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The 2020 United States Senate election in Louisiana was held on November 3, 2020, to elect a member of the United States Senate to represent the State of Louisiana, concurrently with the 2020 U.S. presidential election, as well as other elections to the United States Senate, elections to the United States House of Representatives and various state and local elections. A blanket primary was held on November 3, 2020; if no candidate had won a majority of the vote in the blanket primary, then a runoff election would have been held on December 5. [1]
Though there were multiple Democratic candidates, the one with the most institutional support was Shreveport Mayor Adrian Perkins, who had the endorsements of the Louisiana Democratic Party and the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee and would end up receiving the nomination. [5]
Source | Ranking | As of |
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The Cook Political Report [25] | Safe R | October 29, 2020 |
Inside Elections [26] | Safe R | October 28, 2020 |
Sabato's Crystal Ball [27] | Safe R | November 2, 2020 |
Daily Kos [28] | Safe R | October 30, 2020 |
Politico [29] | Safe R | November 2, 2020 |
RCP [30] | Safe R | October 23, 2020 |
DDHQ [31] | Safe R | November 3, 2020 |
538 [32] | Safe R | November 2, 2020 |
Economist [33] | Likely R | November 2, 2020 |
Poll source | Date(s) administered | Sample size [lower-alpha 1] | Margin of error | Bill Cassidy (R) | Dustin Murphy (R) | Adrian Perkins (D) | Antoine Pierce (D) | Other | Undecided |
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ALG Research (D) Archived November 1, 2020, at the Wayback Machine Archived November 1, 2020, at the Wayback Machine [upper-alpha 1] | August 6–12, 2020 | 800 (LV) | ± 3.5% | 42% | 6% | 17% | 11% | 3% [lower-alpha 2] | 21% |
Poll source | Date(s) administered | Sample size [lower-alpha 1] | Margin of error | Bill Cassidy (R) | Adrian Perkins (D) | Undecided |
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ALG Research (D) Archived November 1, 2020, at the Wayback Machine Archived November 1, 2020, at the Wayback Machine [upper-alpha 1] | August 6–12, 2020 | 800 (LV) | ± 3.5% | 52% | 33% | 16% |
Poll source | Date | Sample size [lower-alpha 1] | Margin of error | Bill Cassidy (R) | Generic Opponent | Undecided |
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Tyson Group/Consumer Energy Alliance [upper-alpha 2] | September 2–5, 2020 | 600 (LV) | ± 4% | 38% | 37% | 24% |
Tyson Group/Consumer Energy Alliance [upper-alpha 2] | March 16, 2020 | – (V) [lower-alpha 3] | – | 48% | 25% | 27% |
Poll source | Date | Sample size [lower-alpha 1] | Margin of error | Generic Republican | Generic Democrat | Other | Undecided |
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ALG Research (D) Archived November 1, 2020, at the Wayback Machine Archived November 1, 2020, at the Wayback Machine [upper-alpha 1] | August 6–12, 2020 | 800 (LV) | ± 3.5% | 43% | 33% | 2% [lower-alpha 4] | 23% [lower-alpha 5] |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
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Republican | Bill Cassidy (incumbent) | 1,228,908 | 59.32% | |
Democratic | Adrian Perkins | 394,049 | 19.02% | |
Democratic | Derrick Edwards | 229,814 | 11.09% | |
Democratic | Antoine Pierce | 55,710 | 2.69% | |
Republican | Dustin Murphy | 38,383 | 1.85% | |
Democratic | Drew Knight | 36,962 | 1.78% | |
Independent | Beryl Billiot | 17,362 | 0.84% | |
Independent | John Paul Bourgeois | 16,518 | 0.8% | |
Democratic | Peter Wenstrup | 14,454 | 0.7% | |
Libertarian | Aaron Sigler | 11,321 | 0.55% | |
Independent | M.V. "Vinny" Mendoza | 7,811 | 0.38% | |
Independent | Melinda Mary Price | 7,680 | 0.37% | |
Independent | Jamar Montgomery | 5,804 | 0.28% | |
Independent | Reno Jean Daret III | 3,954 | 0.19% | |
Independent | Alexander "Xan" John | 2,813 | 0.14% | |
Total votes | 2,071,543 | 100% | ||
Republican hold | ||||
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