The person behind the name
Blake Miguez’s public career runs from a 2015 special election to the Louisiana House, through four years as the House’s Republican leader, to the state Senate and a 2026 campaign for Congress that moved from the U.S. Senate race to the 5th District and, after the map was redrawn, to the 6th. [2][5][40]
The campaign biography describes him as a seventh-generation Louisianian who manages his family’s oil-and-gas business, and names his wife, Ashley, a special-needs teacher, with whom he is raising four children. His official Senate page lists a district office in New Iberia; reporting places his home in Erath, and in August 2026 he told reporters that he had bought a home in Baton Rouge that spring and had lived in both Baton Rouge and New Iberia his entire adult life. Neither the official page nor the campaign states a birth date; The Guardian gave his age as 44 in March 2026. [3][1][21][40]
Education and professional preparation
His official Senate page records Catholic High School in New Iberia, 1999; a political-science degree from Louisiana State University, 2004; and the Southern University Law Center, 2008. Ballotpedia lists his profession as oil-and-gas executive. Bar records and degree transcripts were not part of this review. [1][2]
Before politics he was known as a competitive shooter: the campaign calls him a world-champion marksman and a contestant on the History Channel’s Top Shot, and The Atlantic and The Guardian each described him as a champion sharpshooter, The Atlantic adding that he was a former reality-show contestant. The world-champion title is the campaign’s description; the Club for Growth calls him an accomplished competitive shooter, and a joint fundraising committee described on its candidate page benefits his campaign and a committee named TOP SHOT PAC. Tournament records were not retrieved for this review. [3][22][21][37]
A public life that began with a special election
He won the House District 49 seat in a February 21, 2015 special election with 92.9 percent of the vote, 2,705 to 206, after Simone Champagne resigned; he held it with 84.7 percent that October and was the only candidate listed in the October 12, 2019 primary. On October 14, 2023 he won Senate District 22 outright with 19,559 votes, 61.2 percent, in a five-candidate field, and took office on January 8, 2024. [2]
He announced a challenge to U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy in June 2025, left that race on February 3, 2026 to run for the open 5th District, and received President Trump’s endorsement the next day. After the Supreme Court struck down the congressional map on April 29, 2026 and the Legislature redrew it, he qualified on August 7, 2026 in the redrawn, Baton Rouge-centered 6th District — which WBRZ described as including East Baton Rouge, West Baton Rouge, Pointe Coupee, Iberville, Assumption, St. Martin, Livingston, St. John the Baptist and Ascension parishes — as one of ten candidates in the November 3 open primary. [21][20][19][7][40][5][16]
A note on the word “nominee.” Louisiana’s 2024 closed-primary law would have produced party nominees for Congress in May and June 2026, but those primaries were suspended after the Callais decision and, under Act 7 of 2026, all candidates for the U.S. House run together in the November 3 open primary. No party nomination exists in this race; a majority wins outright and the top two otherwise meet on December 12. [15][6][13][14][11][2][5]
Life & public service
From New Iberia to the state Capitol and a congressional campaign reshaped by a Supreme Court decision, the documented milestones show how his record was built.
New Iberia, LSU and law school
Catholic High School, New Iberia, 1999; Louisiana State University, political science, 2004; Southern University Law Center, 2008, per his official Senate page. [1]
A special election to the House
Won House District 49 on February 21, 2015 with 92.9 percent against John Bering after Simone Champagne resigned to become Youngsville’s chief administrative officer, then a full term that October with 84.7 percent. [2]
The only name on the 2019 ballot
Won the October 12, 2019 primary outright as the only candidate listed, per Ballotpedia’s election record. [2]
A veto on private election funding
His HB 20, which would have prohibited private funds for election expenses, passed the House 69–35 and the Senate 26–11 and was vetoed by Governor John Bel Edwards on June 7, 2021, in a message noting he had vetoed the same bill the year before; two of his other bills were vetoed that year and two became law. [30][44][45]
The discharge motion
Defended the 55–39 House vote to send HB 837, a bill to bar classroom discussion of sexual orientation or gender identity, to a committee of the whole after the Education Committee had rejected it 7–4, calling the move “perfectly within the rules.” [41]
Accomplishments, in the record
Bill histories and roll calls on the Louisiana Legislature’s website, the Governor’s veto and executive-order records, and the Secretary of State’s election pages establish the following work. Outcomes are described at the level those records support, with shared credit where the measure was another legislator’s bill.
Permitless concealed carry, Act 1 of 2024
SB 1 of the 2024 Second Extraordinary Session, authored by Miguez, made it lawful for any person 18 or older who is not prohibited from possessing a firearm to carry a concealed weapon without a permit, replacing an exemption that had applied only to residents 21 or older with military service. It passed the Senate 28–10 on February 22, 2024 and the House 76–28 on February 28, was signed as Act 1 on March 5 and took effect July 4, 2024; the existing limits on carrying in courthouses, polling places, schools, the Capitol and places of worship were carried over. [23][24]
In the regular session that followed he carried six more firearms measures into law: SB 152 (Act 6) on permitless carry, SB 194 (Act 59) on the preemption of state law for firearms, SB 214 (Act 37) allowing concealed carry in restaurants that serve alcohol, SB 233 (Act 38) on concealed carry by qualified law-enforcement officers and qualified retired officers, SB 234 (Act 581) barring certain governmental-entity contracts with companies that discriminate against the firearm and ammunition industries and SB 301 (Act 585) on transactions involving firearms and ammunition retailers. [27]
Fourteen laws in his first Senate session
The Legislature’s author index lists 31 instruments in his name for the 2024 Regular Session, 21 of them bills, of which 14 were signed into law. Beyond the firearms bills, they include SB 101 (Act 291) on ranked-choice and instant-runoff voting, SB 195 (Act 308) on work requirements in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, SB 205 (Act 311) on additional compensation for teachers and other school employees in certain circumstances, SB 208 (Act 314) on sanctuary policies, SB 316 (Act 172) on charter schools, SB 379 (Act 127) on the Atchafalaya Basin Bridge and SB 497 (Act 591) on the selection of the Board of Ethics. His SB 5, requiring public retirement systems to invest on financial factors alone, remained in the Retirement Committee. [27]
Verification, referrals and a statute of limitations
In 2025 his SB 100 (Act 419) provided for gathering data on the legal status of people receiving state services and SB 101 (Act 420) addressed the illegal carrying of weapons; his SB 240, an additional standard deduction for taxpayers 65 and older, stayed in the Revenue and Fiscal Affairs Committee. In 2026 his SB 194 (Act 745) requires that applicants who fail citizenship or immigration verification be referred to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, and SB 207 (Act 364) sets a ten-year limit on prosecuting certain crimes by elected officials and public employees; SB 395, to let the state expropriate property owned by certain foreign adversaries, is pending in Judiciary A. [26][25]
Private money in elections: two bills, then an amendment
His HB 20 of 2021, prohibiting the use of private funds to pay election-related expenses, passed the House 69–35 on May 4 and the Senate 26–11 on May 20 and was vetoed by Governor John Bel Edwards on June 7, 2021; his veto message said the bill was broader than a version he had vetoed the year before and would bar every donation to local election officials while the Legislature’s own appropriation let it accept grants. The 2022 version, HB 811, ended the session awaiting Senate final passage. In 2023 he carried HB 311, a constitutional amendment prohibiting funds and resources from a foreign government or a nongovernmental source in the conduct of elections unless the Election Code provides otherwise; the House passed it 70–30 on May 17, the Senate failed it 22–12 on June 5, then reconsidered and approved it 27–12 on June 8, 2023, and it became Act 200, adding Article XI, Section 6 for submission to voters on October 14, 2023. The vote of the electorate was not read from the canvass for this review. [30][44][45][29][33][34]
Republican leader of the House
WRKF’s candidate listing records him as House Majority Leader from 2020 to 2024 and the campaign calls him the former House Republican Majority Leader; the official Senate page does not list past House leadership posts and no legislative document naming the post was read for this review, so the title is used here as those sources use it. In those years, in May 2022, he defended the 55–39 vote to send HB 837 to a committee of the whole after the Education Committee had rejected it, telling WWNO that breaking precedent was justified for important bills. [5][3][41]
His own House bills in those years included HB 48 (Act 463 of 2021) on concealed-handgun-permit safety and training courses, HB 868 (Act 518 of 2022) creating an online handgun-education course and HB 446 (Act 295 of 2023) on its curriculum, HB 540 (Act 441 of 2023) establishing port and harbor police forces, and property bills for Iberia and St. Martin parishes. [30][29][28]
A vote for the map that made the district
On May 14, 2026 he voted Yea on final passage of SB 121, Senator Jay Morris’s congressional map, which passed 27–10; the House passed it 66–36 on May 28, the Senate concurred 28–10 on May 29 and the Governor signed it as Act 2 the same day. The Associated Press reported that the map was designed to help Republicans pick up a seat by eliminating one of the state’s two majority-Black districts, and that its sponsor said party affiliation, not race, drove the boundaries. Miguez then qualified in the 6th District the map created. [10][9][8][40]
Assignments in the Senate
His official Senate page lists him as vice chair of Senate and Governmental Affairs and of the Capitol Security Council, and a member of Education, Finance, Judiciary C, the Atchafalaya Basin Program Oversight Committee and the Joint Legislative Committee on the Budget; Ballotpedia records Appropriations and the Joint Legislative Budget Committee during his House years and a vice chairmanship of Labor and Industrial Relations in 2019–2020. [1][2]
What the outside groups and the filings show
The Club for Growth PAC, which counts him in the Club for Growth Foundation’s 2025 Fellowship class, endorsed him for the 5th District on February 3, 2026 and again for the 6th on August 17, 2026; the Louisiana Republican Party’s endorsement, which he announced on August 24, 2026, followed. The Federal Election Commission’s page for his principal committee, Blake Miguez for Louisiana, registered June 17, 2025 with a Baton Rouge post-office box, shows for June 16, 2025 through July 18, 2026 total receipts of $6,612,410, of which $3,549,531 were contributions and $3,013,458 loans made by the candidate; total disbursements of $4,579,818, including $1,001,102 in candidate-loan repayments; and cash on hand of $2,032,592 against $2,012,355 in debts and loans owed by the committee, each figure rounded down to the dollar. Ballotpedia’s earlier summary, captured on February 21, 2026 and drawn from FEC and OpenSecrets data, showed $4,782,575 in contributions and $1,142,979 in spending for the House candidacy. Itemized receipts and any report filed after July 18, 2026 were not read. [36][37][38][43][4][2]
Family & community
The campaign biography names his wife, Ashley, a special-needs teacher, and says they are raising four children; it credits his grandfather, who had a fourth-grade education and built a business, and his father with teaching him the value of trust. His official Senate page places his district office in New Iberia. [3][1]
In the Senate he belongs to the Acadiana Delegation, the Louisiana Republican Legislative Delegation and the Louisiana Rural Caucus, and he has carried resolutions honoring police officers, a Cajun musician and a Milken Educator Award winner. [1][27][26]
Neither his official Senate page nor his campaign biography states a religious affiliation, and this profile makes no claim about one. The sources reviewed here document family, residence and public roles; they do not supply a verified record of charitable board service, and none is asserted. [1][3]
Mission & priorities
“I’m running for Congress to protect the American Dream for our children, our grandchildren, and future generations of Louisianians.” {3}
The following summarizes the agenda on Miguez’s campaign website, in his campaign statements and in a September 2026 radio interview. These are proposed priorities, not completed accomplishments. [3][42]
01Back the President’s agenda
The campaign site’s headline is “Blake Miguez: The MAGA Choice,” and his statement of purpose says: “President Trump is doing great things for our country, and he deserves representatives in Congress who have his back and support his agenda.” The endorsement the site cites was given in the 5th District race on February 4, 2026; WAFB reported on August 10 that it did not follow him into the 6th. [3][19][35]
02Costs, spending and the debt
On Talk 107.3 on September 16, 2026 he said voters raise grocery prices, fuel costs, infrastructure, flooding, energy production and the national debt, described his record as fiscally conservative and said he would oppose tax increases and seek greater accountability for federal spending. The Club for Growth lists term limits, digital assets and a balanced budget achieved through spending cuts among his priorities. In the Senate his 2025 bill for an additional standard deduction for taxpayers 65 and older did not leave committee. [42][37][26]
03The Second Amendment
The campaign says he “Led the charge to pass strong pro-gun rights laws in Louisiana, including Constitutional Carry.” The record supports the claim: Act 1 of the 2024 Second Extraordinary Session is his bill, and six further firearms bills in his name became law in the 2024 Regular Session. [3][23][27]
04Immigration enforcement
The campaign says he “Wrote the Louisiana law to quickly deport violent illegal immigrants by forcing New Orleans to follow immigration laws.” The bill histories show SB 208 of 2024 (Act 314), on sanctuary policies, and SB 194 of 2026 (Act 745), requiring referral to federal immigration authorities of applicants who fail citizenship verification; the campaign’s description of their effect is its own. [3][27][25]
05Election integrity
The campaign says he “Passed the law that banned Big Tech private funding from interfering in Louisiana elections.” His 2021 bill was vetoed and his 2022 bill did not clear the Senate; the measure that reached the ballot was his 2023 constitutional amendment, Act 200, submitted to voters on October 14, 2023. [3][30][29][33][34]
06School food and the MAHA agenda
The campaign says he “Passed a law to ban ultra-processed foods from being served in our schools.” His SB 117 of 2025 passed the House 97–0 and the Senate concurred 37–1, but Governor Landry vetoed it on June 20, 2025, writing that it “steps on the toes of SB 14,” the administration’s bill by Senator McMath that he had signed instead. [3][31][32]
07Education choice
The Club for Growth describes him as a strong advocate for education freedom who helped pass Louisiana’s GATOR school-choice program; no bill establishing that program appears among his authored bills in the 2024 index, where his enacted education measures are SB 316 (Act 172) on charter schools and SB 205 (Act 311) on additional compensation for teachers and school employees. [37][27]
08Girls’ sports and classrooms
The campaign says he “Helped lead the effort to ban men from using girls’ bathrooms, and to ban men from competing in women’s sports.” No bill of his own on those subjects appears in the author indexes reviewed; the documented episode is his support for the May 2022 vote to revive HB 837, the classroom sexual-orientation bill, which he called “perfectly within the rules.” [3][41]
How to assess a proposal. A campaign plan states an intention. Enactment, implementation costs, replacement revenue, and measured results are separate questions. These priorities should be read alongside the legislative and voting history above.
The fuller record
A useful profile includes policy tradeoffs, the limits of a claim, and responses to material criticism.
The 2007 police report
The Atlantic and The Guardian reported in March 2026 on an Iberia Parish sheriff’s report dated August 27, 2007 in which a former girlfriend, then 22, accused Miguez, then 25 and in law school, of rape; deputies detained and questioned him, she underwent a rape-kit examination, told investigators she did not want to press charges, and none were filed. The campaign said the claims were categorically false and pointed reporters to a February 24, 2026 e-mail from the accuser’s father calling his daughter a liar. The Guardian obtained the report through a public-records request in February 2026, reported that the sheriff’s office had first received a records request for it in late June 2025, six days after he announced his Senate campaign, and found no indication that the accuser had retracted it; The Atlantic wrote that the records it reviewed did not show fabrication on her part. The Club for Growth said it did not find the accusations credible; The Atlantic reported, citing two people familiar with the process, that the President’s advisers had not been told of the report before the endorsement. At qualifying in August 2026 a political committee texted district voters a redacted copy. These are reporters’ accounts of a police record, not a charge or a finding. [22][21][35][5]
Where he lives
Candidates for the U.S. House need only live in the state, as The Guardian and Louisiana Radio Network both noted; reporting places Miguez’s home in Erath and his Senate district office in New Iberia, and Louisiana Radio Network noted at qualifying that, while legal under Louisiana law, he did not live within the redrawn 6th District’s boundaries. In March 2026 his campaign told The Guardian that he had maintained a home in what was then the 5th District for about 26 years and had operated a business in Baton Rouge for more than a decade. Senator Rick Edmonds, whom the Louisiana Illuminator and the USA Today Network describe as his likeliest Republican rival, said at qualifying: “He’s not from here, he can’t vote here, and he doesn’t understand the issues facing our communities.” Miguez answered that Edmonds pastors a church in McComb, Mississippi, and Edmonds replied that he drives there and back every Sunday and does not own property or live in Mississippi. Miguez told reporters he bought a Baton Rouge home in spring 2026 and has lived in both Baton Rouge and New Iberia his entire adult life. On September 16, 2026 WBRZ reported that a New Iberia resident had complained to the Attorney General that his move to Baton Rouge would vacate his Senate seat; the station reported that his advertisements say he moved to Baton Rouge in 1999 and has owned a home there for 25 years, that parish documents show a Baton Rouge home purchased in 2026, and that his homestead exemption and voter registration are in Iberia Parish. His campaign called the advertisement “100 percent factual” and answered with a Mississippi tax lien against Edmonds, which Edmonds’s office said he had not known of and would pay. The complaint’s outcome was not on record at the review date. [21][20][1][18][40][38][17]
The endorsement that did not travel
President Trump’s February 4, 2026 endorsement named the 5th District; after the map changed, WAFB reported on August 10 that it had not followed him, and other Republican state lawmakers running in the 5th and 6th Districts said that week that they were courting the President’s approval, the Louisiana Illuminator reported. Miguez announced the Louisiana Republican Party’s endorsement on August 24, and Edmonds said that after receiving more endorsement votes than his opponents, a hand-picked few on the executive committee overrode the broader party will; the party chairman did not respond to the reporter. The Club for Growth PAC, which also backed him in the 5th, endorsed again on August 17. Endorsements establish political support; they are not evaluations of the record above. [19][35][40][38][37]
Three races in one cycle
He entered the U.S. Senate race in June 2025 with a video saying the incumbent, Senator Cassidy, “sucks,” and left it on February 3, 2026 after the President backed Representative Julia Letlow; analyst Bernie Pinsonat told Louisiana Radio Network he had been pushed out. He then qualified for the 5th District, a district he did not live in, and after that primary was cancelled he chose the 6th, where Edmonds said he had been told Miguez would stay out. His statement on switching: “When I announced my campaign for the U.S. Senate last year, I promised Louisianians I would stand with President Trump and fight for an America First agenda that puts Louisiana families first.” [19][20][40][35]
Campaign claims measured against the bill histories
The campaign site’s “MAGA Miguez Record” credits him with passing a school ultra-processed-foods law and the private-election-funding ban. The Legislature’s records show SB 117 passed both chambers and was vetoed on June 20, 2025, and that his 2021 funding ban was vetoed while the 2023 constitutional amendment was his; the site also lists a Louisiana DOGE appointment and a 2024 Legislator of the Year award from the Foundation for Government Accountability that this review did not verify. The title “House Republican Majority Leader” is the campaign’s, and “House Majority Leader 2020–2024” is WRKF’s; the official Senate page does not record either. [3][31][32][30][33][5][1]
The map he voted for
The 6th District he seeks exists because SB 121 replaced the map the Supreme Court struck down on April 29, 2026; he voted for the bill on May 14. The Associated Press reported that the new map eliminates one of two majority-Black districts, that Democratic senators called it a racial gerrymander, that its sponsor said he had drawn it to make districts perform better for Republicans and that further lawsuits were expected; Representative Cleo Fields did not seek re-election in the redrawn district. The Governor’s office framed the redraw as ending decisions based on race. The roll call is the record either way. [7][10][8][6][39]
Questions & answers
Who is Blake Miguez?
Blake Miguez’s public career runs from a 2015 special election to the Louisiana House, through four years as the House’s Republican leader, to the state Senate and a 2026 campaign for Congress that moved from the U.S. Senate race to the 5th District and, after the map was redrawn, to the 6th. [2][5][40] The campaign biography describes him as a seventh-generation Louisianian who manages his family’s oil-and-gas business, and names his wife, Ashley, a special-needs teacher, with whom he is raising four children. His official Senate page lists a district office in New Iberia; reporting places his home in Erath, and in August 2026 he told reporters that he had bought a home in Baton Rouge that spring and had lived in both Baton Rouge and New Iberia his entire adult life. Neither the official page nor the campaign states a birth date; The Guardian gave his age as 44 in March 2026. [3][1][21][40]
What office is Blake Miguez running for in 2026?
What are Blake Miguez's stated priorities?
The following summarizes the agenda on Miguez’s campaign website, in his campaign statements and in a September 2026 radio interview. These are proposed priorities, not completed accomplishments. [3][42] The campaign lists: Back the President’s agenda; Costs, spending and the debt; The Second Amendment; Immigration enforcement; Election integrity; School food and the MAHA agenda; Education choice; Girls’ sports and classrooms.
What does the public record show?
Bill histories and roll calls on the Louisiana Legislature’s website, the Governor’s veto and executive-order records, and the Secretary of State’s election pages establish the following work. Outcomes are described at the level those records support, with shared credit where the measure was another legislator’s bill. SB 1 of the 2024 Second Extraordinary Session, authored by Miguez, made it lawful for any person 18 or older who is not prohibited from possessing a firearm to carry a concealed weapon without a permit, replacing an exemption that had applied only to residents 21 or older with military service. It passed the Senate 28–10 on February 22, 2024 and the House 76–28 on February 28, was signed as Act 1 on March 5 and took effect July 4, 2024; the existing limits on carrying in courthouses, polling places, schools, the Capitol and places of worship were carried over. [23][24]
How was this profile researched?
Reviewed September 17, 2026. This is a documented overview of publicly available biography, major actions, and stated priorities, not an exhaustive vote-by-vote record; the Louisiana Legislature’s author indexes for the 2021 through 2026 regular sessions and the 2024 Second Extraordinary Session were read, together with the roll call on SB 121 and the digests and veto messages named above, while the House and Senate journals were not searched in full and his floor votes on other members’ bills were not tabulated. The 2026 election in the 6th District is an open primary on November 3 with no party nomination, so there is no primary result to report; the 2015, 2019 and 2023 figures are read from an Internet Archive copy of Ballotpedia because the Secretary of State’s results application, Ballotpedia’s live site, OpenSecrets and the race-rating publishers refused automated requests. The Federal Election Commission’s committee summary through July 18, 2026 was read; itemized receipts and any later report were not. Bar records, degree transcripts, personal financial disclosures, shooting-tournament records, interest-group scorecards and public polling were not part of this review. Numerical claims retain their original meaning and attribution. Historical sources do not imply current positions. A reporter’s account of a police record is labeled as such. The source list provides direct links so readers can check the underlying material. Filings and campaign pages may change after this review.
Sources & methodology
Government records anchor the profile: the Louisiana Legislature’s bill histories, roll calls, digests and veto messages, the Governor’s executive-order release, the Supreme Court’s opinion, the Secretary of State’s election pages and the Federal Election Commission’s committee record. The official Senate page and the campaign’s pages establish attributed background and stated positions; original reporting supplies scrutiny and responses; the Club for Growth’s statements are labeled as advocacy. Ballotpedia is cited, as an analysis source, for certified election figures where the Secretary of State’s results application could not be read by an automated request.
- 01Senator Blake Miguez, District 22 (official member page)Louisiana State Senate · Accessed September 17, 2026
Republican, District 22 (Iberia, Lafayette, St. Martin); year elected 2023; education; committee and caucus lists; New Iberia district office; official photograph.Government record - 02Blake Miguez (Internet Archive copy captured February 21, 2026) (Internet Archive copy, captured 2025)Ballotpedia (Internet Archive copy) · Captured February 21, 2026
Election results 2015, 2019 and 2023 as certified by the Secretary of State; assumed office January 8, 2024; committee history; profession; campaign-finance summary from FEC and OpenSecrets data as of the capture; the 5th District candidacy and the Trump endorsement as of February 2026.Independent analysis or rating - 03About — Blake Miguez for U.S. Congress (Internet Archive copy captured May 17, 2026) (Internet Archive copy, captured 2026)Blake Miguez campaign (Internet Archive copy) · Captured May 17, 2026
Campaign biography: family, business, marksmanship, the “House Republican Majority Leader” title, the statement of purpose and the “MAGA Miguez Record” claims. Self-descriptions.Campaign or advocacy material - 04Blake Miguez for U.S. Congress — home page (Internet Archive copy captured May 17, 2026) (Internet Archive copy, captured 2026)Blake Miguez campaign (Internet Archive copy) · Captured May 17, 2026
Campaign contact and press addresses; committee name and Baton Rouge post-office box; social-media links.Campaign or advocacy material - 0539 candidates qualify to run for Louisiana’s 6 congressional districtsWRKF (Brooke Thorington) · August 12, 2026
The full candidate list by district; Miguez listed as a state senator since 2024, state representative 2015–2024 and House Majority Leader 2020–2024; the Edmonds exchange; the PAC text with the 2007 police report; November 3 primary and December 12 runoff.Independent reporting - 06Governor Jeff Landry Suspends Only U.S. House Primary Elections Following Supreme Court RulingOffice of Governor Jeff Landry · April 30, 2026
Executive order suspending the May 16 and June 27, 2026 closed party primaries for U.S. House seats after the April 29 ruling; the electoral-emergency certification under R.S. 18:401.1.Government record - 07Louisiana v. Callais, No. 24-109, slip opinionSupreme Court of the United States · April 29, 2026
Argued October 15, 2025, decided April 29, 2026: SB8, the 2024 congressional map, held an unconstitutional racial gerrymander because the Voting Rights Act did not require the additional majority-minority district.Government record - 08Louisiana passes new congressional map to eliminate majority-Black district, give GOP another seatAssociated Press via PBS News · May 29, 2026
The 28–10 Senate concurrence; sponsor Jay Morris’s statement that party, not race, drove the lines; the map’s effect on Representative Fields’s district; litigation expected.Independent reporting - 09SB121 — 2026 Regular Session: Provides for the redistricting of Louisiana congressional districtsLouisiana State Legislature · Signed May 29, 2026
Bill history: Senate final passage 27–10 on May 14; House 66–36 on May 28; Senate concurrence 28–10 and signature as Act 2 on May 29, 2026.Government record - 10Senate roll call 883 on SB 121, final passageLouisiana State Senate · May 14, 2026
Miguez recorded among the 27 yeas; 10 nays; 2 absent.Government record - 11Louisiana legislature sets new election dates for U.S. House racesLouisiana Radio Network · May 14, 2026
Chairman Beaullieu on the cancelled spring primaries and the fall open primary; closed primaries to resume after 2026; qualifying August 5–7.Independent reporting - 12Election Dates — November 3, 2026 and December 12, 2026 electionsLouisiana Secretary of State · Accessed September 17, 2026
November 3, 2026 designated the open U.S. Representative primary and December 12, 2026 the open general; qualifying August 5–7; per Act 7 of 2026, U.S. Representative is not a closed party office for this cycle.Government record - 13HB842 — 2026 Regular Session: Makes revisions to the Louisiana Election Code (Act 7)Louisiana State Legislature · Signed May 14, 2026
Bill history of Representative Beaullieu’s election-code bill: conference report adopted 66–29 in the House and 29–7 in the Senate on May 13; signed as Act 7 on May 14, 2026.Government record - 14Résumé Digest, Act 7 (HB 842) of the 2026 Regular SessionLouisiana State Legislature · 2026
For 2026 only, representative in Congress is not a party primary office; the May 16 and June 27 party primaries cancelled and votes void; election at the November 3 open primary and December 12 open general; qualifying August 5–7, 2026.Government record - 15Closed Party Primary ElectionsLouisiana Secretary of State · Accessed September 17, 2026
Act 1 of the 2024 First Extraordinary Session: closed party primaries from 2026 for U.S. House and Senate, the Supreme Court, the Public Service Commission and BESE; majority to advance, plurality in the general.Government record - 1610 candidates qualify for Louisiana’s 6th Congressional DistrictWBRZ (Leah Williams) · August 8, 2026
The ten qualifiers by party; the parishes the redrawn district includes; Representative Fields forced out of the race by the redraw.Independent reporting - 17Complaint filed against State Sen. Blake Miguez alleges violation of residency rulesWBRZ (Logan Cullop) · September 16, 2026
The complaint to the Attorney General; homestead exemption and registration in Iberia Parish; the campaign’s advertisement and its spokesman’s response; the Mississippi tax lien against Edmonds.Independent reporting - 18As U.S. House race qualifying continues, Rick Edmonds calls out Blake Miguez on residencyLouisiana Radio Network · August 6, 2026
Edmonds’s statements on the endorsement and on residency during qualifying, before Miguez had chosen a district.Independent reporting - 19Blake Miguez scores Trump endorsement for House run after ditching Senate bidFox News (Alex Nitzberg) · February 5, 2026
The President’s February 4, 2026 Truth Social endorsement for the 5th District, quoted; the Senate campaign video calling Senator Cassidy “sucks”; Miguez’s press-release statement on switching races.Independent reporting - 20Blake Miguez pivots from U.S. Senate campaign to run for vacant U.S. House fifth District seatLouisiana Radio Network · February 3, 2026
The February 3, 2026 exit from the Senate race; analyst Bernie Pinsonat; the note that Miguez did not live in the 5th District.Independent reporting - 21Trump-endorsed Republican in Louisiana accused of rape in 2007The Guardian (Ramon Antonio Vargas) · March 11, 2026 (updated March 12, 2026)
The Iberia Parish sheriff’s report obtained by public-records request; no charges; the campaign’s denial and the father’s e-mail; the timing of the June 2025 records request; Erath residence; the permitless-carry law.Independent reporting - 22A Police Report About a House Candidate Surprised the White HouseThe Atlantic (Michael Scherer) · March 11, 2026
The 2007 report’s contents and the ages of those involved; the White House and Club for Growth responses; the accuser’s later court records; the campaign’s referral to the father’s e-mail.Independent reporting - 23SB1 — 2024 Second Extraordinary Session: Right of law-abiding citizens to carry concealed handguns without a permit (Act 1)Louisiana State Legislature · Signed March 5, 2024
Author Blake Miguez (a separate Senate vote on co-authors is recorded); Senate 28–10 on February 22, 2024; House 76–28 on February 28; signed as Act 1 on March 5, effective July 4, 2024.Government record - 24Résumé Digest, Act 1 (SB 1) of the 2024 Second Extraordinary SessionLouisiana State Legislature · 2024
Permitless concealed carry for any person 18 or older not prohibited from possessing a firearm; the prior exemption for those 21 and older with military service; location restrictions carried over.Government record - 25Legislation authored by Blake Miguez, 2026 Regular SessionLouisiana State Legislature (author index) · Accessed September 17, 2026
Five instruments: SB 194 (Act 745), SB 207 (Act 364), SB 395 pending, two condolence resolutions.Government record - 26Legislation authored by Blake Miguez, 2025 Regular SessionLouisiana State Legislature (author index) · Accessed September 17, 2026
Nine instruments: SB 100 (Act 419), SB 101 (Act 420), SB 117 vetoed, SB 148, SB 229, SB 240 and SB 241 pending in committee, SCR 16 and SR 127.Government record - 27Legislation authored by Blake Miguez, 2024 Regular SessionLouisiana State Legislature (author index) · Accessed September 17, 2026
Thirty-one instruments, 21 bills, 14 enacted, with act numbers; the firearms, SNAP, sanctuary, charter-school, teacher-pay, Atchafalaya Basin Bridge and Board of Ethics bills.Government record - 28Legislation authored by Blake Miguez, 2023 Regular SessionLouisiana State Legislature (author index) · Accessed September 17, 2026
HB 311 (Act 200, constitutional amendment), HB 446 (Act 295), HB 540 (Act 441), HB 531 pending, and resolutions.Government record - 29Legislation authored by Blake Miguez, 2022 Regular SessionLouisiana State Legislature (author index) · Accessed September 17, 2026
HB 811 (private election funds) pending Senate final passage; HB 530 (Act 733), HB 753 (Act 186), HB 868 (Act 518); HB 978 and HB 1044 not passed.Government record - 30Legislation authored by Blake Miguez, 2021 Regular SessionLouisiana State Legislature (author index) · Accessed September 17, 2026
HB 20 (private election funds), HB 438 and HB 597 vetoed by the Governor; HB 48 (Act 463) and HB 93 (Act 443) enacted.Government record - 31SB117 — 2025 Regular Session: Prohibits the serving and selling of ultra-processed foods in public schoolsLouisiana State Legislature · Vetoed June 20, 2025
House final passage 97–0 on June 3, 2025; Senate concurrence 37–1 on June 9; vetoed by the Governor June 20, 2025.Government record - 32Veto message, Senate Bill 117 of the 2025 Regular SessionOffice of Governor Jeff Landry · June 20, 2025
The Governor’s reasons: the bill duplicated and conflicted with SB 14 by Senator McMath, which he had signed; the effective-date and ingredient differences.Government record - 33HB311 — 2023 Regular Session: Constitutional amendment prohibiting foreign or nongovernmental funding of elections (Act 200)Louisiana State Legislature · June 12, 2023
Author Blake Miguez; House passage 70–30 on May 17, 2023; Senate failed it 22–12 on June 5, reconsidered and passed it 27–12 on June 8; Act 200, presented to the Secretary of State June 12, 2023.Government record - 34Résumé Digest, Act 200 (HB 311) of the 2023 Regular SessionLouisiana State Legislature · 2023
The amendment’s text in summary; submission to voters at the October 14, 2023 statewide election; adds Article XI, Section 6.Government record - 35Trump endorsement doesn’t follow Miguez into Louisiana’s 6th District raceWAFB · August 10, 2026
No new endorsement in the 6th District; the police report’s timing after the February endorsement; the Club for Growth’s continued support; Edmonds’s account that he was told Miguez would stay out.Independent reporting - 36Club for Growth PAC Endorses Blake Miguez in LA-05Club for Growth PAC · February 3, 2026
The February 3, 2026 endorsement; membership in the Club for Growth Foundation’s 2025 Fellowship class; David McIntosh’s statement. Advocacy source.Independent analysis or rating - 37Blake Miguez (LA-06) — candidate pageClub for Growth PAC · Accessed September 17, 2026
Age 44; legislative service dates; the Club’s description of his priorities and record; the August 17, 2026 endorsement in the 6th District; the Miguez Victory Fund and TOP SHOT PAC.Independent analysis or rating - 38Republican Party, Club for Growth endorse in Louisiana Congress raceShreveport Times / USA Today Network via Yahoo News (Greg Hilburn) · August 24, 2026
The Louisiana Republican Party endorsement of August 24, 2026 and Edmonds’s objection to the executive committee’s decision; Representative Fields did not qualify; the November 3 jungle primary; the Democratic endorsements.Independent reporting - 39Louisiana Democrats Announce Congressional Endorsements Ahead of Midterm ElectionsRed River Radio (Jeff Ferrell, with WRKF’s Brooke Thorington) · September 1, 2026
The Louisiana Democratic Party endorsed Lindsay “Rubia” Garcia of Walker in the 6th District; Representative Fields opted not to seek re-election; primaries November 3, runoffs December 12.Independent reporting - 40Miguez jumps into 6th District race, but Trump endorsement uncertainLouisiana Illuminator via KALB · August 8, 2026
Miguez qualified Friday, August 7, 2026; his statements on Baton Rouge ties and the home bought that spring; the exchange with Edmonds over residency and McComb; the ten-candidate field.Independent reporting - 41In unprecedented move, Louisiana’s ‘Don’t Say Gay’ bill resurrected after failing in committeeWWNO (Aubri Juhasz and Paul Braun) · May 10, 2022
The 55–39 vote to send HB 837 to a committee of the whole after a 7–4 committee rejection; Miguez’s statement that the motion was “perfectly within the rules.”Independent reporting - 42Blake Miguez Discusses Congressional Campaign and Priorities in Louisiana’s 6th DistrictTalk 107.3 FM (Mornings with Brian Haldane) · September 16, 2026
The station’s summary of his interview: the redrawn district, voters’ cost-of-living and infrastructure concerns, his fiscal record, opposition to tax increases and federal spending accountability.Independent reporting - 43BLAKE MIGUEZ FOR LOUISIANA — committee overview (C00908459)Federal Election Commission · Accessed September 17, 2026
The principal campaign committee, registered June 17, 2025, and its authorizing candidate, Blake Miguez, House candidate identifier H6LA05234; the financial summary for June 16, 2025 through July 18, 2026: receipts, contributions, candidate loans, disbursements, cash on hand and debts.Government record - 44HB20 — 2021 Regular Session: Prohibits the use of private funds to pay election-related expensesLouisiana State Legislature · Vetoed June 7, 2021
Author Blake Miguez; House final passage 69–35 on May 4, 2021; Senate 26–11 on May 20; vetoed by the Governor June 7, 2021; link to the veto message.Government record - 45Veto message, House Bill 20 of the 2021 Regular SessionOffice of Governor John Bel Edwards · June 7, 2021
Governor Edwards’s letter to the Speaker: the bill repeated one vetoed in the 2020 Second Extraordinary Session, was broader, would bar all donations to local election officials, and the legislative appropriation kept the Legislature’s own power to accept grants. Scanned letter without a text layer.Government record
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Voting in Louisiana: official dates, deadlines and rules
The general election is Tuesday, November 3, 2026. The dates and rules below were read from the Louisiana Secretary of State; the authority's own page, linked beside each one, is the final word.
Dates and deadlines
- Voter registration deadline (in person or by mail)October 5, 2026 is the deadline to register in person or by mail for the November 3, 2026 election, according to the Secretary of State's 2026 elections calendar. Online registration through GeauxVote has a later deadline, October 13, 2026. The pages reviewed do not say whether a mailed application must be postmarked or received by that date; the parish registrar of voters can confirm. Read from: sos.la.gov/elections-voting/election-dates
- Online voter registration deadline (GeauxVote)October 13, 2026 is the deadline to register online through GeauxVote for the November 3, 2026 election, according to the Secretary of State's 2026 elections calendar. Read from: sos.la.gov/elections-voting/election-dates
- Early voting beginsOctober 20, 2026 is the first day of early voting for the November 3, 2026 election, according to the Secretary of State's 2026 elections calendar. The Secretary of State's early-voting page says registrars of voters open their offices from 8:30 a.m. to 6 p.m. for each day of early voting; state law (R.S. 18:1309) sets those hours Monday through Saturday, so there is no early voting on Sunday, October 25. Read from: sos.la.gov/elections-voting/election-dates
- Early voting endsOctober 27, 2026 is the last day of early voting for the November 3, 2026 election, according to the Secretary of State's 2026 elections calendar. Read from: sos.la.gov/elections-voting/election-dates
- Deadline to request an absentee (mail) ballotOctober 30, 2026 is the deadline to request a mail ballot from the parish registrar of voters (voters other than military and overseas) for the November 3, 2026 election, according to the Secretary of State's 2026 elections calendar. The Secretary of State's absentee-voting page puts the cut-off at 4:30 p.m. CST on the 4th day before election day. The same page says military personnel and/or their dependents, U.S. citizens residing outside the U.S. and voters that are hospitalized must request their ballot by 4:30 p.m. CST on the day before election day; for hospitalized voters it adds that this later deadline applies only when physician or hospital documentation is submitted with the application (otherwise the 4th-day deadline applies). Read from: sos.la.gov/elections-voting/election-dates
- Deadline for the registrar to receive your voted absentee (mail) ballotNovember 2, 2026 is the deadline for the parish registrar of voters to receive a voted mail ballot (voters other than military and overseas) for the November 3, 2026 election, according to the Secretary of State's 2026 elections calendar. It is a receipt deadline, not a postmark deadline: the Secretary of State's absentee-voting page says voted ballots must be received by the parish registrar of voters by 4:30 p.m. CST on the day before election day. Ballots from military personnel and/or their dependents, U.S. citizens residing outside the U.S. and hospitalized voters must be received by 8 p.m. CST on election day. Read from: sos.la.gov/elections-voting/election-dates
- Polling place hours on Election DayPolls close at 8 p.m. on Election Day, and all voters in line at 8 p.m. have the right to vote, according to the Secretary of State's voting page. That page says polls open at 6 a.m. for Tuesday elections and at 7 a.m. for Saturday elections; November 3, 2026 is a Tuesday. State law (R.S. 18:541) sets the 6:00 a.m. opening for regularly scheduled congressional primary elections and elections held at the same time, and a 7:00 a.m. opening for other primary and general elections, so confirm the opening hour for your polling place in the Louisiana Voter Portal or with your parish registrar of voters. Read from: sos.la.gov/elections-voting/ways-to-vote
Rules to know
- What to bringThe Secretary of State's voting page tells voters to be prepared to show a photo identification card with their photo and signature, or a United States military identification card that contains their name and picture. Its early-voting page lists a driver's license, a Louisiana special ID, the LA Wallet digital driver's license or some other generally recognized picture ID that has your name and signature. A voter without photo ID may vote by affidavit after correctly answering identifying information. State law (R.S. 18:562) adds that the affidavit includes the voter's date of birth and mother's maiden name, and that a voter who votes without picture identification is subject to challenge. Read from: sos.la.gov/elections-voting/ways-to-vote
- Who may vote absentee by mail and how to applyLouisiana requires a reason to vote absentee by mail, unless you are a military or overseas voter. The Secretary of State's absentee-voting page lists the qualifying categories, among them: voters 65 years of age or older; voters temporarily outside Louisiana or their parish during the early voting period and on election day; people working offshore; students, instructors or professors living outside their parish of registration; clergy assigned outside their parish; voters who expect to be hospitalized on election day; sequestered jurors; Address Confidentiality Program participants; and voters who are physically disabled or homebound. You may request a ballot by logging in to the Louisiana Voter Portal as the voter, or print an application and deliver it to your parish registrar of voters by U.S. Postal Service, commercial carrier, hand delivery or fax. A voted ballot may be returned by mail (including commercial carrier), by hand delivery by the voter or an immediate family member, or by fax upon request to the registrar. The registrar reviews the ballot envelope flap for a missing voter signature, a missing witness signature and a missing mother's maiden name. Read from: sos.la.gov/elections-voting/ways-to-vote
- Early voting in personEarly voting is done in person at the parish registrar of voters office or at other locations designated in the parish. State law (R.S. 18:1309) sets the period at fourteen days to seven days before a scheduled election, with offices open from 8:30 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. Monday through Saturday. The Secretary of State's Early Voting Locations page lists the sites in every parish and cautions that a location “May be open limited dates,” so check your location in the Louisiana Voter Portal or with your registrar. Early voters are asked to identify themselves with a photo ID or a signature on a voter affidavit. Read from: voterportal.sos.la.gov/earlyvoting
- Track your absentee ballotThe Secretary of State's absentee-voting page says “You can track the status of your absentee ballot here” and links to the tracking tool. The Louisiana Voter Portal says its website carries information about absentee and provisional ballot status, and that this information is not yet available on the GeauxVote mobile apps. Information about an individual voter is reached through “Search By Voter” in the portal. Read from: voterportal.sos.la.gov/MobileLanding
- Assistance at the pollsThe Secretary of State's voting page says voters who are unable to read or who are disabled, including physical disability or visual impairment, are able to vote with assistance. Read from: sos.la.gov/elections-voting/ways-to-vote
Read from: 2026 ELECTIONS (DATES ARE SUBJECT TO CHANGE BY THE LEGISLATURE) Revised 11/2024 · Vote · Vote Absentee · Vote Early · Register to Vote · Voter Portal: Search — Rules and dates as of Sep 17, 2026
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