With incumbents in five of six Louisiana congressional districts running against poorly-funded opponents, the campaign ...

Democrat Cleo Fields has won a Louisiana congressional race in a recently redrawn second majority-Black district.

Louisiana has elected its second Black member of Congress for the first time in history and flipped the 6th Congressional ...

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Cleo Fields was elected to represent Louisiana's 6th Congressional District after facing unexpected heat at the polls from Republican challenger Elbert Guillory. Why it matters: In combination with ...

Noting the size of the state’s Black population, civil rights advocates challenged the map in a Baton Rouge-based federal ...

If Fields doesn’t receive 50 percent of the total votes plus one, then he and Guillory will head to a runoff, by Louisiana ...

State Sen. Cleo Fields is expected to win Louisiana's 6th Congressional District race. At midnight Wednesday, Fields had 51% ...

Republican House Majority Leader Steve Scalise, Louisiana's longest serving member of Congress, easily won reelection Tuesday ...

Democrat Cleo Fields wins election to U.S. House in Louisiana's 6th Congressional District WASHINGTON -- Democrat Cleo Fields ...

Jeff Landry, a Republican, had defended Louisiana’s congressional map as the state’s attorney general. Now, though, he urged lawmakers to pass a new map with another majority Black district at ...