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https://www.thenewsstar.com/story/news/2022/11/07/louisiana-gop-endorses-jeff-landry-other-republican-hopefuls-cry-foul/69625433007/|title=Louisiana GOP endorses Jeff Landry in 2023 governor's race|publisher=''The Monroe News Star''|author=Greg Hilburn|date=November 7, 2022|accessdate=November 8, 2022}}</ref>
https://www.thenewsstar.com/story/news/2022/11/07/louisiana-gop-endorses-jeff-landry-other-republican-hopefuls-cry-foul/69625433007/|title=Louisiana GOP endorses Jeff Landry in 2023 governor's race|publisher=''The Monroe News Star''|author=Greg Hilburn|date=November 7, 2022|accessdate=November 8, 2022}}</ref>
Various polls indicated that Landry would likely win the race, but many expected the contest to enter a runoff phase in November. Instead with 547,828 votes (52 percent), Landry won the governorship outright. The turnout was less than 36 percent of registered voters. Finishing sedonc was the African-American Democrat Shawn D. Wilson, the choice of John Bel Edwards, who polled 275,527 votes (26 percent) of the vote. In third place was Stephen "Wags" Waguespack, who stepped down as the former president of the [[Louisiana Association of Business and Industry]] to make the race, polled 62,280 votes (6 percent).<ref>Louisiana Secretary of State, Election Returns, October 24, 2023.</ref> Landry carried the endorsement of former [[U.S. President]] [[Donald J. Trump]].
Various polls indicated that Landry would likely win the race, but many expected the contest to enter a runoff phase in November. Instead with 547,828 votes (52 percent), Landry won the governorship outright. The turnout was less than 36 percent of registered voters. Finishing second was the African-American Democrat Shawn D. Wilson, the choice of John Bel Edwards, who polled 275,527 votes (26 percent) of the vote. In third place was Stephen "Wags" Waguespack, who stepped down as the former president of the [[Louisiana Association of Business and Industry]] to make the race, polled 62,280 votes (6 percent).<ref>Louisiana Secretary of State, Election Returns, October 24, 2023.</ref> Landry carried the endorsement of former [[U.S. President]] [[Donald J. Trump]].
==Background==
==Background==