The interim mayor for Jean Lafitte will now lead the town and its roughly 2,000 residents permanently after winning the open seat in a special election Saturday.

Complete but unofficial returns show Yvette Crain, who was appointed interim mayor in May, won 98% of the votes over Will Wyman, a rescue chief for the Lafitte-Barataria-Crown Point Volunteer Fire Department.

The seat opened up earlier this year after Timothy Kerner Jr. won a special election for Jefferson Parish Council District 1, ending a five-year tenure as mayor. Before that, Timothy Kerner Sr. served seven terms as mayor before moving to the Louisiana House of Representatives.

Kerner Sr.'s father, Leo Kerner Jr., was the first mayor to lead Jean Lafitte after its 1974 incorporation.

Crain was town clerk for 35 years unde

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