In a special election held on February 24, 2007, to choose Hopkins' successor, the Republican [[Jim Morris (Louisiana Politician)|Jim Morris]], a Caddo Parish commissioner, received 69 percent of the vote and defeated two other Republicans and two Democrats. Morris then won a full term in the nonpartisan blanket primary held on October 20, 2007. In 2019, Morris revealed that he had switched his voter registration to [[Independent]] the preceding year; he was term-limited in the 2019 nonpartisan blanket primary. | In a special election held on February 24, 2007, to choose Hopkins' successor, the Republican [[Jim Morris (Louisiana Politician)|Jim Morris]], a Caddo Parish commissioner, received 69 percent of the vote and defeated two other Republicans and two Democrats. Morris then won a full term in the nonpartisan blanket primary held on October 20, 2007. In 2019, Morris revealed that he had switched his voter registration to [[Independent]] the preceding year; he was term-limited in the 2019 nonpartisan blanket primary. |