PLAQUEMINES PARISH -- There will be a runoff for Plaquemines Parish President.
Councilman Kirk Lepine and interim Parish President Amos Cormier III will go head to head for the position. Cormier beat Lepine in a special election two years ago after Cormier’s father died while in office.
Lepine led Tuesday’s election with 48 percent of the vote, Amos Cormier carried 27 percent. Democrat Burghart Turner, a for parish councilman running for the third time, got 24 percent of the vote.
