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Louisiana's 4th Congressional District
Louisiana's 4th congressional district is a congressional district in the U.S. state of Louisiana. The district is located in the northwestern part of the state and is based in Shreveport, Louisiana, Shreveport-Bossier City, Louisiana, Bossier City. It also includes the cities of Minden, Louisiana, Minden, DeRidder, Louisiana, DeRidder, and Natchitoches, Louisiana, Natchitoches. The district is currently represented by Republican Party (United States), Republican Mike Johnson, who has served as Speaker of the United States House of Representatives, Speaker of the House of Representatives since October 2023 Speaker of the United States House of Representatives election, October 2023. With a Cook Partisan Voting Index rating of R+26, it is the most Republican district in Louisiana. History The 4th congressional district was created in 1843, the first new district in the state in 20 years. It was gained after the 1840 United States census, 1840 U.S. census. For most of the next 15 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Louisiana's 4th Congressional District (since 2025)
Louisiana's 4th congressional district is a congressional district in the U.S. state of Louisiana. The district is located in the northwestern part of the state and is based in Shreveport- Bossier City. It also includes the cities of Minden, DeRidder, and Natchitoches. The district is currently represented by Republican Mike Johnson, who has served as Speaker of the House of Representatives since October 2023. With a Cook Partisan Voting Index rating of R+26, it is the most Republican district in Louisiana. History The 4th congressional district was created in 1843, the first new district in the state in 20 years. It was gained after the 1840 U.S. census. For most of the next 150 years, the 4th was centered on Shreveport and northwestern Louisiana. However, in 1993, Louisiana lost a congressional district, based on population figures. The state legislature shifted most of Shreveport's white residents into the . Republican Jim McCrery ran for election in the new 5th and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Baton Rouge, Louisiana
Baton Rouge ( ; , ) is the List of capitals in the United States, capital city of the U.S. state of Louisiana. It had a population of 227,470 at the 2020 United States census, making it List of municipalities in Louisiana, Louisiana's second-most populous city. It is the county seat, seat of Louisiana's most populous List of parishes in Louisiana, parish, East Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana, East Baton Rouge Parish, and the center of Louisiana's second-largest metropolitan area, Baton Rouge metropolitan area, Greater Baton Rouge, which had 870,569 residents in 2020. Located on the eastern bank of the Mississippi River, the Baton Rouge area owes its historical importance to its strategic site upon the Istrouma Bluff, the first natural cliff, bluff upriver from the Mississippi River Delta at the Gulf of Mexico. This allowed the development of a business quarter safe from seasonal flooding. In addition, it built a levee system stretching from the bluff southward to protect the rive ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carlyss, Louisiana
Carlyss (pronounced ‘car-liss’) is a census-designated place (CDP) in Calcasieu Parish, Louisiana, United States. The population was 5,101 in 2020. It is part of the Lake Charles metropolitan statistical area. Geography Carlyss is located south of the center of Calcasieu Parish and is bordered to the north by the city of Sulphur. Interstate 10 follows the northern border, with access from exits 20 and 21. I-10 leads east to Lake Charles and west to Orange, Texas. Louisiana Highway 27 runs through the center of Carlyss, connecting Sulphur to the north with Holly Beach on the Gulf of Mexico, to the south. According to the United States Census Bureau The United States Census Bureau, officially the Bureau of the Census, is a principal agency of the Federal statistical system, U.S. federal statistical system, responsible for producing data about the American people and American economy, econ ..., the Carlyss CDP has a total area of , of which is land and , or 0.57% ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Calcasieu Parish, Louisiana
Calcasieu Parish (; ) is a parish located on the southwestern border of the U.S. state of Louisiana. As of the 2020 census, the population was 216,785. The parish seat and largest city is Lake Charles. Calcasieu Parish is part of the Lake Charles metropolitan statistical area; it is also located near the Beaumont–Port Arthur (Texas), Lafayette, and Alexandria metropolitan areas. Calcasieu Parish was created March 24, 1840, from the parish of Saint Landry, one of the original nineteen civil parishes established by the Louisiana Legislature in 1807 after the United States acquired the territory in the Louisiana Purchase of 1803. The original parish seat was Comasaque Bluff, a settlement east of the river and later called Marsh Bayou Bluff. On December 8, 1840, it was renamed as Marion, Louisiana. In 1852 Jacob Ryan, a local planter and businessman, donated land and offered to move the courthouse in order to have the parish seat moved to Lake Charles. As the population i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bossier Parish, Louisiana
Bossier Parish ( ; ) is a parish located in the northwestern part of the U.S. state of Louisiana. At the 2020 census, the population was 128,746. The parish seat is Benton. The principal city is Bossier City, which is located east of the Red River and across from the larger city of Shreveport, the seat of Caddo Parish. The parish was formed in 1843 from the western portion of Claiborne Parish. Bossier Parish is part of the Shreveport–Bossier City metropolitan statistical area, the largest metropolitan area in North Louisiana. Lake Bistineau and Lake Bistineau State Park are included in parts of Bossier and neighboring Webster and Bienville parishes. Loggy Bayou flows south from Lake Bistineau in southern Bossier Parish, traverses western Bienville Parish, and in Red River Parish joins the Red River. History Bossier Parish is named for Pierre Bossier, an ethnic French, 19th-century Louisiana state senator and U.S. representative from Natchitoches Parish. Bos ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bienville Parish, Louisiana
Bienville Parish (, ) is a parish located in the northwestern portion of the U.S. state of Louisiana. At the 2020 census, the population was 12,981. The parish seat and most populous municipality is Arcadia. The highest natural point in Louisiana, a hill known as Mt. Driskill, in elevation, is located in north central Bienville Parish. The mountain is located on private land with public access by walking trail. It is named for James Christopher Driskill, a 19th-century landowner. Nearby is Jordan Mountain, with an elevation of . History In the 1830s, Ruben Drake moved his family from South Carolina to what he named Mount Lebanon, the first permanent settlement in the parish. As the Drakes were devout Baptists, they established a church and school, which evolved into Mount Lebanon University, the forerunner of Louisiana Christian University in Pineville in Rapides Parish in Central Louisiana. Bonnie and Clyde were shot dead in Bienville Parish on May 23, 1934. Geogr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Beauregard Parish, Louisiana
Beauregard Parish () is a parish located in the U.S. state of Louisiana. As of the 2020 census, the population was 36,549. The parish seat and most populous municipality is DeRidder. The parish was formed on January 1, 1913. Beauregard Parish comprises the DeRidder, LA Micropolitan Statistical Area. The governing body is by the police jury system. History Spanish and French rule Until 1762, the land that would eventually become Beauregard Parish was a part of the Spanish holdings in Louisiana, as, at that time, the border between Spain and France was acknowledged as the Rio Hondo (now known as the Calcasieu river); however the land between the Rio Hondo and the Sabine river was in some dispute as the French were beginning to occupy land on the west side of the Rio Hondo. In 1762, King Louis XV of France secretly gave Louisiana to Spain in the Treaty of Fontainebleau. From 1762 to 1800, the region was a part of New Spain. In 1800, the secret Third Treaty of San Ildefonso ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Allen Parish, Louisiana
Allen Parish () is a parish located in the U.S. state of Louisiana. As of the 2020 census, the population was 22,750. The parish seat is Oberlin and the largest city is Oakdale. Allen Parish is in southwestern Louisiana, southwest of Alexandria. Allen Parish is named for former Confederate States Army general and Governor of Louisiana Henry Watkins Allen. It was separated in 1912 from the larger Calcasieu Parish to the southwest. Geography According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the parish has a total area of , of which is land and (0.5%) is water. Allen Parish is bordered on the east by Evangeline Parish, on the south by Jefferson Davis Parish, and on the west by Beauregard Parish. Rapides Parish and Vernon Parish both border Allen Parish on the north. Allen Parish may be considered to belong to either the Southwest Louisiana region or to Central Louisiana. It is bordered on the east by Acadiana (Evangeline Parish). Part of Allen Parish, west of the Calcasieu River ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
119th United States Congress
The 119th United States Congress is the current term of the United States Congress, legislative branch of the United States federal government, composed of the United States Senate and the United States House of Representatives. It convened on January 3, 2025, for the last 17 days of Presidency of Joe Biden, Joe Biden's presidency and will continue for the first two years of Second presidency of Donald Trump, Donald Trump's second presidency. Following the 2024 United States elections, 2024 elections, the Republican Party (United States), Republican Party retained its slim majority in the House, though the party lost two net seats in the election and thus ended up with a three-seat majority instead of its previous five-seat majority. The Republican Party also won a three-seat majority in the Senate after winning four net seats in the 2024 elections. With Trump's Second inauguration of Donald Trump, second inauguration on January 20, 2025, the Republican Party has an overall fed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cook PVI
The Cook Partisan Voting Index, abbreviated PVI or CPVI, is a measurement of how partisan a U.S. congressional district or U.S. state is. This partisanship is indicated as lean towards either the Republican Party or the Democratic Party, compared to the nation as a whole, based on how that district or state voted in the previous two presidential elections. History The Partisan Voting Index was developed in 1997 by Charlie Cook of ''The Cook Political Report'', in conjunction with Clark Bensen and his political statistical analysis firm, Polidata, "as a means of providing a more accurate picture of the competitiveness". It is based on the methodology introduced by Rob Richie of the Center for Voting and Democracy for the Center's July 1997 Monopoly Politics report. The Cook Political Report has since released new PVI scores every two years. In 2021, the newsletter ended its relationship with Polidata and instead used Dave Leip's Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections to calcu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Louisiana Illuminator
States Newsroom is a nonprofit news network in the United States. Its newsrooms focus mostly on state politics. States Newsroom grew out of NC Policy Watch, a progressive think tank founded in 2004 by Chris Fitzsimon, who said it "is sort of the model for the news sites we support". He is States Newsroom's current president. In 2017, the project expanded, using the liberal group the Hopewell Fund as an incubator until 2019 when States Newsroom became an independent 501(c)(3) nonprofit. Organization States Newsroom provides funding, human resources, and digital support to journalists in the state newsrooms. It typically has 4-6 journalists per newsroom'''' and allows its articles to be republished for free under a Creative Commons license.'''' States Newsroom accepts no corporate donations and has publicly shared the names of all donors contributing $1,000 or more since becoming a 501(c)(3) in 2019. The progressive Wyss Foundation gave $1 million to States Newsroom in 202 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
