Louisiana Attorney General election, 2023
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| Louisiana Attorney General |
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| Filing deadline: August 10, 2023 |
| Primary: October 14, 2023 General: November 18, 2023 Pre-election incumbent(s): Jeff Landry (Republican) |
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| Poll times: 7 a.m. to 8 p.m. (Saturday elections) Voting in Louisiana |
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Louisiana held an election for attorney general on November 18, 2023. The primary was October 14, 2023. The filing deadline was August 10, 2023.
Louisiana elections use the majority-vote system. All candidates compete in the same primary, and a candidate can win the election outright by receiving more than 50 percent of the vote. If no candidate does, the top two vote recipients from the primary advance to the general election, regardless of their partisan affiliation.
Liz Murrill won election in the general election for Attorney General of Louisiana.
For more information about the primaries in this election, click on the links below:
Candidates and election results
Louisiana elections use the majority-vote system. All candidates compete in the same primary, and a candidate can win the election outright by receiving more than 50 percent of the vote. If no candidate does, the top two vote recipients from the primary advance to the general election, regardless of their partisan affiliation.
General election
General election for Attorney General of Louisiana
Liz Murrill defeated Lindsey Cheek in the general election for Attorney General of Louisiana on November 18, 2023.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Liz Murrill (R) | 66.4 | 444,544 |
 | Lindsey Cheek (D) | 33.6 | 225,050 | |
| Total votes: 669,594 | |||
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Nonpartisan primary election
Nonpartisan primary for Attorney General of Louisiana
Liz Murrill and Lindsey Cheek defeated John Stefanski, Perry Walker Terrebonne, and Marty Maley in the primary for Attorney General of Louisiana on October 14, 2023.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Liz Murrill (R) | 45.2 | 463,103 |
| ✔ | | Lindsey Cheek (D) | 23.4 | 239,652 |
 | John Stefanski (R) | 16.8 | 172,300 | |
 | Perry Walker Terrebonne (D) | 7.3 | 74,479 | |
 | Marty Maley (R) | 7.2 | 74,176 | |
| Total votes: 1,023,710 | |||
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates
- John Belton (Independent)
Candidate profiles
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Voting information
- See also: Voting in Louisiana
Election history
2019
Louisiana elections use the majority-vote system. All candidates compete in the same primary, and a candidate can win the election outright by receiving more than 50 percent of the vote. If no candidate does, the top two vote recipients from the primary advance to the general election, regardless of their partisan affiliation.
Nonpartisan primary election
Nonpartisan primary for Attorney General of Louisiana
Incumbent Jeff Landry won election outright against Ike Jackson in the primary for Attorney General of Louisiana on October 12, 2019.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Jeff Landry (R) | 66.2 | 855,366 |
 | Ike Jackson (D) | 33.8 | 436,502 | |
| Total votes: 1,291,868 | |||
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2015
There was a regularly scheduled election for attorney general in 2015. Buddy Caldwell (R) ran for re-election. The primary election took place on October 24, 2015, with a runoff election on November 21, 2015.
General election
Incumbent Buddy Caldwell was defeated by fellow Republican Jeff Landry in the general election.[1]
| Attorney General of Louisiana, General Election, 2015 | ||||
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| Party | Candidate | Vote % | Votes | |
| Republican | Buddy Caldwell | 43.7% | 473,869 | |
| Republican |  Jeff Landry |
56.3% | 610,433 | |
| Total Votes | 1,084,302 | |||
| Election Results Louisiana Secretary of State. | ||||
Primary election
No candidate received an outright majority in the blanket primary election on October 24, 2015. The two candidates with the most votes, who qualified for the November 21st runoff election, were incumbent Buddy Caldwell (R) and Jeff Landry (R).[3]
| Attorney General of Louisiana, Blanket Primary, 2015 | ||||
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| Party | Candidate | Vote % | Votes | |
| Republican | Buddy Caldwell |
35.4% | 376,187 | |
| Republican | Jeff Landry |
32.7% | 347,441 | |
| Democratic | Geraldine "Geri" Broussard Baloney | 17.6% | 187,332 | |
| Democratic | Ike Jackson | 10.8% | 115,037 | |
| Republican | Marty Maley | 3.6% | 37,787 | |
| Total Votes | 1,063,784 | |||
| Election Results Louisiana Secretary of State. | ||||
See also
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