Congressional district · Boundaries of the 119th Congress
Louisiana's 1st district
Louisiana's 1st district has 772,891 residents on 3,653 mi² of land. It is represented by Steve Scalise (R-LA-1). Federal contract obligations attributed to it reached $3.1B in FY2026.
- Residents
- 772,891
- Land area
- 3,653 mi²
- Counties
- 10
- Representative
- Steve Scalise
Members for this district
Members who held this seat while these boundaries were in force, newest first.
Senators
The state's senators today, or on the last day of these boundaries for an older plan.
Bill CassidyR-LA
John KennedyR-LA
Counties
Share of the district's residents living in each county, and share of the county's residents living in the district (2020 census tracts weighted by their overlap).
- St. Tammany Parish35% of the district · 100% of the county
- Jefferson Parish30% of the district · 54% of the county
- Orleans Parish8.2% of the district · 17% of the county
- Tangipahoa Parish7.3% of the district · 41% of the county
- Lafourche Parish5.6% of the district · 45% of the county
- Ascension Parish3.4% of the district · 20% of the county
- St. Charles Parish3.1% of the district · 46% of the county
- Plaquemines Parish3.0% of the district · 100% of the county
- St. Bernard Parish2.5% of the district · 44% of the county
- Livingston Parish1.8% of the district · 9.2% of the county
Federal contracts
Contract obligations attributed to the district by each action's county and its award's ZIP code (land shares through census tracts); an estimate where ZIP codes cross district lines.
- Obligations · FY2026
- $3.1B
- Per resident
- $3,975
- Rank in Louisiana
- 1 of 6
- Contract actions
- 5,864
- New awards: 3,749
By fiscal year
- 1.2BFY2017
- 1.1BFY2018
- 1.4BFY2019
- 1.7BFY2020
- 1.4BFY2021
- 1.1BFY2022
- 1.3BFY2023
- 1.2BFY2024
- 2.1BFY2025
- 3.1BFY2026
Top buyers
- U.S. Coast Guard$2.1B70%Department of Homeland Security
- Department of Energy$362.2M12%
- Department of the Navy$224.3M7.3%Department of Defense
- Defense Logistics Agency$95.4M3.1%Department of Defense
- Department of the Army$35.5M1.2%Department of Defense
- Department of the Interior
- Agricultural Marketing Service$32.5M1.1%Department of Agriculture
Top recipients
- 4 awards
- STRATEGIC STORAGE PARTNERS, LLC.$409.6M13%1 award
- TEXTRON SYSTEMS CORP$125.1M4.1%6 awards
- HORNBECK OFFSHORE OPERATORS LLC$80.2M2.6%6 awards
- NOVA SPACE SOLUTIONS, LLC$63M2.1%5 awards
- CHAND, L.L.C.$36.9M1.2%1,179 awards
- COUVILLION GROUP LLC$32.8M1.1%1 award
- JGILS, LLC$28.7M0.9%1,517 awards
- BIRDON AMERICA INC$27.2M0.9%1 award
- PROMETHEAN OPERATING I LLC$27M0.9%4 awards
Other boundaries
District lines change between plans; each plan keeps its own page.
Sources and method
Every figure on this page traces to these records.
- Congressional district boundaries and relationship files (U.S. Census Bureau)U.S. Census Bureau, Cartographic Boundary Files (congressional districts) and 2020 relationship files · release cd116+cd118+cd119 · loaded Oct 3, 2026 · license: Public domain (U.S. Government work, 17 U.S.C. § 105)
- Members of Congress, their terms, committees and identifiers (The @unitedstates project (from the Biographical Directory of the U.S. Congress, the House and the Senate))unitedstates/congress-legislators: legislators, committees and current committee membership · data current to Oct 3, 2026 · loaded Oct 3, 2026 · license: CC0 1.0 (public domain dedication)
- ZIP code (ZCTA) to congressional district crosswalk (U.S. Census Bureau)U.S. Census Bureau, 2020 relationship files (ZCTAs, tracts and congressional districts); shares computed by Analisa · release 2020 · loaded Oct 3, 2026 · license: Public domain (U.S. Government work, 17 U.S.C. § 105)
- Federal contract transactions (Federal Procurement Data System) (U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.gov)USAspending.gov, prime award contract transactions (FPDS) · data current to Oct 3, 2026 · loaded Oct 3, 2026 · license: Public domain (U.S. Government work, 17 U.S.C. § 105)
- Money and votes are shown side by side; neither explains the other.