1996 United States presidential election in Louisiana
The 1996 United States presidential election in Louisiana took place on November 5, 1996. Voters chose nine 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 major 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 and performed strongly in both the urban and rural areas of Louisiana. The only congressional district Dole won was the 1st district, which included all of St. Tammany Parish and parts of Jefferson Parish, two of the most heavily Republican parishes in the state. Louisiana was generally more competitive in this time period than the rest of the Deep South due to its large black population and a sizeable minority of white Blue Dog Democrats. It is also very racially divided, with whites voting Republican and blacks voting Democratic. Clinton was...
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