† Citizen voting-age population estimated for prior cycles; 2004 predates the ACS and is extrapolated. Source: ACS 5-year, table B05003.
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D+60R+60
3 counties by 2024 margin · County returns · MIT Election Lab
People and households
Who lives here
Exact values for this place, its state, and the United States.
Race · ethnicity · ancestry
Communities and origins
GroupShreveport-Bossier City, LALouisianaUnited States
American9.3%7.4%5.3%
English8.8%7.3%9.5%
Irish6.3%6.6%9.4%
German5.7%6.9%12.5%
French2.3%9.6%1.6%
Italian1.7%4.3%4.8%
Scottish1.7%1.0%1.3%
Scotch-Irish0.6%——
African American†38.3%29.3%9.9%
African0.6%0.8%0.5%
Mexican3.3%2.1%11.3%
Honduran0.5%1.6%0.3%
Spanish0.3%0.7%—
Puerto Rican0.2%0.4%1.8%
Spaniard0.2%0.2%—
Filipino0.3%—0.9%
Chinese0.2%0.2%1.3%
Hispanic or Latino counts residents of any race; the race groups count only their non-Hispanic residents, so the groups are mutually exclusive and sum to 100%. Expand a row to see ancestries reported within that group.
Age and life stage
Measure
Shreveport-Bossier City, LA
Louisiana
United States
Median age
38.6
38
39.1
Age 18–24
8.1%
9.1%
9.2%
Age 65 and older
17.7%
16.8%
17.2%
Household economy
Measure
Shreveport-Bossier City, LA
Louisiana
United States
Median household income
$56,902
$60,756
$84,427
Poverty rate
20.2%
19.0%
12.5%
Bachelor's degree or higher (25+)
26.1%
27.1%
35.6%
Languages at home
Measure
Shreveport-Bossier City, LA
Louisiana
United States
Speaks a non-English language at home
4.9%
8.5%
22.3%
Spanish
3.1%
4.7%
13.6%
Religious landscape
Measure
Shreveport-Bossier City, LA
Louisiana
United States
Catholic
6.8%
26.8%
18.6%
Evangelical Protestant
44.3%
25.0%
16.5%
Unclaimed / not counted
28.2%
36.8%
51.5%
Mainline Protestant
6.5%
3.6%
5.2%
Black Protestant
11.6%
5.4%
2.2%
American Community Survey 2024 5-year (CVAP, income, age, poverty, education, language, race, ancestry) · presidential returns from MIT Election Lab through 2024 · 2020 U.S. Religion Census (ASARB) — congregational adherents; unclaimed is the residual not counted by congregations.
Shreveport-Bossier City, LA
presidential history
Presidential margin, 1892–2024
Democratic minus Republican, by election
Presidential margin over time
Year
Margin (D minus R)
1892
+83.9%
1896
+81.3%
1900
+94.8%
1904
+95.2%
1908
+88.2%
1912
+87.0%
1916
+92.9%
1920
+85.1%
1924
+64.1%
1928
+36.9%
1932
+83.7%
1936
+78.5%
1940
+72.8%
1944
+41.8%
1948
+8.2%
1952
−28.3%
1956
−29.8%
1960
−25.7%
1964
−61.5%
1968
−2.3%
1972
−48.0%
1976
−14.6%
1980
−16.2%
1984
−31.9%
1988
−19.8%
1992
+1.9%
1996
+12.7%
2000
−7.6%
2004
−13.4%
2008
−11.0%
2012
−10.5%
2016
−12.6%
2020
−10.9%
2024
−14.4%
DemocraticRepublican
34 presidential elections
Third column names the leading third-party or independent finisher. Source · MIT Election Lab · ICPSR · VEST (precinct-level 2024). Swing · margin change from the prior cycle. vs U.S. · margin relative to the national result that year.
Year
Won
Democratic
Republican
Other
Margin
Swing
vs U.S.
Total
R
42.1%Harris67,757
56.5%Trump90,935
1.3%
R+14.4
R+3.5
R+12.9
160,844
R
43.7%Biden76,229
54.6%Trump95,207
1.6%
R+10.9
D+1.7
R+15.3
174,303
R
42.1%Clinton71,289
54.7%Trump92,548
3.1%
R+12.6
R+2.0
R+14.7
169,152
R
44.2%Obama76,551
54.7%Romney94,800
1.2%
R+10.5
D+0.5
R+14.4
173,378
R
44.1%Obama73,481
55.1%McCain91,824
0.9%
R+11.0
D+2.4
R+18.3
166,752
R
43.0%Kerry69,082
56.4%Bush90,543
0.6%
R+13.4
R+5.8
R+10.9
160,636
R
45.4%Gore64,499
53.0%Bush75,291
1.7%
R+7.6
R+20.3
R+8.1
142,150
D
53.2%Clinton77,268
40.5%Dole58,823
6.3%
D+12.7
D+10.8
D+4.2
145,281
D
44.2%Clinton64,717
42.3%Bush61,936
13.5%
D+1.9
D+21.7
R+3.7
146,500
R
39.7%Dukakis53,605
59.5%Bush80,327
0.8%
R+19.8
D+12.1
R+12.1
135,003
R
33.8%Mondale47,375
65.7%Reagan92,056
0.5%
R+31.9
R+15.7
R+13.7
140,122
R
41.0%Carter51,660
57.3%Reagan72,066
1.7%
R+16.2
R+1.6
R+6.5
125,850
R
42.0%Carter43,285
56.6%Ford58,360
1.5%
R+14.6
D+33.4
R+16.7
103,175
R
23.7%McGovern21,159
71.7%Nixon64,088
4.6%
R+48.0
R+45.8
R+24.9
89,370
O
26.0%Humphrey23,857
28.3%Nixon25,943
45.7%
Wallace +17.4
D+59.2
R+1.6
91,702
R
19.3%Johnson13,349
80.7%Goldwater55,973
0.0%
R+61.5
R+35.7
R+84.1
69,322
R
25.0%Kennedy14,862
50.7%Nixon30,171
24.3%
R+25.7
D+4.1
R+25.9
59,460
R
28.5%Stevenson13,940
58.3%Eisenhower28,550
13.2%
R+29.8
R+1.6
R+14.4
48,965
R
35.9%Stevenson18,915
64.1%Eisenhower33,830
0.0%
R+28.3
R+36.5
R+17.5
52,745
O
26.9%Truman7,749
18.7%Dewey5,385
54.3%
Thurmond +27.4
R+33.6
D+3.7
28,771
D
70.8%Roosevelt17,184
29.0%Dewey7,045
0.1%
D+41.8
R+31.0
D+34.3
24,259
D
86.3%Roosevelt23,109
13.5%Willkie3,610
0.2%
D+72.8
R+5.6
D+62.9
26,768
D
89.2%Roosevelt16,468
10.7%Landon1,983
0.0%
D+78.5
R+5.2
D+54.2
18,457
D
91.6%Roosevelt16,766
7.9%Hoover1,452
0.5%
D+83.7
D+46.7
D+65.9
18,305
D
68.5%Smith9,566
31.5%Hoover4,407
0.0%
D+36.9
R+27.2
D+54.4
13,975
D
79.3%Davis6,414
15.2%Coolidge1,228
5.5%
D+64.1
R+21.0
D+89.3
8,087
D
92.5%Cox6,214
7.5%Harding501
0.0%
D+85.1
R+7.9
D+111.3
6,715
D
96.4%Wilson4,888
3.5%Hughes177
0.1%
D+92.9
D+5.9
D+89.8
5,069
D
88.4%Wilson3,188
1.4%Taft51
10.2%
D+87.0
R+1.2
D+67.4
3,606
D
92.7%Bryan3,084
4.5%Taft150
2.8%
D+88.2
R+6.9
D+97.8
3,326
D
97.3%Parker2,975
2.2%Roosevelt66
0.5%
D+95.2
D+0.4
D+114.8
3,057
D
97.4%Bryan2,896
2.6%McKinley78
0.0%
D+94.8
D+13.5
D+102.3
2,974
D
89.7%Bryan4,898
8.4%McKinley460
1.9%
D+81.3
R+2.7
D+87.3
5,462
D
92.0%Cleveland6,764
8.0%Harrison591
0.0%
D+83.9
—
D+82.3
7,355
Congressional elections · 2 Senate races
U.S. Senate
Source · MIT Election Lab (MEDSL), Senate. CC-BY 4.0.
Year
Won
Democratic
Republican
Total
2022
R
19.4%20,889
59.3%63,881
107,777
2020
R
29.4%49,860
55.2%93,688
169,582
voter registration
Registered voters
By party of registration, over time
Party registration · 2024D+3.5
vs
Presidential vote · 2024R+14.4
Shreveport-Bossier City, LA registers Democratic but votes Republican — a 18-point gap between how voters register and how they vote, the signature of ancestral registration that trails realignment.
254,755 registered voters · 2024
Democratic38.2%Republican34.7%Other27.2%
domestic migration
Who moves in and out
Net domestic migration over time
−1,000 net domestic migration · 2025
20112025
Net −34,212 over 2011–2025 · gain loss
Domestic migration in Shreveport-Bossier City, LA in Shreveport-Bossier City, LA: net domestic migration by year
Year
Net domestic migration
2011
+1,584
2012
+801
2013
−3,565
2014
−3,955
2015
−2,678
2016
−3,855
2017
−2,987
2018
−3,790
2019
−3,401
2021
−3,085
2022
−4,001
2023
−2,468
2024
−1,812
2025
−1,000
Shreveport and Bossier City straddle the Red River and a persistent partisan divide: Shreveport's Black population regularly delivers Democratic margins while surrounding Bossier and Webster parishes offset them by wide Republican spreads.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 95.2 points in 1904 and a Republican high of 61.5 points in 1964. Between 2020 and 2024 the metro moved 3.5 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 14.4 points.
A population of 386,819, a 50% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $56,902 describe the metro. The metro's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Mobile, AL and Jackson, MS.
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How did Shreveport-Bossier City, LA, Louisiana vote in 2024?
In 2024, Shreveport-Bossier City, LA, Louisiana voted Republican by 14.4 points (R+14.4), carried by the Republican candidate. Out of 160,844 votes cast, 67,757 went Democratic and 90,935 went Republican.
When did Shreveport-Bossier City, LA, Louisiana last vote Democratic?
The most recent presidential election in which Shreveport-Bossier City, LA, Louisiana voted Democratic was 1996.
How many people live in Shreveport-Bossier City, LA, Louisiana?
Shreveport-Bossier City, LA, Louisiana has a population of 386,819 according to the 2024 American Community Survey 5-year estimates from the US Census Bureau.
What is the median household income in Shreveport-Bossier City, LA, Louisiana?
Median household income in Shreveport-Bossier City, LA, Louisiana is $56,902 — below the national median of $80,734. The Louisiana state median is $60,756.
What is the political history of Shreveport-Bossier City, LA, Louisiana?
Akashic tracks 34 presidential elections in Shreveport-Bossier City, LA, Louisiana from 1892 to 2024. Of those, 16 went Democratic and 16 went Republican.
