Map of Louisiana population change by parish, 2020 to 2023 Louisiana saw its population shrink by more than 84,000 people between 2020 and 2023, including a drop of more than 14,000 last year.

Louisiana’s 2nd District, which is majority Black, is currently represented by Rep. Troy Carter, a Democrat. The new map will lower the Black voting-age population in Carter’s district to 51% ...

Black people comprise nearly a third of Louisiana’s population and generally support ... controlled legislature did not draw the map with race as the primary factor. The state said the map ...

which found that the state's Black residents now totaled one-third of Louisiana's total population. The first redistricting map, which included just one district where Black voters held the ...

In 2022, Louisiana lawmakers passed a map with one majority-Black district out of six, even though Black residents make up about a third of the state's population. A group of Black voters ...