(AP) — East Baton Rouge Parish Mayor-President Sharon Weston Broome is promising traffic relief and raises for first responders after being reelected.
Broome got 57% of the vote Saturday to win a runoff against Republican former state Rep. Steve Carter. Broome is the first African American woman to lead the parish.
The Democrat was first voted into office in 2016 after the police killing of Black man Alton Sterling by Baton Rouge police officers as well as massive flooding.
Broome also promised to spend her second term pushing forward a stormwater project to fix problems revealed in the floods.
In all, Broome defeated seven challengers.
