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1876–2024
Beauregard Parish, Louisiana
Beauregard Parish·Louisiana

Beauregard Parish voted Democratic for a century. The shift began with civil rights.

One of Louisiana's most lopsided presidential margins in 2024

18762024·38 elections
Beauregard Parish, Louisiana · Wikimedia Commons
Latest
R+71
in 2024
Archetype
Old Confederacy
since the recent cycles
Population
36,676
2024 ACS
Most similar
Anderson County
TX · similarity 1.00
37 precincts · 15,874 votes cast
Trump · R+71
Margin
Turnout
Harris +50
Trump +50
Real precinct boundaries. Hover for vote totals.
YearWonMarginDemocraticRepublicanTotal
2024R
−71.3%
2,19213,50415,874
2020R
−67.5%
2,54213,57516,357
2016R
−65.3%
2,39312,23815,078
2012R
−58.2%
2,82811,11214,225
2008R
−54.3%
3,07110,71814,074
2004R
−43.7%
3,6669,47013,281
2000R
−32.0%
3,9587,86212,205
1996R
−4.8%
4,9255,52612,499
1992R
−0.7%
5,0375,11912,551
1988R
−15.6%
4,7046,46611,284
1984R
−27.1%
4,1997,35311,648
1980D
+2.8%
5,5565,25011,059
1976D
+24.2%
5,3223,1968,786
1972R
−45.2%
1,7284,9557,139
1968R
−0.6%
1,5691,6157,232
1964D
+4.7%
3,3493,0496,398
1960D
+7.9%
2,9032,4325,965
1956R
−8.5%
2,2762,7115,146
1952D
+11.6%
9967891,785
1948D
+34.7%
1,6534493,473
1944D
+49.1%
2,2267592,985
1940D
+67.1%
2,6775283,205
1936D
+59.8%
2,1815492,730
1932D
+88.2%
2,3191462,465
1928D
+52.8%
1,5134681,981
1924D
+67.0%
1,1912351,427
1920D
+69.3%
1,1462021,362
1916D
+88.3%
968591,029
1912
No data
1908
No data
1904
No data
1900
No data
1896
No data
1892
No data
1888
No data
1884
No data
1880
No data
1876
No data
Demographics
Race, ethnicity, and ancestry
Click any group to see the ancestries typically reported within it.
American
100.0%
African American
8.9%
Multiple ancestry combinations reported; no single grouping above 1%.
Sample size too small to break out by ancestry reliably.
American Indian, Alaska Native, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander combined.
Source · American Community Survey 5-year estimates, 2024 release. Ancestry is a self-reported, multiple-response item; ancestry percentages do not sum to the parent race percentage.
Language at home
Population aged 5 and older
0.0%
speak English only
Source · ACS 5-year estimates, 2024.
Religious adherents
Adherents per capita by tradition
Baptist
36.0%
Other Christian
14.3%
Catholic & Orthodox
9.9%
Pentecostal & Holiness
5.4%
Methodist
3.7%
Mainline Protestant
1.7%
Source · 2020 US Religion Census. Remaining 29.0% of residents not counted as adherents by any reporting body.

This rural piney-woods parish in southwestern Louisiana recorded an R+71.3 presidential margin in 2024, reflecting the deep partisan alignment common across sparsely populated timber-country communities in the region.

The shift began with civil rights. 1984 marked the realignment in Beauregard Parish, by a twenty-seven points margin. The Republican margin reached its widest at seventy-one points in 2024. The 2024 margin was seventy-one points.

The political shift has tracked, in Beauregard Parish, the political shift of the South more broadly. A 80% non-Hispanic-white share, a median household income of $65,944, and a 14% poverty rate describe the demographic context. The county's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Anderson County and Grant Parish.