- Lead
- 11,622
- Total
- 57,503
- vs nation
- R+18.7
Louisiana 38th State Senate District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 13,879
- Total
- 59,608
- vs nation
- R+27.7
- Lead
- 17,052
- Total
- 59,163
- vs nation
- R+30.9
- Lead
- 16,958
- Total
- 61,130
- vs nation
- R+31.6
- Lead
- 17,433
- Total
- 59,441
- vs nation
- R+36.6
- Lead
- 19,432
- Total
- 58,744
- vs nation
- R+30.6
- Lead
- 15,249
- Total
- 52,156
- vs nation
- R+29.8
- Lead
- 5,510
- Total
- 51,422
- vs nation
- R+19.2
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- R+20.2MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 124,2832024 5-year
- Population density
- 156 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 798 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $63,8882024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 58.1%2024 5-year
- Black
- 32.1%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 3.9%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+99.0 in 1880MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+76.2 in 1964MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State Senate District 25, AL · twin score 93.1
presidential history
Party record book
Louisiana 38th 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
Winfield S. Hancock1880
99.5%
1,172 votes · D+99.0 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Grover Cleveland, 1888 · 94.0%
Republican
Barry Goldwater1964
88.1%
29,295 votes · R+76.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Richard Nixon, 1972 · 79.4%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Kamala Harris2024
22,548votes
39.2% of the vote · R+20.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Joe Biden, 2020 · 22,378 votes
Republican
Ronald Reagan1984
44,279votes
75.5% of the vote · R+51.7 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · George W. Bush, 2004 · 38,851 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
+109.0pts D vs U.S.
Place D+89.4 · U.S. R+19.7 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · James M. Cox, 1920 · +97.4 pts
Republican
Barry Goldwater1964
+98.7pts R vs U.S.
Place R+76.2 · U.S. D+22.6 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Richard Nixon, 1960 · +45.2 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 | 44.4%17,833 | 55.6%22,331 | 40,164 |
Louisiana 38th State Senate District sits in the Gulf South. In 2024 it voted Republican.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 99.0 points in 1880 and a Republican high of 76.2 points in 1964. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 3.1 points toward the Democratic candidate; the 2024 margin was 20.2 points.
A population of 124,283, a 58% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $63,888 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State Senate District 25 and State Senate District 16.
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 38th State Senate District. Akashic. https://akashic.app/sld-upper/22038/. Accessed May 20, 2026. License: CC BY 4.0.