44,141 (47.69 percent for the Democratic nominee Paul J. Carmouche (born 1943) of Shreveport , the retiring 30-year district attorney of Caddo Parish . Two conservative independents held the remaining votes, Chester T. "Catfish" Kelley, a restaurant owner from Shreveport, polled 3,245 votes (3.51 percent), and Gerard J. Bowen, Jr., of