St. Landry Parish, Louisiana

2024 results by precinct

91 precincts · 37,043 votes cast

Trump · R+19

Harris +50

Trump +50

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38 presidential elections

Year	Won	Margin	Democratic	Republican	Total
2024	R	−18.8%	14,833	21,812	37,043
2020	R	−14.1%	17,372	23,171	41,154
2016	R	−11.9%	17,209	21,971	39,977
2012	R	−4.3%	19,668	21,475	41,647
2008	R	−3.3%	20,268	21,650	42,493
2004	R	−0.4%	18,166	18,315	36,760
2000	D	+7.7%	18,067	15,449	34,151
1996	D	+23.6%	20,636	12,273	35,453
1992	D	+23.1%	20,383	11,882	36,815
1988	D	+9.3%	19,091	15,790	35,457
1984	R	−3.0%	17,950	19,055	37,223
1980	D	+6.7%	17,125	14,940	32,678
1976	D	+21.6%	15,613	9,956	26,243
1972	R	−23.2%	7,421	12,510	21,945
1968	D	+22.1%	9,075	3,508	25,242
1964	R	−3.9%	10,920	11,807	22,727
1960	D	+57.0%	14,625	3,083	20,262
1956	R	−7.1%	4,435	5,141	9,970
1952	R	−5.4%	4,761	5,303	10,064
1948	D	+4.5%	1,179	829	7,747
1944	D	+69.9%	4,423	784	5,207
1940	D	+83.8%	6,358	561	6,919
1936	D	+85.5%	5,639	441	6,080
1932	D	+85.4%	3,766	297	4,063
1928	D	+65.1%	3,394	718	4,112
1924	D	+58.3%	1,354	357	1,711
1920	D	+3.8%	1,017	942	1,959
1916	D	+5.8%	139	117	377
1912	D	+68.9%	938	101	1,215
1908	D	+70.2%	1,395	238	1,649
1904	D	+86.6%	887	60	955
1900	D	+70.0%	1,297	229	1,526
1896	D	+75.2%	1,786	242	2,052
1892	D	+10.6%	1,136	919	2,055
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

32.1%

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: 37.8 in this county, 39.1 nationally

Male

Age

Female

0.9%

85+

0.8%

1.8%

75–84

3.1%

4.9%

65–74

5.5%

6.2%

55–64

6.8%

5.3%

45–54

5.7%

5.8%

35–44

6.2%

6.0%

25–34

6.4%

4.3%

18–24

4.0%

10.1%

5–17

9.6%

3.7%

3.2%

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

Median household income

2024 inflation-adjusted dollars

$44,462

St. Landry Parish ranks in the bottom 10% of US counties.

St. Landry Parish$44,462

Louisiana$60,756

United States$80,734

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

Poverty rate

All persons below federal poverty line

26.8%

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

Catholic & Orthodox

53.6%

Baptist

6.5%

Other Christian

5.4%

Pentecostal & Holiness

2.0%

Methodist

1.1%

Mainline Protestant

0.1%

Source · 2020 US Religion Census. Remaining 31.3% of residents not counted as adherents by any reporting body.

St. Landry Parish sits in Louisiana's Acadiana region with a population that is roughly 47% Black, yet its 2024 presidential margin landed at R+18.8 — a pattern reflecting broader rural realignment that has reshaped once-competitive Cajun-country electorates.

The shift began with civil rights. 2004 marked the realignment in St. Landry Parish, by a zero points margin. The Republican margin reached its widest at twenty-three points in 1972. The 2024 margin was nineteen points.

The political shift has tracked, in St. Landry Parish, the political shift of the South more broadly. A 52% non-Hispanic-white share, a median household income of $44,462, and a 27% poverty rate describe the demographic context. The county's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Wilkinson County and Pointe Coupee Parish.

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