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governor, Jeff Landry, postponed voting for U.S. House primaries so state lawmakers could enact new district lines. "Allowing elections to proceed under an unconstitutional map would undermine the integrity of our system and violate
change the map to a constitutional one, and obviously shift the election,” said John Fleming, a Republican and former House Freedom Caucus member running for Senate. "It's going to be tough.” Matt Gromlich
Governor Jeff Landry said in a statement on April 30. He said his order suspending the vote “ensures we uphold the rule of law while giving the [state] legislature the time it needs to pass
map, [sending the election system into chaos](https://www.politico.com/news/2026/05/01/lousiana-republicans-election-chaos-00902893). “This is unchecked power,” said Daigle, the GOP parish chair, of Landry’s decision to suspend House elections, which occurred after more than
changing the rules of the game in the middle of the game. It’s rigging the system.” Currently, [Louisiana](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/louisiana) is represented in the US House by four Republicans and two Democrats
change conference. ## Trump’s sway? Trump carried Louisiana in the 2016 and 2020 presidential elections with about 58 percent of the vote, and in 2024 with 60 percent. Heading into the primary vote, the president
governor said that he will not cancel Georgia’s May 19 primary or rush to redraw congressional maps, following a Supreme Court ruling that [gutted the Voting Rights Act](https://www.politico.com/news/2026/04/29/voting-rights-act-supreme-court-future-00898949) and [triggered
Governor Jeff Landry told Republican candidates for the House of Representatives on Wednesday that he planned to suspend next month’s primary elections to allow state lawmakers time to approve a new congressional map
map that would have left him in a member-on-member primary. “This will be his last competitive election cycle that will have any impact on him. And I think the base is starting
Landry [suspended the primaries for the U.S. House races](https://www.npr.org/2026/04/30/nx-s1-5806000/louisiana-suspends-house-primaries-supreme-court) to allow the state legislature to create a new map. Early voting started there this past weekend. - 🎧 **Aubri Juhasz of NPR network station