[1] Elections in Louisiana—with the exception of U.S. presidential elections—follow a variation of the open primary system.

Marc Morial won an easy re-election, with the widest margin of victory in a New Orleans election in several decades.

Neither of his opponents - lawyer Kathleen Cresson and arts store manager Paul Borrello - were particularly well-known.

With the re-election of the popular Morial widely seen as a foregone conclusion months before election day, the race met with unusual apathy among the city's media and electorate.

Debates were not televised, no polls were commissioned, and only 41% of New Orleans electors bothered to vote.