1996 United States presidential election in Louisiana

The 1996 United States presidential election in Louisiana took place on November 5, 1996. Voters chose 9 representatives, or electors to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.

Main article: 1996 United States presidential election

United States presidential election in Louisiana, 1996

November 5, 1996

Nominee Bill Clinton Bob Dole Ross Perot Party Democratic Republican Reform Home state Arkansas Kansas Texas Running mate Al Gore Jack Kemp Patrick Choate Electoral vote 9 0 0 Popular vote 927,837 712,586 123,293 Percentage 52.01% 39.94% 6.91%

Parish Results Clinton   40–50%   50–60%   60–70%   70–80% Dole   40–50%   50–60%   60–70%

President before election Bill Clinton Democratic Elected President Bill Clinton Democratic

Louisiana was won by President Bill Clinton (D) by a margin of 12.07%, a massive increase from the statewide results in 1992 when he carried the state by a margin of 4.61%.[1] Clinton won most of the parishes and congressional districts in the state. Clinton dominated among the rural areas of the state.

Louisiana was generally more competitive than the rest of the Deep South due to its high black population and having a sizeable minority of white Blue Dog Democrats. It is also very racially divided, with whites voting Republican and blacks voting Democratic. Clinton was able to carry 33% of white voters, which threw the state toward his column.[2] Despite such a huge margin, this was the only state that Clinton won by more than a 2.4 margin which wasn't called by news networks for him as soon as the polls closed.

As of the 2016 presidential election this is the last time Louisiana supported a Democratic presidential candidate, as well as the last time a Democrat carried the following parishes: Calcasieu, Rapides, Tangipahoa, Terrebonne, Ascension, Lafourche, Iberia, Acadia, Vermilion, St. Mary, St. Charles, Vernon, St. Martin, Washington, Lincoln, Avoyelles, Webster, Natchitoches, St. Bernard, Evangeline, Jefferson Davis, Morehouse, DeSoto, Allen, Sabine, Plaquemines, Cameron, East Feliciana, West Feliciana, Concordia, Franklin, Richland, Claiborne, Jackson, Winn, Catahoula, Caldwell, and Red River.

Results

1996 United States presidential election in Louisiana[3]
Party		Candidate	Running mate	Popular vote		Electoral vote
				Count	%	Count	%
	Democratic	Bill Clinton of Arkansas	Al Gore of Tennessee	927,837	52.01%	9	100.00%
	Republican	Bob Dole of Kansas	Jack Kemp of New York	712,586	39.94%	0	0.00%
	Reform	Ross Perot of Texas	Pat Choate of Washington, D.C.	123,293	6.91%	0	0.00%
	Libertarian	Harry Browne of Tennessee	Jo Jorgensen of South Carolina	7,499	0.42%	0	0.00%
	Green	Ralph Nader of Connecticut	Winona LaDuke of California	4,719	0.26%	0	0.00%
	U.S. Taxpayers'	Howard Phillips of Virginia	Herbert Titus of Oregon	3,366	0.19%	0	0.00%
	Natural Law	John Hagelin of Iowa	Mike Tompkins of Massachusetts	2,981	0.17%	0	0.00%
	Workers World	Monica Moorehead of Alabama	Gloria LaRiva of California	1,678	0.09%	0	0.00%
Total				1,776,259	100.00%	9	100.00%

By parish

Parish	Clinton%	Clinton#	Dole%	Dole#	Others%	Others#
Acadia	51.4%	12,300	38.6%	9,246	10.0%	2,381
Allen	55.7%	4,930	29.3%	2,589	15.0%	1,325
Ascension	51.9%	15,263	37.0%	10,885	11.1%	3,252
Assumption	62.8%	6,416	26.4%	2,698	10.8%	1,098
Avoyelles	59.0%	9,689	27.0%	4,433	13.9%	2,288
Beauregard	39.4%	4,925	44.2%	5,526	16.4%	2,048
Bienville	58.7%	4,335	32.5%	2,402	8.8%	647
Bossier	43.8%	15,504	47.6%	16,852	8.6%	3,026
Caddo	55.9%	55,543	38.7%	38,445	5.4%	5,391
Calcasieu	51.9%	38,238	36.0%	26,494	12.1%	8,929
Caldwell	46.4%	2,117	40.4%	1,842	13.2%	600
Cameron	50.7%	2,103	32.9%	1,365	16.4%	680
Catahoula	52.1%	2,692	34.3%	1,770	13.6%	704
Claiborne	53.6%	3,609	37.1%	2,500	9.3%	630
Concordia	52.4%	4,565	36.0%	3,134	11.7%	1,016
De Soto	59.1%	6,221	33.5%	3,526	7.4%	773
East Baton Rouge	48.9%	83,493	45.6%	77,811	5.5%	9,343
East Carroll	63.0%	2,149	29.6%	1,008	7.4%	254
East Feliciana	56.1%	4,714	35.1%	2,949	8.8%	738
Evangeline	52.8%	7,847	35.5%	5,278	11.6%	1,729
Franklin	45.3%	4,076	44.0%	3,961	10.7%	963
Grant	40.9%	2,980	42.8%	3,117	16.4%	1,195
Iberia	50.4%	15,087	40.1%	12,014	9.6%	2,864
Iberville	64.2%	9,553	27.1%	4,031	8.7%	1,295
Jackson	47.7%	3,368	42.9%	3,030	9.5%	669
Jefferson	43.6%	80,407	50.3%	92,820	6.1%	11,239
Jefferson Davis	53.3%	6,897	33.3%	4,311	13.4%	1,735
Lafayette	43.7%	32,504	48.9%	36,419	7.5%	5,545
Lafourche	54.4%	18,810	35.0%	12,105	10.6%	3,681
LaSalle	39.1%	2,543	45.0%	2,925	16.0%	1,038
Lincoln	49.9%	7,903	44.0%	6,973	6.2%	979
Livingston	38.9%	13,276	47.4%	16,159	13.7%	4,660
Madison	60.9%	3,085	31.4%	1,591	7.7%	389
Morehouse	49.3%	6,160	41.6%	5,193	9.1%	1,140
Natchitoches	54.7%	8,296	36.1%	5,471	9.3%	1,403
Orleans	76.2%	144,720	20.8%	39,576	3.0%	5,615
Ouachita	42.6%	24,525	49.6%	28,559	7.8%	4,510
Plaquemines	49.5%	5,348	41.6%	4,493	8.9%	956
Pointe Coupee	60.3%	6,835	31.3%	3,545	8.4%	952
Rapides	46.1%	23,004	43.2%	21,548	10.8%	5,379
Red River	61.5%	2,641	31.3%	1,344	7.2%	311
Richland	47.6%	4,143	43.2%	3,765	9.2%	802
Sabine	47.3%	4,263	39.3%	3,543	13.3%	1,201
St. Bernard	46.3%	14,312	43.9%	13,549	9.8%	3,031
St. Charles	49.6%	10,612	43.6%	9,316	6.9%	1,465
St. Helena	65.8%	3,692	26.0%	1,455	8.2%	461
St. James	67.5%	7,247	26.4%	2,832	6.2%	664
St. John the Baptist	58.3%	9,937	35.3%	6,025	6.4%	1,089
St. Landry	58.2%	20,636	34.6%	12,273	7.2%	2,544
St. Martin	60.2%	12,492	30.4%	6,296	9.4%	1,948
St. Mary	55.0%	12,402	35.5%	8,018	9.5%	2,149
St. Tammany	32.6%	24,281	60.1%	44,761	7.4%	5,484
Tangipahoa	49.5%	18,617	41.3%	15,517	9.2%	3,457
Tensas	60.7%	1,882	32.3%	1,000	7.0%	217
Terrebonne	51.0%	18,550	38.4%	13,944	10.6%	3,867
Union	44.6%	4,260	46.3%	4,418	9.1%	865
Vermilion	55.6%	12,609	33.8%	7,653	10.6%	2,399
Vernon	44.4%	6,195	39.0%	5,449	16.6%	2,322
Washington	53.3%	9,603	36.9%	6,642	9.9%	1,778
Webster	55.3%	9,688	35.1%	6,153	9.6%	1,676
West Baton Rouge	58.1%	5,697	33.2%	3,254	8.6%	847
West Carroll	38.9%	1,853	49.7%	2,366	11.4%	545
West Feliciana	53.6%	2,416	35.9%	1,616	10.5%	474
Winn	50.6%	3,779	37.6%	2,803	11.8%	881

References

1. http://uselectionatlas.org/RESULTS/index.html
2. http://www.cnn.com/ELECTION/1998/states/LA/polls/LA96PH.html
3. http://uselectionatlas.org/RESULTS/state.php?year=1996&fips=22&f=0&off=0&elect=0&minper=0