Louisiana presidential election results 2016

Donald J. Trump carried Louisiana by 19.64 points (398,484 votes), winning 8 electoral votes.

Electoral votes: 8
Votes counted: 2,029,032
LA result: R+19.6
Compared with the nation: 21.6 pts more Republican
Swing since 2012: 2.4 pts to R

Statewide result

Candidate	Party	Votes	Share	Electoral votes
Donald J. Trump	Republican	1,178,638	58.10%	8
Hillary Clinton	Democratic	780,154	38.40%	—
Gary Johnson	Libertarian	37,978	1.90%	—
Total votes		2,029,032

Sources: la.pdf · 2016

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Louisiana Secretary of State, Official Election Results 11/8/2016, Presidential Electors, statewide (voterportal print 11/21/2016); ticket, party, percent, votes
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Every ticket on the ballot, as printed in the certified document (the statewide table above groups minor candidates as “Others” when the source does).

All 13 tickets as printed in the document

Ticket (as printed)	Code	Votes	Share
Donald Trump, Michael Pence Republican	—	1,178,638	58.09%
Hillary Clinton, Timothy Kaine Democratic	—	780,154	38.45%
Gary Johnson, Bill Weld Libertarian	—	37,978	1.87%
Jill Stein, Ajamu Baraka Green	—	14,031	0.69%
Evan McMullin, Nathan Johnson Courage Character Service	—	8,547	0.42%
Darrell Castle, Scott Bradley Constitution Party Nominee	—	3,129	0.15%
Chris Keniston, Deacon Taylor Veterans Party	—	1,881	0.09%
Tom Hoefling, Steve Schulin Life, Family, Constitution	—	1,581	0.08%
Laurence Kotlikoff, Edward Lea It's Our Children	—	1,048	0.05%
Princess Jacob, Milton Fambro Loyal Trustworthy Compassion	—	749	0.04%
Alyson Kennedy, Osborne Hart Socialist Workers Party	—	480	0.02%
Gloria La Riva, Eugene Puryear Socialism and Liberation	—	446	0.02%
Jerry White, Niles Niemuth Socialism Equality Anti-War	—	370	0.02%

County resultsMIT Election Lab

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MIT Election Data and Science Lab, County Presidential Election Returns 2000-2016 (compiled from official state election records)
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Each county coloured by its winner and shaded by margin. Tap one for its history.

County	Hillary Clinton	Donald J. Trump	Others	Total	Margin
Acadia	5,638	21,162	589	27,389	56.7
Allen	2,106	6,867	272	9,245	51.5
Ascension	16,476	36,143	2,059	54,678	36.0
Assumption	3,931	6,714	259	10,904	25.5
Avoyelles	5,035	11,165	386	16,586	37.0
Beauregard	2,393	12,238	447	15,078	65.3
Bienville	3,129	3,756	120	7,005	9.0
Bossier	12,641	35,474	1,733	49,848	45.8
Caddo	53,483	49,006	3,315	105,804	4.2
Calcasieu	26,296	54,191	3,298	83,785	33.3
Caldwell	788	3,822	82	4,692	64.7
Cameron	323	3,256	113	3,692	79.4
Catahoula	1,322	3,479	55	4,856	44.4
Claiborne	2,717	3,585	119	6,421	13.5
Concordia	3,272	5,477	123	8,872	24.9
De Soto	5,165	8,068	267	13,500	21.5
East Baton Rouge	102,828	84,660	9,003	196,491	9.2
East Carroll	1,838	1,059	42	2,939	26.5
East Feliciana	4,235	5,569	238	10,042	13.3
Evangeline	4,208	10,360	314	14,882	41.3
Franklin	2,506	6,514	142	9,162	43.7
Grant	1,181	7,408	232	8,821	70.6
Iberia	10,698	20,903	853	32,454	31.4
Iberville	8,324	7,320	399	16,043	6.3
Jackson	2,139	5,169	156	7,464	40.6
Jefferson	73,670	100,398	7,571	181,639	14.7
Jefferson Davis	3,080	10,775	422	14,277	53.9
La Salle	605	5,836	128	6,569	79.6
Lafayette	32,726	68,195	4,682	105,603	33.6
Lafourche	8,423	31,959	1,263	41,645	56.5
Lincoln	7,107	10,761	801	18,669	19.6
Livingston	6,950	48,824	1,956	57,730	72.5
Madison	2,744	1,927	61	4,732	17.3
Morehouse	5,155	6,502	195	11,852	11.4
Natchitoches	7,144	8,968	509	16,621	11.0
Orleans	133,996	24,292	7,524	165,812	66.2
Ouachita	24,428	41,734	1,855	68,017	25.4
Plaquemines	3,347	6,900	326	10,573	33.6
Pointe Coupee	4,764	6,789	208	11,761	17.2
Rapides	18,322	36,816	1,706	56,844	32.5
Red River	1,938	2,391	93	4,422	10.2
Richland	3,157	6,287	153	9,597	32.6
Sabine	1,703	7,879	205	9,787	63.1
St. Bernard	4,960	10,237	618	15,815	33.4
St. Charles	8,559	16,621	1,012	26,192	30.8
St. Helena	3,353	2,497	114	5,964	14.4
St. James	6,418	5,456	211	12,085	8.0
St. John the Baptist	12,661	7,569	513	20,743	24.5
St. Landry	17,209	21,971	797	39,977	11.9
St. Martin	8,266	16,873	611	25,750	33.4
St. Mary	8,050	14,359	468	22,877	27.6
St. Tammany	27,717	90,915	5,760	124,392	50.8
Tangipahoa	16,878	33,959	1,579	52,416	32.6
Tensas	1,332	1,182	34	2,548	5.9
Terrebonne	10,665	31,902	1,329	43,896	48.4
Union	2,691	7,972	231	10,894	48.5
Vermilion	4,857	20,063	712	25,632	59.3
Vernon	2,665	13,471	497	16,633	65.0
Washington	5,692	12,556	380	18,628	36.8
Webster	6,260	11,542	343	18,145	29.1
West Baton Rouge	5,383	6,927	402	12,712	12.1
West Carroll	715	3,970	74	4,759	68.4
West Feliciana	2,248	3,390	161	5,799	19.7
Winn	1,644	4,608	120	6,372	46.5

Candidate votes as printed in the document. “Total” is the document’s total where it prints one, otherwise the sum of the candidate columns. Margin is the leading ticket’s lead in points over the second.

Notes on how this document was read

Secondary source: MIT Election Data and Science Lab, County Presidential Election Returns 2000-2016 (compiled from official state election records).

Method: Machine-readable dataset; county sums checked against the state totals in The American Presidency Project summary (within 0.5% for both main tickets).

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Questions and answers

Who won Louisiana in 2016?

Donald J. Trump won Louisiana by 19.64 percentage points (398,484 votes).

How many electoral votes did Louisiana have in 2016?

Louisiana cast 8 electoral votes in 2016.

How many people voted for president in Louisiana in 2016?

2,029,032 votes were counted for president.

How many counties did each candidate win in Louisiana in 2016?

Donald J. Trump 54, Hillary Clinton 10 (out of 64 counties with results).

How did Louisiana change from 2012 to 2016?

The margin moved 2.4 points toward the Republican ticket, from Republican by 17.2 points to Republican by 19.6 points.

Official results As published by The American Presidency Project (UC Santa Barbara) and the state documents it links. How we use this data