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Republican · Mayor of Baton Rouge · Louisiana · Spectrum score +48
Mayor ·
Emile Sid Edwards is Mayor of Baton Rouge in Louisiana. Political positions and ideology score +48 (Right). Emile "Sid" Edwards is an American politician and former high school football coach who has served as the mayor-president of Baton Rouge and East Baton Rouge Parish since January 2025.
- Term ends
- Dec 31, 2028
- mayor@brla.gov
- Phone
- 225-389-3100
- Office
- 222 Saint Louis Street, 3rd Floor, Baton Rouge, LA 70802
- Website
- Official site
- Wikipedia
- Background
- Salary
- —
City pay varies · not on file
Where Emile stands on the spectrum
Emile Sid Edwards scores +48 on Spectrum’s left–right line (right), right of center on the economy and conservative on social issues. The number is modeled from twelve issue positions and the public record — not a poll and not a party label.
Composite +48 · Right · economic +49 · social +46 · authoritarian +26
Confidence 68. How we calculate scores →
Background & record
Emile "Sid" Edwards is an American politician and former high school football coach who has served as the mayor-president of Baton Rouge and East Baton Rouge Parish since January 2025. A member of the Republican Party, he defeated Democratic incumbent Sharon Weston Broome in the runoff of the 2024 Baton Rouge mayoral election, receiving 54 percent of the vote. He was the first Republican elected mayor-president…
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Issue detail
−100 left pole · +100 right pole
- Economic
- +49
- Social
- +46
- Authoritarian
- +26
- Confidence
- 68
- Taxes & spending+54
Lower taxes, smaller fiscal footprint
- Health care+42
Private insurance markets, fewer mandates
- Climate & energy+48
Energy abundance, fewer climate mandates
- Business regulation+52
Deregulation and lighter administrative state
- Labor & wages+44
Flexible labor markets, right-to-work
- Immigration+46
Tighter borders, more deportations
- Abortion+48
Restrictions or bans, fetal personhood
- Guns+56
Broad Second Amendment, fewer federal limits
- Crime & policing+50
More policing, longer sentences, less bail reform
- Schools & speech+46
Choice, against gender/DEI curricula
- Defense & alliances+58
Hard power, high defense spending, deterrence
- Civil liberties+30
Order, platform / campus / speech restrictions for security or morality
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Sources
- Ballotpedia, mayors of the 100 largest cities, August 2026
- Open States people (municipalities)
- brla.gov
- en.wikipedia.org
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Updated August 2026.