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1876–2024
East Feliciana Parish, Louisiana
East Feliciana Parish·Louisiana

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

A rural Florida Parishes parish where the Tunica Hills meet the Clinton courthouse square

18762024·38 elections
East Feliciana Parish, Louisiana · Galen Parks Smith (Gsmith) · Wikimedia Commons
Latest
R+22
in 2024
Archetype
Old Confederacy
since the recent cycles
Population
19,271
2024 ACS
Most similar
De Soto Parish
LA · similarity 0.99
23 precincts · 9,947 votes cast
Trump · R+22
Margin
Turnout
Harris +50
Trump +50
Real precinct boundaries. Hover for vote totals.
YearWonMarginDemocraticRepublicanTotal
2024R
−22.2%
3,8096,0209,947
2020R
−17.0%
4,2806,06410,509
2016R
−13.3%
4,2355,56910,042
2012R
−7.3%
4,6485,39710,209
2008R
−10.5%
4,3835,4329,947
2004R
−10.1%
4,0915,0219,201
2000R
−2.2%
3,8704,0518,099
1996D
+21.0%
4,7142,9498,401
1992D
+16.2%
4,0932,8137,895
1988D
+1.8%
3,6593,5277,349
1984R
−0.5%
4,1224,1668,401
1980D
+20.1%
4,0332,6506,873
1976D
+34.1%
3,4851,6685,323
1972R
−9.6%
1,6031,9924,067
1968D
+23.3%
1,4094574,091
1964D
+59.3%
1,9004862,386
1960D
+8.4%
4753131,927
1956D
+16.1%
1,3049122,435
1952D
+7.5%
1,0198761,895
1948D
+11.3%
2671271,234
1944D
+59.6%
8692201,089
1940D
+73.2%
1,0591641,223
1936D
+82.4%
1,0571021,159
1932D
+89.5%
1,178651,243
1928D
+59.1%
622160782
1924D
+90.5%
50425529
1920D
+89.3%
52930559
1916D
+91.6%
48921511
1912D
+95.7%
4221440
1908D
+95.7%
58912603
1904D
+96.0%
3887397
1900D
+93.0%
55120571
1896D
+97.5%
1,548151,572
1892D
+86.8%
1,355961,451
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
31.7%
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
28.9%
Methodist
9.0%
Other Christian
7.0%
Catholic & Orthodox
1.3%
Mainline Protestant
1.3%
Pentecostal & Holiness
1.0%
Source · 2020 US Religion Census. Remaining 51.5% of residents not counted as adherents by any reporting body.

East Feliciana's electorate has shifted decisively rightward over two decades even as its small-town county seat retains traces of its 19th-century planter-class architecture and a historically Black college presence at Southern University's law campus nearby.

The shift began with civil rights. 2000 marked the realignment in East Feliciana Parish, by a two points margin. The Republican margin reached its widest at twenty-two points in 2024. The 2024 margin was twenty-two points.

The political shift has tracked, in East Feliciana Parish, the political shift of the South more broadly. A 55% non-Hispanic-white share, a median household income of $73,085, and a 16% poverty rate describe the demographic context. The county's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of De Soto Parish and Choctaw County.