United States presidential election in Louisiana, 2016



The 2016 United States presidential election in Louisiana took place on November 8, 2016, as part of the 2016 United States presidential election. Louisiana voters chose eight representatives, or electors, to the Electoral College, who voted for President and Vice-President.

Louisiana was won by incumbent President William C. Rutherford (D-Texas), with 56.11 percent of the popular vote, against Senator Thomas P. Leach (R-Arizona) with 43.89 percent of the vote. This is the first election since 1964 in which Jefferson Parish voted for a Democratic presidential candidate.

Rutherford's victory in Louisiana this year constituted a significant improvement over his performance in 2012, when he had lost Louisiana by six points to then President Mitt Romney.