Below are the candidates running for statewide and state legislative offices.

Also included are those running for local offices in Caddo and Bossier parishes. Early voting started Saturday and runs through Oct. 15. (closed today) The primary is Oct. 22.

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Candidates

Proposed Amendments
Amendment No. 1
Act No. 423 Senate Bill No. 53, Regular Session, 2011 To dedicate funds for the TOPS program relative to the portion of the monies deposited in and credited to the Millennium Trust each year from the Tobacco Master Settlement, to provide that once the balance in the Millennium Trust reaches a total of $1.38 billion, 100 percent of the annual Settlement Proceeds shall be allocated to the TOPS Fund to support state programs of financial assistance for students attending Louisiana postsecondary education institutions; to provide relative to the rate of tax on certain tobacco products and beginning July 1, 2012, to dedicate such tobacco revenues to the Health Excellence Fund to be used for the purposes of the fund, including providing for the optimal development of Louisiana's children through the provision of appropriate health care and providing health care initiatives through innovation in advanced health care sciences; to provide for the deposit, transfer, or credit of certain monies in the Millennium Trust to the Health Excellence Fund, the Education Excellence Fund, and the TOPS Fund. (Amends Article VII, Section 10.8(A)(1)(c), (A)(2), (3), and (4), and (C)(1) and adds Article VII, Section 4.1)
FOR AGAINST

R=Republican D=Democrat L=Libertarian RM=Reform O=Other N=No party listed

Statewide offices
Governor
(One to be elected) David Blanchard (N) Leonard Lenny Bollingham (N) Ron Ceasar (N) Cary J. Deaton (D) Tara Hollis (D) Bobby Jindal (R) William Robert Bob Lang Jr. (N) Scott Lewis (L) Niki Bird Papazoglakis (D) Ivo Trey Roberts (D)

State Representative 7th District

(One to be elected) Richard Richie Burford (R) Cynthia Cindy Stephens Williams (D)

Police Juror District 8

(One to be elected) J. Brad Cummings (R) Douglas E. Doug Rimmer (R)

Police Juror District 9

(One to be elected) Gary Binyon (R) Freddy Shewmake (R)

State Representative 8th District

(One to be elected) Duke Lowrie (R) Jeff Thompson (R)

Councilman District 5, City of Bossier City

(One to be elected) Larry Hanisee (R) Tommy Harvey (R)

State Representative 10th District

(One to be elected) Ronnie Broughton (R) Jerri Ray de Pingre (R) Gerald Holland (R) Gene Reynolds (D)

Amendment No. 2
Act No. 422 House Bill No. 384, Regular Session, 2011 To require in Fiscal Years 2013-2014 and 20142015 that 5 percent of money designated in the official forecast as nonrecurring be applied toward the balance of the unfunded accrued liability which existed as of June 30, 1988, for the Louisiana State Employees' Retirement System and the Teachers Retirement System of Louisiana. To further require that in Fiscal Year 2015-2016 and every fiscal year thereafter that 10 percent of such nonrecurring revenue be applied to such purposes. (Amends Article VII, Se
FOR AGAINST

Caddo Parish
Sheriff
(One to be elected) Stephen Steve Prator (R) Craig Smith (D)

Lieutenant Governor
(One to be elected) Jay Dardenne (R) Billy Nungesser (R)

State Representative 23rd Representative District

(One to be elected) Kenny Cox (D) Rick Nowlin (R) Ralph Wilson (D)

Secretary of State For Regular and Unexpired Term

(One to be elected) Tom Schedler (R) Jim Tucker (R)

Assessor
(One to be elected) Royal Alexander (R) Charles R. Henington, Jr. (D)

Amendment No. 3
Act No. 421 House Bill No. 341, Regular Session, 2011 To authorize the legislature to establish a private custodial fund, designated as the Patient's Compensation Fund, for the use, benefit, and protection of medical malpractice claimants and private health care provider members; to provide that assets of the fund shall not be state property. (Adds Article XII, Section 16)
FOR AGAINST

Commissioner of Agriculture and Forestry

(One to be elected) Belinda B Alexandrenko (RM) Jamie LaBranche (D) Michael G. Mike Strain (R)

Bossier Parish
Sheriff
(One to be elected) John H. Matlock Sr. (D) Mike McConnell (R) Julian C. Whittington (R)

Parish Commission Member District 1

(One to be elected) Doug Dominick (R) Randy Slagle (O)

Parish Commission Member District 2

(One to be elected) Lyndon B. Johnson (D) Gregory Young (D)

Commissioner of Insurance
(One to be elected) Jim Donelon (R) Donald C. Hodge (D)

Assessor
(One to be elected) Bobby W. Edmiston (R) Ryal Siem Sr. (R)

Amendment No. 4
Act No. 424 Senate Bill No. 147, Regular Session, 2011 To provide that if at any time mineral revenues exceed the base provided by law and monies are withdrawn from the Budget Stabilization Fund, no deposit of mineral revenues shall be made to the Budget Stabilization Fund in the same or ensuing fiscal year in which monies in the fund are appropriated or incorporated into the official forecast, except by specific legislative appropriation, and thereafter deposits of mineral revenues into the fund shall resume except in an annual amount not to exceed one-third of the most recent amount appropriated or incorporated into the official forecast. (Adds Article VII, Section 10.3(C)(5))
FOR AGAINST

State Senator 37th District

(One to be elected) Barrow Peacock (R) Jane Smith (R)

Police Juror District 1

(One to be elected) Coach Bob Brotherton (R) Thomas Tommy Hayes (R) Troy L. Ogletree (D) Larry D. Small (R)

Parish Commission Member District 3

(One to be elected) Margaret A. Brown (D) Njeri Camara (N) James Robinson (D) Michael Williams (D)

State Senator 38th District

(One to be elected) Sherri Smith Cheek (R) Troy Terrell (R)

Police Juror District 2

(One to be elected) Glenn Benton (R) Mark Toloso (R)

Parish Commission Member District 11

(One to be elected) Jim Smith (R) Parker G. Ward (R)

Amendment No. 5
Act No. 43 House Bill No. 30, First Extraordinary Session, 2011 To amend provisions relative to tax sales in order to maintain an existing exemption from the minimum bid requirements for tax sales in the city of New Orleans due to changes in populations according to the 2010 census. (Amends Article VII, Section 25(A)(2))
FOR AGAINST

State Senator 39th District

(One to be elected) Lydia P. Jackson (D) Jim Slagle (R) Gregory Tarver (D)

Police Juror District 3

(One to be elected) Wanda S. Bennett (N) Lucy Cooper (R) Martha Peace Reyenga (D)

Parish Commission Member District 12

(One to be elected) Clifford Ray Collins (D) Ken Epperson Sr. (D)

Police Juror District 4

(One to be elected) Jerry Carter (D) Sonny Cook (R) Loyd Dodson (N) Winfred R. Johnston (N) John Ed Jorden (D) Larry Richardson (R)

State Representative 3rd District

(One to be elected) Anna Marie Arpino (R) Ernest Baylor Jr. (D) Lynn D. Cawthorne (D) Barbara Norton (D)

Member of School Board District 3

(One to be elected) Brenda Harrison-Alexander (D) Carl A. Pierson Sr. (D) Debra Duty Seamster (D)

Caddo and Bossier parish

Proposition
Disabled Veterans Homestead Exemption Shall an additional homestead exemption be authorized in (Caddo or Bossier) Parish for certain disabled veterans and surviving spouses in accordance with and subject to the provisions of Article VII, Section 21(K) of the Louisiana Constitution, provided that this additional homestead exemption shall extend and apply to property in Caddo Parish only after approval by a majority of the registered voters of Caddo Parish voting on this proposition?
YES NO

State Representative 5th District

(One to be elected) Cynthia Norton Robertson (R) Alan Seabaugh (R)

City Judge, City Court Election Dist. 2, Division D, City of Shreveport

Billy R. Casey (D) Harvetta Colvin (D) Mary L. Jackson(D) Sheva Sims (D) Shante Wells (D)

Police Juror District 5

(One to be elected) Barry Butler (R) Jack Bump Skaggs (R)