Shreveport-Bossier City, 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 Shreveport-Bossier City, LA, by party and cycle.
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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+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.
