New Orleans-Metairie, 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 New Orleans-Metairie, 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 · 2024D+26.4
vs
Presidential vote · 2024D+16.9
Registration leans Democratic; the presidential vote runs 9.5 points more Republican than the rolls.
668,031 registered voters · 2024
Democratic48.6%Republican22.2%Other29.2%
domestic migration
Who moves in and out
Net domestic migration over time
−8,906 net domestic migration · 2025
20112025
Net −82,567 over 2011–2025 · gain loss
Domestic migration in New Orleans-Metairie, LA in New Orleans-Metairie, LA: net domestic migration by year
Year
Net domestic migration
2011
+8,867
2012
+4,408
2013
+3,460
2014
−539
2015
+74
2016
−3,402
2017
−6,057
2018
−6,962
2019
−6,126
2021
−13,656
2022
−24,963
2023
−17,829
2024
−10,936
2025
−8,906
New Orleans-Metairie blends a heavily Black, Democratic-leaning core city with whiter, more Republican suburban Jefferson Parish, making intra-metro demographic splits a persistent driver of electoral outcomes across all levels of the ballot.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 87.6 points in 1932 and a Republican high of 32.9 points in 1972. Between 2020 and 2024 the metro moved 2.3 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 16.9 points.
A population of 981,662, a 42% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $63,059 describe the metro. The metro's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Baton Rouge, LA and Tallahassee, FL.
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How did New Orleans-Metairie, LA, Louisiana vote in 2024?
In 2024, New Orleans-Metairie, LA, Louisiana voted Democratic by 16.9 points (D+16.9), carried by the Democratic candidate. Out of 421,873 votes cast, 242,117 went Democratic and 170,667 went Republican.
When did New Orleans-Metairie, LA, Louisiana last vote Republican?
The most recent presidential election in which New Orleans-Metairie, LA, Louisiana voted Republican was 1988.
How many people live in New Orleans-Metairie, LA, Louisiana?
New Orleans-Metairie, LA, Louisiana has a population of 981,662 according to the 2024 American Community Survey 5-year estimates from the US Census Bureau.
What is the median household income in New Orleans-Metairie, LA, Louisiana?
Median household income in New Orleans-Metairie, LA, Louisiana is $63,059 — below the national median of $80,734. The Louisiana state median is $60,756.
What is the political history of New Orleans-Metairie, LA, Louisiana?
Akashic tracks 34 presidential elections in New Orleans-Metairie, LA, Louisiana from 1892 to 2024. Of those, 26 went Democratic and 6 went Republican.
