Ouachita Parish, Louisiana

2024 results by precinct

85 precincts · 64,436 votes cast

Trump · R+28

Harris +50

Trump +50

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38 presidential elections

Year	Won	Margin	Democratic	Republican	Total
2024	R	−27.9%	22,845	40,808	64,436
2020	R	−23.6%	25,913	42,255	69,166
2016	R	−25.4%	24,428	41,734	68,017
2012	R	−20.9%	26,645	40,948	68,474
2008	R	−25.2%	24,813	41,741	67,244
2004	R	−30.6%	22,016	41,750	64,444
2000	R	−23.4%	21,457	35,107	58,211
1996	R	−7.0%	24,525	28,559	57,594
1992	R	−12.0%	20,835	27,600	56,502
1988	R	−36.6%	15,429	33,858	50,292
1984	R	−40.6%	15,525	37,270	53,574
1980	R	−28.5%	16,306	29,799	47,314
1976	R	−20.6%	15,738	24,082	40,451
1972	R	−53.9%	6,920	24,860	33,263
1968	R	−11.4%	6,470	10,089	31,704
1964	D	+66.9%	21,024	4,174	25,198
1960	R	−27.6%	5,202	10,525	19,291
1956	R	−18.0%	4,372	7,094	15,158
1952	D	+5.0%	9,775	8,842	18,617
1948	D	+23.0%	4,213	1,729	10,802
1944	D	+41.3%	6,329	2,627	8,956
1940	D	+69.9%	8,506	1,509	10,015
1936	D	+74.6%	7,635	1,113	8,748
1932	D	+86.3%	5,968	423	6,427
1928	D	+33.0%	2,739	1,380	4,119
1924	D	+50.4%	1,542	480	2,108
1920	D	+80.0%	1,481	164	1,646
1916	D	+94.2%	1,215	35	1,253
1912	D	+82.3%	902	17	1,075
1908	D	+84.1%	851	60	940
1904	D	+90.7%	669	26	709
1900	D	+87.0%	663	46	709
1896	D	+93.0%	2,712	93	2,816
1892	D	+82.1%	2,701	266	2,967
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%

Polish

0.5%

African American

29.8%

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: 36.6 in this county, 39.1 nationally

Male

Age

Female

0.8%

85+

1.2%

1.8%

75–84

2.6%

4.2%

65–74

5.3%

5.8%

55–64

6.2%

5.6%

45–54

6.1%

35–44

6.5%

6.6%

25–34

7.1%

4.8%

18–24

4.8%

9.3%

5–17

8.9%

3.2%

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

Median household income

2024 inflation-adjusted dollars

$54,688

Ouachita Parish ranks in the bottom 25% of US counties.

Ouachita Parish$54,688

Louisiana$60,756

United States$80,734

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

Poverty rate

All persons below federal poverty line

23.2%

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

32.8%

Other Christian

9.4%

Pentecostal & Holiness

7.0%

Methodist

5.3%

Catholic & Orthodox

5.2%

Mainline Protestant

0.9%

Non-Christian

0.6%

Source · 2020 US Religion Census. Remaining 38.8% of residents not counted as adherents by any reporting body.

Ouachita Parish, home to Monroe and West Monroe, has shifted from a competitive battleground in the 1990s to a reliably wide-margin Republican parish, reflecting broader realignment across north Louisiana's predominantly white, evangelical electorate.

The shift began with civil rights. 1968 marked the realignment in Ouachita Parish, by a eleven points margin. The Republican margin reached its widest at fifty-four points in 1972. The 2024 margin was twenty-eight points.

The political shift has tracked, in Ouachita Parish, the political shift of the South more broadly. A 56% non-Hispanic-white share, a median household income of $54,688, and a 23% poverty rate describe the demographic context. The county's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Thomas County and Kershaw County.

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