1996 United States Senate election in Louisiana

1996 United States Senate election in Louisiana
September 21, 1996 (first round)
November 5, 1996 (runoff)
 
Nominee Mary Landrieu Woody Jenkins Richard Ieyoub
Party Democratic Republican Democratic
First round 264,268
21.51%		 322,244
26.23%		 250,682
20.4%
Runoff 852,945
50.17%		 847,157
49.83%		 Eliminated
 
Nominee David Duke Jimmy Hayes
Party Republican Republican
First round 141,489
11.52%		 71,699
5.84%
Runoff Eliminated Eliminated
Landrieu:      20–30%      50–60%      60–70%      70–80%
Jenkins:      20–30%      30–40%      40–50%      50–60%      60–70%
Ieyoub:      20–30%      30–40%
Duke:      10—20%      20–30%
Hayes:      20–30%
U.S. senator before election

J. Bennett Johnston
Democratic

 Elected U.S. Senator

Mary Landrieu
Democratic

The 1996 Louisiana United States Senate election was held on November 5, 1996, to select a new U.S. senator from the state of Louisiana to replace the retiring John Bennett Johnston, Jr. of Shreveport. After the jungle primary election, state treasurer Mary Landrieu entered into a runoff election with State Representative Woody Jenkins of Baton Rouge, a former Democrat who had turned Republican two years earlier.

Landrieu prevailed by 5,788 votes out of 1.7 million cast, a margin of 0.34 percentage points, making this the closest race of the 1996 Senate election cycle and one of the closest elections in Louisiana history.

Landrieu was the first woman elected to the United States Senate from Louisiana since Rose Long in 1936, and the first woman ever elected to a full term representing the state. In the concurrent presidential election, Democrat Bill Clinton carried Louisiana over Republican Bob Dole by a considerable margin of 927,837 votes to 712,586.

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