Louisiana congressional elections

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RaceTracker 2012 Congressional Election Dashboard
2012 House report · 2012 Senate report
	House¹: 435 seats			Senate: 33 seats
	GOP	Dems	Total	GOP	Dems	Total
Confirmed primary challenges	63	32	95	4	4	8
Possible primary challenges	13	5	18	1	0	1
Open seats*	7	15	26	2	6	9²

1. Does not include the special election in OR-01.
2. Includes Joe Lieberman, who is retiring from his Conn. senate seat.

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U.S. Senate

Seats up for election in 2012:

Select seat for race details	Incumbent	Party	Incumbent running	Primary challenge	Confirmed candidates	Possible candidates
LA-01	Stephen Scalise	Republican	Yes	No	Stephen Scalise	Myron Katz
LA-02	Cedric Richmond	Democratic	Yes	Maybe	Cedric Richmond	Lambert Boissiere III
LA-03	Jeff Landry	Republican	Maybe	Yes	Charles Boustany	Jeff Landry
LA-04	John Fleming	Republican	Yes	No	John Fleming	David Melville
LA-05	Rodney Alexander	Republican	Yes	No	Rodney Alexander
LA-06	William Cassidy	Republican	Yes	No	William Cassidy	Merritt McDonald Sr Caroline Fayard
LA-07	Charles Boustany	Republican	Yes, for a different seat	N/a