| State: | Louisiana |
| District Number: | 6 |
| Image Caption: | Interactive map of district boundaries |
| Representative: | Garret Graves |
| Party: | Republican |
| Residence: | Baton Rouge |
| Distribution Ref: | [1] |
| Percent Urban: | 78.12 |
| Percent Rural: | 21.88 |
| Population: | 796,937[2] |
| Population Year: | 2022 |
| Median Income: | $70,632[3] |
| Percent White: | 62.4 |
| Percent Hispanic: | 7.2 |
| Percent Black: | 24.0 |
| Percent Asian: | 2.4 |
| Percent More Than One Race: | 3.2 |
| Percent Other Race: | 0.8 |
| Cpvi: | R+19[4] |
Louisiana's 6th congressional district is a congressional district in the U.S. state of Louisiana. Located in south-central Louisiana, the district contains most of the state capital of Baton Rouge, the bulk of Baton Rouge's suburbs, and continues south to Thibodaux. It also includes the western shores of Lake Pontchartrain.
The district is currently represented by Republican Garret Graves.
Since the 6th congressional district's creation, its boundaries have migrated from a position astraddle the Mississippi River to completely east of the Mississippi River and more recently astraddle the river again.
For decades prior to 1974, the district was virtually coterminous with the Florida Parishes. In 1974, the 6th congressional district shed St. Tammany Parish to the 1st congressional district, and since then several redistrictings have incrementally moved the district's boundaries westward so that it has shed both Washington and Tangipahoa parishes (including Hammond, home of James H. Morrison, who represented the district for 24 years, the longest tenure of anyone ever to represent the district) to the 1st district.
For most of its existence, the district's lines generally followed parish lines. In the 1990s redistricting, however, most of the district's black voters were transferred to the black-majority 4th district. Those lines, however, were thrown out in 1995 when the 4th was ruled to be an unconstitutional racial gerrymander, and from 1996 to 2013, the 6th included all of Baton Rouge. After the 2010 redistricting, a gash in western Baton Rouge, including most of the city's black precincts, was transferred to the New Orleans-based 2nd district.
Following a court ruling striking down Louisiana's 2022 congressional map for violating the Voting Rights Act, a new map enacted by a special legislative session on January 22, 2024 dismantled the district and it stretched from Caddo Parish in the North West to East Baton Rouge Parish, and will include a majority African-American voting-age population.
| Election results from presidential races | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Year | Office | Results | |
| 2000 | President | Bush 55–43% | |
| 2004 | President | Bush 59–40% | |
| 2008 | President | McCain 57–41% | |
| 2012 | President | Romney 66–32% | |
| 2016 | President | Trump 65–31% | |
| 2020 | President | Trump 64–34% | |
| Election results from statewide races | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Year | Office | Results | |
| 2016 | President | Clinton 58–39% | |
| 2016 | Senate | Campbell 54–44% | |
| 2016 | Senate (Runoff) | Campbell 60–40% | |
| 2019 | Governor | Edwards 64–36% | |
| 2019 | Governor (Runoff) | Edwards 68–32% | |
| 2019 | Lt. Governor | Nungesser 51–49% | |
| 2019 | Attorney General | Jackson 51–49% | |
| 2020 | President | Biden 59–39% | |
| 2020 | Senate | Perkins 54–43% | |
| 2022 | Senate | Chambers 52–46% | |
| Member | Party | Years | Cong ress | Electoral history | Location | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| District created March 4, 1875 | ||||||||
| align=left | Charles E. Nash | Republican | nowrap | March 4, 1875 – March 3, 1877 | Elected in 1874. Lost re-election. | |||
| align=left | Edward White Robertson | Democratic | nowrap | March 4, 1877 – March 3, 1883 | Elected in 1876. Re-elected in 1878. Re-elected in 1880. Lost renomination. | |||
| align=left | Edward Taylor Lewis | Democratic | nowrap | March 4, 1883 – March 3, 1885 | Elected to finish member-elect Andrew Herron's term. Lost renomination. | |||
| align=left | Alfred Briggs Irion | Democratic | nowrap | March 4, 1885 – March 3, 1887 | Elected in 1884. Lost renomination. | |||
| align=left | Edward White Robertson | Democratic | nowrap | March 4, 1887 – August 2, 1887 | Elected in 1886. Died. | |||
| Vacant | nowrap | August 2, 1887 – December 5, 1887 | ||||||
| align=left | Samuel Matthews Robertson | Democratic | nowrap | December 5, 1887 – March 3, 1907 | Elected to finish his father's term. Re-elected in 1888. Re-elected in 1890. Re-elected in 1892. Re-elected in 1894. Re-elected in 1896. Re-elected in 1898. Re-elected in 1900. Re-elected in 1902. Re-elected in 1904. Lost renomination. | |||
| align=left | George Kent Favrot | Democratic | nowrap | March 4, 1907 – March 3, 1909 | Elected in 1906. Lost renomination. | |||
| align=left | Robert Charles Wickliffe | Democratic | nowrap | March 4, 1909 – June 11, 1912 | Elected in 1908. Re-elected in 1910. Died. | |||
| Vacant | nowrap | June 11, 1912 – November 5, 1912 | ||||||
| align=left | Lewis Lovering Morgan | Democratic | nowrap | November 5, 1912 – March 3, 1917 | Elected to finish Wickliffe's term. Also elected to the next full term. Re-elected in 1914. Retired. | |||
| align=left | Jared Young Sanders | Democratic | nowrap | March 4, 1917 – March 3, 1921 | Elected in 1916. Re-elected in 1918. Retired. | |||
| align=left | George Kent Favrot | Democratic | nowrap | March 4, 1921 – March 3, 1925 | Elected in 1920. Re-elected in 1922. Lost renomination. | |||
| align=left | Bolivar E. Kemp | Democratic | nowrap | March 4, 1925 – June 19, 1933 | Elected in 1924. Re-elected in 1926. Re-elected in 1928. Re-elected in 1930. Re-elected in 1932. Died. | |||
| Vacant | nowrap | June 19, 1933 – May 1, 1934 | ||||||
| align=left | Jared Y. Sanders Jr. | Democratic | nowrap | May 1, 1934 – January 3, 1937 | Elected to finish Kemp's term. Re-elected in 1934. Lost renomination. | |||
| align=left | John K. Griffith | Democratic | nowrap | January 3, 1937 – January 3, 1941 | Elected in 1936. Re-elected in 1938. Lost renomination. | |||
| align=left | Jared Y. Sanders Jr. | Democratic | nowrap | January 3, 1941 – January 3, 1943 | Elected in 1940. Lost renomination. | |||
| align=left | James H. Morrison (Hammond) | Democratic | nowrap | January 3, 1943 – January 3, 1967 | Elected in 1942. Re-elected in 1944. Re-elected in 1946. Re-elected in 1948. Re-elected in 1950. Re-elected in 1952. Re-elected in 1954. Re-elected in 1956. Re-elected in 1958. Re-elected in 1960. Re-elected in 1962. Re-elected in 1964. Lost renomination. | |||
| align=left | John Rarick (Baton Rouge) | Democratic | nowrap | January 3, 1967 – January 3, 1975 | Elected in 1966. Re-elected in 1968. Re-elected in 1970. Re-elected in 1972. Lost renomination. | |||
| align=left | Henson Moore (Baton Rouge) | Republican | nowrap | January 3, 1975 – January 3, 1987 | Elected in 1974. Re-elected in 1976. Re-elected in 1978. Re-elected in 1980. Re-elected in 1982. Re-elected in 1984. Retired to run for U.S. senator. | |||
Richard Baker (Baton Rouge) | Republican | January 3, 1987 – February 2, 2008 | Elected in 1986. Re-elected in 1988. Re-elected in 1990. Re-elected in 1992. Re-elected in 1994. Re-elected in 1996. Re-elected in 1998. Re-elected in 2000. Re-elected in 2002. Re-elected in 2004. Re-elected in 2006. Resigned to take a lobbying position at the Managed Funds Association. | |||||
| 2003–2013 | ||||||||
| Vacant | nowrap | February 2, 2008 – May 3, 2008 | ||||||
| align=left | Don Cazayoux (New Roads) | Democratic | nowrap | May 3, 2008 – January 3, 2009 | Elected to finish Baker's term. Lost re-election. | |||
Bill Cassidy (Baton Rouge) | Republican | January 3, 2009 – January 3, 2015 | Elected in 2008. Re-elected in 2010. Re-elected in 2012. Retired to run for U.S. Senator. | |||||
| 2013–2023 | ||||||||
Garret Graves (Baton Rouge) | Republican | January 3, 2015 – present | Elected in 2014. Re-elected in 2016. Re-elected in 2018. Re-elected in 2020. Re-elected in 2022. Retiring at end of term due to redistricting.[6] | |||||
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