Who runs my parish?

Louisiana police juries and parish councils — all 64 parishes, free, by address, ZIP, or a tap on the map.

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Every Louisiana parish is governed by an elected body. It is the police jury in 38 parishes, a parish council in 25 and the parish commission in Caddo. Most members are elected from a district or a ward, and seven councils also have members elected by the whole parish. Every council parish also elects a parish president, called the mayor-president in East Baton Rouge and Lafayette, and in Orleans, where the city and the parish share one government, that is the Mayor of New Orleans. The lookup names your parish's whole governing body and, in the parishes where this app has confirmed the current district lines, the member who represents the point you picked.

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Opens the map with the parish and police jury or council district layers on. Search your address or ZIP, or tap your location.

What the lookup shows

Select any point in Louisiana and the parish card names your parish, its parish president or mayor where it elects one, and every member of its governing body, with the district or ward each was elected from and a telephone where the state's list prints one for that member. Where three or more members print the same office address, the card gives it as the body's office.

In the parishes where this app has confirmed the current district lines, the police jury or council district card names the one member for the point you picked. In the other parishes that card does not appear, rather than draw lines that may be out of date.

Where the names come from

The Louisiana Secretary of State keeps a list of every elected official in the state, with the office each one holds and the date each term ends. This app reads it every week and lists each parish's governing body as the list names it. Each parish's page below gives the date it was last read.

A police jury chooses its own president from among its members, and the list does not say who that is, so this app does not either. Where the list leaves out one of a parish's numbered seats, that parish's page shows the seat without a name and does not call it vacant, because the list does not say it is.

Where the boundaries come from

The parish lines come from the U.S. Census Bureau, which also maps every parish's police jury or council districts but has updated only some parishes' maps since the 2020 census. So this app draws a parish's districts only where the Census changed its map after the 2020 census and the districts hold nearly equal numbers of people in that census. Each parish's page says whether its lines are drawn. Every source is on the sources & data layers page.

Not for legal or official use. Boundary and officeholder data come from public sources that explicitly disclaim legal precision. Confirm district assignments and officeholders with your parish before relying on them for anything official.

Every parish government, parish by parish

Every Louisiana parish whose roster this project has: 64 parishes, 573 people, each name as the Louisiana Secretary of State's list of elected officials prints it, by district or ward.

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