New Orleans To Have Its First Woman Mayor [View all]

[RandySF]

The next mayor of New Orleans, Louisiana, will be a woman, a first in the city’s nearly 300-year history.

Although the city has not yet elected its new mayor, both of the candidates to emerge from the first round of voting on Saturday are women.

The top two contenders, City Councilwoman LaToya Cantrell and former Municipal Court Judge Desiree Charbonnet, will now face each other in a runoff election on Nov. 18. (New Orleans uses a top-two “jungle primary” system in which nonpartisan elections proceed to a runoff if no candidate gets over 50 percent on the first ballot.)

Cantrell received 39 percent of the vote to Charbonnet’s 30 percent. In the field of 18 candidates, former Civil District Court Judge Michael Bagneris came in a distant third place with 19 percent.



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