2016 United States presidential election in Louisiana explained

See main article: 2016 United States presidential election.

Election Name:2016 United States presidential election in Louisiana
Country:Louisiana
Type:presidential
Ongoing:no
Previous Election:2012 United States presidential election in Louisiana
Previous Year:2012
Election Date:November 8, 2016
Next Election:2020 United States presidential election in Louisiana
Next Year:2020
Turnout:67.79% [1]
Image1:Donald Trump official portrait (cropped).jpg
Nominee1:Donald Trump
Party1:Republican Party (United States)
Home State1:New York
Running Mate1:Mike Pence
Electoral Vote1:8
Popular Vote1:1,178,638
Percentage1:
Nominee2:Hillary Clinton
Party2:Democratic Party (United States)
Home State2:New York
Running Mate2:Tim Kaine
Electoral Vote2:0
Popular Vote2:780,154
President
Before Election:Barack Obama
Before Party:Democratic Party (United States)
After Election:Donald Trump
After Party:Republican Party (United States)

The 2016 United States presidential election in Louisiana was held on Tuesday, November 8, 2016, as part of the 2016 United States presidential election in which all 50 states plus the District of Columbia participated. Louisiana voters chose electors to represent them in the Electoral College via a popular vote, pitting the Republican Party's nominee, businessman Donald Trump, and running mate Indiana Governor Mike Pence against Democratic Party nominee, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, and her running mate Virginia Senator Tim Kaine. Louisiana has eight electoral votes in the Electoral College.[2]

Trump won the state with 58.09% of the vote, while Clinton received 38.45%. Trump performed slightly better in the state than Mitt Romney in 2012, but also slightly worse than John McCain in 2008. In contrast, Clinton's vote share in the state was a decrease from Barack Obama's vote shares in 2012 and 2008, where he earned 40.58% and 39.93%, respectively. This makes it the largest loss by a Democrat since Democratic nominee Walter Mondale in 1984. Louisiana is also one of 11 states whose electoral votes went to Bill Clinton twice, but which Hillary Clinton did not win.[3] Six of those states, including Louisiana, have not supported any Democratic presidential candidate since Bill Clinton (The other five being Arkansas, West Virginia, Kentucky, Tennessee, and Missouri), while an additional five (Iowa, Ohio, Wisconsin, Michigan, and Pennsylvania) had all voted Democratic at least twice since Bill Clinton's re-election in 1996.[4]

Primary elections

Twenty-four candidates were on the ballot.[5]

Democratic primary

See main article: 2016 Louisiana Democratic presidential primary.

Republican primary

See main article: 2016 Louisiana Republican presidential primary.
Four candidates appeared on the Republican presidential primary ballot:

State Convention

On March 24, the State Convention met in an attempt to reverse the results of the primary, giving Ted Cruz a clear majority.[6] After conflicting reporting of their support for Ted Cruz, four of Rubio's five delegates publicly rebuked the reporting and committed to staying undecided.[7] Rubio's five delegates and 2 uncommitted delegates committed to Trump after Kasich and Cruz dropped out of the race.[8] [9] This gave Trump the majority of the delegates from the state.

General election

Predictions

The following are final 2016 predictions from various organizations for Louisiana as of Election Day.

SourceRankingAs of
Los Angeles Times[10] November 6, 2016
CNN[11] November 8, 2016
Sabato's Crystal Ball[12] November 7, 2016
NBC[13] November 7, 2016
RealClearPolitics[14] November 8, 2016
Fox News[15] November 7, 2016
ABC[16] November 7, 2016

Results

Donald Trump carried the state, lengthening the Republican streak in Louisiana to 5 straight contests.

By parish

ParishDonald Trump
Republican		Hillary Clinton
Democratic		Various candidates
Other parties		MarginTotal
%%%%
Acadia21,16277.26%5,63820.58%5892.16%15,52456.68%27,389
Allen6,86774.28%2,10622.78%2722.94%4,76151.50%9,245
Ascension36,14366.10%16,47630.13%2,0593.77%19,66735.97%54,678
Assumption6,71461.57%3,93136.05%2592.38%2,78325.52%10,904
Avoyelles11,16567.32%5,03530.36%3862.32%6,13036.96%16,586
Beauregard12,23881.16%2,39315.87%4472.97%9,84565.29%15,078
Bienville3,75653.62%3,12944.67%1201.71%6278.95%7,005
Bossier35,47471.16%12,64125.36%1,7333.48%22,83345.80%49,848
Caddo49,00646.32%53,48350.55%3,3153.13%-4,477-4.23%105,804
Calcasieu54,19164.68%26,29631.39%3,2983.93%27,89533.29%83,785
Caldwell3,82281.46%78816.79%821.75%3,03464.67%4,692
Cameron3,25688.19%3238.75%1133.06%2,93379.44%3,692
Catahoula3,47971.64%1,32227.22%551.14%2,15744.42%4,856
Claiborne3,58555.83%2,71742.31%1191.86%86813.52%6,421
Concordia5,47761.73%3,27236.88%1231.39%2,20524.85%8,872
DeSoto8,06859.76%5,16538.26%2671.98%2,90321.50%13,500
East Baton Rouge84,66043.09%102,82852.33%9,0034.58%-18,168-9.24%196,491
East Carroll1,05936.03%1,83862.54%421.43%-779-26.51%2,939
East Feliciana5,56955.46%4,23542.17%2382.37%1,33413.29%10,042
Evangeline10,36069.61%4,20828.28%3142.11%6,15241.33%14,882
Franklin6,51471.10%2,50627.35%1421.55%4,00843.75%9,162
Grant7,40883.98%1,18113.39%2322.63%6,22770.59%8,821
Iberia20,90364.41%10,69832.96%8532.63%10,20531.45%32,454
Iberville7,32045.63%8,32451.89%3992.48%-1,004-6.26%16,043
Jackson5,16969.25%2,13928.66%1562.09%3,03040.59%7,464
Jefferson100,39855.27%73,67040.56%7,5714.17%26,72814.71%181,639
Jefferson Davis10,77575.47%3,08021.57%4222.96%7,69553.90%14,277
Lafayette68,19564.58%32,72630.99%4,6824.43%35,46933.59%105,603
Lafourche31,95976.74%8,42320.23%1,2633.03%23,53656.51%41,645
LaSalle5,83688.84%6059.21%1281.95%5,23179.63%6,569
Lincoln10,76157.64%7,10738.07%8014.29%3,65419.57%18,669
Livingston48,82484.57%6,95012.04%1,9563.39%41,87472.53%57,730
Madison1,92740.72%2,74457.99%611.29%-817-17.27%4,732
Morehouse6,50254.86%5,15543.49%1951.65%1,34711.37%11,852
Natchitoches8,96853.96%7,14442.98%5093.06%1,82410.98%16,621
Orleans24,29214.65%133,99680.81%7,5244.54%-109,704-66.16%165,812
Ouachita41,73461.36%24,42835.91%1,8552.73%17,30625.45%68,017
Plaquemines6,90065.26%3,34731.66%3263.08%3,55333.60%10,573
Pointe Coupee6,78957.72%4,76440.51%2081.77%2,02517.21%11,761
Rapides36,81664.77%18,32232.23%1,7063.00%18,49432.54%56,844
Red River2,39154.07%1,93843.83%932.10%45310.24%4,422
Richland6,28765.51%3,15732.90%1531.59%3,13032.61%9,597
Sabine7,87980.50%1,70317.40%2052.10%6,17663.10%9,787
St. Bernard10,23764.73%4,96031.36%6183.91%5,27733.37%15,815
St. Charles16,62163.46%8,55932.68%1,0123.86%8,06230.78%26,192
St. Helena2,49741.87%3,35356.22%1141.91%-856-14.35%5,964
St. James5,45645.15%6,41853.11%2111.74%-962-7.96%12,085
St. John the Baptist7,56936.49%12,66161.04%5132.47%-5,092-24.55%20,743
St. Landry21,97154.96%17,20943.05%7971.99%4,76211.91%39,977
St. Martin16,87365.53%8,26632.10%6112.37%8,60733.43%25,750
St. Mary14,35962.77%8,05035.19%4682.04%6,30927.58%22,877
St. Tammany90,91573.09%27,71722.28%5,7604.63%63,19850.81%124,392
Tangipahoa33,95964.79%16,87832.20%1,5793.01%17,08132.59%52,416
Tensas1,18246.39%1,33252.28%341.33%-150-5.89%2,548
Terrebonne31,90272.68%10,66524.30%1,3293.02%21,23748.38%43,896
Union7,97273.18%2,69124.70%2312.12%5,28148.48%10,894
Vermilion20,06378.27%4,85718.95%7122.78%15,20659.32%25,632
Vernon13,47180.99%2,66516.02%4972.99%10,80664.97%16,633
Washington12,55667.40%5,69230.56%3802.04%6,86436.84%18,628
Webster11,54263.61%6,26034.50%3431.89%5,28229.11%18,145
West Baton Rouge6,92754.49%5,38342.35%4023.16%1,54412.14%12,712
West Carroll3,97083.42%71515.02%741.56%3,25568.40%4,759
West Feliciana3,39058.46%2,24838.77%1612.77%1,14219.69%5,799
Winn4,60872.32%1,64425.80%1201.88%2,96446.52%6,372
Totals1,178,63858.09%780,15438.45%70,2403.46%398,48419.64%2,029,032

By congressional district

Trump won 5 of the 6 congressional districts in Louisiana.

DistrictTrumpClinton Representative
69%27%Steve Scalise
22%75%Cedric Richmond
67%29%Clay Higgins
61%37%Mike Johnson
64%34%Ralph Abraham
65%31%Garret Graves

Analysis

Donald Trump won the election in Louisiana with 58.1% of the vote. Hillary Clinton received 38.4% of the vote.[17] Of the 2,029,032 total votes cast, Trump had 1,178,638 while Clinton had 780,154 votes.[18] All of Louisiana's parishes voted for the same party they voted for in 2012 and 2008. As a result, this marked the first time since 1992 that East Baton Rouge Parish backed the losing candidate of the election, and the first time since 1948 that East Baton Rouge Parish voted for the Democratic candidate three elections in a row; Trump also became the first Republican to win the White House without carrying this parish since Richard Nixon in 1968.

Louisiana was one of eleven states that voted twice for Bill Clinton in 1992 and 1996 which Hillary Clinton lost in 2016.

See also

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Voter Statistics for November 8, 2016. Louisiana Secretary of State. July 23, 2020.
  2. Web site: Distribution of Electoral Votes. National Archives and Records Administration. January 3, 2019.
  3. Web site: Historical U.S. Presidential Elections 1789-2020 - 270toWin . 2022-03-22 . 270toWin.com.
  4. Web site: Historical U.S. Presidential Elections 1789-2020 - 270toWin . 2022-03-22 . 270toWin.com.
  5. Web site: Twenty-Four Presidential Candidates Qualify for Louisiana Presidential Primaries | Ballot Access News . Ballot-access.org . 2015-12-04 . 2016-11-13.
  6. Web site: Epstein . Reid J. . Ted Cruz Gains in Louisiana After Loss There to Donald Trump . WSJ.com . 2016-03-24 . 2016-11-13.
  7. Web site: 2016-04-15. Rubio Louisiana Delegates Under Fire: No, We Haven't Backed Ted Cruz. 2021-03-13. Talking Points Memo. en-US.
  8. Web site: Katiana Krawchenko . Louisiana's five Rubio delegates back Trump, call for Rubio as VP . . 2016-05-04 . 2016-11-13.
  9. Web site: BREAKING: Trump Gains Seven More Delegates From Louisiana After Rubio Delegates Finally Switch . The Hayride . 2016-05-07 . 2016-11-13.
  10. News: Our final map has Clinton winning with 352 electoral votes. Compare your picks with ours. . . 2016-11-06 . 2016-11-13.
  11. Web site: Road to 270: CNN's general election map - CNNPolitics.com . Cnn.com . 2016-11-08 . 2016-11-13.
  12. Web site: Larry J. Sabato's Crystal Ball ยป 2016 President . Centerforpolitics.org . 2016-11-07 . 2016-11-13.
  13. Web site: Todd . Chuck . NBC's Final Battleground Map Shows Clinton With a Significant Lead . . 2016-11-13.
  14. Web site: 2016 Election Maps - Battle for White House . RealClearPolitics . 2016-11-13.
  15. Web site: Electoral Scorecard: Map shifts again in Trump's favor, as Clinton holds edge . . 2016-11-07 . 2016-11-13.
  16. Web site: The Final 15: The Latest Polls in the Swing States That Will Decide the Election . Abcnews.go.com . 2016-11-07 . 2016-11-13.
  17. News: Louisiana Election Results 2016 . . 2016-11-08 . 2016-11-13.
  18. Web site: 2016 Presidential General Election Results.

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