1971 primaries · May 1, 1971
1971 Louisiana State Senate primary results, district by district
Every Louisiana State Senate district in the 1971 primaries: winners, margins, unopposed seats and seats that changed party.
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Every district
| Race | Winner | Won by | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| SD-2 · Democratic primary | Nat Kiefer (D) | 43.9 | |
| SD-4 · Democratic primary | Adrian G. Duplantier (D) | 33.0 | |
| SD-6 · Republican primary | Lawrence W. Moon Jr. (R) | 28.6 | |
| SD-7 · Democratic primary | Charles G. Smither (D) | 16.1 | |
| SD-7 · Republican primary | Richard B. Lemann III (R) | 40.7 | |
| SD-8 · Democratic primary | Fritz Windhorst (D) | 11.1 | Incumbent lost |
| SD-9 · Democratic primary | Elwyn H. Nicholson (D) | 3.1 | |
| SD-10 · Democratic primary | M. Joe Tiemann (D) | -5.1 | Incumbent lost |
| SD-11 · Democratic primary | Francis Lauricella (D) | 15.3 | |
| SD-12 · Democratic primary | B. B. Rayburn (D) | 41.9 | |
| SD-13 · Democratic primary | W. E. Dykes (D) | -0.4 | |
| SD-14 · Democratic primary | Gaston Gerald (D) | 17.9 | |
| SD-15 · Democratic primary | J. D. Deblieux (D) | 4.3 | |
| SD-16 · Democratic primary | Kenneth E. Osterberger (D) | 20.3 | Incumbent lost |
| SD-17 · Democratic primary | J. E. Jumonville (D) | 3.1 | |
| SD-18 · Democratic primary | Louis J. Lambert Jr. (D) | 42.7 | |
| SD-19 · Democratic primary | Harvey Peltier (D) | 21.1 | |
| SD-20 · Democratic primary | Claude Berwick Duval (D) | 15.3 | |
| SD-22 · Democratic primary | Paul Hardy (D) | -10.2 | Incumbent lost |
| SD-23 · Democratic primary | Edgar G. Mouton Jr. (D) | 13.6 | |
| SD-24 · Democratic primary | Robert K. Guillory (D) | 4.0 | Incumbent lost |
| SD-25 · Democratic primary | James E. Fontenot (D) | 8.2 | Incumbent lost |
| SD-26 · Democratic primary | Jesse Knowles (D) | 25.8 | |
| SD-27 · Democratic primary | Robert Jones (D) | 40.7 | |
| SD-28 · Democratic primary | John Adam Tassin Jr. (D) | 3.9 | |
| SD-29 · Democratic primary | Cecil R. Blair (D) | 3.4 | |
| SD-30 · Democratic primary | Bryan A. Poston (D) | 19.5 | |
| SD-31 · Democratic primary | Paul Foshee (D) | 0.5 | Incumbent lost |
| SD-32 · Democratic primary | James H. Brown (D) | 14.4 | |
| SD-33 · Democratic primary | Charles M. Brown (D) | 8.8 | |
| SD-34 · Democratic primary | William D. Brown (D) | 40.2 | |
| SD-35 · Democratic primary | K. D. Kilpatrick (D) | 18.7 | |
| SD-36 · Democratic primary | Harold Montgomery (D) | 2.5 | Incumbent lost |
| SD-37 · Democratic primary | Jackson B. Davis (D) | 64.7 | |
| SD-38 · Democratic primary | C. Kay Carter (D) | 13.1 | |
| SD-39 · Democratic primary | Don Williamson (D) | -2.6 |
Louisiana State Senate
Results are each source's final count; margins are the winner's lead over the runner-up in points of the vote. Source: Harvard Dataverse / Carl Klarner