Lake Charles, LA · how this place’s counties split between candidates in each party’s presidential nominating contest, cycle by cycle. A primary is a contest inside one party, so it has no Democratic–Republican margin and is not part of the general-election record above.
Akashic reports votes cast, not delegates awarded. The two can disagree: Clinton led the 2008 national primary popular vote by less than half a point and did not win the nomination.
Primary returns are published at county grain and there is no roll-up above it. Each cell counts how many of this place’s counties a candidate led — a count of records, not a vote total. Who led the place as a whole is not knowable from these returns, because county rows carry a leader and a lead but no per-candidate votes.
Presidential nominating contests in Lake Charles, LA, by party and cycle.
○no contest record — Akashic holds no result for that party and cycle here. It is not a claim that no contest was held. Telling apart a contest that was cancelled, one that went uncontested, and one simply not yet ingested needs a nominating-contest calendar, which is a separate ingest from results and does not exist yet.
Republican presidential primaries are not yet ingested — the Republican series runs from 1856 and is in scope. The row is kept so its absence is visible: a Democratic-only panel would otherwise read as though no one else held a contest.
Akashic carries 10 states for 2012 and 3 states for 2024. Cycles in which an incumbent president seeks renomination are thin by nature — few states run a contested primary — so a sparse column is politics, not a hole in the record.
County returns carry a leader and a lead over the runner-up, and nothing more. The full candidate field with vote shares is published at state grain — follow a cycle above to the state contest for it.
voter registration
Registered voters
By party of registration, over time
Party registration · 2024R+7.3
vs
Presidential vote · 2024R+44.3
Registration leans Republican; the presidential vote runs 37 points more Republican than the rolls.
154,256 registered voters · 2024
Democratic31.6%Republican38.9%Other29.4%
domestic migration
Who moves in and out
Net domestic migration over time
+519 net domestic migration · 2025
20112025
Net −12,157 over 2011–2025 · gain loss
Domestic migration in Lake Charles, LA in Lake Charles, LA: net domestic migration by year
Year
Net domestic migration
2011
−465
2012
−663
2013
−57
2014
+315
2015
+970
2016
+933
2017
+857
2018
−78
2019
−850
2021
−10,934
2022
−3,759
2023
+151
2024
+904
2025
+519
The Lake Charles metro's political lean tracks closely with its industrial base — energy-sector employment shapes voter priorities here, and the area has backed Republican presidential candidates by wide margins over the past two decades.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 77.1 points in 1932 and a Republican high of 44.3 points in 2024. Between 2020 and 2024 the metro moved 4.3 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 44.3 points.
A population of 244,027, a 67% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $66,385 describe the metro. The metro's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Houma-Bayou Cane-Thibodaux, LA and Lafayette, LA.
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In 2024, Lake Charles, LA, Louisiana voted Republican by 44.3 points (R+44.3), carried by the Republican candidate. Out of 98,921 votes cast, 26,836 went Democratic and 70,662 went Republican.
When did Lake Charles, LA, Louisiana last vote Democratic?
The most recent presidential election in which Lake Charles, LA, Louisiana voted Democratic was 1996.
How many people live in Lake Charles, LA, Louisiana?
Lake Charles, LA, Louisiana has a population of 244,027 according to the 2024 American Community Survey 5-year estimates from the US Census Bureau.
What is the median household income in Lake Charles, LA, Louisiana?
Median household income in Lake Charles, LA, Louisiana is $66,385 — below the national median of $80,734. The Louisiana state median is $60,756.
What is the political history of Lake Charles, LA, Louisiana?
Akashic tracks 34 presidential elections in Lake Charles, LA, Louisiana from 1892 to 2024. Of those, 23 went Democratic and 10 went Republican.
