Changes

|party=[[Republican Party|Republican]] [[Governor|gubernatorial]] candidate in Louisiana, 2019

|party=[[Republican Party|Republican]] [[Governor|gubernatorial]] candidate in Louisiana, 2019

}}

}}

'''Edward Lee Rispone''', known as '''Eddie Rispone'''(pronounced RISPONY) (born January 21, 1949),<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.mylife.com/eddie-rispone/e720917170998|title=Eddie Risone|publisher=Mylife.com|accessdate=December 8, 2018}}</ref> a [[business]]man from the capital city of [[Baton Rouge]], [[Louisiana]], who is the [[Republican Party|Republican]] choice to face [[Governor]] [[John Bel Edwards]], a [[Democratic Party|Democrat]], in the [[Governor|gubernatorial]] runoff election set for for November 16, 2019. In the nonpartisan blanket primary held on October 12, 2019, he edged out fellow Republican [[U.S. Representative]] [[Ralph Abraham]] of Louisiana's 5th congressional district, a medical doctor from Richland Parish. Edwards polled exactly 626,000 (47 percent) in the primary to Rispone's 368,318 (27 percent), and Abraham's 317,115 (24 percent).<ref names=primaryreturns>Louisiana Secretary of State, Election Returns, October 12, 2019.</ref>

'''Edward Lee Rispone''', known as '''Eddie Rispone'''(pronounced RISPONY) (born January 21, 1949),<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.mylife.com/eddie-rispone/e720917170998|title=Eddie Risone|publisher=Mylife.com|accessdate=December 8, 2018}}</ref> a [[business]]man from the capital city of [[Baton Rouge]], [[Louisiana]], who is the [[Republican Party|Republican]] choice to face [[Governor]] [[John Bel Edwards]], a [[Democratic Party|Democrat]], in the [[Governor|gubernatorial]] runoff election set for for November 16, 2019. In the nonpartisan blanket primary held on October 12, 2019, he edged out fellow Republican [[U.S. Representative]] [[Ralph Abraham]] of Louisiana's 5th congressional district, a medical doctor from Richland Parish. Edwards polled exactly 626,000 (47 percent) in the primary to Rispone's 368,318 (27 percent), and Abraham's 317,115 (24 percent).<ref name=primaryreturns>Louisiana Secretary of State, Election Returns, October 12, 2019.</ref>

Republican state Senator Sharon Hewitt of Slidell in St. Tammany Parish had indicated that she was considering a gubernatorial campaign too but chose to run instead for the state Senate and potentially to seek to succeed [[Moderate Republican]] [[John Alario]] as the state Senate President. Hewitt vowed support for either Rispone or Abraham in the primary.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.shreveporttimes.com/story/news/2019/04/11/breaking-sen-hewitt-wont-run-governor/3438834002/|title=Sen. Hewitt won't run for Louisiana governor 'for now'|author=[[Greg Hilburn]]|publisher=''The Shreveport Times''|date=April 11, 2019|accessdate=April 12, 2019}}</ref>

Republican state Senator Sharon Hewitt of Slidell in St. Tammany Parish had indicated that she was considering a gubernatorial campaign too but chose to run instead for the state Senate and potentially to seek to succeed [[Moderate Republican]] [[John Alario]] as the state Senate President. Hewitt vowed support for either Rispone or Abraham in the primary.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.shreveporttimes.com/story/news/2019/04/11/breaking-sen-hewitt-wont-run-governor/3438834002/|title=Sen. Hewitt won't run for Louisiana governor 'for now'|author=[[Greg Hilburn]]|publisher=''The Shreveport Times''|date=April 11, 2019|accessdate=April 12, 2019}}</ref>