BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) - Seventeen state appeals court judges were elected to office when no one signed up to run against them on the Nov. 6 ballot. A look at who won the office without a challenger:
1st CIRCUIT (based in Baton Rouge):
-Vanessa Guidry-Whipple (incumbent), D-Bourg.
-Page McClendon (incumbent), R-Mandeville.
-Will Crain, R-Madisonville.
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2nd CIRCUIT (based in Shreveport):
-Felicia Toney Williams (incumbent), D-Tallulah.
-D. Milton Moore III (incumbent), D-Monroe.
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3rd CIRCUIT (based in Lake Charles):
-Elizabeth Pickett (incumbent), D-Many.
-Billy Ezell (incumbent), R-Lake Charles.
-John Saunders (incumbent), D-Ville Platte.
-Sylvia Cooks (incumbent), D-Lafayette.
-John Conery, R-New Iberia.
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4th CIRCUIT (based in New Orleans):
-James McKay III (incumbent), D-New Orleans.
-Edwin Lombard (incumbent), D-New Orleans.
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5th CIRCUIT (based in Gretna):
-Susan Chehardy (incumbent), R-River Ridge.
-Steve Windhorst, R-Gretna.
-Hans Liljeberg, R-Metairie.
-Robert Murphy, R-Metairie.
-Robert Chaisson (incumbent), D-Destrehan.