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« on: January 01, 2017, 02:41:17 AM » |
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Lafayette Parish, Louisiana
1828: Jackson-50% 1832: Jackson-50% 1836: Van Buren-60% 1840: Not Available 1844: Polk-%50 1848: Cass-<50% 1852: Pierce-50% 1856: Buchanan-50% 1860: Breckinridge-70% 1864: Not Available 1868: Seymour->90% 1872: Greeley-60% 1876: Hayes-<50% 1880: Hancock-50% 1884: Cleveland-<50% 1888: Cleveland->90% 1892: Cleveland->90% 1896: Bryan-80% 1900: Bryan-50% 1904: Parker-60% 1908: Bryan-60% 1912: Wilson-50% 1916: Wilson-50% 1920: Harding-<50% 1924:Davis-50% 1928: Smith-70% 1932: Roosevelt-90% 1936: Roosevelt-90% 1940: Roosevelt-50% 1944: Roosevelt-70% 1948: Thurmond-<50% 1952: Eisenhower-<50% 1956: Eisenhower-50% 1960: Kennedy-60% 1964: Johnson-50% 1968: Wallace-30% 1972: Nixon-60% 1976: Ford-50% 1980:Reagan-50% 1984: Reagan-60% 1988: Bush-50% 1992: Bush-40% 1996: Dole-50% 2000: Bush-61.94% 2004: Bush- 64.2% 2008: McCain- 64.88% 2012: Romney- 65.89% 2016: Trump-64.58%
One thing I noticed when doing this is that urban and suburban counties in Louisiana swung to the GOP before the rural ones did. Lafayette, an almost entirely urban/suburban county went GOP long before most of its neighboring rural parishes.
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