Editing Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana (section)

==Politics==
Plaquemines Parish was for a long time controlled by the notorious Democrat political boss [[Leander Perez]], who turned the parish's voters away from the national Democratic Party with his support of the [[Dixiecrat]] ticket in 1948.<ref>Jeansonne; ''Leander Perez'', p. 194</ref> The parish has been solidly anti-Democratic and at times overwhelmingly so at a Presidential level since 1948, with the only Democratic nominee subsequently to carry the parish being [[Bill Clinton]] in 1996. In 1952 it was the most Republican county-equivalent in the nation,<ref>Dave Leip's U.S. Election Atlas; [https://uselectionatlas.org/RESULTS/stats.php?year=1952&f=1&off=0&elect=0 1952 Presidential Election Statistics]</ref> and until the decay of the Perez machine no Democrat was to pass thirty percent of the parish's vote.

Plaquemines Parish is the home of former Parish President and current Lieutenant Governor of Louisiana [[Billy Nungesser]]. 
[[File:Plaquemines Parish Louisiana President Keith Hinkley Sept 2023.jpg|thumb|Plaquemines Parish President Keith Hinkley in September 2023]]
Former Parish President, Republican [[Amos Cormier III]], who additionally secured the endorsement of the parish [[Libertarian Party of Louisiana|Libertarians]], defeated his Republican rival [[Kirk Lepine]] in the 2016 special election runoff by a margin of some 20 percent. On December 8, 2018, however, Lepine in a runoff rematch unseated Cormier, 3,625 votes (52 percent) to 3,289 (48 percent).<ref>{{cite web|url=https://voterportal.sos.la.gov/Graphical|title=Election Returns (Plaquemines Parish)|publisher=Louisiana Secretary of State|date=December 8, 2018}}</ref>

Keith Hinkley was elected Parish President in 2022.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.nola.com/news/politics/elections/hinkley-downs-rousselle-in-race-for-plaquemines-president/article_26cbd17a-7675-11ed-a8b0-5374a765fc42.html | title=Hinkley defeats Rousselle in race for Plaquemines Parish President | date=December 10, 2022 }}</ref>

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