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==The 1987 legislative election==
==The 1987 legislative election==
Brun ran for the legislature when his political mentor, State Representative [[B. F. O'Neal, Jr.]], announced his retirement, effective in 1988. Brun therefore entered the 1987 nonpartisan blanket [[primary]] for O'Neal's District 5 seat in the Louisiana House. He was one of eight candidates, four from each major party. He ran second with 3,542 votes (20 percent) to Democrat Walter F. Clawson, who drew 4,128 ballots (23 percent). The majority actually voted for the combined six other candidates, none of whom exceeded 14 percent of the vote.<ref>Louisiana Secretary of State, Election Returns, October 24, 1987.</ref>
Brun ran for the legislature when his political mentor, State Representative [[B. F. O'Neal, Jr.]], announced his retirement, effective in 1988. Brun therefore entered the 1987 nonpartisan blanket [[primary]] for O'Neal's District 5 seat in the Louisiana House. He was one of eight candidates, four from each major party. He ran second with 3,542 votes (20 percent) to Democrat Walter F. Clawson, who drew 4,128 ballots (23 percent). The majority actually voted for the combined six other candidates, none of whom exceeded 14 percent of the vote.<ref>Louisiana Secretary of State, Election Returns, October 24, 1987.</ref>
In the November 1987 [[general election]], Brun defeated Clawson, 5,547 votes (54 percent) to 4,656 (46 percent). Clawson gained only five hundred votes between the primary and the general election, but Brun increased his raw vote by some two thousand ballots.<ref>Louisiana Secretary of State, Election Returns, October 24, 1987.</ref> Though his initial election margin was not overwhelming, no candidates opposed Brun when he sought reelection in the primaries of 1991 and 1995.
In the November 1987 [[general election]], Brun defeated Clawson, 5,547 votes (54 percent) to 4,656 (46 percent). Clawson gained only five hundred votes between the primary and the general election, but Brun increased his raw vote by some two thousand ballots.<ref>Louisiana Secretary of State, Election Returns, October 24, 1987.</ref> Though his initial election margin was not overwhelming, no candidates opposed Brun when he sought reelection in the primaries of 1991 and 1995.