Baton Rouge · 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
Alton B. Parker1904
87.5%
5,391 votes · D+75.2
Runner-up · Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1932 · 87.2%
Republican
Richard Nixon1972
62.0%
98,867 votes · R+30.5
Runner-up · Ronald Reagan, 1984 · 57.9%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Joe Biden2020
191,803votes
42.9% of the vote · R+12.5
Runner-up · Barack Obama, 2012 · 178,859 votes
Republican
Donald Trump2020
247,614votes
55.3% of the vote · R+12.5
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2024 · 240,642 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
+94.8pts D vs U.S.
Place D+75.2 · U.S. R+19.7
Runner-up · William J. Bryan, 1908 · +84.1 pts
Republican
Barry Goldwater1964
+33.9pts R vs U.S.
Place R+11.3 · U.S. D+22.6
Runner-up · John McCain, 2008 · +20.8 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.
Baton Rouge · 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, by party and cycle.
Party
2008
2012
2016
2020
2024
Democratic
Obama12Clinton197,230 votes · 13 of 13 countiesprimary
○no contest record
Clinton1374,424 votes · 13 of 13 countiesprimary
Biden1366,675 votes · 13 of 13 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 Baton Rouge
Year
Total registered
2016 (partial)
17,848
2018 (partial)
17,467
2020 (partial)
17,823
2022 (partial)
17,089
2024
617,610
domestic migration
Who moves in and out
Net domestic migration over time
−1,376 net domestic migration · 2025
20112025
Net −40,492 over 2011–2025 · gain loss
Domestic migration in Baton Rouge in Baton Rouge: net domestic migration by year
Year
Net domestic migration
2011
−3,083
2012
−1,789
2013
+65
2014
−1,380
2015
−1,860
2016
−1,280
2017
−8,828
2018
−5,357
2019
−4,384
2021
−720
2022
−3,697
2023
−4,186
2024
−2,617
2025
−1,376
The Baton Rouge DMA spans East Baton Rouge Parish's urban Democratic lean alongside heavily Republican rural parishes to the north and west, producing some of Louisiana's sharpest intra-market margin swings.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 75.2 points in 1904 and a Republican high of 30.5 points in 1972. Between 2020 and 2024 the market moved 3.2 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 15.6 points.
A population of 943,868, a 53% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $68,998 describe the market. The market's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of New Orleans and Lafayette, LA.
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In 2024, Baton Rouge, Louisiana voted Republican by 15.6 points (R+15.6), carried by the Republican candidate. Out of 422,492 votes cast, 174,549 went Democratic and 240,642 went Republican.
When did Baton Rouge, Louisiana last vote Democratic?
The most recent presidential election in which Baton Rouge, Louisiana voted Democratic was 1996.
How many people live in Baton Rouge, Louisiana?
Baton Rouge, Louisiana has a population of 943,868 according to the 2024 American Community Survey 5-year estimates from the US Census Bureau.
What is the median household income in Baton Rouge, Louisiana?
Median household income in Baton Rouge, Louisiana is $68,998 — below the national median of $80,734. The Louisiana state median is $60,756.
What is the political history of Baton Rouge, Louisiana?
Akashic tracks 34 presidential elections in Baton Rouge, Louisiana from 1892 to 2024. Of those, 20 went Democratic and 12 went Republican.
