Democrat For Secretary of State, 1987
In 1983, McKeithen was elected as a member of the Louisiana House of Representatives as a Democrat. In 1987, he was elected as secretary of state for his first term. In the jungle primary, McKeithen led with 462,965 votes (34 percent) to 365,151 (27 percent) for his principal challenger, fellow Democrat Mike Cutshaw, an attorney for the Louisiana Bankers Association. Two Republican candidates, M. A. "Mike" Tassin and Bobby A. Patrick, shared 13 percent of the vote, and two other Democrats held a combined 19 percent. Three "no party" candidates polled 8 percent. In the general election, McKeithen only narrowly prevailed over Cutshaw, 490,190 (51 percent) to 467,582 (49 percent).
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