Lincoln Parish, Louisiana

2024 results by precinct

49 precincts · 18,157 votes cast

Trump · R+25

Harris +50

Trump +50

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38 presidential elections

Year	Won	Margin	Democratic	Republican	Total
2024	R	−25.5%	6,627	11,248	18,157
2020	R	−19.5%	7,559	11,311	19,275
2016	R	−19.6%	7,107	10,761	18,669
2012	R	−14.7%	7,956	10,739	18,993
2008	R	−12.5%	8,292	10,680	19,179
2004	R	−19.5%	7,242	10,791	18,218
2000	R	−14.5%	6,851	9,246	16,551
1996	D	+5.9%	7,903	6,973	15,855
1992	R	−0.1%	7,205	7,220	16,561
1988	R	−23.4%	5,427	8,853	14,657
1984	R	−24.9%	5,432	9,087	14,701
1980	R	−14.2%	5,598	7,515	13,470
1976	R	−15.5%	4,971	6,828	11,969
1972	R	−42.6%	2,589	6,736	9,741
1968	R	−7.1%	2,009	2,643	8,877
1964	D	+54.2%	5,766	1,714	7,480
1960	R	−33.6%	1,051	2,766	5,109
1956	R	−36.8%	1,014	2,676	4,520
1952	R	−21.0%	2,009	3,074	5,083
1948	D	+8.5%	625	353	3,201
1944	D	+24.6%	1,705	1,032	2,737
1940	D	+73.7%	2,969	449	3,418
1936	D	+82.9%	2,154	201	2,356
1932	D	+84.3%	1,908	163	2,071
1928	D	+21.7%	1,041	670	1,711
1924	D	+72.7%	1,005	157	1,166
1920	D	+68.8%	989	183	1,172
1916	D	+91.0%	932	42	978
1912	D	+84.1%	644	3	762
1908	D	+81.7%	634	52	712
1904	D	+90.0%	532	26	562
1900	D	+78.9%	517	61	578
1896	D	+92.0%	1,241	40	1,306
1892	R	−21.4%	695	1,074	1,769
1888	—	No data	—	—	—
1884	—	No data	—	—	—
1880	—	No data	—	—	—
1876	—	No data	—	—	—

Demographics

Race, ethnicity, and ancestry

Click any group to see the ancestries typically reported within it.

American

100.0%

African American

29.5%

Multiple ancestry combinations reported; no single grouping above 1%.

American Indian, Alaska Native, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander combined.

Source · American Community Survey 5-year estimates, 2024 release. Ancestry is a self-reported, multiple-response item; ancestry percentages do not sum to the parent race percentage.

Age distribution by sex

Median age: 28.6 in this county, 39.1 nationally

Male

Age

Female

0.6%

85+

1.0%

1.7%

75–84

2.6%

3.9%

65–74

4.4%

4.5%

55–64

5.1%

4.3%

45–54

4.7%

5.0%

35–44

5.3%

6.0%

25–34

5.9%

12.7%

18–24

12.6%

7.7%

5–17

6.9%

2.7%

2.4%

Source · American Community Survey 5-year estimates, 2024 release.

Median household income

2024 inflation-adjusted dollars

$39,172

Lincoln Parish ranks in the bottom 5% of US counties.

Lincoln Parish$39,172

Louisiana$60,756

United States$80,734

Source · American Community Survey 5-year estimates, 2024 release.

Poverty rate

All persons below federal poverty line

31.2%

Children face moderate poverty.

Children under 1818.0%

Working age (18–64)100.0%

Seniors (65+)18.0%

Source · American Community Survey 5-year estimates, 2024 release.

Language at home

Population aged 5 and older

0.0%

speak English only

Source · ACS 5-year estimates, 2024.

Religious adherents

Adherents per capita by tradition

Baptist

33.5%

Other Christian

9.2%

Methodist

6.2%

Pentecostal & Holiness

2.4%

Catholic & Orthodox

2.3%

Mainline Protestant

0.9%

Non-Christian

0.3%

Source · 2020 US Religion Census. Remaining 45.2% of residents not counted as adherents by any reporting body.

Lincoln Parish's two university campuses inject a younger, more transient population into a north Louisiana landscape that still votes heavily Republican, producing a college-town layer beneath a durable conservative baseline.

The shift began with civil rights. 2000 marked the realignment in Lincoln Parish, by a fourteen points margin. The Republican margin reached its widest at forty-three points in 1972. The 2024 margin was twenty-five points.

The political shift has tracked, in Lincoln Parish, the political shift of the South more broadly. A 53% non-Hispanic-white share, a median household income of $39,172, and a 31% poverty rate describe the demographic context. The county's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Decatur County and Crisp County.

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Lincoln Parish voted Democratic for a century. The shift began with civil rights.