- Lead
- 28,276
- Total
- 62,590
- vs nation
- R+43.7
Louisiana 23rd State Senate District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 28,215
- Total
- 62,207
- vs nation
- R+49.8
- Lead
- 30,434
- Total
- 56,658
- vs nation
- R+55.8
- Lead
- 28,667
- Total
- 52,497
- vs nation
- R+58.5
- Lead
- 26,737
- Total
- 50,698
- vs nation
- R+60.0
- Lead
- 24,388
- Total
- 47,418
- vs nation
- R+49.0
- Lead
- 20,237
- Total
- 41,117
- vs nation
- R+49.7
- Lead
- 10,868
- Total
- 37,598
- vs nation
- R+37.4
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- R+45.2MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 125,0142024 5-year
- Population density
- 1,220 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 103 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $80,4912024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 73.2%2024 5-year
- Black
- 12.8%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 6.9%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+100.0 in 1892MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+60.5 in 1972MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State Senate District 11, LA · twin score 94.3
presidential history
Party record book
Louisiana 23rd 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
Grover Cleveland1892
100.0%
172 votes · D+100.0 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Grover Cleveland, 1888 · 95.4%
Republican
Ronald Reagan1984
78.5%
27,302 votes · R+58.7 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Richard Nixon, 1972 · 77.6%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Kamala Harris2024
16,562votes
26.5% of the vote · R+45.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Joe Biden, 2020 · 16,314 votes
Republican
Donald Trump2024
44,838votes
71.6% of the vote · R+45.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2020 · 44,529 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
Grover Cleveland1892
+98.3pts D vs U.S.
Place D+100.0 · U.S. D+1.7 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Alton B. Parker, 1904 · +78.2 pts
Republican
John McCain2008
+60.0pts R vs U.S.
Place R+52.7 · U.S. D+7.3 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Mitt Romney, 2012 · +58.5 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 | 33.7%12,972 | 66.3%25,520 | 38,492 |
Louisiana 23rd State Senate District sits in the Gulf South. In 2024 it voted Republican.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 100.0 points in 1892 and a Republican high of 60.5 points in 1972. The 2024 margin was 45.2 points.
A population of 125,014, a 73% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $80,491 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State Senate District 11 and State Senate District 1.
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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Louisiana 23rd State Senate District. Akashic. https://akashic.app/sld-upper/22023/. Accessed May 20, 2026. License: CC BY 4.0.