NOLA.com: “Troy Carter fulfilled a long-held ambition Saturday as voters in the 2nd Congressional District elected him to the U.S. House of Representatives, triumphing over Karen Carter Peterson after a bruising campaign between two Democratic state senators from New Orleans who agreed on issues more often than not.
Carter won the race with 55% of the vote, according to unofficial results from the Louisiana Secretary of State. He notched 48,511 votes to Peterson’s 39,295 in the runoff that saw just 16.6% of voters turn out to the polls.
“I will wake up every day with you on my mind,” Carter told a jubilant crowd at the Sugar Mill event site in New Orleans just after 10 p.m. “Now I want to go to Washington to be your voice.””