George W. Bush Republican George W. Bush Republican The 2004 United States presidential election in Louisiana took place on November 2, 2004, and was part of the 2004 United States presidential election.
Louisiana was won by incumbent President George W. Bush by a 14.5 percent margin.
Bush's performance constituted a much wider margin than that of his 2000 results, which were 6.8 percent smaller.
The state, like other states in the Deep South, is racially polarized when it comes to presidential elections, as a wide majority of the white population votes Republican, and a wide majority of the black population votes Democratic.
In the northern portion of the state, Bush barely lost in Madison and Tensas.
Bush also won six of seven congressional districts in the state, each with at least 58 percent of the vote.
[8] Bush won six of seven congressional districts, including one held by a Democrat.
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