Guillory wins School Board race; amendments trail in St. Mary, statewide

Interim School Board member Lawrence Guillory has won election in District VII.

With all seven precincts reporting, Guillory had 659 votes, or 67%, to 321, or 33%, for challenger Carla Pellerin, according to complete but unofficial returns from the Louisiana Secretary of State's Office.

Guillory was appointed last year to fill the School Board District VII seat left vacant by Murphy Pontiff's resignation. He'll serve the remainder of Pontiff's term, which expires in January 2027.

He is the fourth member of the current 11-member School Board to win election after an interim appointment. The others are Tammie Moore, Debra Jones and Guienzy Brent.

As in statewide voting, St. Mary voters were saying no to four constitutional amendments in early voting by margins of more than 60-40.

The amendments' failure represents a defeat for Gov. Jeff Landry, who pushed for their passage, particularly the tax changes in Amendment 2.

Amendment 1 called for expansion of the state Supreme Court's authority to discipline out-of-state attorneys and to allow the Legislature broader authority to create specialty courts, including drug courts.

Amendment 2 was controversial in part because it stretched the one amendment, one proposal standard to the limits and beyond. It was written to lower the constitutional cap on income tax rates, greatly increase the standard deduction for taxpayers over 65, eliminate trust funds and direct their funds to teacher raises, create a new spending limit for the Legislature and more.

Amendment 3 was written to take the list of crimes for which juveniles can be tried as adults out of the constitution and hand the power to define those crimes to the Legislature.

Amendment 4 was written to require judicial vacancies to be filled at the earliest available election date.

In St. Mary only:

Amendment 1
Early & Absentee Reporting - 1 of 1 parishes
Election Day Reporting - 46 of 46 precincts
2,416 YES 34%
4,645 NO 66%
Total: 7,061
Unofficial Turnout: 23.1%

Amendment 2
Early & Absentee Reporting - 1 of 1 parishes
Election Day Reporting - 46 of 46 precincts
2,415 YES 34%
4,662 NO 66%
Total: 7,077
Unofficial Turnout: 23.1%

Amendment 3
Early & Absentee Reporting - 1 of 1 parishes
Election Day Reporting - 46 of 46 precincts
2,376 YES 34%
4,678 NO 66%
Total: 7,054
Unofficial Turnout: 23.1%

Amendment 4
Early & Absentee Reporting - 1 of 1 parishes
Election Day Reporting - 46 of 46 precincts
2,429 YES 35%
4,606 NO 65%
Total: 7,035
Unofficial Turnout: 23.0%

Statewide

Amendment 1
Early & Absentee Reporting - 64 of 64 parishes
Election Day Reporting - 3789 of 3789 precincts
221,334 YES 35%
412,082 NO 65%
Total: 633,416
Unofficial Turnout: 21.3%

Amendment 2
Early & Absentee Reporting - 64 of 64 parishes
Election Day Reporting - 3789 of 3789 precincts
224,085 YES 35%
410,083 NO 65%
Total: 634,168
Unofficial Turnout: 21.3%

Amendment 3
Early & Absentee Reporting - 64 of 64 parishes
Election Day Reporting - 3789 of 3789 precincts
212,324 YES 34%
419,366 NO 66%
Total: 631,690
Unofficial Turnout: 21.2%

Amendment 4
Early & Absentee Reporting - 64 of 64 parishes
Election Day Reporting - 3789 of 3789 precincts Votes
229,597 YES 36%
401,499 NO 64%
Total: 631,096
Unofficial Turnout: 21.2%