- Lead
- 8,021
- Total
- 21,599
- vs nation
- R+35.7
Louisiana 65th State House District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 10,286
- Total
- 21,829
- vs nation
- R+51.6
- Lead
- 12,351
- Total
- 22,870
- vs nation
- R+56.1
- Lead
- 13,928
- Total
- 23,933
- vs nation
- R+62.1
- Lead
- 14,701
- Total
- 24,375
- vs nation
- R+67.6
- Lead
- 16,435
- Total
- 24,376
- vs nation
- R+65.0
- Lead
- 14,530
- Total
- 22,071
- vs nation
- R+66.4
- Lead
- 11,865
- Total
- 20,559
- vs nation
- R+66.2
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- R+37.1MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 44,1892024 5-year
- Population density
- 617 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 71.6 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $84,2272024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 61.4%2024 5-year
- Black
- 23.1%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 9.7%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+33.8 in 1912MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+82.9 in 1876MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State House District 66, LA · twin score 97.1
presidential history
Party record book
Louisiana 65th 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
Alton B. Parker1904
64.8%
35 votes · D+29.6 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1936 · 63.5%
Republican
Rutherford B. Hayes1876
91.5%
321 votes · R+82.9 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Richard Nixon, 1972 · 88.6%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Kamala Harris2024
6,610votes
30.6% of the vote · R+37.1 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Joe Biden, 2020 · 5,608 votes
Republican
George W. Bush2004
20,362votes
83.5% of the vote · R+67.4 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Ronald Reagan, 1984 · 19,514 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
+49.3pts D vs U.S.
Place D+29.6 · U.S. R+19.7 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · William J. Bryan, 1908 · +28.7 pts
Republican
Barry Goldwater1964
+94.4pts R vs U.S.
Place R+71.8 · U.S. D+22.6 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · George H. W. Bush, 1992 · +68.1 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | R | 46.0%6,555 | 54.0%7,705 | 14,260 |
| 2018 | R | 48.2%6,876 | 51.8%7,384 | 14,260 |
The district recorded a Republican presidential margin of R+37.1 in 2024, compared with R+60.3 in 2008. No racial group formed a majority of its residents in the 2024 ACS 5-year, with Black residents at 43.7%.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 33.8 points in 1912 and a Republican high of 82.9 points in 1876. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 10.0 points toward the Democratic candidate; the 2024 margin was 37.1 points.
A population of 44,189, a 61% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $84,227 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State House District 66 and State House District 69.
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 65th State House District. Akashic. https://akashic.app/sld-lower/22065/. Accessed May 20, 2026. License: CC BY 4.0.