BATON ROUGE — More than 363,000 Louisiana voters had already cast ballots by the end of Saturday, leaving two days of early voting before the state turns toward the November 3 election.
Statewide figures reported through October 24 show 363,685 ballots cast, including 298,524 in person and 65,161 by absentee ballot. Early-voting sites were closed Sunday and reopen Monday and Tuesday from 8:30 a.m. until 6 p.m.
The November ballot includes Louisiana’s U.S. Senate contest, congressional races and 10 proposed constitutional amendments, giving voters an unusually long list of statewide and federal decisions.
East Baton Rouge Parish led the state with 37,142 early ballots through Saturday, followed by Orleans with 32,184, Jefferson with 30,496 and St. Tammany with 28,538. Lafayette Parish had recorded 18,585 ballots, placing it fifth statewide.
Those numbers measure participation, not election results. Louisiana’s early-voting data should not be treated as evidence of how any candidate or amendment is performing because a voter’s registration does not reveal how that person marked a ballot.
That caution is especially important when comparing party-registration totals. Louisiana voters can cross traditional partisan lines in several contests, and the state’s open congressional primary structure means registration alone cannot determine candidate preference.
The remaining calendar is short. Early voting ends Tuesday, October 27, at 6 p.m. The deadline for eligible voters to request an absentee ballot is Friday, October 30, at 4:30 p.m., and parish registrars generally must receive completed absentee ballots by Monday, November 2, at 4:30 p.m.
Election Day is Tuesday, November 3. Polls will be open from 6 a.m. until 8 p.m. Voters can use the Louisiana Secretary of State’s GeauxVote tools to verify their polling location and review a sample ballot before voting.
The early turnout is already substantial, but it is still incomplete. Two full early-voting days remain, absentee ballots can continue arriving, and a large share of Louisiana voters traditionally wait until Election Day.
For campaigns and amendment supporters and opponents, the final stretch now shifts from persuasion toward turnout. For voters, the more practical issue is making sure they understand a ballot that combines federal races with 10 separate proposed changes to Louisiana’s constitution.
Cajun Conservatism will continue treating turnout statistics as participation data rather than attempting to infer election outcomes from incomplete early-vote numbers.
Sources
Louisiana Secretary of State — 2026 election dates and deadlines
Louisiana First — statewide early-vote totals through Oct. 24, published Oct. 25, 2026
