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Election Day is Tuesday, November 3, 2026, and voting is already underway in Louisiana. This is the whole race — the records, the claims against each candidate, and what the sources actually show.
The setup — and how Louisiana voting works this year
Louisiana does not hold ordinary primaries this cycle, and the map is new. The 2024 map (SB 8), which created the old LA-06 corridor, was struck down as an unconstitutional racial gerrymander — the Supreme Court upheld that ruling in Louisiana v. Callais on April 29, 2026 (Ballotpedia, Callais page). The legislature's replacement map, SB 121, signed into law May 29, 2026, governs this election. The closed-party House primaries Louisiana had scheduled were cancelled and their votes voided (Act 7 of the 2026 First Extraordinary Session), so November 3 is an open ("jungle") primary: all candidates of all parties are on one ballot. If anyone clears 50%, that candidate wins the seat outright; if no one does, the top two advance to a runoff on December 12, 2026 (Louisiana Secretary of State ballot-brief / election guide). Our call below is therefore the first-round recommendation.
LA-01 — the Northshore, Metairie, Kenner — is the seat of Rep. Steve Scalise (R). The race is rated Solid Republican (Cook Political Report, June 10, 2026), and the district's pre-existing Cook PVI in the sources retrieved was R+20 (no new-lines PVI under SB 121 was published in the sources retrieved). Four candidates are on the ballot (Secretary of State qualifying list; Shreveport Times qualifying report).
Rep. Steve Scalise (Republican, incumbent)
The record: Scalise, in Congress since 2008, is House Majority Leader — the second-ranking Republican in the chamber — and is endorsed by President Trump (Wikipedia nominee line; Cook race page, June 10, 2026). His fundraising is at leadership scale: $10.6 million per FEC figures in Wikipedia's compilation, $11.6 million in the Baton Rouge Advocate's — two figures from two sources, printed as found. He holds degrees from LSU (B.S. computer science; MBA) per Cook's Bioguide summary.
Pros: Eighteen years of seniority and the chamber's #2 job belong to this district's voters; the fundraising gap documents the race's actual shape. Cons: No sourced failure in his service is in our file. The flaw, plainly: none documented.
Randall Arrington (Republican)
The record: Arrington is a Navy veteran (Wikipedia; The Advocate). Beyond that single fact, no record was located — no office, no platform detail in the sources retrieved.
Pros: Military service. Cons: An insufficient record for an intra-party challenge to the House Majority Leader; a first-round protest vote for him functions only as arithmetic toward a runoff. The flaw, plainly: nothing to evaluate.
Lauren Jewett (Democratic)
The record: Jewett is a special-education teacher with about sixteen years in the field — the tenure figure and her prior school-board and state-board (BESE) races come from a low-strength informal guide and are labeled as such; her teaching occupation and the NOW endorsement are compilation-level (Wikipedia). Her FEC fundraising stands at $142,676 — against the incumbent's eight figures, the gap is the race's honest measure.
Pros: A classroom career and a statewide-organization endorsement. Cons: No elected office, no documented break toward our values, and a resource gap that cannot be closed in a jungle primary. The flaw, plainly: insufficient record; no exception case.
Liddy Glass (label conflict noted)
The record: The name and label conflict across sources: "Liddy Glass," Unaffiliated, on the Secretary of State list as compiled by the Shreveport Times, against "E. Glass," Independent, on Wikipedia's compilation; Wikipedia describes the candidate as a special-education teacher (a possible occupational overlap with Jewett's profile that our file does not resolve, and we do not merge them). Beyond the ballot line, no record was located.
OUR CALL — first-round recommendation
LiberalMind endorses Steve Scalise.
The House Majority Leader, a proven conservative incumbent, in a Solid R district, against a same-party challenger with no located record, a Democrat outspent seventy-to-one, and a fourth name the sources cannot even label consistently. Scalise is the only candidate in this field positioned to finish the race in the first round, and he is the aligned one.
This race is one of hundreds in LiberalMind's Election 2026 coverage. For the complete breakdown — every race, claim by claim — go to liberalmindhq.com.
Vote early. Research your candidates. Choose the best moderates, whatever their party — no extremism from either side. And encourage your friends and family to do the same.
Sources
- Louisiana Secretary of State qualifying list (Secretary of State ballot brief / election guide) — the four-candidate field, SB 121 map, jungle-primary and Dec. 12 runoff mechanics: https://www.sos.la.gov/
- Shreveport Times qualifying report — candidate labels as filed ("Liddy Glass," Unaffiliated): https://www.shreveporttimes.com/
- Wikipedia — "2026 United States House of Representatives elections in Louisiana" (nominee lines, FEC fundraising compilations, the conflicting "E. Glass / Independent" entry): https://en.wikipedia.org/
- Cook Political Report — Solid R rating (June 10, 2026) and PVI R+20 (pre-existing figure, labeled); Ballotpedia — Louisiana v. Callais and the SB 8 litigation record.
Winner: Steve Scalise (Republican) — called by the Associated Press. This result was appended on November 4, 2026 (results wave 2); the original article above is unchanged, exactly as published before Election Day.
AI-assisted article — but the sources are human, and the facts are very real.