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Louisiana Amendment 7

Authorizes the use of public funds to identify, inventory, remove, or replace certain water lines. 2026 results by parish, from Louisiana's official results file: Yes 65.3%, No 34.7% statewide.

Statewide

Do you support an amendment to allow for the use of public funds by a political subdivision for the purpose of identifying, inventorying, removing or replacing drinking water utility service lines made of or affected by materials as specified or prescribed by the Lead and Copper Rule Improvements of the United States Environmental Protection Agency, promulgated October 30, 2024, or subsequent promulgation, on property owned by utility customers? (Amends Article VII, Section 14)

A yes vote
Supports this amendment.
A no vote
Opposes it.
Yes 65.3% No 34.7%

924,355 yes and 492,224 no.

Secretary of State's list

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

By parish

64 parishes: Yes 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 Parish57.3%42.7%17,173
Allen Parish55.8%44.2%6,353
Ascension Parish63.7%36.3%42,155
Assumption Parish61.2%38.8%6,866
Avoyelles Parish56.6%43.4%11,713
Beauregard Parish55.8%44.2%10,156
Bienville Parish55.7%44.3%4,731
Bossier Parish66.0%34.0%34,536
Caddo Parish64.5%35.5%68,590
Calcasieu Parish60.2%39.8%54,758
Caldwell Parish57.8%42.2%3,052
Cameron Parish56.6%43.4%1,921
Catahoula Parish53.8%46.2%2,928
Claiborne Parish64.9%35.1%4,465
Concordia Parish63.3%36.7%5,294
De Soto Parish58.4%41.6%9,531
East Baton Rouge Parish69.0%31.0%148,629
East Carroll Parish59.3%40.7%1,958
East Feliciana Parish56.5%43.5%7,226
Evangeline Parish57.0%43.0%9,415
Franklin Parish50.9%49.1%5,430
Grant Parish57.3%42.7%6,202
Iberia Parish58.3%41.7%18,641
Iberville Parish65.3%34.7%11,741
Jackson Parish52.5%47.5%5,373
Jefferson Davis Parish58.5%41.5%10,078
Jefferson Parish72.4%27.6%125,384
Lafayette Parish64.8%35.2%77,112
Lafourche Parish61.3%38.7%27,935
LaSalle Parish60.7%39.3%4,231
Lincoln Parish61.7%38.3%13,306
Livingston Parish58.5%41.5%42,560
Madison Parish58.8%41.2%2,848
Morehouse Parish62.0%38.0%6,795
Natchitoches Parish61.7%38.3%10,914
Orleans Parish79.9%20.1%127,481
Ouachita Parish62.9%37.1%44,776
Plaquemines Parish61.4%38.6%7,394
Pointe Coupee Parish62.0%38.0%8,011
Rapides Parish60.4%39.6%36,399
Red River Parish55.8%44.2%2,457
Richland Parish58.3%41.7%5,871
Sabine Parish52.6%47.4%7,506
St. Bernard Parish69.0%31.0%11,066
St. Charles Parish65.7%34.3%18,100
St. Helena Parish57.4%42.6%4,352
St. James Parish66.5%33.5%9,006
St. John the Baptist Parish68.9%31.1%13,864
St. Landry Parish60.1%39.9%25,064
St. Martin Parish60.1%39.9%16,296
St. Mary Parish62.1%37.9%14,443
St. Tammany Parish65.8%34.2%97,789
Tangipahoa Parish61.8%38.2%38,082
Tensas Parish59.1%40.9%1,598
Terrebonne Parish67.1%32.9%27,479
Union Parish55.2%44.8%7,170
Vermilion Parish57.9%42.1%16,617
Vernon Parish57.6%42.4%10,776
Washington Parish60.1%39.9%12,438
Webster Parish61.1%38.9%11,399
West Baton Rouge Parish64.2%35.8%9,928
West Carroll Parish55.6%44.4%2,685
West Feliciana Parish59.3%40.7%4,528
Winn Parish56.3%43.7%4,004

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.