Lake Charles-DeRidder, 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 Lake Charles-DeRidder, 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+10.3
vs
Presidential vote · 2024R+48.0
Registration leans Republican; the presidential vote runs 38 points more Republican than the rolls.
177,829 registered voters · 2024
Democratic30.1%Republican40.4%Other29.5%
domestic migration
Who moves in and out
Net domestic migration over time
+512 net domestic migration · 2025
20112025
Net −12,144 over 2011–2025 · gain loss
Domestic migration in Lake Charles-DeRidder, LA in Lake Charles-DeRidder, LA: net domestic migration by year
Year
Net domestic migration
2011
−362
2012
−653
2013
−300
2014
+178
2015
+1,075
2016
+1,194
2017
+632
2018
+278
2019
−849
2021
−10,944
2022
−3,827
2023
+267
2024
+655
2025
+512
Lake Charles-DeRidder, LA sits in the Gulf South. In 2024 it voted Republican.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 79.2 points in 1932 and a Republican high of 48.0 points in 2024. Between 2020 and 2024 the region moved 4.2 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 48.0 points.
A population of 280,703, a 68% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $66,328 describe the region. The region's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Lafayette-New Iberia-Opelousas, LA and Tupelo-Corinth, MS.
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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 Lake Charles-DeRidder, LA, Louisiana vote in 2024?
In 2024, Lake Charles-DeRidder, LA, Louisiana voted Republican by 48.0 points (R+48.0), carried by the Republican candidate. Out of 114,795 votes cast, 29,028 went Democratic and 84,166 went Republican.
When did Lake Charles-DeRidder, LA, Louisiana last vote Democratic?
The most recent presidential election in which Lake Charles-DeRidder, LA, Louisiana voted Democratic was 1996.
How many people live in Lake Charles-DeRidder, LA, Louisiana?
Lake Charles-DeRidder, LA, Louisiana has a population of 280,703 according to the 2024 American Community Survey 5-year estimates from the US Census Bureau.
What is the median household income in Lake Charles-DeRidder, LA, Louisiana?
Median household income in Lake Charles-DeRidder, LA, Louisiana is $66,328 — below the national median of $80,734. The Louisiana state median is $60,756.
What is the political history of Lake Charles-DeRidder, LA, Louisiana?
Akashic tracks 34 presidential elections in Lake Charles-DeRidder, LA, Louisiana from 1892 to 2024. Of those, 23 went Democratic and 10 went Republican.
