Oct. 14 elections: Iberville Parish elects new parish president

IBERVILLE PARISH, La. (BRPROUD) — Iberville Parish residents chose a new parish president and council members.

Across Louisiana, voters cast ballots for the governor, lieutenant governor, attorney general, secretary of state and treasurer.

“Chris” Daigle, Democrat, unseated Jessel “Mitchel” Ourso Jr., Independent, for the parish president seat. Daigle had 53% of the votes in complete but unofficial results on the Louisiana Secretary of State Office website.

Thomas Dominique Sr., Raheem Pierce, Nadia Jenkins, Chasity Martinez, and Matthew Jewell were elected as council members.

Races going to runoffs

The council member seat for District 4 will go to a runoff between Freddie Frazier Sr., Democrat, and Ronald Grace, Democrat. Frazier had 44% of the vote while Grace had 33% of the vote.

The council member seat for District 9 will go to a runoff between Terry Bradford, Independent, and Evan Cagnolatti, Independent. Bradford had 48% of the vote while Cagnolatti had 34% of the vote.

The council member seat for District 11 will go to a runoff between Kyle Booksh, Republican, and Charles Dardenne, No Party. Booksh had 49% of the vote, and Dardenne 43%.

Qualifying for state and local races was Aug. 8-10. If a race had only one candidate at the end of qualifying at 4:30 p.m. Aug. 10., that person is set to take office at the start of the next term.

Paul B. Distefano, Republican, withdrew from the assessor’s race.

The Secretary of State website lists Ryan “Ricky” Young, Democrat, as disqualified for the Council Member of District 1 race.

Marlene George, Republican, and Keithen Pugh, No Party, withdrew from the Council Member of District 10 race.

The following seats were filled in unopposed races:

Sheriff: Brett Stassi, Democrat
Clerk of Court: Amy Matrirne Patin, Democrat
Assessor: “Randy” Sexton, Democrat
Coroner: James E. Grace, Republican
Council Member District 1: Shalanda Lewis Allen, Democrat
Council Member District 2: Chasity Berthelot Easley, Republican
Council Member District 5: Steve “Pine” Smith, Independent
Council Member District 8: Hunter Markins, No Party
Council Member District 13: Barton Morgan, No Party
Chief of Police City of Plaquemine: Stephen J. Engolio, Republican

The general election will be Nov. 18. Early voting is set for 8:30 a.m. to 6 p.m. Nov. 3-11 (excluding Sunday, Nov. 5 and Friday, Nov. 10 in honor of Veteran’s Day). Learn where you can cast early ballots here.