Among named candidates, it appears McCain won - except that Louisiana's caucuses aren't necessarily "for" candidates, and several delegates in several of the eleven voting places won on multiple slates, and "Uncommitted" actually finished first, but who knows?

If you thought the Iowa Caucus process was convoluted, wait until you meet Louisiana, whose caucuses were yesterday, but only released the results (such as they are) today. From the state GOP:

Results from Louisiana's Republican caucuses and the informal designation of a "winning slate" are preliminary for two reasons. First, about 500 individuals who attended the event were not shown to be registered Republicans on voter rolls. These individuals were allowed to cast "provisional ballots," which are not included in the current candidate tallies on the Party's website, www.lagop.com. State Party staffers are currently working with Registrars of Voters across the state to confirm with certainty the eligibility of each candidate. Party rules allow anyone registered as Republican as of November 30, 2007 to have voted last evening. The ballots of those who are found eligible will be added to totals and the outcomes of some races in Districts 1,2,4,5 and 6 could possibly be affected.

Second, candidates for delegate in Louisiana historically have run on one or another slate, but not on multiple slates. This year, however, many candidates ran on more than one slate. There was significant overlap, for example, between the McCain and Pro-Life slates. So determination of which slate won is not as clear-cut. But it certainly appears that the order was: Uncommitted Pro-Life, McCain, Paul, Romney, others.

Identification of candidates with the various slates is not an official Party function and such analysis is provided solely as a courtesy to members of the press and as a response to the numerous inquiries received by the Party regarding this topic.

The entire release is at the link above. Clear enough?

I should mention the Chairman goes out of his way to say some nice things about Ron Paul and his supporters (who were up in arms last night - as I searched for results without luck - and saying Paul must have won and the lack of results was a conspiracy against him and them). Whether that will satisfy them the count was honest or not is anyone's guess.