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Voting history · Louisiana's 2nd Congressional District

Louisiana's 2nd Congressional District

A dated list of changes to how Americans vote: district maps, polling places and drop boxes, voting laws and rules, and courts and election officials. Each entry says who did what and when, shows what became of it, and links to the page it rests on. Attempts that failed are listed as failed. Entries that rest on a news report name the outlet.

This is the district view: events tagged to this congressional district, then events that apply across Louisiana, then national events. An event is tagged to a district only when its source names that congressional district. See all of Louisiana.

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In Louisiana's 2nd Congressional District

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Across Louisiana

1971

  1. Aug 20, 1971 State Maps and lines Blocked by federal objection

    Justice Department objects under Section 5 to Louisiana's 1971 House and Senate reapportionment enactments

    In a letter listed as dated August 20, 1971, the Justice Department addressed the enactments amending Sections 35 and 35.1 of Title 24 of the Louisiana Revised Statutes reapportioning the Louisiana Senate and House of Representatives, received July 2, 1971 with further material received July 21 and 26. Citing Fairley v. Patterson and Perkins v. Matthews, it describes combinations of majority-Negro parishes with majority-white areas in multi-member districts, including a seven-member district elected at large that merges majority-black DeSoto Parish with predominantly white Caddo Parish, and concludes: "our review of this plan indicates that there are apparent racially discriminatory effects in both houses of the legislature in widely disparate parts of the state, and that to correct these effects the plan would have to be substantially revised in whole or in part." The letter adds that it was furnishing a copy to the three-judge federal court that had deferred proceedings awaiting the Attorney General's determination.

    Source last checked Oct 21, 2026

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How this timeline is built

Every entry rests on at least one source that was opened and read, and that source states the date and the fact. Courts, legislatures, election offices, the Justice Department, the Census Bureau, the Federal Register and Congress.gov come first. A news report is used only when no official page states the fact, and it is labeled with the outlet's name. Encyclopedias are not used as sources. History starts in 1965 with the Voting Rights Act. County names come from the Census Bureau's 2024 Gazetteer. Congressional district numbers are those in use for the 2026 election; an event is tagged to a district only when its source names that congressional district.

When a later event changes an earlier one, such as a law later struck down, both entries are listed and point to each other. This page does not predict outcomes or say which party a change helps. U.S. House maps for 2026 · How people voted in past elections, by county · Back to the 2026 voting center.