Louisiana's 6th congressional district

Louisiana's 6th congressional district
	Louisiana's 6th congressional district - since January 3, 2013.
	Garret Graves; R–Baton Rouge
Distribution	78.12% urban[1]; 21.88% rural;
Population (2016)	798,676[2]
Median income	$62,374[3]
Ethnicity	69.84% white; 24.08% black; 4.57% Hispanic; 1.99% Asian; 0.47% Native American;
Cook PVI	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 Houma. It also includes the western shores of Lake Pontchartrain.

The district is currently represented by Republican Garret Graves.

History

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 centered on Hammond. In 1974, the 6th congressional district shed St. Tammany Parish to the 1st congressional district, and since then several redistrictings have incrementally moved the 6th congressional 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). Washington and Tangipahoa parishes switched, like St. Tammany Parish, to the strongly Republican 1st congressional 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 for the 1996 election 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.

Recent presidential elections

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%

List of members representing the district

Member	Party	Years	Cong ress	Electoral history
District created March 4, 1875
Charles E. Nash	Republican	March 4, 1875 – March 3, 1877	44th	Elected in 1874. Lost re-election.
Edward White Robertson	Democratic	March 4, 1877 – March 3, 1883	45th 46th 47th	[data unknown/missing]
Edward Taylor Lewis	Democratic	March 4, 1883 – March 3, 1885	48th	Member-elect Andrew S. Herron died November 27, 1882. Elected to finish Herron's term. Lost renomination.
Alfred Briggs Irion	Democratic	March 4, 1885 – March 3, 1887	49th	[data unknown/missing]
Edward White Robertson	Democratic	March 4, 1887 – August 2, 1887	50th	[data unknown/missing] Died.
Vacant		August 2, 1887 – December 5, 1887	50th
Samuel Matthews Robertson	Democratic	December 5, 1887 – March 3, 1907	50th 51st 52nd 53rd 54th 55th 56th 57th 58th 59th	Elected to finish his father's term. Lost renomination.
George Kent Favrot	Democratic	March 4, 1907 – March 3, 1909	60th	[data unknown/missing]
Robert Charles Wickliffe	Democratic	March 4, 1909 – June 11, 1912	61st 62nd	[data unknown/missing] Died.
Vacant		June 11, 1912 – November 5, 1912	62nd
Lewis Lovering Morgan	Democratic	November 5, 1912 – March 3, 1917	62nd 63rd 64th	Elected to finish Wickliffe's term. [data unknown/missing]
Jared Young Sanders	Democratic	March 4, 1917 – March 3, 1921	65th 66th	[data unknown/missing]
George Kent Favrot	Democratic	March 4, 1921 – March 3, 1925	67th 68th	[data unknown/missing]
Bolivar E. Kemp	Democratic	March 4, 1925 – June 19, 1933	69th 70th 71st 72nd 73rd	[data unknown/missing] Died.
Vacant		June 19, 1933 – May 1, 1934	73rd
Jared Y. Sanders Jr.	Democratic	May 1, 1934 – January 3, 1937	73rd 74th	Elected to finish Kemp's term. [data unknown/missing]
John K. Griffith	Democratic	January 3, 1937 – January 3, 1941	75th 76th	[data unknown/missing]
Jared Y. Sanders Jr.	Democratic	January 3, 1941 – January 3, 1943	77th	[data unknown/missing]
James H. Morrison	Democratic	January 3, 1943 – January 3, 1967	78\|89}	[data unknown/missing] Lost renomination.
John R. Rarick	Democratic	January 3, 1967 – January 3, 1975	90th 91st 92nd 93rd	[data unknown/missing] Lost renomination.
Henson Moore	Republican	January 3, 1975 – January 3, 1987	94th 95th 96th 97th 98th 99th	[data unknown/missing] Retired to run for U.S. senator.
Richard Baker	Republican	January 3, 1987 – February 2, 2008	100th 101st 102nd 103rd 104th 105th 106th 107th 108th 109th 110th	[data unknown/missing] Resigned.
Vacant		February 2, 2008 – May 3, 2008	110th
Don Cazayoux	Democratic	May 3, 2008 – January 3, 2009	110th	Elected to finish Baker's term. Lost re-election.
Bill Cassidy	Republican	January 3, 2009 – January 3, 2015	111th 112th 113th	[data unknown/missing] Retired to run for U.S. Senator
Garret Graves	Republican	January 3, 2015 – Present	114th 115th 116th	Elected in 2014.

Recent election results

2002

Louisiana's 6th Congressional District Runoff Election (2002)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Republican	Richard H. Baker*	146,932	84.04
	Libertarian	Rick Moscatello	27,898	15.96
Total votes			174,830	100.00
Turnout
	Republican hold

2004

Louisiana's 6th Congressional District Election (2004)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Republican	Richard H. Baker*	188,980	72.24
	Democratic	Rufus Craig, Jr.	50,642	19.36
	Democratic	Edward "Scott" Galmon	21,987	8.41
Total votes			261,609	100.00
Turnout
	Republican hold

2006

Louisiana's 6th Congressional District Election (2006)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Republican	Richard H. Baker*	94,658	82.81
	Libertarian	Richard Fontanesi	19,648	17.19
Total votes			114,306	100.00
Turnout
	Republican hold

2008

Louisiana's 6th Congressional District Special Election (May 3, 2008)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Democratic	Don Cazayoux	49,703	49.20
	Republican	Woody Jenkins	46,746	46.78
	Independent	Ashley Casey	3,718	3.68
	Independent	Peter J. Aranyosi	448	0.44
	Constitution	Randall T. Hayes	402	0.40
Total votes			101,017	100.00
Turnout
	Democratic gain from Republican

Louisiana's 6th Congressional District General Election (2008)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Republican	Bill Cassidy	150,332	48.12
	Democratic	Don Cazayoux*	125,886	40.29
	Independent	Michael Jackson	36,198	11.59
Total votes			312,416	100.00
Turnout
	Republican gain from Democratic

2010

Louisiana's 6th Congressional District Election (2010)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Republican	Bill Cassidy*	138,607	65.63
	Democratic	Merritt E. McDonald, Sr.	72,577	34.37
Total votes			211,184	100.00
Turnout
	Republican hold

2014

Louisiana's 6th Congressional District Runoff Election (2014)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Republican	Garret Graves	139,209	62.4
	Democratic	Edwin Edwards	83,781	37.6
Total votes			222,990	100.00
Turnout
	Republican hold

2016

Louisiana's 6th Congressional District Election (2016)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Republican	Garret Graves	207,483	63
	Republican	Robert Lamar "Bob" Bell	33,592	10
	Libertarian	Richard M. Fontanesi	7,603	2
	Other	Devin Lance Graham	3,218	1
	Democratic	Richard Lieberman	49,380	15
	Democratic	Jermaine Sampson	29,822	9
Total votes			331,098	100.00
Turnout				71.3
	Republican hold

2018

Louisiana's 6th Congressional District Election (2018)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Republican	Garret Graves	186,553	69.5
	Democratic	Justin DeWitt	55,089	20.5
	Democratic	Andie Saizan	21,627	8.1
	Other	Devin Lance Graham	5,256	2.0
Total votes			268,525	100.00
Turnout
	Republican hold

Historical district boundaries

2003 - 2013

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References

https://www.census.gov/geo/maps-data/data/cd_state.html
https://www.census.gov/mycd/?st=22&cd=06
https://www.census.gov/mycd/?st=22&cd=06
"Partisan Voting Index – Districts of the 115th Congress" (PDF). The Cook Political Report. April 7, 2017. Retrieved April 7, 2017.

Martis, Kenneth C. (1989). The Historical Atlas of Political Parties in the United States Congress. New York: Macmillan Publishing Company.
Martis, Kenneth C. (1982). The Historical Atlas of United States Congressional Districts. New York: Macmillan Publishing Company.
Congressional Biographical Directory of the United States 1774–present

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[Cook-4] "Partisan Voting Index – Districts of the 115th Congress" (PDF). The Cook Political Report. April 7, 2017. Retrieved April 7, 2017.