Editing Grant Parish, Louisiana (section)

== Government and infrastructure ==
The [[Federal Bureau of Prisons]] [[U.S. Penitentiary, Pollock]] is located in an [[unincorporated area]] in the parish, near [[Pollock, Louisiana|Pollock]].<ref name="USPPol">"[http://www.bop.gov/locations/institutions/pol/index.jsp USP Pollock]." [[Federal Bureau of Prisons]]. Retrieved on May 29, 2010.</ref><ref>"[http://www.bop.gov/DataSource/execute/dsFacilityAddressLoc?start=y&facilityCode=pol USP Pollock Contact Information] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100527140551/http://www.bop.gov/DataSource/execute/dsFacilityAddressLoc?start=y&facilityCode=pol |date=May 27, 2010 }}." [[Federal Bureau of Prisons]]. Retrieved on May 29, 2010.</ref>

===Politics===
Today Grant Parish is majority white and votes strongly [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican]].  [[Mitt Romney]] polled 7,082 votes (81.7 percent) in his 2012 race against the [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democrat]] [[U.S. President]] [[Barack H. Obama]], who trailed with 1,422 votes (16.4 percent).<ref>{{cite web |title=Grant Parish election returns, November 6, 2012 |url=http://staticresults.sos.la.gov/11062012/11062012_22.html |access-date=November 17, 2012 |publisher=staticresults.sos.la.gov}}</ref> In 2008, [[U.S. Senator]] [[John McCain]] of [[Arizona]] swept the parish, with 6,907 votes (80.7 percent) to Obama's 1,474 (17.2 percent).<ref>{{cite web |title=Grant Parish election returns, November 4, 2008 |url=http://staticresults.sos.la.gov/11042008/11042008_22.html |access-date=November 17, 2012 |publisher=staticresults.sos.la.gov}}</ref> In every election since then, the Republican candidate has broken the record for the strongest performance by a candidate from that party in Parish history.

In 1992, [[George Herbert Walker Bush]] carried Grant Parish but was unsuccessful in his bid for reelection. He polled 3,214 votes (40.8 percent) to Democratic Governor Bill Clinton of Arkansas's 3,122 (39.6 percent). This son of the South carried numerous other Republican-leaning jurisdictions. Ross Perot, who later founded the [[Reform Party (United States)|Reform Party]], polled 1,174 (14.9 percent).<ref>{{cite web |title=Grant Parish election returns, November 3, 1992 |url=http://staticresults.sos.la.gov/11031992/11031992_22.html |access-date=November 17, 2012 |publisher=staticresults.sos.la.gov}}</ref> In 1996, Republican [[Robert J. Dole]] narrowly won in Grant Parish over U.S. President [[Bill Clinton]], a son of the South, with 3,117 votes (42.8 percent) to 2,980 (40.9 percent). [[Ross Perot]] polled another 1,055 (14.5 percent).<ref>{{cite web |title=Grant Parish election returns, November 5, 1996 |url=http://staticresults.sos.la.gov/11051996/11051996_22.html |access-date=November 17, 2012 |publisher=staticresults.sos.la.gov}}</ref>

The last Democrat to win in Grant Parish at the presidential level was former [[governor of Georgia|Governor]] [[Jimmy Carter]] of [[Georgia (U.S. state)|Georgia]] in his 1976 defeat of U.S. President [[Gerald R. Ford, Jr.]], who had Bob Dole as his vice-presidential partner.<ref>Louisiana Secretary of State, Presidential election returns, November 2, 1976</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=General Election Returns |url=https://voterportal.sos.la.gov/Graphical |access-date=December 21, 2016 |publisher=Louisiana Secretary of State}}</ref>

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{{PresRow|2000|Republican|4,784|2,099|172|Louisiana}}
{{PresRow|1996|Republican|3,117|2,980|1,195|Louisiana}}
{{PresRow|1992|Republican|3,214|3,122|1,542|Louisiana}}
{{PresRow|1988|Republican|4,402|2,628|215|Louisiana}}
{{PresRow|1984|Republican|5,334|2,588|175|Louisiana}}
{{PresRow|1980|Republican|3,611|3,290|247|Louisiana}}
{{PresRow|1976|Democratic|2,280|3,670|186|Louisiana}}
{{PresRow|1972|Republican|3,626|859|254|Louisiana}}
{{PresRow|1968|American Independent|1,113|932|3,470|Louisiana}}
{{PresRow|1964|Republican|3,292|1,454|0|Louisiana}}
{{PresRow|1960|Dixiecrat|1,254|1,219|1,409|Louisiana}}
{{PresRow|1956|Republican|1,630|1,542|367|Louisiana}}
{{PresRow|1952|Democratic|1,443|2,646|0|Louisiana}}
{{PresRow|1948|Dixiecrat|273|1,120|1,447|Louisiana}}
{{PresRow|1944|Democratic|556|1,939|0|Louisiana}}
{{PresRow|1940|Democratic|232|2,534|0|Louisiana}}
{{PresRow|1936|Democratic|511|1,847|0|Louisiana}}
{{PresRow|1932|Democratic|81|1,966|1|Louisiana}}
{{PresRow|1928|Democratic|505|1,023|0|Louisiana}}
{{PresRow|1924|Democratic|167|595|0|Louisiana}}
{{PresRow|1920|Democratic|109|674|0|Louisiana}}
{{PresRow|1916|Democratic|31|640|4|Louisiana}}
{{PresFoot|1912|Democratic|15|446|256|Louisiana}}