Louisiana's 6th congressional district
Louisiana's 6th congressional district is a congressional district in the U.S. state of Louisiana. Located in south-central Louisiana, the district contains most of the state capital of Baton Rouge, the bulk of Baton Rouge's suburbs, and continues south to Houma. It also includes the western shores of Lake Pontchartrain.
Louisiana's 6th congressional district | |||
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Louisiana's 6th congressional district since January 3, 2013. | |||
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Distribution |
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Population (2019) | 803,704[2] | ||
Median household income | $65,549[3] | ||
Ethnicity |
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Cook PVI | R+19[4] |
The district is currently represented by Republican Garret Graves.
History
Since the 6th congressional district's creation, its boundaries have migrated from a position astraddle the Mississippi River to completely east of the Mississippi River and more recently astraddle the river again.
For decades prior to 1974, the district was virtually coterminous with the Florida Parishes centered on Hammond. In 1974, the 6th congressional district shed St. Tammany Parish to the 1st congressional district, and since then several redistrictings have incrementally moved the 6th congressional district's boundaries westward so that it has shed both Washington and Tangipahoa parishes (including Hammond, home of James H. Morrison, who represented the district for 24 years, the longest tenure of anyone ever to represent the district). Washington and Tangipahoa parishes switched, like St. Tammany Parish, to the strongly Republican 1st congressional district.
For most of its existence, the district's lines generally followed parish lines. In the 1990s redistricting, however, most of the district's black voters were transferred to the black-majority 4th district. Those lines, however, were thrown out in 1995 when the 4th was ruled to be an unconstitutional racial gerrymander, and for the 1996 election the 6th included all of Baton Rouge. After the 2010 redistricting, a gash in western Baton Rouge, including most of the city's black precincts, was transferred to the New Orleans-based 2nd district.
Recent presidential elections
Election results from presidential races | ||
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Year | Office | Results |
2000 | President | Bush 55–43% |
2004 | President | Bush 59–40% |
2008 | President | McCain 57–41% |
2012 | President | Romney 66–32% |
2016 | President | Trump 65–31% |
2020 | President | Trump 62–36% |
List of members representing the district
Recent election results
2002
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
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Republican | Richard H. Baker* | 146,932 | 84.04 | |
Libertarian | Rick Moscatello | 27,898 | 15.96 | |
Total votes | 174,830 | 100.00 | ||
Turnout | ||||
Republican hold | ||||
2004
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
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Republican | Richard H. Baker* | 188,980 | 72.24 | |
Democratic | Rufus Craig, Jr. | 50,642 | 19.36 | |
Democratic | Edward "Scott" Galmon | 21,987 | 8.41 | |
Total votes | 261,609 | 100.00 | ||
Turnout | ||||
Republican hold | ||||
2006
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
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Republican | Richard H. Baker* | 94,658 | 82.81 | |
Libertarian | Richard Fontanesi | 19,648 | 17.19 | |
Total votes | 114,306 | 100.00 | ||
Turnout | ||||
Republican hold | ||||
2008
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |||
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Democratic | Don Cazayoux | 49,703 | 49.20 | |||
Republican | Woody Jenkins | 46,746 | 46.78 | |||
Independent | Ashley Casey | 3,718 | 3.68 | |||
Independent | Peter J. Aranyosi | 448 | 0.44 | |||
Constitution | Randall T. Hayes | 402 | 0.40 | |||
Total votes | 101,017 | 100.00 | ||||
Turnout | ||||||
Democratic gain from Republican | ||||||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |||
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Republican | Bill Cassidy | 150,332 | 48.12 | |||
Democratic | Don Cazayoux* | 125,886 | 40.29 | |||
Independent | Michael Jackson | 36,198 | 11.59 | |||
Total votes | 312,416 | 100.00 | ||||
Turnout | ||||||
Republican gain from Democratic | ||||||
2010
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
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Republican | Bill Cassidy* | 138,607 | 65.63 | |
Democratic | Merritt E. McDonald, Sr. | 72,577 | 34.37 | |
Total votes | 211,184 | 100.00 | ||
Turnout | ||||
Republican hold | ||||
2014
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
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Republican | Garret Graves | 139,209 | 62.4 | |
Democratic | Edwin Edwards | 83,781 | 37.6 | |
Total votes | 222,990 | 100.00 | ||
Turnout | ||||
Republican hold | ||||
2016
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
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Republican | Garret Graves | 207,483 | 63 | |
Republican | Robert Lamar "Bob" Bell | 33,592 | 10 | |
Libertarian | Richard M. Fontanesi | 7,603 | 2 | |
Other | Devin Lance Graham | 3,218 | 1 | |
Democratic | Richard Lieberman | 49,380 | 15 | |
Democratic | Jermaine Sampson | 29,822 | 9 | |
Total votes | 331,098 | 100.00 | ||
Turnout | 71.3 | |||
Republican hold | ||||
2018
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
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Republican | Garret Graves | 186,553 | 69.5 | |
Democratic | Justin DeWitt | 55,089 | 20.5 | |
Democratic | Andie Saizan | 21,627 | 8.1 | |
Other | Devin Lance Graham | 5,256 | 2.0 | |
Total votes | 268,525 | 100.00 | ||
Turnout | ||||
Republican hold | ||||
2020
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
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Republican | Garret Graves | 265,706 | 71.05 | |
Democratic | Dartanyon Williams | 95,541 | 25.55 | |
Libertarian | Shannon Sloan | 9,732 | 2.60 | |
Independent | Richard Torregano | 3,017 | 0.81 | |
Total votes | 373,996 | 100.0% | ||
Republican hold |
Historical district boundaries
References
- https://www.census.gov/geo/maps-data/data/cd_state.html
- https://www.census.gov/mycd/?st=22&cd=06
- https://www.census.gov/mycd/?st=22&cd=06
- "Partisan Voting Index – Districts of the 115th Congress" (PDF). The Cook Political Report. April 7, 2017. Retrieved April 7, 2017.
- Martis, Kenneth C. (1989). The Historical Atlas of Political Parties in the United States Congress. New York: Macmillan Publishing Company.
- Martis, Kenneth C. (1982). The Historical Atlas of United States Congressional Districts. New York: Macmillan Publishing Company.
- Congressional Biographical Directory of the United States 1774–present