Career
In the primary election held on October 24, 2015, Hilferty unseated fellow Republican Representative Nicholas Lorusso, 6,866 votes (562 percent) to 5,343 (438 percent). She carried the backing of the Gambit (newspaper), the Times-Picayune, Greater New Orleans Republicans (GNOR), Orleans Parish Republican Executive Committee (OPREC), and Louisiana Republican Party Chairman Roger F. Villere, Junior. Lorusso had held the seat since 2007.