- Lead
- 11,680
- Total
- 21,862
- vs nation
- R+52.0
Louisiana 46th State House District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 12,352
- Total
- 25,461
- vs nation
- R+53.0
- Lead
- 10,892
- Total
- 22,733
- vs nation
- R+50.0
- Lead
- 9,099
- Total
- 22,469
- vs nation
- R+44.4
- Lead
- 8,294
- Total
- 21,771
- vs nation
- R+45.4
- Lead
- 5,743
- Total
- 19,614
- vs nation
- R+26.8
- Lead
- 3,862
- Total
- 17,595
- vs nation
- R+22.5
- Lead
- 829
- Total
- 16,731
- vs nation
- R+3.6
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- R+53.4MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 43,5962024 5-year
- Population density
- 58 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 758 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $55,0482024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 71.6%2024 5-year
- Black
- 21.6%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 3.0%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+81.7 in 1936MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+53.4 in 2024MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State House District 41, LA · twin score 97.6
presidential history
Party record book
Louisiana 46th State House District · the strongest Democratic and Republican presidential performances recorded here, measured three ways.
1892–2024 (partial returns from 1876) · 38 presidential cycles · 38 with a vote-share denominator · 34 with a national benchmark
Highest vote share
Largest share of the presidential candidate vote cast here.
Democratic
Franklin D. Roosevelt1936
90.9%
1,822 votes · D+81.7 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Alton B. Parker, 1904 · 90.2%
Republican
Donald Trump2024
76.2%
16,667 votes · R+53.4 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2020 · 73.7%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Bill Clinton1996
8,027votes
48.0% of the vote · D+5.0 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Bill Clinton, 1992 · 7,418 votes
Republican
Donald Trump2020
18,754votes
73.7% of the vote · R+48.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2024 · 16,667 votes
Best relative to the U.S.
This Place’s margin against the national margin in the same election — positive when it leaned toward the party more than the country did.
Democratic
Alton B. Parker1904
+100.4pts D vs U.S.
Place D+80.7 · U.S. R+19.7 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Al Smith, 1928 · +74.1 pts
Republican
Donald Trump2020
+53.0pts R vs U.S.
Place R+48.5 · U.S. D+4.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2024 · +52.0 pts
Current officeholders
State legislative officeholder from OpenStates nightly current-legislator data.
Senate and governor results are in the Office selector at the top of this page.
U.S. House
Each row is a county-allocated estimate of U.S. House votes for this district — county returns apportioned onto its boundary, not precinct-counted. “Vote lead” is the estimated local lead here, not necessarily the winner of the full contest.
| Year | Vote lead | Democratic | Republican | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | R | 33.4%5,088 | 66.6%10,145 | 15,233 |
With a 2024 presidential margin of R+53.4, this north-central Louisiana district ranks among the state's most one-sided, where Republican candidates routinely face little general-election competition.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 81.7 points in 1936 and a Republican high of 53.4 points in 2024. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 4.9 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 53.4 points.
A population of 43,596, a 72% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $55,048 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State House District 41 and State House District 28.
The state-house districts 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.
District research tools
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Louisiana 46th State House District. Akashic. https://akashic.app/sld-lower/22046/. Accessed May 20, 2026. License: CC BY 4.0.