Letlow received more than a third of the vote with 85 percent of the expected votes tallied. A delegate to the 20 Republican National Conventions, who had been seen as the front-runner, Mr. Luke Letlow advanced to a runoff election against the candidate who finished second in a bipartisan field. This was a safe Republican seat the question was which Republican would win. In the Fifth Congressional District, which covers the northeastern part of the state, nine candidates were running for the House seat being vacated by Representative Ralph Abraham.
Louisiana is a solidly red state where President Trump won easily and Senator Bill Cassidy, a first-term Republican, cruised to re-election.