Participation measured against the same-year citizen voting-age population. Audited cycles count total general-election participants — ballots or participating voters, not presidential candidate votes. Cycles before 2016 predate that series and are derived from the certified presidential returns instead; they are marked everywhere they appear and are excluded from the figures below.
2012–20246 cycles · 5 audited
2024 turnout
71.6%17,735 participants ÷ 24,782 CVAP
2020→2022 drop-off
+16.3 ptsVolatile
Drop-off vs state
-5.5 ptsPositive means a larger decline than the statewide pattern
Mechanical 2026
52.9%–55.3%Recent-cycle and two-cycle persistence scenarios; not a forecast
Participation by cycle
Presidential Midterm Derived, pre-2016
0%20%40%60%80%
50.7%
42.5%
201220162018202020222024
Select a presidential cycle to show it on the map and results ledger above.
Cycle
Participants
CVAP
Turnout
Series
Quality
17,735
24,782 ± 1,230
71.6%
Audited
E/A
2022Mid
10,399
24,448 ± 1,162
42.5%
Audited
E/A
13,613
23,154 ± 1,348
58.8%
Audited
E/A
2018Mid
11,243
22,186 ± 892
50.7%
Audited
E/A
14,824
20,672 ± 773
71.7%
Audited
E/A
13,350
18,830
70.9%
Derived
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Sources and methods
Audited cycles (2016, 2018, 2020, 2022, 2024) count total general-election participants against the same-year CVAP special tabulation, each cell carrying its own numerator and denominator quality grade. Derived cycles (2012) come from the certified presidential returns on this page over the ACS 5-year CVAP series, so they measure presidential votes cast rather than ballots — a floor on participation. Where a derived cycle predates the ACS its denominator is extrapolated rather than read, and says so on its own line below. They are shown for the longer arc and are excluded from the drop-off, excess-drop-off, and 2026 scenario figures above.
2024: numerator source 160, denominator source 157; estimated total ballots; preferred-county:block-reference-presidential-or-cvap-weight:v2; allocation share 100.0%; series 323/229.
2022: numerator source 160, denominator source 157; estimated total ballots; preferred-county:block-reference-presidential-or-cvap-weight:v2; allocation share 100.0%; series 322/184.
2020: numerator source 160, denominator source 157; estimated total ballots; preferred-county:block-reference-presidential-or-cvap-weight:v2; allocation share 100.0%; series 321/4.
2018: numerator source 160, denominator source 157; estimated total ballots; preferred-county:block-reference-presidential-or-cvap-weight:v2; allocation share 100.0%; series 320/139.
2016: numerator source 160, denominator source 157; estimated total ballots; preferred-county:block-reference-presidential-or-cvap-weight:v2; allocation share 100.0%; series 319/133.
2012 (derived): Certified presidential returns · ACS 5-year CVAP (B05003); presidential votes cast — a floor on participation, not a ballot count.
presidential history
Party record book
Prairieville, LA · the strongest Democratic and Republican presidential performances recorded here, measured three ways.
2004–2024 · 6 presidential cycles
Highest vote share
Largest share of the presidential candidate vote cast here.
Democratic
Kamala Harris2024
26.0%
4,589 votes · R+46.1
Runner-up · Joe Biden, 2020 · 24.3%
Republican
John McCain2008
80.0%
9,596 votes · R+61.5
Runner-up · Mitt Romney, 2012 · 78.7%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Kamala Harris2024
4,589votes
26.0% of the vote · R+46.1
Runner-up · Joe Biden, 2020 · 3,273 votes
Republican
Donald Trump2024
12,721votes
72.2% of the vote · R+46.1
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2016 · 10,914 votes
Best relative to the U.S.
This Place’s margin against the national margin in the same election — positive when it leaned toward the party more than the country did.
Democratic
Kamala Harris2024
−44.7pts D vs U.S.
Place R+46.1 · U.S. R+1.5
Runner-up · John Kerry, 2004 · −52.8 pts
Republican
John McCain2008
+68.7pts R vs U.S.
Place R+61.5 · U.S. D+7.3
Runner-up · Mitt Romney, 2012 · +63.1 pts
presidential primaries
Nominating contests
Prairieville · which candidate this place backed 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. The figures below are Ascension Parish, Louisiana, the county containing Prairieville — Prairieville’s own primary vote sits inside those totals and is not separately reported.
Presidential nominating contests in Prairieville, 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.
Prairieville has absorbed much of the overflow from Baton Rouge's expanding metro area, with population nearly doubling since 2000 and an electorate that tracks closely with suburban Louisiana's shift toward consistent Republican margins.
Across the recorded series it reached a Republican high of 61.5 points in 2008. Between 2020 and 2024 the city moved 3.1 points toward the Democratic candidate; the 2024 margin was 46.1 points.
A population of 35,238, a 75% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $104,923 describe the city. The city's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Central and Broussard.
Akashic
Political twins — cities
The cities whose fingerprint — 2000–2024 trajectory, demographics, ancestry, religion — sits closest to this one, and why.
Twin score (0–100) = weighted cosine between tier-standardized fingerprints: presidential margins 2000–2024 with 12-yr trend and elasticity, ACS income, age, education, population and race, top reported ancestries, and religious adherence — chips name the closest-shared dimensions and the widest gap. Re-weight the groups in the twins explorer.
In 2024, Prairieville, Louisiana voted Republican by 46.1 points (R+46.1), carried by the Republican candidate. Out of 17,621 votes cast, 4,589 went Democratic and 12,721 went Republican.
How many people live in Prairieville, Louisiana?
Prairieville, Louisiana has a population of 35,238 according to the 2024 American Community Survey 5-year estimates from the US Census Bureau.
What is the median household income in Prairieville, Louisiana?
Median household income in Prairieville, Louisiana is $104,923 — above the national median of $80,734. The Louisiana state median is $60,756.
What is the political history of Prairieville, Louisiana?
Akashic tracks 6 presidential elections in Prairieville, Louisiana from 2004 to 2024. Of those, 0 went Democratic and 6 went Republican.
