3,000 plus votes cast ahead of Saturday

More than 3,000 voters cast early ballots in both St. Landry and Acadia parishes as the race to see who will lead Louisiana for the next four years draws closer.
The two, top state races are the governor and lieutenant governor elections.
Candidates for governor are: Scott A. Angelle, Beryl Billiot, Jay Dardenne, Cary Deaton, John Bel Edwards, Jeremy “J.W.” Odom, Eric Paul Orgeron, S.L. Simpson and David Vitter.
Lieutenant governor candidates are: Elbert Lee Guillory, Melvin L. “Kip” Holden, Billy Nungesser and John Young.
Locally, voters in the Eunice area also be voting for St. Landry Parish Council members from districts 12 and 13, depending on each voter’s ward and precinct, and voters will also cast their ballot for the state representative for state representative District 14. State representative District 14 candidates are Phillip DeVillier, Greg Fruge and Germaine Simpson. Candidates for District 12 St. Landry Parish Council member are Jimmie E. Edwards, Kenneth Janice, John Marshall and Imelda Allison Thomas. Candidates for District 13 St. Landry Parish Council member Coby Roy Clavier and Gary D. Courville.
Eunice voters in Acadia Parish will vote for sheriff and for police jury members in districts 7 and 8, depending on each voter’s ward and precinct.Candidates for Acadia Parish Sheriff are K. P. Gibson, Keith Latiola and Brian Richard. Candidates for Police Jury District 7 are Pat Daigle,
Marron O. Lollis and David Savoy. Candidates for Police Jury District 8 are Robert J. Guidry and Felton Moreau.
Of St. Landry’s Parish’s 59,487 registered voters, 3,403 people cast their ballots during early voting, according to St. Landry Parish Registrar of Voters Cheryl Milburn.
“Voter turnout went well, but the numbers were not as good as I thought they would be,” Milburn said. “If there had been more races, there would have been more voters. Several candidates in the parish ran unopposed. I was looking to get more like 4,000 or 5,000 early voters or about 11 percent of the parish’s voters, but it was more like 9 or 10 percent without the mail in ballots.”
Of those 3,403 voters, 2,941 voted in person, and 462 voters mailed in their ballots. The following are the number of voters by day: Oct. 10, 528; Oct. 12, 361; Oct. 13, 389; Oct. 14, 387; Oct. 15, 353; Oct. 16, 455; and Oct. 17, 468.
Milburn said she expects a greater crowd for Saturday’s election.
“I can usually tell by the early election turnout what the turnout for the main election will be like,” she said. “By my calculations, I expect about 40 to 47 percent of the parish’s voters.”
There are 4,251 registered voters in St. Landry Parish Council District 12, 4,048 voters in
St. Landry Parish Council District 13 and 10,136 voters in state representative District 41.
Polls will be open from 7 a.m. to 8 p.m. Eunice voters will cast their ballots at the following locations by ward and precinct:
Ward 6 Precinct 1 and Ward 6 Precinct 1A, Fire District #6 Substation at 1398 Guillory Road.
Ward 6 Precinct 2, Northwest Community Center, 140 Samuel Drive.
Ward 6 Precinct 5, Ward 6 Precinct 5A, Ward 6 Precinct 5B, Ward 6 Precinct 6, and Ward 6 Precinct 8 at Eunice City Hall, 300 S. Second St.
Ward 6 Precinct 7, Eunice High School, 301 S. Bobcat Dr.
Ward 6 Precinct 9, Eunice Vocational Center, 421 S. Tenth St.
Ward 6 Precinct 10, Amy Fire Sub Station, 411 Ella St.
Ward 6 Precinct 13, Glendale Elementary, 900 West Dean St.
Ward 6 Precinct 14, American Legion Hall, 251 W Park Blvd.
Ward 6 Precinct 15, Southeast Community Center, 101 City Ave.
Ward 6 Precinct 16A, East Elementary School, 501 Brother J. Road.
Of the 39,004 registered voters in Acadia Parish, 3,117 voted early. Of those voters, 2,736 cast their ballots in person and 375 voted by mail. The following are the number of voters by day: Oct. 10, 450; Oct. 12, 436; Oct. 13, 470; Oct. 14, 502; Oct. 15, 412; Oct. 16, 222; and Oct. 17, 244.
Billie Myers, Acadia Parish Registrar of Voters, said, “Early voting went very well, better than I anticipated. Voters got here at the end of the week, even with the Rice Festival going on. We had more than I expected and more than I expected to get the Friday and Saturday of the festival.”
The number of registered voters in Acadia Parish Police Jury District 7, which includes parts of Eunice, is 5,340 and the number of registered voters in Acadia Parish Police Jury District 8, which also includes part of Eunice, is 4,998. The number of voters in Acadia Parish that are in state representative District 41 is 15,123.
Eunice voters who live in Acadia Parish will cast their ballots at the following locations by ward and precinct:
Ward 3 Precinct 2 and Ward 3 Precinct 5, Richard Elementary at 1616 Charlene Hwy.
Ward 7 Precinct 2 at Tepetate Fire Station, 1404 Redich Road.
Ward 7 Precinct 3 and Ward 7 Precinct 4 at the Health and Physical Education Building at LSUE, 2048 Johnson Hwy.

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