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History was made Saturday night in Erath.
Jacob Landry, a 44-year-old Erath native, became the first Vermilion Parish native to win the District 49 State Representative race.
Since the district’s conception, the district has included a majority of Iberia Parish residents and the east side of Vermilion Parish.
With the new 2020 census, District 49 was redrawn, and the new district lines consist of 30 percent of Iberia Parish, 30 percent of Vermilion Parish and 40 percent of Lafayette Parish.

On a typical election night, everyone at the Vermilion Parish Clerk of Court’s Office is finished sending the election results to the Secretary of State’s Office by 9:30 p.m. But that was not the case this past Saturday.
Vermilion Parish was the last parish in the state to finish submitting the election results. It was just after midnight on Sunday by the time everyone finished.

So, what happened?

It took a while, but the final election results in Vermilion Parish were completed at around midnight.
Vermilion Parish was the final parish in the state to get complete results.
Clerk of Court Diane Meaux Broussard explained why the hold up. She said her office had to type in the results manually.