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Post by bot on Sept 6, 2007 13:48:24 GMT -5
Louisiana's 6th congressional district is located in the center of south Louisiana and contains the state capital, Baton Rouge, plus the western half of the Florida Parishes and areas west and south of Baton Rouge sometimes associated with Acadiana. Since the 6th District's creation, its boundaries have migrated from a position astraddle the Mississippi River to completely east of the Mississippi River and more recently astraddle the River again. For decades prior to 1974 the district was virtually coterminous with the Florida Parishes centered on Hammond; in 1974 the 6th District shed Saint Tammany Parish to the 1st District, and since then several redistrictings have incrementally moved the 6th District's boundaries westward. Richard H. Baker, a Republican, held the seat from 1987 until resigning on February 2, 2008.[1] On May 3, 2008, Democratic candidate Don Cazayoux won a special election to replace Baker, defeating GOP nominee Woody Jenkins by just under 3 percent of the vote.[2] In Cazayoux's first bid for reelection, held just six months after he first won the seat, the Democratic incumbent lost to Republican challenger Bill Cassidy by a margin of nearly eight percentage points.[3] en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louisiana%27s_6th_congressional_district
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