2024 Baton Rouge mayoral election

The 2024 Baton Rouge mayoral election was held on November 5, 2024, with a runoff for December 7 to elect the mayor-president of Baton Rouge, Louisiana. With no candidate receiving a majority of votes in the initial round of the election, a runoff election was held on December 7. Incumbent Democratic Mayor Sharon Weston Broome was seeking re-election to a third term and placed second in the first round behind Republican Sid Edwards.^[1] Edwards defeated the incumbent Mayor Broome in the runoff election, becoming the first Republican elected mayor-president since 2000.^[2]

2024 Baton Rouge mayoral election

← 2020 November 5, 2024 (first round) December 7, 2024 (runoff) 2028 →

Candidate Sid Edwards Sharon Weston Broome Ted James Party Republican Democratic Democratic First round 64,862 34.38% 58,843 31.19% 53,510 28.37% Runoff 57,308 54.12% 48,587 45.88% Eliminated

Results by precinct Edwards:      50–60%      60–70%      70–80%      80–90%      >90% Broome:      50–60%      60–70%      70–80%      80–90%      >90%

Mayor before election Sharon Weston Broome Democratic Elected mayor Sid Edwards Republican

Candidates

Advanced to runoff

• Sharon Weston Broome (Democratic), incumbent mayor^[1]
• Sid Edwards (Republican), Istrouma High School head football coach^[3]

Eliminated in primary

• Ryan Carter (Independent), IT worker^[4]
• Nathaniel Hearn (Republican), actor^[4]
• Ted James (Democratic), former regional administrator for the U.S. Small Business Administration (2022–2024) and former state representative from the 101st district (2011–2022)^[5]
• Steve Myers (Republican), perennial candidate^[4]
• Champagne Roundtree (Independent), property manager^[4]

Withdrawn

• Tammy Cook (Republican), realtor (remained on ballot)^[6][7]

Results

2024 Baton Rouge mayoral election 1st round^[8]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Republican	Sid Edwards	64,862	34.38%
	Democratic	Sharon Weston Broome (incumbent)	58,843	31.19%
	Democratic	Ted James	53,510	28.37%
	Republican	Steve Myers	4,541	2.41%
	Republican	Tammy Cook (withdrawn)	2,587	1.37%
	Republican	Nathaniel Hearn	2,120	1.12%
	Independent	Ryan Carter	1,527	0.81%
	Independent	Champagne Roundtree	656	0.35%
Total votes			188,646	100.00%

Runoff results

2024 Baton Rouge mayoral election runoff^[9]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Republican	Sid Edwards	57,308	54.12%
	Democratic	Sharon Weston Broome (incumbent)	48,587	45.88%
Total votes			105,895	100.00%