Jay Dardenne

{{Short description|53rd Lieutenant Governor of Louisiana}}

{{Use mdy dates|date=October 2011}}

{{Infobox officeholder

| name = Jay Dardenne

| image = Jay Dardenne Feb 2013.jpg

| office = Louisiana Commissioner of Administration

| governor = John Bel Edwards

| term_start = January 11, 2016

| term_end = January 8, 2024

| predecessor = Stafford Palmieri

| successor = Taylor F. Barras

| office1 = 53rd Lieutenant Governor of Louisiana

| governor1 = Bobby Jindal

| term_start1 = November 22, 2010

| term_end1 = January 11, 2016

| predecessor1 = Scott Angelle

| successor1 = Billy Nungesser

| office2 = Secretary of State of Louisiana

| governor2 = Kathleen Blanco
Bobby Jindal

| term_start2 = November 10, 2006

| term_end2 = November 22, 2010

| predecessor2 = Al Ater

| successor2 = Tom Schedler

| state_senate3 = Louisiana

| district3 = 16th

| term_start3 = 1992

| term_end3 = 2006

| predecessor3 = Kenneth Osterberger

| successor3 = Bill Cassidy

| birth_name = John Leigh Dardenne Jr.

| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1954|2|6}}

| birth_place = Baton Rouge, Louisiana, U.S.

| death_date =

| death_place =

| party = Republican

| spouse = Cathy McDonald

| children = 2

| education = Louisiana State University (BA, JD)

}}

John Leigh "Jay" Dardenne, Jr. (born February 6, 1954) is an American lawyer and politician from Baton Rouge, Louisiana, who served as commissioner of administration for Democratic Governor John Bel Edwards. A Republican, Dardenne previously served as the 53rd lieutenant governor of his state from 2010 to 2016. Dardenne was Louisiana secretary of state. He was previously a member of the Louisiana State Senate for the Baton Rouge suburbs, a position he filled from 1992 until his election as secretary of state on September 30, 2006.

Political overview

Dardenne was reelected to a full term as secretary of state in the October 20, 2007, nonpartisan blanket primary with 758,156 votes (63 percent) to 373,956 (31 percent) for the Democrat R. Rick Wooley. A "No Party" candidate, Scott Lewis, received the remaining 64,704 votes (5 percent). Dardenne won fifty-eight of the state's sixty-four parishes. He outpolled gubernatorial candidate Bobby Jindal, a fellow Republican, in raw votes and won sixty-one parishes to Jindal's sixty.[http://www.gcr1.com/electionscentral/Map.cfm?ElectionID=082810&OfficeID=14227031 Profile] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121022112849/http://www.gcr1.com/electionscentral/Map.cfm?ElectionID=082810&OfficeID=14227031 |date=October 22, 2012 }}, GCR & Associates site; accessed January 26, 2015.

On November 2, 2010, Dardenne was elected lieutenant governor when he defeated Caroline Fayard, a young Democrat originally from Denham Springs in Livingston Parish.{{cite news|url=http://www.nola.com/politics/index.ssf/2010/11/jay_dardenne_elected_to_lieute.html|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130104112536/http://www.nola.com/politics/index.ssf/2010/11/jay_dardenne_elected_to_lieute.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=January 4, 2013|title=Jay Dardenne elected to lieutenant governor|date=2010-11-03|newspaper=Times-Picayune}} Tom Schedler, Dardenne's chief deputy in the secretary of state's office, succeeded him as acting secretary of state when Dardenne was sworn in as lieutenant governor.{{cite news|title=Dardenne tops Fayard in lieutenant governor race: He rolls up big victory after intense campaign|first=Ed|url=http://www.nola.com/news/t-p/capital/index.ssf?/base/news-8/128876582934530.xml&coll=1|newspaper=Times-Picayune|page=A14|issue=Metro Edition|date=2010-11-03|access-date=2010-11-03|last=Anderson}}{{dead link|date=November 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}

Dardenne polled 719,243 votes (57 percent) to Fayard's 540,633 (43 percent). Dardenne won most of the sixty-four parishes but lost Orleans, Caddo, and St. Landry.{{cite web|url=http://staticresults.sos.louisiana.gov/1122010_Statewide.html|title=Louisiana general election returns, November 2, 2010|date=November 4, 2010|publisher=Louisiana secretary of state|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101106021246/http://staticresults.sos.louisiana.gov/1122010_Statewide.html|archive-date=November 6, 2010|url-status=dead|df=mdy-all}}

Background

Dardenne is one of two sons of the late Tonet and Johnny Dardenne; his grandparents were Nathan and Ula Coronna Abramson and Teakle Wallis "T. W." and Esther Cohn Dardenne. His younger brother, Richard James Dardenne (1956-2018), was a basketball and track coach who spent his last years in Fort Worth, Texas.Richard James Dardenne obituary, The Baton Rouge Advocate, accessed June 30, 2018

Dardenne is married to the former Catherine "Cathy" McDonald (born September 23, 1955). The couple has two sons: John Dardenne of Los Angeles, California, and Matthew Dardenne of Baton Rouge.[http://www.jaydardenne.com/node/3 Campaign Website] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070824194452/http://www.jaydardenne.com/node/3 |date=August 24, 2007 }}

Dardenne is Jewish[http://www.sec.state.la.us/archives/jewish/JHWEILL.HTM Louisiana Jewish Heritage website] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061008043855/http://www.sec.state.la.us/archives/jewish/JHWEILL.HTM |date=October 8, 2006 }}, sec.state.la.us; accessed January 26, 2015. and a graduate of Baton Rouge High School and Louisiana State University, from which he obtained a Bachelor of Arts in journalism. He earned a degree from the Louisiana State University Law Center. He was elected student body president at LSU. He is a member of the Sigma Chi fraternity.

File:2012-01-19 Jay Dardenne speaking to Hammond Chamber.jpg Chamber of Commerce luncheon in the Twelve Oaks Cafeteria at Southeastern Louisiana University on the topic of Louisiana's historical political figures.]]

Dardenne is active in social and civic endeavors in his native Baton Rouge and through non-profit organizations throughout Louisiana. He volunteers with the Muscular Dystrophy Association, the annual Labor Day Telethon, the Cerebral Palsy Foundation, and the River City Festivals Association. He serves as chairman of the U.S. National Senior Sports Classic (the Senior Olympics), and has served as president of ten non-profit organizations in the greater Baton Rouge Community.

Dardenne is also an amateur fiction writer and has won "Dishonorable Mentions" for his entries in the 2008 Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest, a competition where contestants submit bad opening lines to imaginary novels.{{cite web |url=http://www.sjsu.edu/faculty/scott.rice/blfc2008.htm |title=Archived copy |access-date=2009-05-29 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090520070610/http://www.sjsu.edu/faculty/scott.rice/blfc2008.htm |archive-date=May 20, 2009 |df=mdy-all }} Dardenne also won the 'Most Vile Pun' award in the 2006 contest.{{cite web |url=http://www.225batonrouge.com/news/2006/dec/28/secretary-state-jay-dardenne/ |title=.:: 225BatonRouge.com ::. Secretary of State Jay Dardenne |access-date=2011-10-23 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120425084047/http://www.225batonrouge.com/news/2006/dec/28/secretary-state-jay-dardenne/ |archive-date=April 25, 2012 |df=mdy-all }}

State senator

In 1987, Dardenne narrowly lost his first race for the District 15 state Senate seat to the Democrat Larry S. Bankston, one of three sons of former Democratic state party chairman and centenarian Jesse Bankston.November 8, 1987 Election Results, Secretary of State website, http://www.sos.louisiana.gov:8090/cgibin/?rqstyp=elcms3&rqsdta=112187{{dead link|date=April 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} Dardenne then won an election for a seat on the East Baton Rouge Metropolitan Council and held that seat until 1992.[http://www.sos.louisiana.gov:8090/cgibin/?rqstyp=elcpr&rqsdta=10018817 October 1, 1988 Election Result]{{dead link|date=November 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}, sos.louisiana.gov; accessed January 26, 2015.

Following the election of Republican Murphy J. "Mike" Foster, Jr., as governor in 1995, Dardenne became the governor's floor leader and began to pass landmark legislation. He continued to push unsuccessfully for reforms in the administration of Foster's successor, Democrat Kathleen Babineaux Blanco. He did help pass constitutional amendments on term limits, coastal erosion, and victims' rights. He worked for the creation of a single State Board of Ethics, spearheading reform of the river pilots' system, and reducing government waste as the chairman of the Louisiana Senate Finance Committee.

In 2003, Dardenne was named the "National Republican Legislator of the Year".

Secretary of state candidacy and transition

Dardenne ran in the September 30 special election to complete the term vacated by the death of former Secretary of State W. Fox McKeithen, a fellow Republican who died in the summer of 2005. former Democratic State Representative Al Ater of Ferriday in Concordia Parish, was assistant secretary of state under McKeithen and served as acting until a new secretary was elected. He was a friend of McKeithen and former Democratic State Representative. He chose not to run for the post in the special election.{{cite news |newspaper=Ouachita Citizen|title=Mike Francis for Secretary of State|url=http://www.ouachitacitizen.com/news.php?id=371|date=2006-09-19|access-date=2010-10-10}}

The major candidates in the race were Dardenne, Democratic state Senator Francis C. Heitmeier of New Orleans and Republican former State Chairman Mike Francis of Lafayette and Crowley.[http://www.sos.louisiana.gov:8090/cgibin/?rqstyp=elcms2&rqsdta=093006 September 30, 2006 Election Results] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080919002835/http://www400.sos.louisiana.gov:8090/cgibin/?rqstyp=elcms2&rqsdta=093006 |date=September 19, 2008 }}, Secretary of State website The race was characterized by attacks on Dardenne from Francis (both taking anti-abortion positions) over predominantly social issues, including Dardenne's vote as Senator in the 1990s for language in the federal Hyde Amendment which allows for federally funded abortions in the case of rape or incest. These exceptions have been included since 1977 in response to women's rights advocates, while abortion opponents argue that they punish the unborn for the crimes of the fathers. Dardenne maintained that his vote was required to ensure Louisiana continuing to receive Medicaid funds.[http://www.thedeadpelican.com/DARDENNE4.HTM The Dead Pelican News Alert] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070927212712/http://www.thedeadpelican.com/DARDENNE4.HTM |date=September 27, 2007 }}, thedeadpelican.com; accessed January 26, 2015.

Dardenne received 30 percent of the vote in the primary; Heitmeier, 28 percent, and Francis, 26 percent. Minor candidates took the rest of the vote. A Dardenne v. Heitmeier runoff loomed. Francis chose not to endorse either candidate and said he would run for the seat in the 2007 regular election.[http://www.katc.com/Global/story.asp?S=5488654&nav=EyB0 "Mike Francis won't back Jay Dardenne's runoff effort"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070928065253/http://www.katc.com/Global/story.asp?S=5488654&nav=EyB0 |date=September 28, 2007 }}, KATC-TV website; accessed January 26, 2015. In the end, Francis did not run for the position in the regular primary held on October 20, 2007.

About two weeks into the special election runoff campaign, Heitmeier withdrew. He said that his New Orleans Democratic voter base had been decimated because of the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, as tens of thousands of people had to evacuate the city before and after the destructive storm and flooding. He said that without help from national Democrats, victory over Dardenne would be impossible. According to Louisiana Political Report, his withdrawal may have been premature in light of the national Democratic sweep in the 2006 midterm elections.[http://www.newshorn.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1370&Itemid=121 "Heitmeier Surrenders Secretary of State"], Louisiana Political Report], newshorn.com; accessed January 26, 2015.

Dardenne, Francis, and two minor Republican candidates together received 54 percent of the vote in the city of New Orleans, the power base for the state Democratic Party, reflecting changed demographics. Two months earlier, two Republican candidates for mayor of New Orleans together had barely polled 10 percent of the vote.[http://www.sos.louisiana.gov:8090/cgibin/?rqstyp=elcpr&rqsdta=04220636 April 22, 2006 Election Results, Secretary of State website] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060429224514/http://www.sos.louisiana.gov:8090/cgibin/?rqstyp=elcpr&rqsdta=04220636 |date=April 29, 2006 }}; accessed January 26, 2015.

Secretary of state

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Dardenne was elected, becoming the first known Jewish statewide constitutional officer in Louisiana since the 1800s, when both Judah P. Benjamin and Benjamin F. Jonas were U.S. senators; Judah Benjamin later served as Secretary of State of the Confederate States of America.

Dardenne pushed for what he termed election reform, but his suggestions restricted access to voting. Although the region and many citizens were still struggling with disruption due to Hurricane Katrina, he opposed establishing satellite voting areas throughout the state and elsewhere for the evacuees. Dardenne also proposed that poll commissioner fees be increased, election day hours be shortened, and an early voting period be established to compensate for reduced hours on Election Day.New Orleans Times-Picayune, State needs more than 5,000 poll commissioners, by Ed Anderson, {{cite web |url=http://www.jaydardenne.com/node/102 |title=State needs more than 5,000 poll commissioners | Jay Dardenne for Secretary of State |access-date=2007-08-14 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070928164223/http://www.jaydardenne.com/node/102 |archive-date=September 28, 2007 |df=mdy-all }}

Dardenne object to widespread satellite voting for Katrina evacuees because, he said, "if this bill passes, you are saying to them [election workers], you have to run an additional election for Orleans Parish. The 2006 mayoral race had received special consideration because no other elections were held on that day. Dardenne did support the reinstatement of absentee voting provisions from the election.[http://katc.com/Global/story.asp?S=6461630 "Dardenne objects, but La. House panel OKs more satellite voting"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070928065405/http://katc.com/Global/story.asp?S=6461630 |date=September 28, 2007 }}, KATC-TV website; accessed January 26, 2015. The Louisiana House panel approved more satellite voting.

Lieutenant governor

On February 12, 2010, Dardenne announced his intention to run for Lieutenant Governor{{cite news|author=Staff|url=http://www.nola.com/politics/index.ssf/2010/02/jay_dardenne_announces_candida.html|archive-url=https://archive.today/20120906062624/http://www.nola.com/politics/index.ssf/2010/02/jay_dardenne_announces_candida.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=September 6, 2012|title=Jay Dardenne announces candidacy for lieutenant governor|newspaper=NOLA.com|access-date=2010-09-04}} in the special election held on October 2. Leading a multi-candidate field with 28% of the ballots cast, Dardenne advanced to face Democrat Caroline Fayard, a previously political unknown who enjoyed the backing of former U.S. President Bill Clinton and trailed with 24% of the vote. The two were to meet in the November 2 general election. Three other Republican candidates were eliminated in the primary — singer Sammy Kershaw (19%), St. Tammany Parish President Kevin Davis (8%), and Louisiana Republican Party state chairman Roger F. Villere, Jr. (4%) — along with Democrat Butch Gautreaux (4 percent), then a Louisiana state senator. Kershaw, Davis, and Villere endorsed fellow Republican Dardenne, as Gautreaux supported fellow Democrat Fayard.{{cite news|first=Ed|last=Anderson|url=http://www.nola.com/news/t-p/capital/index.ssf?/base/news-8/128651950998280.xml&coll=1|title=Dardenne, Fayard garner ex-rivals' endorsements: Two left in race for lieutenant governor|newspaper=Times-Picayune|issue=Saint Tammany Edition|date=2010-10-08|page=A3|access-date=2010-10-08}}{{dead link|date=September 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}{{cite news|first=Ed|last=Anderson|url=http://www.nola.com/news/t-p/capital/index.ssf?/base/news-8/128660583549970.xml&coll=1|title=Davis endorses his GOP ex-rival: Dardenne vying for lieutenant governor|newspaper=Times-Picayune|issue=Saint Tammany Edition|date=2010-10-09|page=A4|access-date=2010-10-09}}{{dead link|date=September 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} Results of the primary election—in the cases of Kershaw, Gautreaux, and Davis—were localized. Kershaw's appeal was in his home base of Acadiana and in rural areas where Country music is popular. Gautreaux's vote was largely in a radius around Morgan City. Davis won a strong plurality, 47 percent, in his home parish of Saint Tammany. Kershaw's rural appeal helped him carry 31 of the 64 parishes, more than any other candidate.{{cite news|url=http://www.bayoubuzz.com/buzz/latest-buzz/79226-louisiana-lt-governors-race-dardenne-vs-fayard-is-gender-party-region-showdown |newspaper=BayouBuzz News |first=Christopher |last=Tidmore |title=Louisiana Lt. Governor's Race: Dardenne Vs. Fayard Is Gender, Party, Region Showdown |date=2010-10-11 |access-date=2010-10-17 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110928015923/http://www.bayoubuzz.com/buzz/latest-buzz/79226-louisiana-lt-governors-race-dardenne-vs-fayard-is-gender-party-region-showdown |archive-date=September 28, 2011 }}

File:2012-01-19 LA Lt Gov Jay Dardenne w David Ramsey.jpg Chamber of Commerce, which met in Southeastern Louisiana University's Twelve Oaks Cafeteria. His presentation included popular songs associated with historic Louisiana political figures. The office of the lieutenant governor is heavily involved in marketing the state for tourism. Dardenne believes that an untapped potential for Louisiana is to attract tourists on the basis of political legends. He recounted examples of humorous statements by former governors and State Senator Dudley J. LeBlanc, originator of Hadacol patent medicine.]]

Republican chairman Villere's endorsement of Dardenne, which came after months of criticizing the frontrunner, was met with incredulous statements like those of political scientist Pearson Cross of the University of Louisiana at Lafayette:

:Maybe he thinks that you can at the end of the day say, "Well, we just need to all come together." It just seems odd.{{cite news|first=Melinda|last=Deslatte|url=http://www.dailycomet.com/article/20101011/APN/1010110515?Title=Analysis-GOP-leader-creates-division-as-candidate|title=Analysis: GOP leader creates division as candidate|newspaper=Daily Comet|location=Lafourche Parish, Louisiana|date=2010-10-11|access-date=2010-10-12|archive-date=July 18, 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110718213132/http://www.dailycomet.com/article/20101011/APN/1010110515?Title=Analysis-GOP-leader-creates-division-as-candidate|url-status=dead}}

Dardenne and Fayard appeared on the October 15 episode of the news magazine Louisiana: The State We're In televised by Louisiana Public Broadcasting and in an October 22 forum sponsored by the Baton Rouge League of Women Voters.{{cite news|url=http://www.nola.com/news/t-p/capital/index.ssf?/base/news-8/1286691607289980.xml&coll=1|title=Forums to feature race between Dardenne, Fayard|newspaper=Times-Picayune|issue=Metro Edition|date=2010-10-10|access-date=2010-10-10|page=A6}}{{dead link|date=September 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} The Louisiana Public Broadcasting forum, actually videotaped on October 8, was announced by Bob Neese; the League of Women Voters' spokeswoman was Jean Armstrong.

On October 4, 2010, Southeastern Louisiana University political scientist [http://www2.selu.edu/Academics/Faculty/mcorbello Michael Kurt Corbello] summarized the runoff election between veteran officeholder Dardenne and political newcomer Fayard as "a very interesting, competitive race."{{cite news|last=Anderson|first=Ed|url=http://www.nola.com/politics/index.ssf/2010/10/lieutenant_governor_race_is_do.html|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130130103910/http://www.nola.com/politics/index.ssf/2010/10/lieutenant_governor_race_is_do.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=January 30, 2013|title=Lieutenant governor race is down to two: Jay Dardenne and Caroline Fayard|newspaper=Times-Picayune|date=2010-10-04|issue=Saint Tammany Edition|page=A2|access-date=2010-10-04}}

Political columnist John Maginnis joked that

:Dardenne, rather, needs to raise the stakes of this election, emphasizing experience and readiness. Otherwise, should this become a beauty contest, he's got problems.{{cite news|url=http://www.nola.com/opinions/index.ssf/2010/10/a_historic_race_for_lieutenant.html|title=A historic race for lieutenant governor|newspaper=Times-Picayune|first=John|last=Maginnis|issue=Saint Tammany Edition|page=B7|date=2010-10-13|access-date=2010-10-13}}

The runoff campaign soon turned controversial as Dardenne described Fayard as a supporter of U.S. President Barack Obama, a proponent of gay marriage, and an opponent of the death penalty, while Fayard, who was 32 years of age and had never held political office, countered that Dardenne represented "the same old crowd" of Louisiana politics.{{cite news|first1=Ed|last1=Anderson|first2=Jan|last2=Moller|title=Dueling ads air in lieutenant governor race|newspaper=Times-Picayune|date=2010-10-20|access-date=2010-10-20|page=A3|issue=Saint Tammany Edition|url=http://www.nola.com/news/t-p/capital/index.ssf?/base/news-8/1287556824224100.xml&coll=1}}{{dead link|date=September 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} Cf.{{cite news|first=Ed|last=Anderson|date=2010-10-18|url=http://www.nola.com/news/t-p/frontpage/index.ssf?/base/news-15/128738282246350.xml&coll=1&thispage=3|title=Race for state's No. 2 office heats up: Dardenne, Fayard start trading barbs|newspaper=Times-Picayune|issue=Metro Edition|pages=A1, A4}}{{dead link|date=September 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}

Stephanie Grace offered an explanation for Dardenne's emphasis on national political themes as an accommodation to the Tea Party movement in the backdrop of their having worked to defeat Hunt Downer, a veteran officeholder upset by a newcomer, Jeff Landry, in Louisiana's 3rd congressional district's 2010 Republican primary.{{cite news|first=Stephanie|last=Grace|date=2010-10-19|url=http://www.nola.com/opinions/index.ssf/2010/10/partisan_divide_comes_late_to.html|title=Partisan divide comes late to Louisiana|newspaper=Times-Picayune|issue=Saint Tammany Edition|page=B5|access-date=2010-10-19}} For further information about the 2010 election, please see Louisiana state elections, 2010#Lieutenant Governor.

2011 reelection

The 2011 regular election for a four-year term as lieutenant governor was similarly raucous, as Dardenne was challenged by fellow Republican Billy Nungesser, president of Plaquemines Parish and the son of the late former Republican Party state chairman William A. Nungesser.{{cite news|first=Ed|last=Anderson|date=2011-10-01|title=Dardenne-Nungesser slugfest is second to none on ballot: Duel makes race for governor looktame|url=http://www.nola.com/politics/index.ssf/2011/09/jay_dardenne_vs_billy_nungesse.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111003145528/http://www.nola.com/politics/index.ssf/2011/09/jay_dardenne_vs_billy_nungesse.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=October 3, 2011|newspaper=Times-Picayune|issue=Saint Tammany Edition|pages=A1, A4|access-date=2011-10-01}} In a low-turnout race, Dardenne defeated Nungesser, 504,228 votes (53.1 percent) to 444,750 ballots (46.9 percent).{{cite web|url=http://staticresults.sos.la.gov/10222011/10222011_Legislative.html|title=Louisiana primary election returns, October 22, 2011|publisher=staticresults.sos.la.gov|access-date=October 22, 2011}}

In 2012, Dardenne complained of the lack of funds needed for tourism advertising, a main prerogative of the lieutenant governor's office in Louisiana. On June 15, 2012, Governor Jindal used his line item veto to strip $2 million for tourism advertising from Dardenne's office budget. Jindal also took aim at more than $500,000 from the departmental operating funds of Louisiana State Treasurer John N. Kennedy.{{cite news|url=http://theadvocate.com/home/3110363-125/jindal-slashes-funding-for-state |title=Michelle Milhollin, "Jindal slashes funding for state treasurer: Jindal's 'streamlining' efforts trim critics' funding" |newspaper=Baton Rouge Morning Advocate |access-date=June 16, 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140427121942/http://theadvocate.com/home/3110363-125/jindal-slashes-funding-for-state |archive-date=April 27, 2014 }}

Election history

;Louisiana State Senate, District 15, 1987

Threshold > 50%

First Ballot, October 24, 1987

class="wikitable"
Candidate

! Affiliation

! Support

! Outcome

Larry S. Bankston

| {{party shading/Democratic}} | Democrat

| 15,401 (46%)

| Runoff

John L. "Jay" Dardenne, Jr.

| {{party shading/Republican}} | Republican

| 10,313 (31%)

| Runoff

Johnny H. Dykes

| {{party shading/Democratic}} | Democratic

| 3,790 (11%)

| Defeated

"Chuck" Hall

| {{party shading/Republican}} | Republican

| 2,046 (6%)

| Defeated

Others

| n.a.

| 2,063 (6%)

| Defeated

Second Ballot, November 8, 1987

class="wikitable"
Candidate

! Affiliation

! Support

! Outcome

Larry S. Bankston

| {{party shading/Democratic}} | Democratic

| 12,619 (51%)

| Elected

John L. "Jay" Dardenne, Jr.

| {{party shading/Republican}} | Republican

| 12,332 (49%)

| Defeated

;East Baton Rouge Metropolitan Council, District 12, 1988

Threshold > 50%

First Ballot, October 1, 1988

class="wikitable"
Candidate

! Affiliation

! Support

! Outcome

John L. "Jay" Dardenne, Jr.

| {{party shading/Republican}} | Republican

| 5,596 (62%)

| Winner

Craig S. Watson

| {{party shading/Democratic}} | Democratic

| 2,175 (24%)

| Defeated

"Pam" Atiyeh

| {{party shading/Republican}} | Republican

| 1,005 (11%)

| Defeated

Mike Kolakowski

| {{party shading/Democratic}} | Democratic

| 285 (3%)

| Defeated

;Louisiana State Senate, District 16, 1991

Threshold > 50%

First Ballot, October 19, 1991

class="wikitable"
Candidate

! Affiliation

! Support

! Outcome

Lynda Imes

| {{party shading/Republican}} | Republican

| 21,679 (48%)

| Runoff

John L. "Jay" Dardenne, Jr.

| {{party shading/Republican}} | Republican

| 18,642 (42%)

| Runoff

Francis Pellegrin

| {{party shading/Republican}} | Republican

| 2,098 (5%)

| Defeated

Others

| n.a.

| 2,391 (5%)

| Defeated

Second Ballot, November 16, 1991

class="wikitable"
Candidate

! Affiliation

! Support

! Outcome

John L. "Jay" Dardenne, Jr.

| {{party shading/Republican}} | Republican

| 26,120 (52%)

| Elected

Lynda Imes

| {{party shading/Republican}} | Republican

| 23,934 (48%)

| Defeated

;Louisiana State Senate, District 16, 1995

class="wikitable"
Candidate

! Affiliation

! Support

! Outcome

John L. "Jay" Dardenne, Jr.

| {{party shading/Republican}} | Republican

| –

| Unopposed

;Louisiana State Senate, District 16, 1999

class="wikitable"
Candidate

! Affiliation

! Support

! Outcome

John L. "Jay" Dardenne, Jr.

| {{party shading/Republican}} | Republican

| –

| Unopposed

;Louisiana State Senate, District 16, 2003

Threshold > 50%

First Ballot, October 4, 2003

class="wikitable"
Candidate

! Affiliation

! Support

! Outcome

Jay Dardenne

| {{party shading/Republican}} | Republican

| 34,679 (78%)

| Elected

Chris Warner

| {{party shading/Republican}} | Republican

| 9,758 (22%)

| Defeated

;Secretary of State of Louisiana, 2006

Threshold > 50%

First Ballot, September 30, 2006

class="wikitable"
Candidate

! Affiliation

! Support

! Outcome

"Jay" Dardenne

| {{party shading/Republican}} | Republican

| 191,562 (30%)

| Runoff

Francis C. Heitmeier

| {{party shading/Democratic}} | Democratic

| 179,153 (28%)

| Runoff

"Mike" Francis

| {{party shading/Republican}} | Republican

| 168,185 (26%)

| Defeated

Mary Chehardy

| {{party shading/Republican}} | Republican

| 56,225 (9%)

| Defeated

Others

| n.a.

| 48,802 (13%)

| Defeated

Second Ballot, November 7, 2006

class="wikitable"
Candidate

! Affiliation

! Support

! Outcome

"Jay" Dardenne

| {{party shading/Republican}} | Republican

| –

| Elected

Francis C. Heitmeier

| {{party shading/Democratic}} | Democratic

| –

| Withdrawn

;Secretary of State of Louisiana, 2007

Threshold > 50%

First Ballot, October 20, 2007

class="wikitable"
Candidate

! Affiliation

! Support

! Outcome

"Jay" Dardenne

| {{party shading/Republican}} | Republican

| 757,821 (63%)

| Elected

"R." Rick Wooley

| {{party shading/Democratic}} | Democratic

| 374,199 (31%)

| Defeated

Scott Lewis

| Independent

| 64,723 (5%)

| Defeated

;Lieutenant Governor of Louisiana, 2010

Threshold > 50%

First Ballot, October 2, 2010

class="wikitable"
Candidate

! Affiliation

! Support

! Outcome

"Jay" Dardenne

| {{party shading/Republican}} | Republican

| 180,944 (28%)

| Runoff

Caroline Fayard

| {{party shading/Democratic}} | Democratic

| 159,507 (24%)

| Runoff

"Sammy" Kershaw

| {{party shading/Republican}} | Republican

| 126,166 (19%)

| Defeated

Kevin Davis

| {{party shading/Republican}} | Republican

| 51,542 (8%)

| Defeated

James "Jim" Crowley

| {{party shading/Democratic}} | Democrat

| 51,461 (8%)

| Defeated

Others

| n.a.

| 85,496 (13%)

| Defeated

Second Ballot, November 7, 2010

class="wikitable"
Candidate

! Affiliation

! Support

! Outcome

"Jay" Dardenne

| {{party shading/Republican}} | Republican

| 719,271 (57%)

| Elected

Caroline Fayard

| {{party shading/Democratic}} | Democratic

| 540,649 (43%)

| Defeated

;Lieutenant Governor of Louisiana, 2011

Threshold > 50%

First Ballot, October 22, 2011

class="wikitable"
Candidate

! Affiliation

! Support

! Outcome

John L. "Jay" Dardenne, Jr.

| {{party shading/Republican}} | Republican

| 504,228 (53%)

| Elected

Billy Nungesser

| {{party shading/Republican}} | Republican

| 444,750 (47%)

| Defeated

All election results taken from the [https://web.archive.org/web/20100210191028/http://electionresults.sos.louisiana.gov/weborb30/SOSElection/SOSElection.html Louisiana Secretary of State website]

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