- Lead
- 26,617
- Total
- 50,110
- vs nation
- D+54.6
Louisiana 3rd State Senate District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 28,857
- Total
- 51,432
- vs nation
- D+51.7
- Lead
- 26,067
- Total
- 47,362
- vs nation
- D+52.9
- Lead
- 25,255
- Total
- 44,135
- vs nation
- D+53.4
- Lead
- 20,903
- Total
- 40,922
- vs nation
- D+43.8
- Lead
- 25,969
- Total
- 62,937
- vs nation
- D+43.7
- Lead
- 26,355
- Total
- 59,292
- vs nation
- D+43.9
- Lead
- 31,889
- Total
- 63,154
- vs nation
- D+42.0
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- D+53.1MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 119,5192024 5-year
- Population density
- 1,888 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 63.3 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $52,9022024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 26.4%2024 5-year
- Black
- 56.2%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 8.5%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+93.7 in 1932MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+9.0 in 1972MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State Senate District 4, LA · twin score 98.2
presidential history
Party record book
Louisiana 3rd State Senate 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. Roosevelt1932
96.8%
21,516 votes · D+93.7 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Woodrow Wilson, 1916 · 96.0%
Republican
Richard Nixon1972
50.5%
20,670 votes · R+9.0 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Ronald Reagan, 1984 · 43.3%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Bill Clinton1996
45,791votes
72.5% of the vote · D+50.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · John Kerry, 2004 · 44,244 votes
Republican
Ronald Reagan1984
26,812votes
43.3% of the vote · D+13.0 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Ronald Reagan, 1980 · 21,730 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
+111.8pts D vs U.S.
Place D+92.1 · U.S. R+19.7 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · John W. Davis, 1924 · +107.2 pts
Republican
Barry Goldwater1964
−2.0pts R vs U.S.
Place D+24.6 · U.S. D+22.6 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Richard Nixon, 1972 · −14.2 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | D | 68.5%22,908 | 31.5%10,550 | 33,458 |
| 2018 | D | 78.3%27,612 | 21.7%7,630 | 35,242 |
Louisiana 3rd State Senate District sits in the Gulf South. In 2024 it voted Democratic.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 93.7 points in 1932 and a Republican high of 9.0 points in 1972. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 3.0 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 53.1 points.
A population of 119,519, a 26% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $52,902 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State Senate District 4 and State Senate District 5.
The state-senate 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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