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Louisiana Raise Ad Valorem Assessments Amendment (1979)
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The Louisiana Raise Ad Valorem Assessments Amendment, also known as Amendment 1, was on the ballot in Louisiana on November 6, 1979, as a legislatively referred constitutional amendment. It was approved. It proposed to raise the property tax assessment on public service properties, excluding electric cooperatives, to 25 percent.[1][2]
Election results
| Louisiana Amendment 1 (1979) | ||||
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| Result | Votes | Percentage | ||
 Yes | 447,588 | 59.96% | ||
| No | 298,860 | 40.04% | ||
Election results via: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR)
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