New Orleans-Metairie-Slidell, LA-MS · the strongest Democratic and Republican presidential performances recorded here, measured three ways.
1892–2024 · 34 presidential cycles
Highest vote share
Largest share of the presidential candidate vote cast here.
Democratic
Franklin D. Roosevelt1932
93.7%
108,772 votes · D+87.6
Runner-up · Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1936 · 91.5%
Republican
Richard Nixon1972
64.4%
228,409 votes · R+35.6
Runner-up · Ronald Reagan, 1984 · 59.9%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Joe Biden2020
319,652votes
49.5% of the vote · D+0.6
Runner-up · Bill Clinton, 1996 · 311,359 votes
Republican
Ronald Reagan1984
326,128votes
59.9% of the vote · R+20.4
Runner-up · George W. Bush, 2004 · 317,564 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
Alton B. Parker1904
+101.8pts D vs U.S.
Place D+82.2 · U.S. R+19.7
Runner-up · John W. Davis, 1924 · +87.1 pts
Republican
Barry Goldwater1964
+25.9pts R vs U.S.
Place R+3.3 · U.S. D+22.6
Runner-up · John McCain, 2008 · +16.1 pts
U.S. House elections · 3 House
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U.S. House
On a multi-state Place, each row sums votes cast in the separate U.S. House races held inside the Place that year. It is a geographic vote total, not one contest or a seat tally.
Some U.S. House rows cover a contest held in only part of this Place — the votes are real, but the total is not place-wide because the rest of the Place had no such race that year.
New Orleans-Metairie-Slidell, LA-MS · 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-Slidell, LA-MS, by party and cycle.
Party
2008
2012
2016
2020
2024
Democratic
Obama7Clinton3112,384 votes · 10 of 10 countiesprimary
○no contest record
Clinton10107,647 votes · 10 of 10 countiesprimary
Biden10100,095 votes · 10 of 10 countiesprimary
○no contest record
Republicannot ingested
○no contest record
○no contest record
○no contest record
○no contest record
○no contest record
○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
Registered voters
† Some years predate full county coverage; a flagged year sums only the counties reporting it.
Voter registration in New Orleans-Metairie-Slidell, LA-MS
Year
Total registered
2016 (partial)
38,558
2018 (partial)
39,768
2020 (partial)
39,232
2022 (partial)
38,268
2024
933,074
domestic migration
Who moves in and out
Net domestic migration over time
−7,900 net domestic migration · 2025
20112025
Net −51,423 over 2011–2025 · gain loss
Domestic migration in New Orleans-Metairie-Slidell, LA-MS in New Orleans-Metairie-Slidell, LA-MS: net domestic migration by year
Year
Net domestic migration
2011
+9,817
2012
+4,827
2013
+5,247
2014
+1,941
2015
+2,721
2016
−828
2017
−3,051
2018
−5,192
2019
−4,258
2021
−8,176
2022
−21,385
2023
−15,757
2024
−9,429
2025
−7,900
New Orleans-Metairie-Slidell, LA-MS sits in the Gulf South. In 2024 it voted Republican.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 87.6 points in 1932 and a Republican high of 35.6 points in 1972. Between 2020 and 2024 the region moved 2.8 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 2.2 points.
A population of 1,356,661, a 50% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $65,906 describe the region. The region's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Baton Rouge-Hammond, LA and Lafayette-New Iberia-Opelousas, LA.
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How did New Orleans-Metairie-Slidell, LA-MS, Louisiana vote in 2024?
In 2024, New Orleans-Metairie-Slidell, LA-MS, Louisiana voted Republican by 2.2 points (R+2.2), carried by the Republican candidate. Out of 603,383 votes cast, 289,287 went Democratic and 302,328 went Republican.
When did New Orleans-Metairie-Slidell, LA-MS, Louisiana last vote Democratic?
The most recent presidential election in which New Orleans-Metairie-Slidell, LA-MS, Louisiana voted Democratic was 2020.
How many people live in New Orleans-Metairie-Slidell, LA-MS, Louisiana?
New Orleans-Metairie-Slidell, LA-MS, Louisiana has a population of 1,356,661 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-Slidell, LA-MS, Louisiana?
Median household income in New Orleans-Metairie-Slidell, LA-MS, Louisiana is $65,906 — below the national median of $80,734. The Louisiana state median is $60,756.
What is the political history of New Orleans-Metairie-Slidell, LA-MS, Louisiana?
Akashic tracks 34 presidential elections in New Orleans-Metairie-Slidell, LA-MS, Louisiana from 1892 to 2024. Of those, 21 went Democratic and 11 went Republican.
