JOHNSTON, J BENNETT

D · senate · bioguide J000189

FEC candidate id: S4LA00016
Internal id: 71c2e506-1796-408e-a89e-d19deb9a2d7e
Status: challenger

Who this candidate represents (statewide)

Who lives here — American Community Survey 5-year estimates (2024), Louisiana. Source.

Category	Metric	Value
People	Population	4,611,961
People	Median age	38
Income	Median household income	$60,756
Income	Per-capita income	$35,038
Income	In poverty	18.9%
Income	Unemployed	6.2%
Income	Gini inequality index	0.495
Race	White alone	56.9%
Race	Black alone	30.7%
Race	Asian alone	1.7%
Race	Hispanic or Latino	7.2%
Race	Two or more races	7.4%
Origin	Foreign-born	4.9%
Language	Speaks English only at home	91.5%
Language	Speaks Spanish at home	4.7%
Education	High school or higher	59.5%
Education	Bachelor's or higher	27.0%
Education	Advanced degree	10.1%
Household	Family households	62.7%
Household	Avg household size	2.49
Household	Never married (15+)	36.4%
Housing	Median home value	$216,500
Housing	Median gross rent	$1,064
Housing	Single-family detached	65.3%
Housing	Built before 1940	3.7%
Housing	Overcrowded (>1 per room)	2.3%
Housing	Vacant units	14.4%
Service	Veterans (18+)	6.1%
Health	With a disability	16.3%
Connectivity	Households with broadband	86.6%
Connectivity	Households with no internet	10.7%
Commute	Drove alone	78.6%
Commute	Public transit	0.9%
Commute	Worked from home	8.1%

Cycle financials

Source: FEC weball bulk file (cycle summary). Numbers in USD; 0 = no activity reported.

Cycle	Raised	Spent	Cash on hand	Debts	Indiv. contribs.
2002	$5,582	$405,387	$56,547	$0	$0
2000	$55,459	$141,570	$456,352	$0	$0
1998	$70,020	$181,913	$542,464	$0	$0
1996	$100,544	$386,109	$654,358	$0	$0
1994	$288,441	$223,317	$939,924	$0	$68,115
1992	$181,712	$252,283	$874,800	$0	$6,779
1990	$4,167,111	$4,989,521	$945,371	$0	$2,271,077
1988	$323,065	$157,703	$1,767,782	$0	$17,342
1986	$326,123	$663,881	$1,602,420	$0	$0
1984	$1,484,557	$1,179,239	$984,831	$0	$672,203
1982	$789,632	$204,979	$0	$0	$0
1980	$54,153	$84,502	$0	$0	$0

Elections

1984 general senate · LA-S — won
1984 general senate · LA-S — won
1984 general senate · LA-S — won
1990 general senate · LA-S — won
1990 general senate · LA-S — won
1990 general senate · LA-S — won
1996 general senate · LA-S — lost_general
1996 general senate · LA-S — won
1996 general senate · LA-S — lost_general
1996 general senate · LA-S — won
1996 general senate · LA-S — won
1996 general senate · LA-S — lost_general

Committees

JOHNSTON SENATE COMMITTEE — principal · type S

Recent votes

No votes on file.

Election prediction

Cycle 2026 · model baseline-v1 · base rate 15.1%

P(win) = 23.1%

Feature	Δ P(win)
Base rate (historical)	15.1%
D (major party)	+10.0%
senate race	-2.0%

Baseline model (incumbency × party × office). Calibration: backtest Brier score is the reference, see npm run db:ingest -- --source=predict-backtest-election. Future model versions must beat baseline Brier on the same held-out cohort or they don't ship.

Connected on the graph

Outbound (100)

date	type	to	amount	role	source
—	cosponsor_of_bill	S 1120 — Federal Coal Leasing and Utilization Act of 1987	—	cosponsor	sponsorship
—	cosponsor_of_bill	S 1351 — Department of Energy Science and Technology Partnership Act	—	cosponsor	sponsorship
—	cosponsor_of_bill	S 1382 — Federal Energy Management Improvement Act of 1988	—	cosponsor	sponsorship
—	cosponsor_of_bill	S 140 — A bill to increase Federal payments in lieu of taxes to units of general local government, a	—	cosponsor	sponsorship
—	cosponsor_of_bill	S 1544 — National Trails System Improvements Act of 1988	—	cosponsor	sponsorship
—	cosponsor_of_bill	S 1596 — Ward Valley Land Transfer Act	—	cosponsor	sponsorship
—	cosponsor_of_bill	S 1646 — Propane Education and Research Act of 1996	—	cosponsor	sponsorship
—	cosponsor_of_bill	S 1703 — A bill to amend the Act establishing the National Park Foundation.	—	cosponsor	sponsorship
—	cosponsor_of_bill	S 1804 — A bill to make technical and other changes to the laws dealing with the Territories and Fre	—	cosponsor	sponsorship
—	cosponsor_of_bill	S 1808 — A bill to amend the Act of October 15, 1966 (80 stat. 915), as amended, establishing a prog	—	cosponsor	sponsorship
—	cosponsor_of_bill	S 1814 — NTL-5 Gas Royalty Act of 1987	—	cosponsor	sponsorship
—	cosponsor_of_bill	S 1859 — A bill to restructure repayment terms and conditions for loans by the Secretary of the Inte	—	cosponsor	sponsorship
—	cosponsor_of_bill	S 1899 — Mollie Beattie Alaska Wilderness Area Act	—	cosponsor	sponsorship
—	cosponsor_of_bill	S 21 — California Desert Protection Act of 1994	—	cosponsor	sponsorship
—	cosponsor_of_bill	S 210 — Comprehensive Uranium Act of 1991	—	cosponsor	sponsorship
—	cosponsor_of_bill	S 2167 — National Appliance Energy Conservation Amendments of 1988	—	cosponsor	sponsorship
—	cosponsor_of_bill	S 2234 — A bill to amend the Mississippi River Corridor Study Commission Act of 1989 to extend the t	—	cosponsor	sponsorship
—	cosponsor_of_bill	S 2244 — A bill to require the construction of a memorial on Federal land in the District of Columbi	—	cosponsor	sponsorship
—	cosponsor_of_bill	S 2321 — A bill to increase the authorizations for the War in the Pacific National Historical Park,	—	cosponsor	sponsorship
—	cosponsor_of_bill	S 309 — National Park Service Concession Policy Reform Act of 1995	—	cosponsor	sponsorship
—	cosponsor_of_bill	S 324 — National Energy Policy Act of 1990	—	cosponsor	sponsorship
—	cosponsor_of_bill	S 333 — Risk Management Act of 1995	—	cosponsor	sponsorship
—	cosponsor_of_bill	S 388 — Federal Energy Regulatory Commission Member Term Act of 1989	—	cosponsor	sponsorship
—	cosponsor_of_bill	S 488 — Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Technology Competitiveness Act of 1989	—	cosponsor	sponsorship
—	cosponsor_of_bill	S 575 — A bill to provide Outer Continental Shelf Impact Assistance to State and local governments,	—	cosponsor	sponsorship
—	cosponsor_of_bill	S 635 — An Act to prevent the unintended licensing of federally nonjurisdictional, unlicensed hydroe	—	cosponsor	sponsorship
—	cosponsor_of_bill	S 639 — Locatable Mineral Mining Reform Act of 1995	—	cosponsor	sponsorship
—	cosponsor_of_bill	S 755 — USEC Privatization Act	—	cosponsor	sponsorship
—	cosponsor_of_bill	S 929 — A bill to authorize the Secretary of the Interior and the Secretary of Agriculture to undert	—	cosponsor	sponsorship
—	cosponsor_of_bill	SJRES 42 — A joint resoulution designating the Civil War Center at Louisiana State University as the	—	cosponsor	sponsorship
—	principal_candidate_of	JOHNSTON FOR SENATE	—		candidate_committees
1996-06-13	sponsor_of_bill	S 1874 — Department of Energy Standardization Act of 1996	—	sponsor	sponsorship
1996-06-07	sponsor_of_bill	S 1852 — Department of Energy Class Action Lawsuit Act	—	sponsor	sponsorship
1996-03-20	sponsor_of_bill	S 1627 — A bill to designate the visitor center at Jean Lafitte National Historical Park in New Orle	—	sponsor	sponsorship
1996-01-25	sponsor_of_bill	S 1526 — Electricity Competition Act of 1996	—	sponsor	sponsorship
1995-01-05	sponsor_of_bill	S 167 — Nuclear Waste Policy Act of 1995	—	sponsor	sponsorship
1995-01-05	sponsor_of_bill	S 158 — Outer Continental Shelf Deep Water Royalty Relief Act	—	sponsor	sponsorship
1994-09-27	sponsor_of_bill	S 2466 — Energy Policy and Conservation Act Amendments of 1994	—	sponsor	sponsorship
1994-06-14	sponsor_of_bill	S 2181 — A bill to authorize the appropriation of funds for construction projects under the Covenant	—	sponsor	sponsorship
1994-05-25	sponsor_of_bill	S 2151 — Ward Valley Land Transfer Act	—	sponsor	sponsorship
1994-05-17	sponsor_of_bill	S 2121 — National Park Service Entrepreneurial Management Reform Act of 1994	—	sponsor	sponsorship
1994-03-24	sponsor_of_bill	S 1980 — Cane River Creole National Historical Park and National Heritage Area Act	—	sponsor	sponsorship
1993-11-08	sponsor_of_bill	S 1637 — Department of the Interior Reform and Savings Act of 1993	—	sponsor	sponsorship
1993-11-08	sponsor_of_bill	S 1638 — Department of Energy Reform and Savings Act of 1993	—	sponsor	sponsorship
1993-10-26	sponsor_of_bill	S 1586 — New Orleans Jazz National Historical Park Act of 1994	—	sponsor	sponsorship
1993-05-19	sponsor_of_bill	S 991 — Lower Mississippi Delta Initiatives Act of 1993	—	sponsor	sponsorship
1993-05-19	sponsor_of_bill	S 983 — El Camino Real Para Los Texas Study Act of 1993	—	sponsor	sponsorship
1993-04-01	sponsor_of_bill	S 721 — Land and Water Conservation Fund Emergency Funding Act of 1993	—	sponsor	sponsorship
1993-03-24	sponsor_of_bill	S 646 — International Fusion Energy Act of 1993	—	sponsor	sponsorship
1993-03-02	sponsor_of_bill	S 473 — Department of Energy National Competitiveness Technology Partnership Act of 1993	—	sponsor	sponsorship
1993-02-25	sponsor_of_bill	S 447 — Insular Areas Policy Act	—	sponsor	sponsorship
1993-02-24	sponsor_of_bill	S 433 — A bill to authorize and direct the Secretary of the Interior to convey certain lands in Came	—	sponsor	sponsorship
1993-02-04	sponsor_of_bill	S 318 — Outer Continental Shelf Deep Water Royalty Relief Act	—	sponsor	sponsorship
1993-01-27	sponsor_of_bill	SRES 39 — An original resolution to authorize expenditures for the Committee on Energy and Natural R	—	sponsor	sponsorship
1992-08-04	sponsor_of_bill	S 3127 — Outer Continental Shelf Deep Water Production Incentives Act	—	sponsor	sponsorship
1992-07-30	sponsor_of_bill	S 3100 — A bill to authorize and direct the Secretary of the Interior to convey certain lands in Cam	—	sponsor	sponsorship
1992-07-23	sponsor_of_bill	S 3051 — An original bill to grant a right of use and occupancy of a certain tract of land in Glacie	—	sponsor	sponsorship
1992-07-02	sponsor_of_bill	S 2959 — Insular Areas Policy Act	—	sponsor	sponsorship
1992-06-18	sponsor_of_bill	S 2871 — A bill to clarify enforcement provisions of the Federal Power Act concerning hydroelectric	—	sponsor	sponsorship
1992-06-16	sponsor_of_bill	S 2851 — Pacific Yew Act	—	sponsor	sponsorship
1992-04-09	sponsor_of_bill	S 2566 — Department of Energy Laboratory Technology Partnership Act of 1992	—	sponsor	sponsorship
1992-03-04	sponsor_of_bill	S 2316 — A bill to clarify authority of the Secretary of the Interior to cooperate with non-Federal	—	sponsor	sponsorship
1992-03-04	sponsor_of_bill	S 2314 — A bill to correct an error in Public Law 100-425 relating to the reservation for the Confed	—	sponsor	sponsorship
1992-03-04	sponsor_of_bill	S 2315 — A bill to enhance the law enforcement authority of the Secretary of the Interior on public	—	sponsor	sponsorship
1991-11-21	sponsor_of_bill	S 2005 — A bill to amend section 2 of the Act of July 31, 1947 (61 Stat. 681).	—	sponsor	sponsorship
1991-07-18	sponsor_of_bill	S 1495 — St. Croix, Virgin Islands Historical Park and Ecological Preserve Act of 1991	—	sponsor	sponsorship
1991-07-09	sponsor_of_bill	S 1439 — A bill to authorize and direct the Secrtary of Interior to convey certain lands in Livingst	—	sponsor	sponsorship
1991-06-25	sponsor_of_bill	S 1374 — A bill to provide for increases in authorization ceilings for land acquisition and developm	—	sponsor	sponsorship
1991-06-05	sponsor_of_bill	S 1220 — National Energy Security Act of 1991	—	sponsor	sponsorship
1991-05-23	sponsor_of_bill	S 1179 — Geologic Mapping Act of 1991	—	sponsor	sponsorship
1991-05-22	sponsor_of_bill	S 1138 — Nuclear Waste Policy Amendments Act of 1991	—	sponsor	sponsorship
1991-02-05	sponsor_of_bill	S 343 — National High-Performance Computing and Networking Act	—	sponsor	sponsorship
1990-07-12	sponsor_of_bill	S 2846 — A bill to authorize and direct the Secretary of the Interior to conduct a study of the feas	—	sponsor	sponsorship
1990-06-26	sponsor_of_bill	S 2791 — A bill to amend the Federal Oil and Gas Royalty Management Act of 1982 to provide for the a	—	sponsor	sponsorship
1990-05-22	sponsor_of_bill	S 2669 — A bill to provide for increases in appropriation ceilings for land acquisition and developm	—	sponsor	sponsorship
1990-04-05	sponsor_of_bill	S 2437 — Minnesota Public Lands Improvement Act of 1990	—	sponsor	sponsorship
1990-03-29	sponsor_of_bill	S 2362 — Insular Areas Recovery Act of 1990	—	sponsor	sponsorship
1990-03-05	sponsor_of_bill	S 2231 — Energy Policy and Conservation Act Extension Amendment of 1990	—	sponsor	sponsorship
1990-02-27	sponsor_of_bill	S 2191 — Federal Energy Management Amendments of 1990	—	sponsor	sponsorship
1990-02-07	sponsor_of_bill	S 2088 — Energy Policy and Conservation Act Amendments of 1990	—	sponsor	sponsorship
1989-11-21	sponsor_of_bill	S 1966 — Advanced Nuclear Reactor Research, Development, and Demonstration Act of 1989	—	sponsor	sponsorship
1989-11-21	sponsor_of_bill	S 1976 — Department of Energy High-Performance Computing Act of 1990	—	sponsor	sponsorship
1989-10-26	sponsor_of_bill	S 1802 — Department of Energy Nuclear Facilities Act of 1989	—	sponsor	sponsorship
1989-10-24	sponsor_of_bill	S 1789 — A bill to make certain improvements with respect to judicial proceedings relating to Americ	—	sponsor	sponsorship
1989-09-26	sponsor_of_bill	SJRES 207 — A joint resolution approving the location of the Memorial to the Women who served in Vie	—	sponsor	sponsorship
1989-06-08	sponsor_of_bill	SJRES 154 — A joint resolution to consent to certain amendments enacted by the legislature of the St	—	sponsor	sponsorship
1989-04-19	sponsor_of_bill	S 847 — Uranium Enrichment Reorganization Act	—	sponsor	sponsorship
1989-04-13	sponsor_of_bill	S 780 — Guam Lands Act	—	sponsor	sponsorship
1989-04-13	sponsor_of_bill	S 783 — Natural Gas Wellhead Decontrol Act of 1989	—	sponsor	sponsorship
1989-04-05	sponsor_of_bill	S 710 — A bill to provide for a referendum on the political status of Puerto Rico.	—	sponsor	sponsorship
1989-04-05	sponsor_of_bill	S 712 — Puerto Rico Status Referendum Act	—	sponsor	sponsorship
1989-04-05	sponsor_of_bill	S 711 — A bill to provide for a referendum on the political status of Puerto Rico.	—	sponsor	sponsorship
1989-04-04	sponsor_of_bill	S 694 — Strategic Petroleum Reserve Amendments of 1989	—	sponsor	sponsorship
1989-03-29	sponsor_of_bill	S 684 — Arctic Coastal Plain Competitive Oil and Gas Leasing Act	—	sponsor	sponsorship
1989-02-28	sponsor_of_bill	S 456 — A bill to amend the National Trails System Act to designate the California National Historic	—	sponsor	sponsorship
1989-02-09	sponsor_of_bill	S 406 — Arctic Coastal Plain Competitive Oil and Gas Leasing Act	—	sponsor	sponsorship
1989-01-31	sponsor_of_bill	S 318 — Coal Distribution and Utilization Act	—	sponsor	sponsorship
1988-06-15	sponsor_of_bill	S 2515 — A bill to provide for the conveyance of certain mineral interests of the United States in p	—	sponsor	sponsorship
1988-04-22	sponsor_of_bill	S 2318 — A bill to amend the Pennsylvania Avenue Development Corporation Act of 1972 to authorize ap	—	sponsor	sponsorship
1988-03-24	sponsor_of_bill	S 2214 — Arctic Coastal Plain Competitive Oil and Gas Leasing Act	—	sponsor	sponsorship

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