U.S. House - LA-05 · Louisiana · 2026
General election · 8 on the November ballot · Open seat (no incumbent)
Result
Not yet decidedNo result has been reported for the Louisiana's 5th District race yet. The state publishes its count on its official results page.
Checked against our results rows (state feeds and Wikipedia’s race tables). The polls and ratings further down were published before the election and are not results.
Before the election
Polls, ratings and the Vugol Tensor below were published before votes were counted. They are not results.
Model rating Leans Republican (Anchored) on the Vugol Vector model, a snapshot of today, not a probability.
No polls on file for this race. Model inputs: 3 of 7, updated today. Page updated 2026-11-14. Sources · What is validated
ExperimentalNews attention 60/100, how much coverage the race gets, not who is winning. Updated 7 days ago. How it works
On the November ballot (8)
From reported primary results, checked 2026-11-13. Each state certifies its own ballot; see the source below.
Other filers (4)
Registered with the FEC or listed in public records, but not on the November ballot as far as the results show.
Ballot source: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=2026_United_States_House_of_Representatives_elections_in_Louisiana&oldid=1385026318
Latest verified field polling
Verified = published by the pollster that conducted it, with a public source we link to.
No verified poll has been published for this race. The Vugol Vector call from our model is below, it is not a poll.
Polling average
No polls on file for this race yet. See latest polls across every race.
Campaign money (FEC)
Candidate committee totals for the cycle from the Federal Election Commission (public domain), as of each committee's latest report.
| Candidate | Raised | Spent | Cash on hand | Through |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Antonio Wilson | $71,047 | $39,997 | $31,051 | 2026-10-14 |
| Austin Magee | $11,431 | $11,251 | $180 | 2026-10-14 |
| Dan McKay | $121,182 | $116,184 | $4,998 | 2026-10-14 |
| Dixon McMakin | $63,405 | $63,405 | $0 | 2026-07-18 |
| Larry W Foy | $6,838 | $5,721 | $-332 | 2026-07-31 |
| Michael Charles Echols | $3,188,840 | $2,299,888 | $888,952 | 2026-10-14 |
| Michael Gabriel Firment | $453,882 | $390,613 | $63,269 | 2026-10-14 |
| Misti Smith Cordell | $658,608 | $458,430 | $200,178 | 2026-10-14 |
| Patricia Ann Moore | $23,054 | $18,908 | $4,145 | 2026-10-14 |
| Samuel Lee Wyatt | $299,615 | $299,615 | $0 | 2026-09-24 |
| Stewart Cathey Jr. | $245,550 | $147,771 | $97,779 | 2026-10-14 |
| Tania Nyman | $33,124 | $22,233 | $10,891 | 2026-09-30 |
Ad spending (FEC)
What each campaign reported paying for ads, and what outside groups (super PACs, PACs and parties) reported spending for and against each candidate. Federal Election Commission filings, public domain.
| Candidate | Campaign's own ads | Outside groups for | Outside groups against |
|---|---|---|---|
| Michael Charles Echols | $453K | $160K | $85K |
| Stewart Cathey Jr. | $84K | $110K | |
| Misti Smith Cordell | $2,200 | $54K | |
| Dan McKay | $55K | ||
| Samuel Lee Wyatt | $42K | ||
| Michael Gabriel Firment | $0 | $26K |
Biggest outside spenders
- Michael Charles Echols. For: LOUISIANA GROWTH AND FUTURE FUND $141K, GOPAC Election Fund $19K. Against: BUILDING A STRONG AMERICA $85K
- Stewart Cathey Jr.. For: HOMETOWN FREEDOM ACTION NETWORK $110K
- Misti Smith Cordell. For: Conservative Leaders of America $35K, WFW ACTION FUND INC $19K
- Michael Gabriel Firment. Against: BUILDING A STRONG AMERICA $26K
Outside groups: 24- and 48-hour independent expenditure reports for the 2026 primary and general, through 2026-10-29, each expenditure counted once after amendments; "ads" is TV, radio, digital and other media, and the rest is mail, phones, canvassing and similar. Campaign's own ads: TV, radio, digital, other media and ad production in the campaign committee's itemized payments, as the campaign described them, from the reports the FEC has processed (latest through 2026-10-14); newer reports appear as the FEC processes them. These are amounts committees reported paying, not airtime tracked by ad-monitoring firms, so very recent buys and future reservations may not show yet. Parser fec-ad-spend-1.0.0.
Key dates
Official federal election dates for this state from the FEC. Registration deadlines and early voting: see the state election office.
- 2026-08-07, Primary election: U.S. House
- 2026-11-03, General election: U.S. House
- 2026-12-12, General runoff: U.S. House
Source: FEC election dates (public domain).
Primary and hypothetical polls (1)
Kept on file, never averaged into this race. Polls listed on the Wikipedia election article (CC BY-SA 4.0), each linked to that article revision and, where we know it, to the pollster's own site.
- Hypothetical matchup · Bedrock Polling · 2026-04-04–2026-04-07 · n=889 · Blake Miguez 23%,Michael Echols (R) 20%,Rick Edmonds 10%,Misti Cordell (R) 3% · release
In the news
Headlines from outlets across the political spectrum, linked to the publisher. Vugol.me doesn’t write or endorse them. How we choose them · All election news
LabVugol Vector & Vugol Attention
Vugol Attention 60 Vugol Vector R · Anchored
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Vugol Attention intensity index 0–100 · not a poll · normalized nightly
Vugol Vector
Proprietary ensemble model · a call, not a probability · model confidence: medium
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Vugol Tensor
How far this call can miss · a range, not a prediction · no verified poll here, so the range is wider and untested
Centre R+29.6. Four times in five the result lands between R+20.2 and R+39.0; nine in ten between R+17.5 and R+41.7. Chance the Democrat finishes ahead: <1%.
Polls have missed by about four points in a typical race and they miss together. How Tensor works →
Desk data: daily telemetry
Per-source daily series, CSV export and the Vugol Vector breakdown · paid plans
Sources
- Roster, official filings; fundraising from FEC datapoints where on file (https://api.open.fec.gov/).
- Vugol Attention inputs, Wikipedia pageviews (https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/) and GDELT news volume and tone (https://www.gdeltproject.org/).
- Polls and results, individual polls and primary results listed on the Wikipedia election article (CC BY-SA 4.0), each poll linked to the pollster's release; money and election dates from the FEC (public domain). How rows are checked.
- Models attention-1.0.0 · vector-1.1.0 · attention inputs SHA-256 0acf1cae8d85 · methodology · license CC BY 4.0 (data license).
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