I analyzed the results from the 96 election and compared those results with the numbers from Saturday. Overall, about one-half million less people voted in this election than the one in 1996. That was a presidential election year so that decrease would not be unexpected, however, the Republican challenger was Dole. The following table shows the results. The numbers in the loss columns are the 96 value minus the 02 value for the party's candidate, of course, the Democrat candidate is the same. The difference column is the Rep loss minus the Dem loss. Notice that Landrieu lost lots of votes in Orleans, but bled less than Terrell just about everywhere else. Terrell did not get the votes in Jefferson. A further illustration of this is that Landrieu picked up 10,969 votes in Orleans(80% for her) compared to the primary but she also picked up 7,878 votes in Jefferson(44% for her). The numbers give a so what picture to the Republican effort.
| R LOSS | D LOSS | DIFF | |
| Acadia | 4,657 | 2,777 | 1,880 |
| Allen | 1,828 | 1,154 | 674 |
| Ascension | 2,723 | 2,093 | 630 |
| Assumption | 1,901 | 61 | 1,840 |
| Avoyelles | 2,599 | 1,521 | 1,078 |
| Beauregard | 2,359 | 1,519 | 840 |
| Bienville | 958 | 709 | 249 |
| Bossier | 4,247 | 4,225 | 22 |
| Caddo | 8,999 | 11,290 | 2,291 |
| Calcasieu | 11,622 | 8,674 | 2,948 |
| Caldwell | 878 | 556 | 322 |
| Cameron | 817 | 513 | 304 |
| Catahoula | 1,249 | 648 | 601 |
| Claiborne | 994 | 664 | 330 |
| Concordia | 1,576 | 1,267 | 309 |
| DeSoto | 1,111 | 1,076 | 35 |
| East Baton Rouge | 21,124 | 17,245 | 3,879 |
| East Carroll | 514 | 505 | 9 |
| East Feliciana | 807 | 585 | 222 |
| Evangeline | 3,219 | 1,322 | 1,897 |
| Franklin | 1,868 | 934 | 934 |
| Grant | 1,470 | 1,087 | 383 |
| Iberia | 6,233 | 3,777 | 2,456 |
| Iberville | 2,308 | 680 | 1,628 |
| Jackson | 996 | 327 | 669 |
| Jefferson | 32,225 | 20,189 | 12,036 |
| Jefferson Davis | 2,634 | 1,574 | 1,060 |
| Lafayette | 11,622 | 9,162 | 2,460 |
| Lafourche | 5,922 | 3,791 | 2,131 |
| LaSalle | 1,657 | 743 | 914 |
| Lincoln | 1,286 | 2,292 | 1,006 |
| Livingston | 4,367 | 3,080 | 1,287 |
| Madison | 664 | 912 | 248 |
| Morehouse | 2,412 | 1,619 | 793 |
| Natchitoches | 2,144 | 2,581 | 437 |
| Orleans | 15,775 | 37,270 | 21,495 |
| Ouachita | 7,991 | 6,982 | 1,009 |
| Plaquemines | 1,297 | 752 | 545 |
| Pointe Coupee | 1,748 | 806 | 942 |
| Rapides | 8,308 | 7,839 | 469 |
| Red River | 461 | 240 | 221 |
| Richland | 1,301 | 916 | 385 |
| Sabine | 1,161 | 1,536 | 375 |
| St. Bernard | 5,091 | 2,632 | 2,459 |
| St. Charles | 2,854 | 2,832 | 22 |
| St. Helena | 841 | 563 | 278 |
| St. James | 1,248 | 345 | 903 |
| St. John the Baptist | 1,877 | 926 | 951 |
| St. Landry | 6,762 | 3,024 | 3,738 |
| St. Martin | 3,538 | 2,057 | 1,481 |
| St. Mary | 4,223 | 4,069 | 154 |
| St. Tammany | 5,158 | 5,145 | 13 |
| Tangipahoa | -915 | 558 | 1,473 |
| Tensas | 387 | 305 | 82 |
| Terrebonne | 6,234 | 5,284 | 950 |
| Union | 1,091 | 1,123 | 32 |
| Vermilion | 3,693 | 3,484 | 209 |
| Vernon | 2,064 | 2,161 | 97 |
| Washington | 3,308 | 2,373 | 935 |
| Webster | 2,274 | 2,404 | 130 |
| West Baton Rouge | 1,294 | 717 | 577 |
| West Carroll | 857 | 464 | 393 |
| West Feliciana | 329 | 251 | 78 |
| Winn | 1,624 | 1,376 | 248 |
| 34,278 |