Editing East Carroll Parish, Louisiana (section)

==Politics==
Unlike neighbouring West Carroll Parish, and Louisiana generally, East Carroll Parish is a Democratic stronghold, owing primarily to its majority African-American population. It was one of just two parishes (the other being Orleans Parish, home to New Orleans) to support the Democratic candidate in the [[1999 Louisiana gubernatorial election]].<ref>{{cite web |title=1999 Gubernatorial General Election Results |url=https://uselectionatlas.org/RESULTS/state.php?year=1999&fips=22&f=0&off=5&elect=0 |website=uselectionsatlas.org}}</ref> Furthermore, in presidential elections, it has not supported a Republican since 1972, when Republican incumbent [[Richard Nixon]] carried 63 of the state's 64 parishes, and East Carroll was still Nixon's fourth weakest parish in the state. East Carroll rejected [[Ronald Reagan]] in both [[1980 United States presidential election|1980]] and 1984. The last Democratic candidate to win less than 60% of the parish's vote in a presidential was [[John Kerry]], who ran against President George W. Bush of neighboring Texas. Four years prior, in 2000, it had been Al Gore's fourth best parish statewide. However, East Carroll was previously known to support third-party segregationists. In 1948, it gave [[Strom Thurmond]] over 60% of the vote (Republican candidate Thomas Dewey won less than a fifth as many votes as Thurmond). In 1960, it gave a plurality to George Wallace of [[Alabama]]. And in 1964, the parish gave 85% of its vote to Republican Barry Goldwater, who lost in a landslide to Lyndon Johnson nationally, compared to just 15% for Lyndon Johnson. Before 1964, like most of the south, East Carroll was powerfully Democratic, giving just 3 votes to Republican [[Charles Evans Hughes]], and even giving 77% of its vote to [[Al Smith]], who performed considerably worse in the south than past Democratic candidates, losing traditionally Democratic strongholds including Texas, Florida and [[North Carolina]]. In 1996 the Parish saw a leftward swing in favor of [[Bill Clinton]]; his performance in this election was the best by a Democrat since 1944. East Carroll maintained a strong support for Democrats after this; in 2008 it highly favored Democrat [[Barack Obama]] who again broke this record. In 2012 Obama won more votes than Bill Clinton in 1996, and in 2016 [[Hillary Clinton]] won more votes than her husband, Bill Clinton, had won in 1992 (albeit by a very thin margin of three votes). In 2020, [[Joe Biden]] performed slightly better than Hillary had, and then in 2024 the Parish saw a shift to the right; [[Kamala Harris]]' performance in this election was the worst by a Democrat since 2000.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Leip |first1=David |title=Dave Leip's Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections |url=https://uselectionatlas.org/RESULTS/}}</ref>
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{{PresRow|2020|Democratic|1,080|1,900|56|Louisiana}}
{{PresRow|2016|Democratic|1,059|1,838|42|Louisiana}}
{{PresRow|2012|Democratic|1,508|2,478|22|Louisiana}}
{{PresRow|2008|Democratic|1,254|2,267|38|Louisiana}}
{{PresRow|2004|Democratic|1,357|1,980|58|Louisiana}}
{{PresRow|2000|Democratic|1,280|1,876|89|Louisiana}}
{{PresRow|1996|Democratic|1,008|2,149|254|Louisiana}}
{{PresRow|1992|Democratic|1,142|1,835|398|Louisiana}}
{{PresRow|1988|Democratic|1,536|1,809|115|Louisiana}}
{{PresRow|1984|Democratic|1,974|2,089|69|Louisiana}}
{{PresRow|1980|Democratic|1,867|2,283|81|Louisiana}}
{{PresRow|1976|Democratic|1,681|2,367|110|Louisiana}}
{{PresRow|1972|Republican|1,736|1,661|190|Louisiana}}
{{PresRow|1968|Democratic|586|1,926|1,706|Louisiana}}
{{PresRow|1964|Republican|1,486|263|0|Louisiana}}
{{PresRow|1960|Dixiecrat|448|364|712|Louisiana}}
{{PresRow|1956|Democratic|415|545|387|Louisiana}}
{{PresRow|1952|Democratic|757|918|0|Louisiana}}
{{PresRow|1948|Dixiecrat|116|323|665|Louisiana}}
{{PresRow|1944|Democratic|357|925|0|Louisiana}}
{{PresRow|1940|Democratic|270|1,025|0|Louisiana}}
{{PresRow|1936|Democratic|95|811|0|Louisiana}}
{{PresRow|1932|Democratic|24|751|0|Louisiana}}
{{PresRow|1928|Democratic|130|436|0|Louisiana}}
{{PresRow|1924|Democratic|71|277|0|Louisiana}}
{{PresRow|1920|Democratic|8|247|0|Louisiana}}
{{PresRow|1916|Democratic|3|219|0|Louisiana}}
{{PresFoot|1912|Democratic|4|161|22|Louisiana}}