The 2006

Shreveport Shreveport ( ) is a city in the U.S. state of Louisiana. It is the third most populous city in Louisiana after New Orleans and Baton Rouge, Louisiana, Baton Rouge, respectively. The Shreveport–Bossier City metropolitan area, with a population o ...

mayoral election resulted in the election of

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Cedric Glover who defeated Republican Jerry Jones in the runoff in the open race to succeed outgoing mayor

Keith Hightower Keith Paul Hightower (born January 14, 1957) is an American businessman who was from 1998 to 2006 the Democratic mayor of Shreveport, Louisiana. Hightower graduated in 1975 from Captain Shreve High School; one of his classmates was later State S ...

. The nonpartisan blanket primary was held on September 30, 2006, and as no candidate obtained the required majority, the

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followed on November 7, 2006.

Results

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Government of Shreveport, Louisiana 2006 Louisiana elections November 2006 events in the United States