2016 United States presidential election in Louisiana


The 2016 United States presidential election in Louisiana was won by Donald Trump on November 8, 2016, as part of the 2016 General Election in which all 50 states plus the District of Columbia participated. Louisiana voters chose electors to represent them in the Electoral College via a popular vote pitting the Republican Party's nominee, businessman Donald Trump, and running mate Indiana Governor Mike Pence against Democratic Party nominee, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and her running mate, Virginia Senator Tim Kaine.
On March 5, 2016, in the presidential primaries, voters expressed their preferences for the Democratic, and Republican, parties' respective nominees for president. Registered members of each party only voted in their party's primary, while voters who were unaffiliated weren't able to vote in the primaries.

Primary elections

24 candidates were on the ballot.

Democratic primary

Republican primary

Four candidates appeared on the Republican presidential primary ballot:

State Convention

On March 24, the State Convention met and reversed the results of the primary, giving Ted Cruz a clear majority.
Rubio's five delegates and 2 uncommitted delegates committed to Trump after Kasich and Cruz dropped out of the race. This gave Trump the majority of the delegates from the state.

Polling

Predictions

The following are final 2016 predictions from various organizations for Louisiana as of Election Day.
  1. Los Angeles Times: Strongly Trump
  2. CNN: Solid Trump
  3. Sabato's Crystal Ball: Safe Trump
  4. NBC: Likely Trump
  5. RealClearPolitics: Solid Trump
  6. Fox News: Solid Republican
  7. ABC: Solid Trump

    General Election

Results

carried the state, lengthening the Republican streak in Louisiana to 5 straight contests.

By parish

By congressional district

Trump won 5 of the 6 congressional districts in Louisiana.
DistrictTrumpClintonRepresentative
69%27%Steve Scalise
22%75%Cedric Richmond
67%29%Clay Higgins
61%37%Mike Johnson
64%34%Ralph Abraham
65%31%Garret Graves

Analysis

Donald Trump won the election in Louisiana with 58.1% of the vote. Hillary Clinton received 38.4% of the vote. Of the 2,029,032 total votes cast, Trump had 1,178,638 while Clinton had 780,154 votes. All of Louisiana's parishes voted for the same party they voted for in 2012 and 2008. As a result, this marked the first time since 1992 that East Baton Rouge Parish backed the losing candidate of the election, and the first time since 1948 East Baton Rouge voted Democratic three elections in a row.
Louisiana was one of eleven states that voted twice for Bill Clinton in 1992 and 1996 which Hillary Clinton lost in 2016.