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1996 United States presidential election in Louisiana

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Field	Value
election_name	1996 United States presidential election in Louisiana
country	Louisiana
flag_year	1912
type	presidential
ongoing	no
previous_election	1992 United States presidential election in Louisiana
previous_year	1992
next_election	2000 United States presidential election in Louisiana
next_year	2000
election_date	November 5, 1996
turnout	57% (VAP)
image_size	x160px
image1	Bill Clinton.jpg
nominee1	Bill Clinton
party1	Democratic Party (United States)
home_state1	Arkansas
running_mate1	Al Gore
electoral_vote1	9
popular_vote1	927,837
percentage1	52.01%
image2	Ks 1996 dole (cropped).jpg
nominee2	Bob Dole
party2	Republican Party (United States)
home_state2	Kansas
running_mate2	Jack Kemp
electoral_vote2	0
popular_vote2	712,586
percentage2	39.94%
image3	RossPerotColor.jpg
nominee3	Ross Perot
party3	Reform Party of the United States of America
home_state3	Texas
running_mate3	James Campbell
electoral_vote3	0
popular_vote3	123,293
percentage3	6.91%
map_image	350px
map_size	350px
map_caption	Parish Results
title	President
before_election	Bill Clinton
before_party	Democratic Party (United States)
after_election	Bill Clinton
after_party	Democratic Party (United States)

Main article: 1996 United States presidential election

Clinton Dole The 1996 United States presidential election in Louisiana took place on November 5, 1996. Voters chose nine representatives, or electors to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.

Louisiana was won by President Bill Clinton (D) by a margin of 12.07%, a major increase from the statewide results in 1992 when he carried the state by a margin of 4.61%. Clinton won most of the parishes and congressional districts in the state and performed strongly in both the urban and rural areas of Louisiana. The only congressional district Dole won was the , which included all of St. Tammany Parish and parts of Jefferson Parish, two of the most heavily Republican parishes in the state.

Louisiana was generally more competitive in this time period than the rest of the Deep South due to its large black population and a sizeable minority of white Blue Dog Democrats. It is also very racially divided, with whites voting Republican and blacks voting Democratic. Clinton was able to carry 33 percent of white voters, which threw the state toward his column. Despite such a sizeable margin, Louisiana was the only state that Clinton won by more than a 2.4 point margin which wasn't called by news networks for him as soon as the polls closed.

This election also marked the end of Louisiana as a competitive state in federal elections, as future years saw the state's political alignment more closely resemble those in other, nearby Deep South states like Mississippi and Alabama, as well as in tandem with Arkansas, Clinton's home state. Rural, Democratic-voting cultural conservatives began siding with the Republican Party. Clinton's 927,837 votes is the most received by a Democratic presidential candidate in the state's history.

, this is the last time Louisiana supported a Democratic presidential candidate, as well as the last time a Democrat carried the following parishes: Acadia, Allen, Ascension, Avoyelles, Calcasieu, Caldwell, Cameron, Catahoula, Claiborne, Concordia, DeSoto, East Feliciana, Evangeline, Franklin, Iberia, Jackson, Jefferson Davis, Lafourche, Lincoln, Morehouse, Natchitoches, Plaquemines, Rapides, Red River, Richland, Sabine, Saint Bernard, Saint Charles, Saint Martin, Saint Mary, Tangipahoa, Terrebonne, Vermilion, Vernon, Washington, Webster, West Feliciana, and Winn.

It was also the last time a Democrat carried any state in the Deep South in a presidential election until Joe Biden won Georgia in 2020. This was the first time since 1944 that the state voted Democratic in consecutive elections.

Results

Results by parish

Parish	Bill Clinton
Democratic	Bob Dole
Republican	Ross Perot
Reform	Harry E. Browne
Libertarian	Various candidates
Other parties	Margin	Total votes cast	#	%	#	%	#	%	#	%	#	%	#	%	Totals	927,837	52.01%	712,586	39.94%	123,293	6.91%	7,499	0.42%	12,744	0.71%	215,251	12.07%	1,783,959
	Acadia		12,300		51.41%		9,246		38.64%		2,234		9.34%		40		0.17%		107		0.45%		3,054		12.77%		23,927
	Allen		4,960		55.89%		2,589		29.18%		1,187		13.38%		38		0.43%		100		1.13%		2,371		26.71%		8,874
	Ascension		15,263		51.91%		10,885		37.02%		3,027		10.30%		65		0.22%		160		0.54%		4,378		14.89%		29,400
	Assumption		6,416		62.83%		2,698		26.42%		904		8.85%		65		0.64%		129		1.26%		3,718		36.41%		10,212
	Avoyelles		9,689		59.04%		4,433		27.01%		1,937		11.80%		89		0.54%		262		1.60%		5,256		32.03%		16,410
	Beauregard		4,925		39.40%		5,526		44.21%		1,834		14.67%		96		0.77%		118		0.94%		-601		-4.81%		12,499
	Bienville		4,335		58.71%		2,402		32.53%		457		6.19%		108		1.46%		82		1.11%		1,933		26.18%		7,384
	Bossier		15,504		43.82%		16,852		47.63%		2,660		7.52%		141		0.40%		225		0.64%		-1,348		-3.81%		35,382
	Caddo		55,543		55.89%		38,445		38.69%		4,821		4.85%		180		0.18%		390		0.39%		17,098		17.20%		99,379
	Calcasieu		38,238		51.91%		26,494		35.97%		8,281		11.24%		213		0.29%		435		0.59%		11,744		15.94%		73,661
	Caldwell		2,117		46.44%		1,842		40.40%		514		11.27%		39		0.86%		47		1.03%		275		6.04%		4,559
	Cameron		2,103		50.70%		1,365		32.91%		594		14.32%		30		0.72%		56		1.35%		738		17.79%		4,148
	Catahoula		2,692		52.11%		1,770		34.26%		615		11.90%		39		0.75%		50		0.97%		922		17.85%		5,166
	Claiborne		3,609		53.55%		2,500		37.10%		530		7.86%		41		0.61%		59		0.88%		1,109		16.45%		6,739
	Concordia		4,565		52.38%		3,134		35.96%		855		9.81%		78		0.90%		83		0.95%		1,431		16.42%		8,715
	DeSoto		6,221		59.13%		3,526		33.52%		646		6.14%		55		0.52%		72		0.68%		2,695		25.61%		10,520
	East Baton Rouge		83,493		48.93%		77,811		45.60%		7,990		4.68%		436		0.26%		917		0.54%		5,682		3.33%		170,647
	East Carroll		2,149		63.00%		1,008		29.55%		186		5.45%		24		0.70%		44		1.29%		1,141		33.45%		3,411
	East Feliciana		4,714		56.11%		2,949		35.10%		660		7.86%		16		0.19%		62		0.74%		1,765		21.01%		8,401
	Evangeline		7,847		52.83%		5,278		35.53%		1,447		9.74%		100		0.67%		182		1.23%		2,569		17.30%		14,854
	Franklin		4,076		45.29%		3,961		44.01%		814		9.04%		61		0.68%		88		0.98%		115		1.28%		9,000
	Grant		2,980		40.87%		3,117		42.75%		1,055		14.47%		52		0.71%		88		1.21%		-137		-1.88%		7,292
	Iberia		15,087		50.35%		12,014		40.09%		2,448		8.17%		196		0.65%		220		0.73%		3,073		10.26%		29,965
	Iberville		9,553		64.20%		4,031		27.09%		1,076		7.23%		68		0.46%		151		1.01%		5,522		37.11%		14,879
	Jackson		3,368		47.66%		3,030		42.88%		571		8.08%		36		0.51%		62		0.88%		338		4.78%		7,067
	Jefferson		80,407		43.59%		92,820		50.32%		9,667		5.24%		504		0.27%		1,068		0.58%		-12,413		-6.73%		184,466
	Jefferson Davis		6,897		53.29%		4,311		33.31%		1,543		11.92%		72		0.56%		120		0.93%		2,586		19.98%		12,943
	Lafayette		32,504		43.65%		36,419		48.91%		4,631		6.22%		348		0.47%		566		0.76%		-3,915		-5.26%		74,468
	Lafourche		18,810		52.84%		12,105		34.01%		3,984		11.19%		309		0.87%		388		1.09%		6,705		18.83%		35,596
	LaSalle		2,543		39.09%		2,925		44.96%		947		14.56%		28		0.43%		63		0.97%		-382		-5.87%		6,506
	Lincoln		7,903		49.85%		6,973		43.98%		761		4.80%		117		0.74%		101		0.64%		930		5.87%		15,855
	Livingston		13,276		38.94%		16,159		47.39%		4,150		12.17%		188		0.55%		322		0.94%		-2,883		-8.45%		34,095
	Madison		3,085		60.91%		1,591		31.41%		315		6.22%		26		0.51%		48		0.95%		1,494		29.50%		5,065
	Morehouse		6,160		49.31%		5,193		41.57%		963		7.71%		71		0.57%		106		0.85%		967		7.74%		12,493
	Natchitoches		8,296		54.69%		5,471		36.06%		1,053		6.94%		127		0.84%		223		1.47%		2,825		18.63%		15,170
	Orleans		144,720		76.20%		39,576		20.84%		3,805		2.00%		554		0.29%		1,256		0.66%		105,144		55.36%		189,911
	Ouachita		24,525		42.58%		28,559		49.59%		3,586		6.23%		466		0.81%		458		0.80%		-4,034		-7.01%		57,594
	Plaquemines		5,348		49.53%		4,493		41.61%		856		7.93%		29		0.27%		71		0.66%		855		7.92%		10,797
	Pointe Coupee		6,835		60.32%		3,545		31.28%		845		7.46%		34		0.30%		73		0.64%		3,290		29.04%		11,332
	Rapides		23,004		46.07%		21,548		43.16%		4,670		9.35%		351		0.70%		358		0.72%		1,456		2.91%		49,931
	Red River		2,641		61.48%		1,344		31.28%		268		6.24%		23		0.54%		20		0.47%		1,297		30.20%		4,296
	Richland		4,143		46.50%		3,965		44.50%		645		7.24%		61		0.68%		96		1.08%		178		2.00%		8,910
	Sabine		4,263		47.33%		3,543		39.34%		1,043		11.58%		59		0.66%		99		1.10%		720		7.99%		9,007
	St. Bernard		14,312		46.33%		13,549		43.86%		2,664		8.62%		134		0.43%		233		0.75%		763		2.47%		30,892
	St. Charles		10,612		49.61%		9,316		43.55%		1,307		6.11%		38		0.18%		120		0.56%		1,296		6.06%		21,393
	St. Helena		3,692		65.83%		1,455		25.95%		417		7.44%		18		0.32%		26		0.46%		2,237		39.88%		5,608
	St. James		7,247		67.46%		2,832		26.36%		608		5.66%		15		0.14%		41		0.38%		4,415		41.10%		10,743
	St. John the Baptist		9,937		58.28%		6,025		35.34%		966		5.67%		41		0.24%		82		0.48%		3,912		22.94%		17,051
	St. Landry		20,636		58.21%		12,273		34.62%		2,311		6.52%		75		0.21%		158		0.45%		8,363		23.59%		35,453
	St. Martin		12,492		60.33%		6,296		30.41%		1,607		7.76%		112		0.54%		199		0.96%		6,196		29.92%		20,706
	St. Mary		12,402		54.95%		8,018		35.53%		1,850		8.20%		136		0.60%		163		0.72%		4,384		19.42%		22,569
	St. Tammany		24,281		32.58%		44,761		60.06%		4,741		6.36%		251		0.34%		492		0.66%		-20,480		-27.48%		74,526
	Tangipahoa		18,617		49.53%		15,517		41.28%		3,144		8.36%		100		0.27%		213		0.57%		3,100		8.25%		37,591
	Tensas		1,882		60.73%		1,000		32.27%		176		5.68%		12		0.39%		29		0.94%		882		28.46%		3,099
	Terrebonne		18,550		51.02%		13,944		38.35%		3,359		9.24%		203		0.56%		305		0.84%		4,606		12.67%		36,361
	Union		4,260		44.64%		4,418		46.30%		696		7.29%		57		0.60%		112		1.17%		-158		-1.66%		9,543
	Vermilion		12,609		55.64%		7,653		33.77%		1,954		8.62%		194		0.86%		251		1.11%		4,956		21.87%		22,661
	Vernon		6,195		44.36%		5,449		39.02%		2,068		14.81%		94		0.67%		160		1.15%		746		5.34%		13,966
	Washington		9,603		53.28%		6,642		36.85%		1,643		9.12%		61		0.34%		74		0.41%		2,961		16.43%		18,023
	Webster		9,688		55.31%		6,153		35.13%		1,324		7.56%		168		0.96%		184		1.05%		3,535		20.18%		17,517
	West Baton Rouge		5,697		58.14%		3,254		33.21%		799		8.15%		13		0.13%		35		0.36%		2,443		24.93%		9,798
	West Carroll		1,853		38.90%		2,366		49.66%		461		9.68%		29		0.61%		55		1.15%		-513		-10.76%		4,764
	West Feliciana		2,416		53.62%		1,616		35.86%		388		8.61%		28		0.62%		58		1.29%		800		17.76%		4,506
	Winn		3,779		50.64%		2,803		37.56%		735		9.85%		47		0.63%		99		1.33%		976		13.08%		7,463

Parishes that flipped from Republican to Democratic

East Baton Rouge
Lincoln
Plaquemines
Rapides
Richland
Saint Bernard
Saint Charles
Terrebonne

References

Notes

References

"1996 Presidential General Election Data".
"1996 Presidential General Election Results – Louisiana". Dave Leip’s U.S. Election Atlas.
"CNN AllPolitics Election 1998 – 1992 Exit Polls".
"LA US President Race, November 05, 1996". Our Campaigns.

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