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1876–2024
Morehouse Parish, Louisiana
Morehouse Parish·Louisiana

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

A rural Delta parish where timber and agriculture still shape the workforce

18762024·38 elections
Morehouse Parish, Louisiana · Billy Hathorn · Wikimedia Commons
Latest
R+19
in 2024
Archetype
Old Confederacy
since the recent cycles
Population
24,551
2024 ACS
Most similar
Decatur County
GA · similarity 0.97
40 precincts · 10,097 votes cast
Trump · R+19
Margin
Turnout
Harris +50
Trump +50
Real precinct boundaries. Hover for vote totals.
YearWonMarginDemocraticRepublicanTotal
2024R
−19.3%
4,0085,96110,097
2020R
−13.5%
4,9466,51011,574
2016R
−11.4%
5,1556,50211,852
2012R
−5.6%
5,8886,59112,614
2008R
−11.1%
5,7927,25813,200
2004R
−16.5%
5,3367,47112,971
2000R
−11.0%
5,2896,64112,321
1996D
+7.7%
6,1605,19312,493
1992D
+4.8%
6,0135,36413,463
1988R
−23.4%
4,4967,33512,140
1984R
−27.4%
4,8298,58513,685
1980R
−19.3%
4,8567,25412,397
1976R
−14.5%
4,0175,4189,692
1972R
−39.6%
2,3555,7708,620
1968D
+0.2%
1,7931,7728,942
1964D
+74.9%
6,2228917,113
1960R
−30.7%
1,0852,5514,780
1956R
−6.5%
1,5121,8505,182
1952D
+7.9%
3,0062,5675,573
1948D
+33.2%
1,1772422,814
1944D
+59.1%
1,8594782,337
1940D
+83.2%
2,4172222,639
1936D
+87.1%
2,5141722,688
1932D
+92.1%
2,014832,097
1928D
+42.4%
8403401,180
1924D
+61.0%
582141723
1920D
+88.5%
62238660
1916D
+98.8%
5643568
1912D
+87.4%
4118461
1908D
+88.1%
45820497
1904D
+92.5%
52620547
1900D
+96.6%
4618469
1896D
+89.1%
85346906
1892D
+87.0%
1,176821,258
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
38.7%
Multiple ancestry combinations reported; no single grouping above 1%.
Sample size too small to break out by ancestry reliably.
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.
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
31.8%
Other Christian
9.1%
Pentecostal & Holiness
8.0%
Methodist
5.0%
Catholic & Orthodox
2.3%
Mainline Protestant
0.7%
Source · 2020 US Religion Census. Remaining 43.1% of residents not counted as adherents by any reporting body.

Morehouse Parish sits in Louisiana's northeastern corner, where an economy built on forestry and row-crop farming tracks closely with the region's broader shift toward lopsided Republican margins—R+19.3 in 2024.

The shift began with civil rights. 2000 marked the realignment in Morehouse Parish, by a eleven points margin. The Republican margin reached its widest at forty points in 1972. The 2024 margin was nineteen points.

The political shift has tracked, in Morehouse Parish, the political shift of the South more broadly. A 47% non-Hispanic-white share, a median household income of $39,454, and a 29% 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.