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

Cleo Fields, a longtime Baton Rouge politician, won more than 50 percent of the vote in an open primary, negating the need ...

The Democratic Party was able to win the seat for the representative of Louisiana's 6th congressional district for the second ...

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This time Fields was the beneficiary of a new map that transformed the 6th District to a second majority Black district ...

Democrats were projected to win at least 208 House seats and Republicans 215 seats as of Friday. A party needs 218 seats in order to have the majority.

Because Louisiana has an open primary, he needed to secure 50% plus one vote to win outright. If he hadn't, Fields and Guillory would have gone to a runoff next month. The intrigue: Getting here ...

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