Morehouse Parish, Louisiana

2024 results by precinct

40 precincts · 10,097 votes cast

Trump · R+19

Harris +50

Trump +50

Real precinct boundaries. Hover for vote totals.

38 presidential elections

Year	Won	Margin	Democratic	Republican	Total
2024	R	−19.3%	4,008	5,961	10,097
2020	R	−13.5%	4,946	6,510	11,574
2016	R	−11.4%	5,155	6,502	11,852
2012	R	−5.6%	5,888	6,591	12,614
2008	R	−11.1%	5,792	7,258	13,200
2004	R	−16.5%	5,336	7,471	12,971
2000	R	−11.0%	5,289	6,641	12,321
1996	D	+7.7%	6,160	5,193	12,493
1992	D	+4.8%	6,013	5,364	13,463
1988	R	−23.4%	4,496	7,335	12,140
1984	R	−27.4%	4,829	8,585	13,685
1980	R	−19.3%	4,856	7,254	12,397
1976	R	−14.5%	4,017	5,418	9,692
1972	R	−39.6%	2,355	5,770	8,620
1968	D	+0.2%	1,793	1,772	8,942
1964	D	+74.9%	6,222	891	7,113
1960	R	−30.7%	1,085	2,551	4,780
1956	R	−6.5%	1,512	1,850	5,182
1952	D	+7.9%	3,006	2,567	5,573
1948	D	+33.2%	1,177	242	2,814
1944	D	+59.1%	1,859	478	2,337
1940	D	+83.2%	2,417	222	2,639
1936	D	+87.1%	2,514	172	2,688
1932	D	+92.1%	2,014	83	2,097
1928	D	+42.4%	840	340	1,180
1924	D	+61.0%	582	141	723
1920	D	+88.5%	622	38	660
1916	D	+98.8%	564	3	568
1912	D	+87.4%	411	8	461
1908	D	+88.1%	458	20	497
1904	D	+92.5%	526	20	547
1900	D	+96.6%	461	8	469
1896	D	+89.1%	853	46	906
1892	D	+87.0%	1,176	82	1,258
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

38.7%

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.

Age distribution by sex

Median age: 40.4 in this county, 39.1 nationally

Male

Age

Female

0.6%

85+

1.7%

2.4%

75–84

3.1%

5.7%

65–74

6.6%

6.0%

55–64

7.2%

5.9%

45–54

5.9%

6.1%

35–44

6.2%

6.1%

25–34

4.9%

4.1%

18–24

4.4%

9.0%

5–17

8.2%

2.7%

3.2%

Source · American Community Survey 5-year estimates, 2024 release.

Median household income

2024 inflation-adjusted dollars

$39,454

Morehouse Parish ranks in the bottom 5% of US counties.

Morehouse Parish$39,454

Louisiana$60,756

United States$80,734

Source · American Community Survey 5-year estimates, 2024 release.

Poverty rate

All persons below federal poverty line

29.3%

Children face moderate poverty.

Children under 1818.0%

Working age (18–64)100.0%

Seniors (65+)18.0%

Source · American Community Survey 5-year estimates, 2024 release.

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

31.8%

Other Christian

9.1%

Pentecostal & Holiness

8.0%

Methodist

5.0%

Catholic & Orthodox

2.3%

Mainline Protestant

0.7%

Source · 2020 US Religion Census. Remaining 43.1% of residents not counted as adherents by any reporting body.

Morehouse Parish sits in Louisiana's northeastern corner, where an economy built on forestry and row-crop farming tracks closely with the region's broader shift toward lopsided Republican margins—R+19.3 in 2024.

The shift began with civil rights. 2000 marked the realignment in Morehouse Parish, by a eleven points margin. The Republican margin reached its widest at forty points in 1972. The 2024 margin was nineteen points.

The political shift has tracked, in Morehouse Parish, the political shift of the South more broadly. A 47% non-Hispanic-white share, a median household income of $39,454, and a 29% 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.

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