See also: 2015 Louisiana elections.
| Election Name: | 2015 Louisiana lieutenant gubernatorial election |
| Country: | Louisiana |
| Type: | presidential |
| Ongoing: | no |
| Previous Election: | 2011 Louisiana lieutenant gubernatorial election |
| Previous Year: | 2011 |
| Election Date: | October 24, 2015 (first round) November 21, 2015 (runoff) |
| Next Election: | 2019 Louisiana lieutenant gubernatorial election |
| Next Year: | 2019 |
| 1Blank: | First round |
| 2Blank: | Runoff |
| Image1: | File:Billy Nungesser 2 (cropped).jpg |
| Nominee1: | Billy Nungesser |
| Party1: | Republican Party (United States) |
| 1Data1: | 324,654 29.95% |
| 2Data1: | 628,864 55.38% |
| Nominee2: | Kip Holden |
| Party2: | Democratic Party (United States) |
| 1Data2: | 360,679 33.27% |
| 2Data2: | 506,578 44.62% |
| Image4: | File:3x4.svg |
| Nominee4: | John Young |
| Party4: | Republican Party (United States) |
| 1Data4: | 313,183 28.89% |
| 2Data4: | Eliminated |
| Image5: | File:Elbert Guillory (cropped).png |
| Nominee5: | Elbert Guillory |
| Party5: | Republican Party (United States) |
| 1Data5: | 85,460 7.88% |
| 2Data5: | Eliminated |
| Lieutenant Governor | |
| Before Election: | Jay Dardenne |
| Before Party: | Republican Party (United States) |
| After Election: | Billy Nungesser |
| After Party: | Republican Party (United States) |
The 2015 Louisiana lieutenant gubernatorial election took place on October 24, 2015, to elect the Lieutenant Governor of Louisiana, with a runoff election held on November 21, 2015. Incumbent Republican Lieutenant Governor Jay Dardenne did not run for re-election to a second full term in office. He instead ran for governor. Billy Nungesser won the election defeating Kip Holden, despite a Democratic victory in the gubernatorial election, in which John Bel Edwards defeated David Vitter by a similar margin.
Under Louisiana's jungle primary system, all candidates appeared on the same ballot, regardless of party and voters may vote for any candidate, regardless of their party affiliation. Since no candidate received a majority of the vote during the primary election, a runoff election was held on November 21, 2015 between Holden and Nungesser. Louisiana is the only state that has a jungle primary system (California and Washington have a similar "top two primary" system).
| Poll source | Date(s) administered | class=small | Sample size | error | Elbert Guillory (R) | Kip Holden (D) | Billy Nungesser (R) | John Young (R) | Undecided | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Triumph | March 5, 2015 | 1,655 | 2% | align=center | 33% | align=center | 23% | 20% | 22% | |||
| Multi-Quest | October 22–24, 2014 | 606 | ± 4% | — | 8% | align=center | 10% | align=center | 10% | align=center | 72% |