Louisiana Public Service Commission election, 2020
- Election date: Nov. 3 (first round); Dec. 5 (second round)
- Registration deadline(s): First round: Oct. 5; Oct. 13 (hand-delivered, online); Second round: Nov. 4; Nov. 14 (online)
- Online registration: Yes
- Same-day registration: No
- Recount laws
- Early voting starts: First round: Oct. 16; Second round: Nov. 20
- Absentee/mail voting deadline(s): First round: Nov. 2 (received); Second round: Dec. 4 (received)
- Processing, counting, and challenging absentee/mail-in ballots
- Voter ID: Photo ID
- Poll times: 6 a.m. to 8 p.m.
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| Election details |
| Filing deadline: July 24, 2020 |
| Primary: November 3, 2020 General: December 5, 2020 Pre-election incumbent(s): Eric Skrmetta (R) (District 1) Foster Campbell (D) (District 5) |
| How to vote |
| Poll times: 6 a.m. to 8 p.m. (Tuesday elections) 7 a.m. to 8 p.m. (Saturday elections) |
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Louisiana held an election for two of five seats on the public service commission in 2020.
Louisiana elections use the Louisiana majority-vote system. All candidates compete in the same primary, and a candidate can win the election outright by receiving more than 50% of the vote. If no candidate does, the top two vote recipients from the primary advance to the general election, regardless of their partisan affiliation.
For information about which offices are nominated via primary election, see this article.
The primary election was held on November 3, 2020. If necessary, the general election was held on December 5, 2020. The filing deadline was July 24, 2020.
Incumbent Foster Campbell (D) won re-election in the primary for Louisiana Public Service Commission District 5. Incumbent Eric Skrmetta (R) won re-election in the general election for Louisiana Public Service Commission District 1.
Election procedure changes in 2020
Ballotpedia provided comprehensive coverage of how election dates and procedures changed in 2020. While the majority of changes occurred as a result of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, some changes occurred for other reasons.
Louisiana modified its absentee/mail-in voting and candidate filing procedures for the November 3, 2020, general election as follows:
- Absentee/mail-in voting: The absentee ballot application used in the general election included COVID-19 specific reasons for requesting an absentee ballot.
- Candidate filing procedures: The candidate qualifying deadline was extended to July 24, 2020. The deadline by which a ballot-qualified party must notify the state of its presidential nominee was extended from August 18, 2020, to August 25, 2020.
For a full timeline about election modifications made in response to the COVID-19 outbreak, click here.
Candidates and election results
District 1
Louisiana elections use the majority-vote system. All candidates compete in the same primary, and a candidate can win the election outright by receiving more than 50 percent of the vote. If no candidate does, the top two vote recipients from the primary advance to the general election, regardless of their partisan affiliation.
General election
General election for Louisiana Public Service Commission District 1
Incumbent Eric Skrmetta defeated Allen Borne Jr. in the general election for Louisiana Public Service Commission District 1 on December 5, 2020.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Eric Skrmetta (R) | 61.8 | 55,987 |
 | Allen Borne Jr. (D) | 38.2 | 34,639 | |
| Total votes: 90,626 | |||
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Nonpartisan primary election
Nonpartisan primary for Louisiana Public Service Commission District 1
The following candidates ran in the primary for Louisiana Public Service Commission District 1 on November 3, 2020.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Eric Skrmetta (R) | 31.3 | 134,900 |
| ✔ | | Allen Borne Jr. (D) | 24.9 | 107,174 |
 | J. Kevin Pearson (R) | 14.0 | 60,189 | |
 | John Mason (R) | 13.4 | 57,652 | |
 | Richard Sanderson II (R) | 8.2 | 35,502 | |
| John Schwegmann (Independent) | 5.5 | 23,707 | |
 | William Boartfield Jr. (G) | 2.8 | 11,890 | |
| Total votes: 431,014 | |||
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District 5
Louisiana elections use the majority-vote system. All candidates compete in the same primary, and a candidate can win the election outright by receiving more than 50 percent of the vote. If no candidate does, the top two vote recipients from the primary advance to the general election, regardless of their partisan affiliation.
Nonpartisan primary election
Nonpartisan primary for Louisiana Public Service Commission District 5
Incumbent Foster Campbell won election outright against Shane Smiley in the primary for Louisiana Public Service Commission District 5 on November 3, 2020.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Foster Campbell (D) | 52.8 | 198,033 |
| Shane Smiley (R) | 47.2 | 177,228 | |
| Total votes: 375,261 | |||
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates
- Scotty Waggoner (R)
Past elections
2018
Louisiana elections use the majority-vote system. All candidates compete in the same primary, and a candidate can win the election outright by receiving more than 50 percent of the vote. If no candidate does, the top two vote recipients from the primary advance to the general election, regardless of their partisan affiliation.
Nonpartisan primary election
The primary election was canceled. Craig Greene (R) won the election without appearing on the ballot.
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2017Louisiana held an election for the seat representing District 2 on the Louisiana Public Service Commission on October 14, 2017. This special election was called after the previous commissioner, Scott Angelle, was appointed to a position in the federal government by President Donald Trump. Craig Greene (R) defeated incumbent Damon Baldone (R) and Lenar Whitney (R) in the election to Louisiana Public Service Commission, District 2.
2016The general election for Public Service Commission Districts 3 and 4 was held on November 8, 2016. Incumbent Lambert Boissiere, III ran unopposed in the Louisiana public service commission, District 3 election.
2014District 1
District 5
2012
Scott Angelle (R) defeated four opponents in the blanket primary election on November 6, 2012. He earned over 57 percent of the vote, which qualified him to bypass the runoff election on December 8th.
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