New Orleans voters gave Mayor-elect Helena Moreno's incoming administration a boost on Saturday, approving $510 million in bond propositions she'd endorsed that can be spent on affordable housing, parks, roads and other infrastructure — though it can’t go to fill a gaping city budget hole.

The three separate bond measures , all approved by wide margins, came in a low-turnout election that also seated the final two City Council members and settled a bitter race for Orleans Parish clerk of Criminal Court.

The clerk’s race went convincingly to Calvin Duncan, a former life prisoner and longtime inmate counsel at the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola who waged a remarkable campaign as a political newcomer to unseat incumbent Darren Lombard.

Duncan's win — he earned 68% of the vote t

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