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==Election to the state senate==
==Election to the state senate==
In the 2007 campaign, Long defeated the Democratic State Representative [[Taylor Townsend]], a [[nephew]] and law partner of former State Senator [[Don Kelly|Donald G. Kelly]] of Natchitoches. Townsend had unseated Jimmy Long in the 1999 nonpartisan blanket [[primary]] for the Louisiana House. Townsend, who ran to the political "left" of Long, did not seek a third term in the House but instead sought the open Senate seat vacated by Gerald Long's cousin, Mike Smith, a businessman in Winnfield.<ref>Louisiana State Senate, District 31, enlou.com, no longer on-line.</ref> Long procured 20,609 votes (54 percent) to Townsend's 17,699 (46 percent). Long won five of the six parishes in the district, having lost only in Natchitoches, the home of both candidates. He even won in Red River Parish, one of only two north Louisiana parishes that did not support the successful Republican gubernatorial candidate, [[Bobby Jindal]], in the October 20 primary.<ref>Louisiana Secretary of State, Election Returns, October 20, 2007.</ref>
In the 2007 campaign, Long defeated the Democratic State Representative [[Taylor Townsend]], a [[nephew]] and law partner of former State Senator [[Don Kelly|Donald G. Kelly]] of Natchitoches. Townsend had unseated Jimmy Long in the 1999 nonpartisan blanket [[primary]] for the Louisiana House. Townsend, who ran to the political "left" of Long, did not seek a third term in the House but instead sought the open Senate seat vacated by Gerald Long's cousin, Mike Smith, a businessman in Winnfield.<ref>Louisiana State Senate, District 31, enlou.com, no longer on-line.</ref>
Long procured 20,609 votes (54 percent) to Townsend's 17,699 (46 percent). Long won five of the six parishes in the district, having lost only in Natchitoches, the home of both candidates. He even won in Red River Parish, one of only two north Louisiana parishes that did not support the successful Republican gubernatorial candidate, [[Bobby Jindal]], in the October 20 primary.<ref>Louisiana Secretary of State, Election Returns, October 20, 2007.</ref>
==Potential gubernatorial bid==
==Potential gubernatorial bid==