West Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana

2024 results by precinct

30 precincts · 13,836 votes cast

Trump · R+12

Harris +50

Trump +50

Real precinct boundaries. Hover for vote totals.

38 presidential elections

Year	Won	Margin	Democratic	Republican	Total
2024	R	−11.7%	6,008	7,627	13,836
2020	R	−10.5%	6,200	7,684	14,097
2016	R	−12.1%	5,383	6,927	12,712
2012	R	−9.6%	5,692	6,922	12,774
2008	R	−13.6%	5,043	6,654	11,866
2004	R	−8.2%	4,932	5,822	10,835
2000	D	+1.3%	5,058	4,924	10,169
1996	D	+24.9%	5,697	3,254	9,798
1992	D	+16.1%	5,131	3,522	9,976
1988	D	+8.1%	4,686	3,972	8,801
1984	D	+5.0%	4,631	4,189	8,883
1980	D	+24.6%	4,739	2,828	7,753
1976	D	+32.2%	3,809	1,913	5,884
1972	R	−15.7%	1,849	2,626	4,942
1968	D	+25.6%	2,016	669	5,254
1964	R	−1.5%	1,835	1,892	3,727
1960	D	+61.3%	2,315	390	3,141
1956	D	+7.5%	1,208	1,035	2,314
1952	D	+29.0%	1,280	704	1,984
1948	D	+35.6%	557	141	1,167
1944	D	+84.6%	1,045	87	1,132
1940	D	+78.7%	1,185	141	1,326
1936	D	+83.0%	868	80	949
1932	D	+72.1%	593	96	689
1928	D	+77.3%	608	78	686
1924	D	+30.6%	191	92	324
1920	D	+33.6%	352	175	527
1916	D	+77.4%	237	28	270
1912	D	+74.0%	170	19	204
1908	D	+91.3%	198	9	207
1904	D	+95.8%	233	5	238
1900	D	+65.9%	185	38	223
1896	R	−7.7%	237	279	542
1892	D	+73.5%	1,487	227	1,714
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

32.8%

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.

Age distribution by sex

Median age: 36.6 in this county, 39.1 nationally

Male

Age

Female

0.3%

85+

0.9%

2.0%

75–84

2.5%

4.3%

65–74

4.9%

6.3%

55–64

6.7%

5.2%

45–54

5.6%

7.3%

35–44

7.8%

8.8%

25–34

7.8%

2.6%

18–24

2.6%

9.9%

5–17

8.5%

2.5%

3.6%

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

Median household income

2024 inflation-adjusted dollars

$87,299

West Baton Rouge Parish ranks in the top 10% of US counties.

West Baton Rouge Parish$87,299

Louisiana$60,756

United States$80,734

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

Poverty rate

All persons below federal poverty line

12.9%

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

Catholic & Orthodox

25.4%

Baptist

13.5%

Pentecostal & Holiness

3.7%

Other Christian

1.7%

Methodist

1.4%

Mainline Protestant

0.2%

Source · 2020 US Religion Census. Remaining 54.1% of residents not counted as adherents by any reporting body.

West Baton Rouge Parish sits across the Mississippi from Louisiana's capital, with a petrochemical corridor that anchors its economy and a population just over 21,000 that has leaned Republican by double digits in recent presidential cycles.

The shift began with civil rights. 2004 marked the realignment in West Baton Rouge Parish, by a eight points margin. The Republican margin reached its widest at sixteen points in 1972. The 2024 margin was twelve points.

The political shift has tracked, in West Baton Rouge Parish, the political shift of the South more broadly. A 53% non-Hispanic-white share, a median household income of $87,299, and a 13% poverty rate describe the demographic context. The county's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of East Feliciana Parish and Lafayette County.

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West Baton Rouge Parish voted Democratic for a century. The shift began with civil rights.