Baton Rouge-Hammond, 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 Baton Rouge-Hammond, 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+3.9
vs
Presidential vote · 2024R+17.6
Baton Rouge-Hammond, LA registers Democratic but votes Republican — a 22-point gap between how voters register and how they vote, the signature of ancestral registration that trails realignment.
650,465 registered voters · 2024
Democratic38.3%Republican34.4%Other27.3%
domestic migration
Who moves in and out
Net domestic migration over time
+196 net domestic migration · 2025
20112025
Net −15,983 over 2011–2025 · gain loss
Domestic migration in Baton Rouge-Hammond, LA in Baton Rouge-Hammond, LA: net domestic migration by year
Year
Net domestic migration
2011
−1,839
2012
−333
2013
+1,424
2014
+350
2015
−97
2016
+890
2017
−6,123
2018
−3,333
2019
−3,289
2021
+1,723
2022
−2,193
2023
−2,498
2024
−861
2025
+196
Baton Rouge-Hammond, LA sits in the Gulf South. In 2024 it voted Republican.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 76.7 points in 1908 and a Republican high of 30.1 points in 1972. Between 2020 and 2024 the region moved 3.2 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 17.6 points.
A population of 1,012,051, a 54% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $68,787 describe the region. The region's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of New Orleans-Metairie-Slidell, LA-MS and Lafayette-New Iberia-Opelousas, LA.
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Political twins — combined metros
The combined metros 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.
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How did Baton Rouge-Hammond, LA, Louisiana vote in 2024?
In 2024, Baton Rouge-Hammond, LA, Louisiana voted Republican by 17.6 points (R+17.6), carried by the Republican candidate. Out of 446,953 votes cast, 180,361 went Democratic and 258,912 went Republican.
When did Baton Rouge-Hammond, LA, Louisiana last vote Democratic?
The most recent presidential election in which Baton Rouge-Hammond, LA, Louisiana voted Democratic was 1996.
How many people live in Baton Rouge-Hammond, LA, Louisiana?
Baton Rouge-Hammond, LA, Louisiana has a population of 1,012,051 according to the 2024 American Community Survey 5-year estimates from the US Census Bureau.
What is the median household income in Baton Rouge-Hammond, LA, Louisiana?
Median household income in Baton Rouge-Hammond, LA, Louisiana is $68,787 — below the national median of $80,734. The Louisiana state median is $60,756.
What is the political history of Baton Rouge-Hammond, LA, Louisiana?
Akashic tracks 34 presidential elections in Baton Rouge-Hammond, LA, Louisiana from 1892 to 2024. Of those, 20 went Democratic and 12 went Republican.
