court mandate that it be majority Black.
• The Supreme Court announced this week that it'll take up a lawsuit over that map next year.

Constitutional amendment

Zoom in: In a statewide measure, voters said yes to a constitutional amendment that would direct federal revenue from some renewable energy production into the Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority to pay for projects like marsh creation, sediment diversion, levee building and barrier island restoration.

• A similar revenue stream already exists between the state and oil and gas production.
• Our guide to the constitutional amendment.

Yes, but: Before Louisiana can start cashing checks, offshore wind companies will have to start earning revenue, and the federal government will have to OK this kind of revenue sharing.

Local ballot measures

Affordable housing: New Orleans will create a housing trust fund after 75% of voters agreed to earmark 2% of the city's general fund for efforts to support affordable housing.

• It's now up to City Council to decide how the money will be used under that banner.

Worker Bill of Rights: New Orleans voters approved a measure enshrining a "Worker Bill of Rights" into the document outlining how the city functions with 80% saying yes to the change.

• The symbolic move isn't binding for employers but states that workers have a right to a fair living wage, paid leave, comprehensive health care coverage and the right to organize a union.

At-will employment: Voters decided to allow some Jefferson Parish staffers who work for the parish president and council to be termed at-will employees. The measure passed with 60% of the vote.

Security districts: In Mid-City, Lakeview and Stonebridge, voters agreed to funding security districts.

School board: New Orleans Public Schools will also get a new school board member with the election of KaTrina Chantelle Griffin for District 4. Eric "Doc" Jones and Gabriela Biro will head to a runoff for the District 2 seat.