1898 Louisiana U.S. House District 5 Election
Who won the 1898 Louisiana U.S. House District 5 Election?
Samuel Baird won the 1898 Louisiana U.S. House District 5 Election. Samuel Baird received 3,558 popular votes (74.02%). The main challenger was H B Taliaferro (3.14%).
See the full head-to-head between Baird and Taliaferro
Baird +70.9 pts · won by 2,311 votes
3,558 votes
1,247 votes
Other candidates received the remaining 22.8% of the popular vote; only the leading candidates are individually recorded for this election.
Popular-vote totals for this U.S. House election come from the Constituency-Level Elections Archive (CLEA) and the official public record.