BATON ROUGE, La. ( Louisiana Illuminator ) - The Louisiana Senate voted along political party lines Saturday to push back 2026 election dates in an effort to leave as much time as possible to redraw Louisiana’s congressional map. Republicans expect to craft political districts more to their liking if they receive a favorable ruling from the U.S. Supreme Court later this year.

The GOP Senate majority, made up entirely of white senators, outvoted the Democrats, all but one of whom are Black, 27-9, on Senate Bill 1 . The legislation moves the political candidate qualifying period and two spring election dates for congressional primary contests back by approximately one month.

Elections scheduled for April 18 and May 30 would move to May 16 and June 27 respectively.

The delayed e

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