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1876–2024
St. Tammany Parish, Louisiana
St. Tammany Parish·Louisiana

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

New Orleans' fastest-growing suburb posts some of Louisiana's widest margins

18762024·38 elections
St. Tammany Parish, Louisiana · Infrogmation of New Orleans · Wikimedia Commons
Latest
R+44
in 2024
Archetype
Old Confederacy
since the recent cycles
Population
272,421
2024 ACS
Most similar
Canadian County
OK · similarity 1.00
170 precincts · 138,384 votes cast
Trump · R+44
Margin
Turnout
Harris +50
Trump +50
Real precinct boundaries. Hover for vote totals.
YearWonMarginDemocraticRepublicanTotal
2024R
−43.8%
37,77798,377138,384
2020R
−44.2%
37,74699,666140,110
2016R
−50.8%
27,71790,915124,392
2012R
−52.3%
25,72884,723112,902
2008R
−53.4%
24,59683,078109,542
2004R
−50.2%
24,66575,139100,592
2000R
−43.6%
22,72259,19383,737
1996R
−27.5%
24,28144,76174,526
1992R
−27.1%
19,73537,83966,921
1988R
−41.4%
15,63838,33454,823
1984R
−53.1%
11,71938,66450,775
1980R
−30.6%
14,16127,21442,698
1976R
−3.6%
14,69115,82231,399
1972R
−55.2%
3,94915,43820,825
1968R
−1.9%
4,4454,84620,761
1964D
+8.2%
7,8836,69414,577
1960D
+21.1%
5,1792,85011,063
1956R
−7.7%
3,3733,9657,639
1952D
+10.8%
4,4653,5988,063
1948D
+7.4%
1,1647905,041
1944D
+66.1%
3,4507034,153
1940D
+74.0%
4,4756685,143
1936D
+70.8%
3,4775944,071
1932D
+89.3%
3,2061783,389
1928D
+31.4%
1,8119452,756
1924D
+53.4%
9692691,311
1920D
+55.6%
9672761,243
1916D
+77.0%
78295892
1912D
+78.6%
66830812
1908D
+69.2%
755107937
1904D
+72.4%
45359544
1900D
+52.8%
515159674
1896D
+30.5%
6363171,046
1892D
+35.4%
501239740
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
9.8%
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
Catholic & Orthodox
54.8%
Baptist
9.1%
Other Christian
6.6%
Methodist
5.4%
Pentecostal & Holiness
2.9%
Mainline Protestant
1.5%
Non-Christian
0.7%
Source · 2020 US Religion Census. Remaining 19.0% of residents not counted as adherents by any reporting body.

Across Lake Pontchartrain from New Orleans, St. Tammany has absorbed decades of suburban migration and now returns presidential margins exceeding 40 points, making it one of the most reliably one-sided large counties in the Deep South.

The shift began with civil rights. 1968 marked the realignment in St. Tammany Parish, by a two points margin. The Republican margin reached its widest at fifty-five points in 1972. The 2024 margin was forty-four points.

The political shift has tracked, in St. Tammany Parish, the political shift of the South more broadly. A 74% non-Hispanic-white share, a median household income of $81,202, and a 11% poverty rate describe the demographic context. The county's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Canadian County and Autauga County.