Thibaut and Landry win House seats
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Pointe Coupee School Board member Major Thibaut won the District 18 seat in the Louisiana House of Representatives.
In Acadiana, Lafayette family law attorney Nancy Landry was on track to take the District 31 seat in the state House.
With 44 of 44 precincts reporting, complete but unofficial tallies showed Thibaut, a 31-year-old Democrat, had 9,177 votes – 52 percent – while Troy Grezaffi of Livonia received 8,548 or 48 percent of the 17,725 votes cast.
Thibaut of Oscar finished second in a five-way race among Democrats in the Oct. 4 primary election for the Louisiana House seat vacated by Don Cazayoux after he won election to Louisiana’s 6th Congressional District.
Both Thibaut and Grezaffi are Democrats who sell insurance and financial planning services. Both attended the same high school, though a few years apart.
Thibaut said both he and Grezaffi, 40, have large and old families that live in and around New Roads. Grezaffi is the nephew of LSU and Kansas City Chiefs football player Sammy Grezaffi.
Pointe Coupee Parish is home to 16,515 of the 25,118 registered District 18 voters.
Nearly half the registered voters in the district are between the ages of 18 and 45. About two-thirds are Democrats and two-thirds are white.
District 18 covers all of Pointe Coupee and parts of West Baton Rouge and West Feliciana parishes.
In the District 31 seat for the state House of Representatives, Landry beat Maurice businessman Troy Theriot with all of the district’s 30 precincts reporting Tuesday night. Landry drew 12,016, or 61 percent, of the votes to Theriot’s 7,535 votes.
Both candidates are Republicans.
The winner would replace House Education Committee Chairman Don Trahan, R-Lafayette.
Trahan was in the first year of his second term when he resigned to take a job with the state Department of Education.
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