Louisiana Secretary of State election, 2023
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| Louisiana Secretary of State |
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| Election details |
| Filing deadline: August 10, 2023 |
| Primary: October 14, 2023 General: November 18, 2023 Pre-election incumbent(s): Kyle Ardoin (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 secretary of state 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.
Nancy Landry won election in the general election for Louisiana Secretary of State.
On April 11, 2023, incumbent Kyle Ardoin announced he would not running for re-election.[1] Ardoin became acting secretary on May 9, 2018, following the resignation of former Secretary Tom Schedler. Schedler left office on May 8, 2018, due to allegations of sexual misconduct. Ardoin won election to the remainder of Schedler's term in November 2018.
For more information about the primaries in this election, click on the links below:
Candidates and election results
Note: The following list of candidates is unofficial. The filing deadline for this election has passed, and Ballotpedia is working to update this page with the official candidate list. This note will be removed once the official candidate list has been added.
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 Louisiana Secretary of State
Nancy Landry defeated Gwen Collins-Greenup in the general election for Louisiana Secretary of State on November 18, 2023.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Nancy Landry (R) | 66.8 | 446,494 |
 | Gwen Collins-Greenup (D) | 33.2 | 221,739 | |
| Total votes: 668,233 | |||
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Nonpartisan primary election
Nonpartisan primary for Louisiana Secretary of State
The following candidates ran in the primary for Louisiana Secretary of State on October 14, 2023.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Nancy Landry (R) | 19.3 | 197,514 |
| ✔ | | Gwen Collins-Greenup (D) | 19.2 | 196,534 |
 | Mike Francis (R) | 17.9 | 182,842 | |
 | Clay Schexnayder (R) | 14.7 | 149,987 | |
 | Arthur Morrell (D) | 11.1 | 113,703 | |
 | Thomas Kennedy III (R) | 10.1 | 102,628 | |
 | Brandon Trosclair (R) | 6.3 | 64,686 | |
 | Amanda Smith Jennings (Independent) | 1.3 | 13,275 | |
| Total votes: 1,021,169 | |||
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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.
General election
General election for Louisiana Secretary of State
Incumbent Kyle Ardoin defeated Gwen Collins-Greenup in the general election for Louisiana Secretary of State on November 16, 2019.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Kyle Ardoin (R) | 59.1 | 867,607 |
| Gwen Collins-Greenup (D) | 40.9 | 601,126 | |
| Total votes: 1,468,733 (100.00% precincts reporting) | |||
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Nonpartisan primary election
Nonpartisan primary for Louisiana Secretary of State
Incumbent Kyle Ardoin and Gwen Collins-Greenup defeated Thomas Kennedy III and Amanda Smith in the primary for Louisiana Secretary of State on October 12, 2019.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Kyle Ardoin (R) | 41.1 | 528,253 |
| ✔ | | Gwen Collins-Greenup (D) | 33.8 | 434,587 |
| Thomas Kennedy III (R) | 19.0 | 244,646 | |
 | Amanda Smith (R) | 6.1 | 78,986 | |
| Total votes: 1,286,472 | |||
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2018
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
Special general election for Louisiana Secretary of State
Incumbent Kyle Ardoin defeated Gwen Collins-Greenup in the special general election for Louisiana Secretary of State on December 8, 2018.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Kyle Ardoin (R) | 59.3 | 306,568 |
| Gwen Collins-Greenup (D) | 40.7 | 210,085 | |
| Total votes: 516,653 | |||
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Nonpartisan primary election
Special nonpartisan primary for Louisiana Secretary of State
The following candidates ran in the special primary for Louisiana Secretary of State on November 6, 2018.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Kyle Ardoin (R) | 20.5 | 298,657 |
| ✔ | | Gwen Collins-Greenup (D) | 19.8 | 289,097 |
 | Renee Fontenot Free (D) | 16.4 | 239,116 | |
 | Rick Edmonds (R) | 11.3 | 164,955 | |
 | Julie Stokes (R) | 11.2 | 163,773 | |
| Thomas Kennedy III (R) | 9.4 | 137,050 | |
 | A.G. Crowe (R) | 4.9 | 71,495 | |
 | Heather Cloud (R) | 4.9 | 71,195 | |
| Matthew Moreau (Independent) | 1.5 | 21,579 | ||
| Total votes: 1,456,917 | |||
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See also
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