The2015 Allegheny County Executive election took place on November 3, 2015. Incumbent Democratic County ExecutiveRich Fitzgerald, first elected in2011, ran for re-election to a second term. He faced no opposition in the Democratic primary and won the nomination unopposed. In the general election, his only opponent was independent Todd Elliott Koger, a perennial candidate who was also simultaneously running for several other positions in the county. Fitzgerald defeated Koger in a landslide, winning 75 percent of the vote.
In the general election, Fitzgerald's only opponent, Todd Elliott Koger, was running in two other races simultaneously: an at-large County Council seat and the District 10 County Council seat. ThePittsburgh Post-Gazette endorsed Fitzgerald over Koger, criticizing Koger's perennial office-seeking. "It's hard to believe a candidate is serious when he keeps running for so many different offices, particularly after having been rejected convincingly by the voters so many times before," the editorial board wrote.[4] Fitzgerald ultimately defeated Koger in a landslide, winning 75 percent of the vote to Koger's 24 percent.
