- Lead
- 5,804
- Total
- 18,906
- vs nation
- R+29.2
Louisiana 50th State House District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 5,939
- Total
- 21,005
- vs nation
- R+32.7
- Lead
- 5,520
- Total
- 20,683
- vs nation
- R+28.8
- Lead
- 3,801
- Total
- 21,349
- vs nation
- R+21.7
- Lead
- 3,249
- Total
- 20,665
- vs nation
- R+23.0
- Lead
- 2,716
- Total
- 20,415
- vs nation
- R+10.8
- Lead
- 1,047
- Total
- 19,565
- vs nation
- R+5.9
- Lead
- 4,252
- Total
- 20,329
- vs nation
- D+12.4
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- R+30.7MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 43,1902024 5-year
- Population density
- 61 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 704 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $51,4752024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 55.0%2024 5-year
- Black
- 31.9%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 6.5%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+75.3 in 1944MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+56.9 in 1880MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State House District 28, LA · twin score 96.0
presidential history
Party record book
Louisiana 50th 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. Roosevelt1944
87.7%
3,273 votes · D+75.3 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1940 · 84.0%
Republican
James A. Garfield1880
78.5%
1,891 votes · R+56.9 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · James G. Blaine, 1884 · 74.5%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Bill Clinton1996
11,338votes
55.8% of the vote · D+20.9 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Bill Clinton, 1992 · 9,739 votes
Republican
Ronald Reagan1984
13,402votes
60.2% of the vote · R+21.6 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2020 · 13,326 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
+81.3pts D vs U.S.
Place D+61.7 · U.S. R+19.7 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Al Smith, 1928 · +67.9 pts
Republican
Donald Trump2020
+32.7pts R vs U.S.
Place R+28.3 · U.S. D+4.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2024 · +29.2 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 | 33.6%5,189 | 66.4%10,253 | 15,442 |
With a 2024 presidential margin of R+30.7, this mid-sized Louisiana district of roughly 43,000 residents sits well within the state's dominant Republican column, offering little recent history of competitive general-election contests.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 75.3 points in 1944 and a Republican high of 56.9 points in 1880. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 2.4 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 30.7 points.
A population of 43,190, a 55% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $51,475 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State House District 28 and State House District 51.
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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