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1876–2024
Red River Parish, Louisiana
Red River Parish·Louisiana

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

A rural parish where presidential margins have widened each cycle since 2008

18762024·38 elections
Red River Parish, Louisiana · Wikilester 3 · Wikimedia Commons
Latest
R+27
in 2024
Archetype
Old Confederacy
since the recent cycles
Population
7,443
2024 ACS
Most similar
Choctaw County
AL · similarity 0.98
18 precincts · 3,725 votes cast
Trump · R+27
Margin
Turnout
Harris +50
Trump +50
Real precinct boundaries. Hover for vote totals.
YearWonMarginDemocraticRepublicanTotal
2024R
−27.3%
1,3212,3373,725
2020R
−18.6%
1,6442,4134,132
2016R
−10.2%
1,9382,3914,422
2012R
−4.8%
2,2532,4834,807
2008R
−8.7%
2,0802,4844,629
2004R
−7.8%
2,1402,5074,717
2000R
−0.5%
2,1772,2004,522
1996D
+30.2%
2,6411,3444,296
1992D
+15.2%
2,3601,6494,680
1988R
−0.3%
2,2542,2664,586
1984R
−21.7%
1,9583,0605,067
1980D
+12.6%
2,7762,1474,986
1976D
+4.8%
1,9061,7283,707
1972R
−37.8%
9572,2453,404
1968D
+14.2%
9143803,771
1964D
+74.0%
2,2353342,569
1960R
−1.5%
3774061,917
1956D
+7.9%
8036611,788
1952D
+40.4%
1,8227742,596
1948D
+16.1%
4521132,106
1944D
+40.9%
9754091,384
1940D
+78.2%
1,8922312,123
1936D
+85.1%
1,6411321,773
1932D
+96.9%
1,661241,689
1928D
+47.1%
8913171,219
1924D
+84.2%
57934647
1920D
+60.8%
766187953
1916D
+98.6%
5674571
1912D
+75.3%
3576466
1908D
+81.9%
3866464
1904D
+91.6%
37112392
1900D
+97.4%
4626468
1896D
+93.4%
83226863
1892D
+48.7%
9273201,247
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
0.9%
African American
32.2%
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
28.8%
Other Christian
12.5%
Pentecostal & Holiness
5.9%
Methodist
3.3%
Catholic & Orthodox
2.6%
Source · 2020 US Religion Census. Remaining 46.9% of residents not counted as adherents by any reporting body.

Red River Parish sits along its namesake waterway in northwest Louisiana, with a population under 10,000 that has trended sharply toward Republican presidential candidates over the past four election cycles, mirroring shifts across rural, majority-Black-plurality parishes in the region.

The shift began with civil rights. 2000 marked the realignment in Red River Parish, by a one points margin. The Republican margin reached its widest at thirty-eight points in 1972. The 2024 margin was twenty-seven points.

The political shift has tracked, in Red River Parish, the political shift of the South more broadly. A 57% non-Hispanic-white share, a median household income of $49,167, and a 26% poverty rate describe the demographic context. The county's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Choctaw County and Dallas County.