Louisiana Democratic Party

Louisiana Democratic Party
Chairperson	Randal Gaines
Senate Minority Leader	Gerald Boudreaux
House Minority Leader	Sam Jenkins
Founded	1828; 196 years ago (1828)
Headquarters	PO Box 4385 Baton Rouge, LA 70821
Membership (2021)	1,225,830[1]
Ideology	Modern liberalism
National affiliation	Democratic Party
Colors	Blue
Louisiana House of Representatives	33 / 105
Louisiana State Senate	12 / 39
Statewide Executive Offices	0 / 7
U.S. House of Representatives	1 / 6
U.S. Senate	0 / 2
Public Service Commission	2 / 5
State Supreme Court	1 / 7
Website
louisianademocrats.org
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The Louisiana Democratic Party (French: Parti démocrate de Louisiane, Spanish: Partido Demócrata de Luisiana) is the affiliate of the Democratic Party in the state of Louisiana.

Dominated by the conservative planter elite through much of the 19th century, the party was historically prominent in politics since before the American Civil War. It struggled to regain power through Reconstruction, when the Republican Party became competitive due to support by most African Americans and many other Unionists. Democrats held the governorship continuously 1877 to 1980, when Republican David Treen took office.^[2]

Governor John Bel Edwards, Public Service Commissioners Foster Campbell and Davante Lewis and Supreme Court Justice Piper Griffin were the only Democrat elected statewide in Louisiana.