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==Politics== The parish voters often supported Democratic presidential candidates before the 1970s, but the majority of conservative whites has trended Republican since that time.<ref>[http://uselectionatlas.org/RESULTS/ David Leip's Election Atlas]</ref> Before 1965 and passage of the [[Voting Rights Act]] by the U.S Congress, most African Americans were [[Disfranchisement after Reconstruction era|disenfranchised]], as they had been since 1898, when Louisiana passed a new constitution establishing barriers to voter registration and voting. They, along with poor white voters, were excluded from the political system. After regaining the power to register and vote, black voters tended to affiliate with and support national [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic Party]] candidates. The majority of the parish voted for the Republican presidential candidates from 1992 to 2020, and did so by generally increasing margins. The results in 2004 gave Republican [[George W. Bush]] 64% of the vote and 57,732 votes while Democrat [[John F. Kerry]] won 35% of the vote and 31,210 votes. In the 2008 election Lafayette Parish cast the majority of its votes for Republican [[John McCain]]. He won 65% of the vote and 62,055 votes. Democrat [[Barack Obama]] was strongly supported by African Americans and won 34% of the vote, some 32,145 votes.<ref>[http://elections.nytimes.com/2008/results/president/map.html?scp=1&sq=%22election%20map&st=cse The New York Times electoral map]</ref> {{PresHead|place=Lafayette Parish, Louisiana|source=<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://uselectionatlas.org/RESULTS|title=Dave Leip's Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections|last=Leip|first=David|website=uselectionatlas.org|access-date=April 28, 2018}}</ref>}} <!-- PresRow should be {{PresRow|Year|Winning party|GOP vote #|Dem vote #|3rd party vote #|State}} --> {{PresRow|2024|Republican|72,007|37,170|1,909|Louisiana}} {{PresRow|2020|Republican|72,519|39,685|2,317|Louisiana}} {{PresRow|2016|Republican|68,195|32,726|4,682|Louisiana}} {{PresRow|2012|Republican|64,992|31,768|1,882|Louisiana}} {{PresRow|2008|Republican|62,055|32,145|1,442|Louisiana}} {{PresRow|2004|Republican|57,732|31,210|981|Louisiana}} {{PresRow|2000|Republican|48,491|27,190|2,612|Louisiana}} {{PresRow|1996|Republican|36,419|32,504|5,545|Louisiana}} {{PresRow|1992|Republican|32,406|28,583|10,773|Louisiana}} {{PresRow|1988|Republican|36,648|24,133|877|Louisiana}} {{PresRow|1984|Republican|44,344|19,265|849|Louisiana}} {{PresRow|1980|Republican|31,429|19,694|2,403|Louisiana}} {{PresRow|1976|Republican|22,805|19,918|976|Louisiana}} {{PresRow|1972|Republican|22,939|8,740|1,519|Louisiana}} {{PresRow|1968|American Independent|10,669|7,983|11,723|Louisiana}} {{PresRow|1964|Democratic|12,398|14,487|0|Louisiana}} {{PresRow|1960|Democratic|6,047|14,132|2,505|Louisiana}} {{PresRow|1956|Republican|6,711|4,695|347|Louisiana}} {{PresRow|1952|Republican|6,470|6,443|0|Louisiana}} {{PresRow|1948|Dixiecrat|2,068|1,787|3,744|Louisiana}} {{PresRow|1944|Democratic|742|4,801|0|Louisiana}} {{PresRow|1940|Democratic|1,850|6,323|0|Louisiana}} {{PresRow|1936|Democratic|306|4,570|0|Louisiana}} {{PresRow|1932|Democratic|291|4,019|2|Louisiana}} {{PresRow|1928|Democratic|592|3,197|0|Louisiana}} {{PresRow|1924|Democratic|531|978|324|Louisiana}} {{PresRow|1920|Republican|1,045|823|0|Louisiana}} {{PresRow|1916|Democratic|73|1,066|476|Louisiana}} {{PresFoot|1912|Democratic|244|646|129|Louisiana}}
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