- Lead
- 13,468
- Total
- 41,422
- vs nation
- D+34.0
Louisiana 39th State Senate District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 19,622
- Total
- 51,498
- vs nation
- D+33.6
- Lead
- 20,358
- Total
- 52,203
- vs nation
- D+36.9
- Lead
- 22,462
- Total
- 55,394
- vs nation
- D+36.7
- Lead
- 21,018
- Total
- 53,389
- vs nation
- D+32.1
- Lead
- 18,007
- Total
- 51,048
- vs nation
- D+37.7
- Lead
- 17,524
- Total
- 46,587
- vs nation
- D+37.1
- Lead
- 25,722
- Total
- 51,014
- vs nation
- D+41.9
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- D+32.5MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 124,9082024 5-year
- Population density
- 264 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 474 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $37,7112024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 27.4%2024 5-year
- Black
- 63.9%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 4.1%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+99.2 in 1880MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+29.6 in 1964MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State Senate District 27, MS · twin score 98.2
presidential history
Party record book
Louisiana 39th 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
99.6%
1,850 votes · D+99.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Alton B. Parker, 1904 · 99.5%
Republican
Barry Goldwater1964
64.8%
12,342 votes · R+29.6 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Richard Nixon, 1972 · 54.7%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Barack Obama2012
38,616votes
69.7% of the vote · D+40.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Bill Clinton, 1996 · 37,326 votes
Republican
Ronald Reagan1984
18,696votes
44.0% of the vote · D+11.7 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · George W. Bush, 2004 · 16,446 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
James M. Cox1920
+121.1pts D vs U.S.
Place D+94.9 · U.S. R+26.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Alton B. Parker, 1904 · +118.6 pts
Republican
Barry Goldwater1964
+52.1pts R vs U.S.
Place R+29.6 · U.S. D+22.6 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Richard Nixon, 1960 · −2.3 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 | 45.4%17,608 | 54.6%21,212 | 38,820 |
Louisiana 39th State Senate District sits in the Gulf South. In 2024 it voted Democratic.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 99.2 points in 1880 and a Republican high of 29.6 points in 1964. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 5.6 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 32.5 points.
A population of 124,908, a 27% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $37,711 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State Senate District 27 and State Senate District 33.
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 39th State Senate District. Akashic. https://akashic.app/sld-upper/22039/. Accessed May 20, 2026. License: CC BY 4.0.