2026 General Election · Tuesday, November 3, 2026

Louisiana Board of Elementary and Secondary Education (special election) (special election)

2 candidates, listed alphabetically.

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Joseph Cao

Republican

Work: Former U.S. Representative for Louisiana's 2nd District (2009-2011)

Joseph Cao is an American politician who was the U.S. representative for Louisiana's 2nd congressional district from 2009 to 2011. A member of the Republican Party, he was the first Vietnamese American, as well as the first native of Vietnam, to serve in Congress.

Joseph Cao represented Louisiana's 2nd Congressional District in the U.S. House from 2009 to 2011, the first Vietnamese American member of Congress. He ran for U.S. Senate in 2016.

Sources for Cao

Joseph Cao (Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0)

Angela Hershey

Democratic

Work: Retired teacher

Angela Hershey is described in Wikipedia's coverage of this race as: retired teacher.

Sources for Hershey

2026 Louisiana Board of Elementary and Secondary Education special election (Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0)

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Candidate list and race details

2026 Louisiana Board of Elementary and Secondary Education special election (Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0)

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