St. Joseph, Louisiana is a small town in Tensas Parish with a population of just over 1,000 people. Despite its size, the politics of the town are still heavily influential among its residents. The mayor of St. Joseph is currently Calvin Johnson, who has been in office since 2012 and is running for re-election this year against two challengers: Daryll Parks and Crystal Washington. Residents from all sides come together to discuss the issues at hand and work towards making decisions that will benefit everyone in their community. Issues like crime prevention, economic development, and infrastructure improvement are discussed during mayoral debates and public forums that occur throughout election season. It's clear that politics are important to the citizens of St. Joseph as they continue to strive for a better future for their beloved town.
The political climate in St. Joseph, LA is leaning liberal.
Tensas County, LA is leaning liberal. In Tensas County, LA 52.0% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 46.9% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 1.1% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Tensas parish remained moderately Democratic, 52.0% to 46.9%.
Tensas county voted Democratic in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
St. Joseph, LA is leaning liberal.
Tensas County, Louisiana is leaning liberal.
Louisiana is moderately conservative.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index is based on recent voting in national elections, federal campaign contributions by local residents, and consumer personality profiles.
VoteWord™
Displaying 20 years of Presidential voting, visualized in one word.
St. Joseph, Louisiana: d d d D d d
How It Works:
Here at BestPlaces, we were looking at the voting patterns since the 2000 election and realized that we could express the results of each election as one letter. R if the Republican Party candidate won, D if the Democratic Party candidate won and I if the Independent Party candidate won. The six elections (2000, 2004, 2008, 2012, 2016, 2020) would be expressed as six-letter word (R R D R R).
Then we went a little further and added the dimension of magnitude. If the difference of victory was greater than 10 percent, the letter is upper case, and lower case if the difference was less than 10 percent. This allows us to see interesting voting patterns at just a glance.
Here's the VoteWord for Iowa d r d d r. In the last six elections the state has been closely contested, voting narrowly for the Republican Party candidate in 2016 and 2020 after voting for the Democratic Party in 2008 and 2012. Virginia (r r d d d D) has voted for the Democratic Party in the last three elections.
Individual Campaign Contributions in St. Joseph, LA
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 106 contributions totaling $282,530 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $2,665 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 106 contributions totaling $27,396 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $258 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)