ELECTION RETURNS

NOVEMBER 9, 2016

     In complete but unofficial election returns from Tuesday’s statewide elections, here are the vote totals from the Secretary of State’s office:

Constable in Justice of the Peace Ward Three- Charles Perdices, the incumbent defeated Michael Fruge. Perdices had 1300 votes to Fruge’s 1228 votes.

For Mayor in the village of Pine Prairie: Quint West with 424 votes was elected over Wade Deshotels who received 25 votes;

For Chief of Police in Pine Prairie: incumbent L.C. Deshotel with 360 votes beat Joshua Estes who received 54 votes;

For Alderman in Pine Prairie where three are to be elected:

Incumbents Tammy Hammond with 339 votes, Debbie Oge with 313 votes and Gilbert J. Bordelon with 301 votes were all elected. The other candidate Gregory Savant received 90 votes;

The millage tax renewal in the Ward One area for fire protection service easily won for Fire Protection District 2. Those voting y es were 2309 votes and no votes totaled 944 votes;

In the race for President in Evangeline Parish: Donald Trump received the most votes with 70 percent of the vote with Hillary Clinton coming in second with 28 percent of the vote;

For US Senator, Charles Boustany pulled the most votes in Evangeline Parish 33 percent of the votes; That was followed by John Kennedy ; Foster Campbell was next followed Caroline Fayard and then John Fleming;

For Congressman in the 4^th District, Evangeline Parish voters voted for Mike Johnson with 2809 votes followed closely by Elbert Guillory with 2805 votes. Trey Baucum was next and then Marshall Jones;

For Public Service Commissioner in District 4: Mike Francis was the top voter in Evangeline Parish with 58 percent of the vote followed by Mary Werner who got 34 percent of the vote;

Constitutiuonal Amendments: Evangeline Parish voters were in favor of Amendment #1 dealing with qualifications for the Registrar of Voters, 71 percent to 29 percent; Amendment #2 voted no to establish a tuition without legislative approval, 61 to 39 percent; Amendment 3-, voters here voted no on the proposal to eliminate the deductibility of federal income taxes, 58 to 42 percent’ Amendment 4- voters in Evangeline Parish voted in favor of the proposal to offer homestead exemption for a surviving spouse, 69-31 percent; Amendment 5, voters were in favor of a revenue stabilization fund, 53 to 47 percent; and Amendment 6, voters here voted against using funds to eliminate projected deficits, 59 to 41 percent.

KVPI was there broadcasting live at the Clerk of Court’s Office with News Director Stephanie Ware getting the vote totals from Clerk of Court Randy Deshotel. We included national election returns from Fox News.