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Louisiana Amendment 5

Authorizes retirement systems to apply funds to any unfunded accrued liability, not only the oldest. 2026 results by parish, from Louisiana's official results file: Yes 37.6%, No 62.4% statewide.

Statewide

Do you support an amendment to authorize a state retirement system to apply any nonrecurring state monies it receives to any of its unfunded accrued liability rather than requiring application to its oldest unfunded accrued liability? (Amends Article VII, Section 10(D)(2)(b)(iii))

A yes vote
Supports this amendment.
A no vote
Opposes it.
Yes 37.6% No 62.4%

526,551 yes and 874,572 no.

Secretary of State's list

The state's unofficial totals. We don't call measures.

By parish

64 parishes: No has the most votes in 64. The figures for each parish are from the same file and add up to the statewide totals.

ParishYesNoVotes
Acadia Parish42.7%57.3%17,130
Allen Parish37.2%62.8%6,326
Ascension Parish37.7%62.3%41,832
Assumption Parish31.4%68.6%6,785
Avoyelles Parish37.5%62.5%11,641
Beauregard Parish39.5%60.5%10,101
Bienville Parish36.0%64.0%4,729
Bossier Parish43.4%56.6%34,120
Caddo Parish36.5%63.5%67,727
Calcasieu Parish38.6%61.4%54,362
Caldwell Parish39.2%60.8%3,034
Cameron Parish42.3%57.7%1,906
Catahoula Parish40.2%59.8%2,899
Claiborne Parish46.4%53.6%4,417
Concordia Parish40.3%59.7%5,239
De Soto Parish37.2%62.8%9,435
East Baton Rouge Parish34.0%66.0%146,882
East Carroll Parish48.3%51.7%1,961
East Feliciana Parish32.7%67.3%7,169
Evangeline Parish36.8%63.2%9,338
Franklin Parish36.3%63.7%5,395
Grant Parish40.1%59.9%6,136
Iberia Parish37.2%62.8%18,474
Iberville Parish33.6%66.4%11,563
Jackson Parish36.7%63.3%5,331
Jefferson Davis Parish39.7%60.3%10,023
Jefferson Parish39.1%60.9%123,455
Lafayette Parish38.8%61.2%76,286
Lafourche Parish40.7%59.3%27,638
LaSalle Parish48.1%51.9%4,207
Lincoln Parish37.7%62.3%13,180
Livingston Parish40.4%59.6%42,258
Madison Parish40.6%59.4%2,823
Morehouse Parish46.3%53.7%6,757
Natchitoches Parish34.0%66.0%10,773
Orleans Parish28.4%71.6%125,636
Ouachita Parish45.8%54.2%44,369
Plaquemines Parish34.1%65.9%7,292
Pointe Coupee Parish37.3%62.7%7,969
Rapides Parish38.9%61.1%36,090
Red River Parish35.0%65.0%2,429
Richland Parish42.8%57.2%5,822
Sabine Parish39.5%60.5%7,455
St. Bernard Parish37.1%62.9%10,944
St. Charles Parish38.2%61.8%17,936
St. Helena Parish36.9%63.1%4,289
St. James Parish33.7%66.3%8,872
St. John the Baptist Parish31.8%68.2%13,713
St. Landry Parish34.5%65.5%24,700
St. Martin Parish37.8%62.2%16,144
St. Mary Parish36.0%64.0%14,349
St. Tammany Parish42.5%57.5%96,333
Tangipahoa Parish38.8%61.2%37,673
Tensas Parish41.5%58.5%1,597
Terrebonne Parish41.9%58.1%27,232
Union Parish34.3%65.7%7,137
Vermilion Parish40.4%59.6%16,501
Vernon Parish44.0%56.0%10,686
Washington Parish34.0%66.0%12,276
Webster Parish36.4%63.6%11,301
West Baton Rouge Parish31.5%68.5%9,856
West Carroll Parish47.4%52.6%2,667
West Feliciana Parish40.4%59.6%4,522
Winn Parish35.2%64.8%4,001

The share with the most votes in each place is in bold. That's the count, not a result.

Sources & scope

Louisiana's official results, these figures first read Nov 10, 4:20 AM. Unofficial until certified. Louisiana's page has its other statewide offices, ballot measures and legislature.