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1876–2024
Lincoln Parish, Louisiana
Lincoln Parish·Louisiana

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

Home to Grambling State and Louisiana Tech, two universities in one parish

18762024·38 elections
Lincoln Parish, Louisiana · Billy Hathorn · Wikimedia Commons
Latest
R+25
in 2024
Archetype
Old Confederacy
since the recent cycles
Population
48,174
2024 ACS
Most similar
Decatur County
GA · similarity 0.99
49 precincts · 18,157 votes cast
Trump · R+25
Margin
Turnout
Harris +50
Trump +50
Real precinct boundaries. Hover for vote totals.
YearWonMarginDemocraticRepublicanTotal
2024R
−25.5%
6,62711,24818,157
2020R
−19.5%
7,55911,31119,275
2016R
−19.6%
7,10710,76118,669
2012R
−14.7%
7,95610,73918,993
2008R
−12.5%
8,29210,68019,179
2004R
−19.5%
7,24210,79118,218
2000R
−14.5%
6,8519,24616,551
1996D
+5.9%
7,9036,97315,855
1992R
−0.1%
7,2057,22016,561
1988R
−23.4%
5,4278,85314,657
1984R
−24.9%
5,4329,08714,701
1980R
−14.2%
5,5987,51513,470
1976R
−15.5%
4,9716,82811,969
1972R
−42.6%
2,5896,7369,741
1968R
−7.1%
2,0092,6438,877
1964D
+54.2%
5,7661,7147,480
1960R
−33.6%
1,0512,7665,109
1956R
−36.8%
1,0142,6764,520
1952R
−21.0%
2,0093,0745,083
1948D
+8.5%
6253533,201
1944D
+24.6%
1,7051,0322,737
1940D
+73.7%
2,9694493,418
1936D
+82.9%
2,1542012,356
1932D
+84.3%
1,9081632,071
1928D
+21.7%
1,0416701,711
1924D
+72.7%
1,0051571,166
1920D
+68.8%
9891831,172
1916D
+91.0%
93242978
1912D
+84.1%
6443762
1908D
+81.7%
63452712
1904D
+90.0%
53226562
1900D
+78.9%
51761578
1896D
+92.0%
1,241401,306
1892R
−21.4%
6951,0741,769
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
29.5%
Multiple ancestry combinations reported; no single grouping above 1%.
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
33.5%
Other Christian
9.2%
Methodist
6.2%
Pentecostal & Holiness
2.4%
Catholic & Orthodox
2.3%
Mainline Protestant
0.9%
Non-Christian
0.3%
Source · 2020 US Religion Census. Remaining 45.2% of residents not counted as adherents by any reporting body.

Lincoln Parish's two university campuses inject a younger, more transient population into a north Louisiana landscape that still votes heavily Republican, producing a college-town layer beneath a durable conservative baseline.

The shift began with civil rights. 2000 marked the realignment in Lincoln Parish, by a fourteen points margin. The Republican margin reached its widest at forty-three points in 1972. The 2024 margin was twenty-five points.

The political shift has tracked, in Lincoln Parish, the political shift of the South more broadly. A 53% non-Hispanic-white share, a median household income of $39,172, and a 31% poverty rate describe the demographic context. The county's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Decatur County and Crisp County.