Complex sentence: In the nonpartisan blanket primary held on October 24,2015, Luneau defeated a Republican candidate, attorney and Baptist minister Joshua Joy Dara, Sr. (born March 1959) of Pineville, 13,462 votes (59.3 percent) to 9,225 (40.7 percent).
Split into simpler sentences: In the nonpartisan blanket primary held on October 24,2015, Luneau defeated a Republican candidate, attorney and Baptist minister Joshua Joy Dara, Sr. (born March 1959) of Pineville. Luneau prevailed, 13,462 votes (59.3 percent) to 9,225 (40.7 percent).