Troy Carter

Carter received 12,935 votes (56.8 percent) in the 2015 runoff election to Arnold's 9,852 (43.2 percent). The position opened with the retirement of the two-term Senator David Heitmeier.

In 1994, he was elected to represent District C on the city council, having become the first African-American to represent that portion of the city since Reconstruction. He served until 2002, when he unsuccessfully sought the office of mayor. Carter was eliminated in the 2002 primary election by Ray Nagin (the final winner) and Richard Pennington. Carter previously represented District 102 in the Louisiana House of Representatives from 1992 to 1994, when he was elected to the city council. He was an unsuccessful candidate for Louisiana's 2nd congressional district seat in 2006 against then-incumbent William J. Jefferson.

Troy Anthony "C" Carter (born October 26, 1963) is the District 7 member of the Louisiana State Senate who formerly served on the New Orleans City Council. In the November 21 runoff election, Carter defeated his fellow Democrat, Jeff Arnold, who is a term-limited former state representative for the Algiers neighborhood of New Orleans.