*NOTE RESTRICTIONS FOR CONVICTED FELONS - Louisiana Constitution Article I, Section 10:
(B) Disqualification. The following persons shall not be permitted to qualify as a candidate for elective public office:
(1) A person who has been convicted within this state of a felony and who has exhausted all legal remedies, or who has been convicted under the laws of any other state or of the United States or of any foreign government or country of a crime which, if committed in this state, would be a felony and who has exhausted all legal remedies and has not afterwards been pardoned either by the governor of this state or by the officer of the state, nation, government or country having such authority to pardon in the place where the person was convicted and sentenced.(2) A person actually under an order of imprisonment for conviction of a felony.
(C) Exception. Nothwithstanding the provisions of Paragraph (B) of this section, a person who desires to qualify as a candidate for or hold an elective office, who has been convicted of a felony and who has served his sentence, but has not been pardoned for such felony, shall be permitted to qualify as a candidate for or hold such office if the date of his qualifying for such office is more than fifteen years after the date of the completion of his original sentence.