page_title: Mary Landrieu
section_title: 1996 Senate election
hierarchical_section_title: Mary Landrieu / Electoral history / 1996 Senate election
caption_attribution_description: English: Self-created image showing county-by-county results of the 1996 US Senate election in Louisiana
context_page_description: Mary Loretta Landrieu is an American politician, entrepreneur, and former Senator for the state of Louisiana. She is a member of the Democratic Party.
  Born in Arlington, Virginia, Landrieu was raised in New Orleans, Louisiana. She is the daughter of Moon Landrieu, former New Orleans mayor and Secretary of the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development, and the sister of Mitch Landrieu, a former Mayor of New Orleans and Lieutenant Governor of Louisiana. She received her baccalaureate degree from Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge. After working as a real estate agent for several years, she was elected as a state representative and state treasurer. She won a close race for the U.S. Senate in 1996; she was re-elected by increasing margins in competitive races in 2002 and 2008, but lost in 2014.
  Landrieu came to national attention in the wake of Hurricane Katrina in 2005 after she publicly criticized the federal response to the natural disaster.
caption: Parishes won by Senate candidates in the November 5, 1996 runoff.   Mary Landrieu   Woody Jenkins
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