Run-off in Vermilion Parish Sheriff race

There will be a run-off election for Vermilion Parish’s Sheriff race, which is a parish-wide election and will take place on Nov. 18th.
This marks the first run-off election in the past 20 years.
The two candidates competing in the run-off are Eddie Langlinais and Lance Broussard. In the initial round, Langlinais received 8,145 votes, and Broussard received 6,220 votes, while Preston Summers received 2,041 votes and finished third.
Langlinais, from Delcambre, came very close to winning the election outright, but he was 59 votes short of getting 50% plus one more vote.
Langlinais secured 49.65% of the votes, whereas Broussard got 38% of the votes.