Three-term state Sen. Cleo Fields became the Louisiana delegation’s second Black Democratic congressman Tuesday night, returning to the House of Representatives after an absence of almost three decades. The five other members of the delegation easily ...

Democrat Cleo Fields won the seat for Louisiana's 6th Congressional District, the state's new majority-Black district, according to complete but unofficial results on the Louisiana Secretary of State's website.

Almost three decades after redistricting forced him out of the U.S. House of Representatives, Cleo Fields will return to Washington, D.C. He claimed an outright win Tuesday in the newly redrawn 6th Congressional District that favored a Black Democrat.

Sen. Cleo Fields has secured Louisiana's 6th Congressional district seat with 51% of the vote, a flip of the seat to Democrats after a court-ordered redistricting. Fields finished with 150,311 votes according to preliminary results from the Louisiana secretary of state's office.

State Sen. Cleo Fields is expected to win Louisiana's 6th Congressional District race. At midnight Wednesday, Fields had 51% of the vote against fellow Democrat Quinten Anderson and former Opelousas Sen. Elbert Guillory with all precincts reporting, according to the Secretary of State's website. AP has yet to call the race.