7 new faces on Acadia Police Jury

The Acadia Parish Police Jury will have seven new faces when it is seated in January.
Seven of the eight seats on the parish council were contested in Saturday’s elections and clear winners were named in all seven, according to complete but unofficial returns Saturday night.
Only District 5 incumbent Jimmie Pellerin is returning to the parish governing panel.
Pellerin won his re-election bid by holding off challenger James “J” Ancelet.
Pellerin, a veteran juror, garnered 1,032 votes, or 53.69 percent, to Ancelet’s 890 votes, or 46.31 percent.
In the most highly contested race, that for the District 4 seat, Gordon Ray “G-Ray” Morgan was the winner in the four-candidate contest.
Morgan garnered 1,075 votes, or 59.52 percent, to claim the seat vacated by Kerry Kilgore, one of three jurors who did not seek re-election.
Other candidates were Chester Pommier (350 votes, 19.38 percent), Aaron Cutrer Jr. (282 votes, 15.61 percent) and Grant Clark (99 votes, 5.48 percent).
In District 1, Peter Joseph, who was elected in a special election a year ago to replace the late Danny Hebert, was defeated by challenger Walter Andrus for the seat.
Andrus claimed 834 votes, or 51.64 percent, to Joseph’s 781, or 48.36 percent.
In District 2, challenger Jeffery “Red Dog” Morgan unseated incumbent Ronnie Fabacher.
Morgan, of Egan, garnered 1,645 votes, or 55.82 percent, to Fabacher’s 1,302 votes, or 44.18 percent.
Fabacher had served as a police juror for one term.
In District 3 Chance Henry, the son of former Juror Keith Henry, beat out Homer Scheufens, a former juror.
That seat is currently held by Chuck Broussard, who opted out of a re-election bid.
Henry, of Morse, garnered 1,334 votes, or 67.61 percent. Scheufens, of Crowley, finished the night with 639 votes, or 32.39 percent.
The seat is now occupied by Robert Guidry, the third incumbent not seeking a return.
In District 6, A.J. “Jay” Credeur will return to the police jury after being defeated four years ago.
Credeur defeated freshman Juror Richard Faul by a vote of 1,283 to 989, or 56.47 percent to 43.53 percent.
In District 7, challenger Pat Daigle defeated two-term incumbent David Savoy by a vote of 1,286 to 1,183.
Daigle finished the night with 52.09 percent of the vote, compared to Savoy’s 47.91 percent.
The District 8 seat, vacated by Robert Guidry, will be filled by Steve Comeaux of Basile, who was unopposed at the close of qualifying.
In another election in the parish, a 5.40 mill tax renewal for the Bayou Mallet Gravity Drainage District was defeated by a final vote of 583 (52.05 percent) against to 537 (47.95 percent) for.