Louisiana Constitution, adopted Jul. 23 1879
Articles 107, 108
Art. 107. The State shall be divided into not less than twenty nor more than thirty judicial districts, the parish of Orleans excepted.
Art. 108. Until otherwise provided by law there shall be twenty-six districts.
The parish of Caddo shall compose the First District.
The parishes of Bossier, Webster and Bienville shall compose the Second District.
The parishes of Claiborne, Union and Lincoln shall compose the Third District
The parishes of Jackson, Winn and Caldwell shall compose the Fourth District
The parishes of Ouachita and Richland shall compose the Fifth District.
The parishes of Morehouse and West Carroll shall compose the Sixth District
The parishes of Catahoula and Franklin shall compose the Seventh District.
The parishes of Madison and East Carroll shall compose the Eighth District
The parishes of Concordia and Tensas shall compose the Ninth District.
The parishes of De Soto and Red River shall compose the Tenth District.
The parishes of Natchitoches and Sabine shall compose the Eleventh District
The parishes of Rapides, Grant and Avoyelles shall compose the Twelfth District
The parish of St Landry shall compose the Thirteenth District
The parishes of Vernon, Calcasieu and Cameron shall compose the Fourteenth District
The parishes of Pointee Coupee and West Feliciana shall compose the Fifteenth District
The parishes of Fast Feliciana and St. Helena shall compose the Sixteenth District
The parish of East Baton Rouge shall compose the Seventeenth District
The parishes of Tangipahoa, Livingston, St Tammany and Washington shall compose the Eighteenth District
The parishes of St Mary and Terrebonne shall compose the Nine-teenth District
The parishes of Lafourche and Assumption shall compose the Twentieth District
The parishes of St Martin and Iberia shall compose the Twenty-first District
The parishes of Ascension and St James shall compose the Twenty-second District
The parishes of West Baton Rouge and Iberville shall compose the Twenty-third District
The parishes of Plaquemines and St Bernard shall compose the Twenty-fourth District
The parishes of Lafayette and Vermilion shall compose the Twenty-fifth District
And the parishes of Jefferson, St Charles and St John the Baptist shall compose the Twenty-sixth District