0 0 712,586 123,293 39.94% 6.91% | 927,837 712,586 52.01% 39.94% Start date November 5, 1996 | |
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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%, an 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 is 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. 1996 would be the last time Louisiana supported a Democratic presidential candidate. Despite such a huge margin, this was the only state that Bill Clinton won by more than a 2.4 margin which wasn't called by news networks to Bill Clinton as soon as the polls closed.