---
urn: urn:us-la:rs:18:1403
citation: "R.S. 18:1403"
status: active
breadcrumb: "Title 18 › Chapter 9 › Part I"
acts_citations:
  - { year: 1976, number: 697, section: 1, effective_date: 1978-01-01, role: enactment }
  - { year: 1999, number: 254, section: 1, effective_date: 2000-01-01, role: amendment }
  - { year: 2010, number: 621, section: 1, effective_date: null, role: amendment }
---

# Jurisdiction

The district courts shall have exclusive original jurisdiction of actions objecting to candidacy, objecting to the calling of a special election, contesting the certification of a recall petition, and contesting elections. In a judicial district wherein there is a criminal and a civil district court, the civil district court shall have exclusive original jurisdiction.