Lafayette-New Iberia-Opelousas, LA · how this place’s counties split between candidates in each party’s presidential nominating contest, cycle by cycle. A primary is a contest inside one party, so it has no Democratic–Republican margin and is not part of the general-election record above.
Akashic reports votes cast, not delegates awarded. The two can disagree: Clinton led the 2008 national primary popular vote by less than half a point and did not win the nomination.
Primary returns are published at county grain and there is no roll-up above it. Each cell counts how many of this place’s counties a candidate led — a count of records, not a vote total. Who led the place as a whole is not knowable from these returns, because county rows carry a leader and a lead but no per-candidate votes.
Presidential nominating contests in Lafayette-New Iberia-Opelousas, LA, by party and cycle.
○no contest record — Akashic holds no result for that party and cycle here. It is not a claim that no contest was held. Telling apart a contest that was cancelled, one that went uncontested, and one simply not yet ingested needs a nominating-contest calendar, which is a separate ingest from results and does not exist yet.
Republican presidential primaries are not yet ingested — the Republican series runs from 1856 and is in scope. The row is kept so its absence is visible: a Democratic-only panel would otherwise read as though no one else held a contest.
Akashic carries 10 states for 2012 and 3 states for 2024. Cycles in which an incumbent president seeks renomination are thin by nature — few states run a contested primary — so a sparse column is politics, not a hole in the record.
County returns carry a leader and a lead over the runner-up, and nothing more. The full candidate field with vote shares is published at state grain — follow a cycle above to the state contest for it.
voter registration
Registered voters
By party of registration, over time
Party registration · 2024R+5.0
vs
Presidential vote · 2024R+37.5
Registration leans Republican; the presidential vote runs 33 points more Republican than the rolls.
381,876 registered voters · 2024
Democratic33.8%Republican38.7%Other27.5%
domestic migration
Who moves in and out
Net domestic migration over time
−525 net domestic migration · 2025
20112025
Net −11,903 over 2011–2025 · gain loss
Domestic migration in Lafayette-New Iberia-Opelousas, LA in Lafayette-New Iberia-Opelousas, LA: net domestic migration by year
Year
Net domestic migration
2011
−604
2012
+33
2013
+1,658
2014
+1,530
2015
+968
2016
−2,292
2017
−3,937
2018
−3,698
2019
−3,174
2021
+367
2022
−813
2023
−1,721
2024
+305
2025
−525
Lafayette-New Iberia-Opelousas, LA sits in the Gulf South. In 2024 it voted Republican.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 79.1 points in 1932 and a Republican high of 37.5 points in 2024. Between 2020 and 2024 the region moved 3.4 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 37.5 points.
A population of 563,697, a 63% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $58,395 describe the region. The region's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Lake Charles-DeRidder, LA and Baton Rouge-Hammond, LA.
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Political twins — combined metros
The combined metros whose fingerprint — 2000–2024 trajectory, demographics, ancestry, religion — sits closest to this one, and why.
Twin score (0–100) = weighted cosine between tier-standardized fingerprints: presidential margins 2000–2024 with 12-yr trend and elasticity, ACS income, age, education, population and race, top reported ancestries, and religious adherence — chips name the closest-shared dimensions and the widest gap. Re-weight the groups in the twins explorer.
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How did Lafayette-New Iberia-Opelousas, LA, Louisiana vote in 2024?
In 2024, Lafayette-New Iberia-Opelousas, LA, Louisiana voted Republican by 37.5 points (R+37.5), carried by the Republican candidate. Out of 255,615 votes cast, 78,123 went Democratic and 174,089 went Republican.
When did Lafayette-New Iberia-Opelousas, LA, Louisiana last vote Democratic?
The most recent presidential election in which Lafayette-New Iberia-Opelousas, LA, Louisiana voted Democratic was 1996.
How many people live in Lafayette-New Iberia-Opelousas, LA, Louisiana?
Lafayette-New Iberia-Opelousas, LA, Louisiana has a population of 563,697 according to the 2024 American Community Survey 5-year estimates from the US Census Bureau.
What is the median household income in Lafayette-New Iberia-Opelousas, LA, Louisiana?
Median household income in Lafayette-New Iberia-Opelousas, LA, Louisiana is $58,395 — below the national median of $80,734. The Louisiana state median is $60,756.
What is the political history of Lafayette-New Iberia-Opelousas, LA, Louisiana?
Akashic tracks 34 presidential elections in Lafayette-New Iberia-Opelousas, LA, Louisiana from 1892 to 2024. Of those, 19 went Democratic and 13 went Republican.
