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|term_start=January 2012

|term_start=January 2012

|term_end=January 2024

|term_end=January 2024

|preceded=Butch Gautreaux

|preceded=Robert Allain

|succeeded=Pending runoff election}}

|succeeded=Pending runoff election}}

Allain also is committed to completing Interstate 49, the [[Shreveport]] to Lafayette, Louisiana, superhighway. A pending plan would upgrade U.S. Highway 90 between [[New Orleans]] and [[Lafayette]] into an interstate-quality highway.<ref name=allain/>  

Allain also is committed to completing Interstate 49, the [[Shreveport]] to Lafayette, Louisiana, superhighway. A pending plan would upgrade U.S. Highway 90 between [[New Orleans]] and [[Lafayette]] into an interstate-quality highway.<ref name=allain/>  

Allain ran unopposed for his third term in the state Senate in the nonpartisan blanket primary held on October 12, 2019. Term-limited in 2023, Allain's son, Robert Allain, with 44 percent of the primary vote, is seeking to succeed his father in a November 18 runoff election against another Republican candidate, Henry "Bo" LaGrange, who held 31 percent of the ballots cast. The remaining 25 percent of the vote was held by Republican Stephen Swiber.<ref>Louisiana Secretary of State, Election Returns, October 14, 2023.</ref>

Allain ran unopposed for his third term in the state Senate in the nonpartisan blanket primary held on October 12, 2019. Term-limited in 2023, Allain's son, Robert Allain, with 44 percent of the primary vote, led another Republican candidate, Henry "Bo" LaGrange, who held 31 percent of the ballots cast. The remaining 25 percent of the vote was held by Republican Stephen Swiber.<ref>Louisiana Secretary of State, Election Returns, October 14, 2023.</ref>In the general election on November 18, Robert Allain defeated Henry LaGrange, 59 to 41 percent, in a low turnout contest in which only 23 percent of registered voters participated.<ref>Louisiana Secretary of State, Election Returns, November 18, 2023.</ref>

 

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