Louisiana's 6th congressional district

Summary

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 Thibodaux. It also includes the western shores of Lake Pontchartrain.

Louisiana's 6th congressional district
Map
Map
Interactive map of district boundaries
Representative
  Garret Graves
RBaton Rouge
Distribution
  • 78.12% urban[1]
  • 21.88% rural
Population (2022)796,937[2]
Median household
income
$70,632[3]
Ethnicity
Cook PVIR+19[4]

The district is currently represented by Republican Garret Graves.

History edit

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. In 1974, the 6th congressional district shed St. Tammany Parish to the 1st congressional district, and since then several redistrictings have incrementally moved the 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) to the 1st 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 from 1996 to 2013, 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.

Following a court ruling striking down Louisiana's 2022 congressional map for violating the Voting Rights Act, the new map enacted by a special legislative session on January 22, 2024 dismantled the district and now stretches from Caddo Parish in the North West to East Baton Rouge Parish, and will include a majority African-American voting-age population. The new map will take effect for the 2024 United States House of Representatives elections in Louisiana.

Recent presidential elections edit

Election results from presidential races
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 64–34%

List of members representing the district edit

Member Party Years Cong
ress
Electoral history Location
District created March 4, 1875
 
Charles E. Nash
(Washington)
Republican March 4, 1875 –
March 3, 1877
44th Elected in 1874.
Lost re-election.
 
Edward White Robertson
(Baton Rouge)
Democratic March 4, 1877 –
March 3, 1883
45th
46th
47th
Elected in 1876.
Re-elected in 1878.
Re-elected in 1880.
Lost renomination.
 
Edward Taylor Lewis
(Opelousas)
Democratic March 4, 1883 –
March 3, 1885
48th Elected to finish member-elect Andrew Herron's term.
Lost renomination.
 
Alfred Briggs Irion
(Marksville)
Democratic March 4, 1885 –
March 3, 1887
49th Elected in 1884.
Lost renomination.
 
Edward White Robertson
(Baton Rouge)
Democratic March 4, 1887 –
August 2, 1887
50th Elected in 1886.
Died.
Vacant August 2, 1887 –
December 5, 1887
 
Samuel Matthews Robertson
(Baton Rouge)
Democratic December 5, 1887 –
March 3, 1907
50th
51st
52nd
53rd
54th
55th
56th
57th
58th
59th
Elected to finish his father's term.
Re-elected in 1888.
Re-elected in 1890.
Re-elected in 1892.
Re-elected in 1894.
Re-elected in 1896.
Re-elected in 1898.
Re-elected in 1900.
Re-elected in 1902.
Re-elected in 1904.
Lost renomination.
 
George Kent Favrot
(Baton Rouge)
Democratic March 4, 1907 –
March 3, 1909
60th Elected in 1906.
Lost renomination.
 
Robert Charles Wickliffe
(St. Francisville)
Democratic March 4, 1909 –
June 11, 1912
61st
62nd
Elected in 1908.
Re-elected in 1910.
Died.
Vacant June 11, 1912 –
November 5, 1912
62nd
 
Lewis Lovering Morgan
(Covington)
Democratic November 5, 1912 –
March 3, 1917
62nd
63rd
64th
Elected to finish Wickliffe's term.
Also elected to the next full term.
Re-elected in 1914.
Retired.
 
Jared Young Sanders
(Bogalusa)
Democratic March 4, 1917 –
March 3, 1921
65th
66th
Elected in 1916.
Re-elected in 1918.
Retired.
 
George Kent Favrot
(Baton Rouge)
Democratic March 4, 1921 –
March 3, 1925
67th
68th
Elected in 1920.
Re-elected in 1922.
Lost renomination.
 
Bolivar E. Kemp
(Amite)
Democratic March 4, 1925 –
June 19, 1933
69th
70th
71st
72nd
73rd
Elected in 1924.
Re-elected in 1926.
Re-elected in 1928.
Re-elected in 1930.
Re-elected in 1932.
Died.
Vacant June 19, 1933 –
May 1, 1934
73rd
 
Jared Y. Sanders Jr.
(Baton Rouge)
Democratic May 1, 1934 –
January 3, 1937
73rd
74th
Elected to finish Kemp's term.
Re-elected in 1934.
Lost renomination.
 
John K. Griffith
(Slidell)
Democratic January 3, 1937 –
January 3, 1941
75th
76th
Elected in 1936.
Re-elected in 1938.
Lost renomination.
 
Jared Y. Sanders Jr.
(Baton Rouge)
Democratic January 3, 1941 –
January 3, 1943
77th Elected in 1940.
Lost renomination.
 
James H. Morrison
(Hammond)
Democratic January 3, 1943 –
January 3, 1967
78th
79th
80th
81st
82nd
83rd
84th
85th
86th
87th
88th
89th
Elected in 1942.
Re-elected in 1944.
Re-elected in 1946.
Re-elected in 1948.
Re-elected in 1950.
Re-elected in 1952.
Re-elected in 1954.
Re-elected in 1956.
Re-elected in 1958.
Re-elected in 1960.
Re-elected in 1962.
Re-elected in 1964.
Lost renomination.
 
John Rarick
(Baton Rouge)
Democratic January 3, 1967 –
January 3, 1975
90th
91st
92nd
93rd
Elected in 1966.
Re-elected in 1968.
Re-elected in 1970.
Re-elected in 1972.
Lost renomination.
 
Henson Moore
(Baton Rouge)
Republican January 3, 1975 –
January 3, 1987
94th
95th
96th
97th
98th
99th
Elected in 1974.
Re-elected in 1976.
Re-elected in 1978.
Re-elected in 1980.
Re-elected in 1982.
Re-elected in 1984.
Retired to run for U.S. senator.
 
Richard Baker
(Baton Rouge)
Republican January 3, 1987 –
February 2, 2008
100th
101st
102nd
103rd
104th
105th
106th
107th
108th
109th
110th
Elected in 1986.
Re-elected in 1988.
Re-elected in 1990.
Re-elected in 1992.
Re-elected in 1994.
Re-elected in 1996.
Re-elected in 1998.
Re-elected in 2000.
Re-elected in 2002.
Re-elected in 2004.
Re-elected in 2006.
Resigned to take a lobbying position at the Managed Funds Association.
2003–2013
 
Vacant February 2, 2008 –
May 3, 2008
110th
 
Don Cazayoux
(New Roads)
Democratic May 3, 2008 –
January 3, 2009
Elected to finish Baker's term.
Lost re-election.
 
Bill Cassidy
(Baton Rouge)
Republican January 3, 2009 –
January 3, 2015
111th
112th
113th
Elected in 2008.
Re-elected in 2010.
Re-elected in 2012.
Retired to run for U.S. Senator.
2013–2023
 
 
Garret Graves
(Baton Rouge)
Republican January 3, 2015 –
present
114th
115th
116th
117th
118th
Elected in 2014.
Re-elected in 2016.
Re-elected in 2018.
Re-elected in 2020.
Re-elected in 2022.
2023–2025
 


Recent election results edit

2002 edit

Louisiana's 6th Congressional District Runoff Election (2002)
Party Candidate Votes %
Republican Richard H. Baker* 146,932 84.04
Libertarian Rick Moscatello 27,898 15.96
Total votes 174,830 100.00
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Republican hold

2004 edit

Louisiana's 6th Congressional District Election (2004)
Party Candidate Votes %
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
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Republican hold

2006 edit

Louisiana's 6th Congressional District Election (2006)
Party Candidate Votes %
Republican Richard H. Baker* 94,658 82.81
Libertarian Richard Fontanesi 19,648 17.19
Total votes 114,306 100.00
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Republican hold

2008 edit

Louisiana's 6th Congressional District Special Election (May 3, 2008)
Party Candidate Votes %
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
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Democratic gain from Republican
Louisiana's 6th Congressional District General Election (2008)
Party Candidate Votes %
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
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Republican gain from Democratic

2010 edit

Louisiana's 6th Congressional District Election (2010)
Party Candidate Votes %
Republican Bill Cassidy* 138,607 65.63
Democratic Merritt E. McDonald, Sr. 72,577 34.37
Total votes 211,184 100.00
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Republican hold

2012 edit

Louisiana's 6th Congressional District Election (2012)
Party Candidate Votes %
Republican Bill Cassidy* 243,553 79.41
Democratic Rufus Holt Craig, Jr. 32,185 10.49
Independent Richard Torregano 30,975 10.10
Total votes 306,713 100.00
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Republican hold

2014 edit

Louisiana's 6th Congressional District Runoff Election (2014)
Party Candidate Votes %
Republican Garret Graves* 139,209 62.4
Democratic Edwin Edwards 83,781 37.6
Total votes 222,990 100.00
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Republican hold

2016 edit

Louisiana's 6th Congressional District Election (2016)
Party Candidate Votes %
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
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Republican hold

2018 edit

Louisiana's 6th Congressional District Election (2018)
Party Candidate Votes %
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
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Republican hold

2020 edit

Louisiana's 6th congressional district, 2020
Party Candidate Votes %
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

2022 edit

Louisiana's 6th congressional district, 2022
Party Candidate Votes %
Republican Garret Graves* 189,684 80.4
Libertarian Rufus Holt Craig 30,709 13.0
Republican Brian Belzer 15,535 6.6
Total votes 235,928 100.0
Republican hold

See also edit

References edit

  1. ^ "Congressional Districts Relationship Files (State-based)". U.S. Census Bureau. Archived from the original on April 2, 2013. Retrieved February 7, 2018.
  2. ^ "My Congressional District".
  3. ^ "My Congressional District".
  4. ^ "2022 Cook PVI: District Map and List". Cook Political Report. Retrieved January 10, 2023.
  • 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

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