1996 United States presidential election in Louisiana

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United States presidential election in Louisiana, 1996

November 5, 1996

Nominee Bill Clinton Bob Dole Ross Perot Party Democratic Republican Reform Home state Arkansas Kansas Texas Running mate Al Gore Jack Kemp Patrick Choate Electoral vote 9 0 0 Popular vote 927,837 712,586 123,293 Percentage 52.01% 39.94% 6.91%

Parish Results Clinton   40–50%   50–60%   60–70%   70–80% Dole   40–50%   50–60%   60–70%

President before election Bill Clinton Democratic Elected President Bill Clinton Democratic

The 1996 United States presidential election in Louisiana took place on November 5, 1996. Voters chose 9 representatives, or electors to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.

Louisiana was won by President Bill Clinton (D) by a margin of 12.07%, a massive increase from the statewide results in 1992 when he carried the state by a margin of 4.61%. Clinton won most of the parishes and congressional districts in the state. Clinton dominated among the rural areas of the state.

Louisiana was generally more competitive than the rest of the Deep South due to its high black population and having a sizeable minority of white Blue Dog Democrats. It is also very racially divided, with whites voting Republican and blacks voting Democratic. Clinton was able to carry 33% of white voters, which threw the state toward his column. Despite such a huge margin, this was the only state that Clinton won by more than a 2.4 margin which wasn't called by news networks for him as soon as the polls closed.

As of the 2016 presidential election this is the last time Louisiana supported a Democratic presidential candidate, as well as the last time a Democrat carried the following parishes: Calcasieu, Rapides, Tangipahoa, Terrebonne, Ascension, Lafourche, Iberia, Acadia, Vermilion, St. Mary, St. Charles, Vernon, St. Martin, Washington, Lincoln, Avoyelles, Webster, Natchitoches, St. Bernard, Evangeline, Jefferson Davis, Morehouse, DeSoto, Allen, Sabine, Plaquemines, Cameron, East Feliciana, West Feliciana, Concordia, Franklin, Richland, Claiborne, Jackson, Winn, Catahoula, Caldwell, and Red River.

Results

1996 United States presidential election in Louisiana
Party		Candidate	Running mate	Popular vote		Electoral vote
				Count	%	Count	%
	Democratic	Bill Clinton of Arkansas	Al Gore of Tennessee	927,837	52.01%	9	100.00%
	Republican	Bob Dole of Kansas	Jack Kemp of New York	712,586	39.94%	0	0.00%
	Reform	Ross Perot of Texas	Pat Choate of Washington, D.C.	123,293	6.91%	0	0.00%
	Libertarian	Harry Browne of Tennessee	Jo Jorgensen of South Carolina	7,499	0.42%	0	0.00%
	Green	Ralph Nader of Connecticut	Winona LaDuke of California	4,719	0.26%	0	0.00%
style="background-color: Template:U.S. Taxpayers' Party/meta/color; width: 5px;" |	[[U.S. Taxpayers' Party|Template:U.S. Taxpayers' Party/meta/shortname]]	Howard Phillips of Virginia	Herbert Titus of Oregon	3,366	0.19%	0	0.00%
	Natural Law	John Hagelin of Iowa	Mike Tompkins of Massachusetts	2,981	0.17%	0	0.00%
	Workers World	Monica Moorehead of Alabama	Gloria LaRiva of California	1,678	0.09%	0	0.00%
Total				1,776,259	100.00%	9	100.00%