The Green Papers: Indiana 2005 Off Year Elections
 
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Elections for Statewide offices and Congress
Electoral Votes:11(2.04% of 538)
Governor:1 
Senators:2(Electoral Classes 1 and 3)
2002-2010 Representatives:9(2.07% of 435)
2000 Census:6,090,782 (2.16% of 281,998,273)
Estimated Voting age population (November 2000):4,448,000
Registered Voters (November 2000):4,000,809
Capital:Indianapolis
 

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Indiana State and Local Government

           

U.S. Senate  6 year term. No Term Limit. 109th Senate  Senate Electoral Classes

Class 1   Republican   Senator Richard G. Lugar
First elected: 1976; re-elected: 1982, 1988, 1994, 2000
Seat up for election: Tuesday 7 November 2006

Class 3   Democratic   Senator Evan Bayh
First elected: 1998; re-elected: 2004.
Seat up for election: Tuesday 2 November 2010

Governor  4 year term, Election Cycle: 2004, 2008. Term Limit: No more than 2 4-year terms in any 3-term period, All Governors

    Republican   Governor Mitchell E. "Mitch" Daniels
First elected: 2004
Chair up for election: Tuesday 4 November 2008
The current Governor is unaffected by the State's term limit.

Lieutenant Governor  4 year term, Election Cycle: 2004, 2008. Elected on a ticket with Governor.

    Republican   Lieutenant Governor Becky Skillman
First elected: 2004
Seat up for election: Tuesday 4 November 2008

109th U.S. House of Representatives  2 year term, Election Cycle 2006, 2008. No Term Limit. 109th House
Partisan Composition (primary disposition):
2 Democratic (2 Undetermined);
7 Republican (7 Undetermined)

CD 1   Democratic   Congressman Peter J. Visclosky
First elected: 1984
Seat up for election: Tuesday 7 November 2006

CD 2   Republican   Congressman Chris Chocola
First elected: 2002
Seat up for election: Tuesday 7 November 2006

CD 3   Republican   Congressman Mark Souder
First elected: 1994
Seat up for election: Tuesday 7 November 2006

CD 4   Republican   Congressman Steve Buyer
First elected: 1992
Seat up for election: Tuesday 7 November 2006

CD 5   Republican   Congressman Dan Burton
First elected: 1982
Seat up for election: Tuesday 7 November 2006

CD 6   Republican   Congressman Mike Pence
First elected: 2000
Seat up for election: Tuesday 7 November 2006

CD 7   Democratic   Congressman Julia M. Carson
First elected: 1996
Seat up for election: Tuesday 7 November 2006

CD 8   Republican   Congressman John N. Hostettler
First elected: 1994
Seat up for election: Tuesday 7 November 2006

CD 9   Republican   Congressman Mike Sodrel
First elected: 2004
Seat up for election: Tuesday 7 November 2006

Secretary of State  4 year term, Election Cycle: 2002, 2006

    Republican   Secretary of State Todd Rokita
First elected: 2002
Seat up for election: Tuesday 7 November 2006

Attorney General  4 year term, Election Cycle: 2004, 2008

    Republican   Attorney General Steve Carter
First elected: 2000; re-elected: 2004
Seat up for election: Tuesday 4 November 2008
 Major Party candidates for the offices of Attorney General and Superintendent of Public Instruction are not nominated via Primary but, instead, will be (per Indiana Code 3-8-4-2) nominated at each Party's respective State Conventions.

Treasurer  4 year term, Election Cycle: 2002, 2006

    Republican   Treasurer Tim Berry
First elected: 1998; re-elected: 2002
Seat up for election: Tuesday 7 November 2006

Auditor  4 year term, Election Cycle: 2002, 2006

    Republican   Auditor Connie Nass
First elected: 1998; re-elected: 2002
Seat up for election: Tuesday 7 November 2006

Superintendent of Public Instruction  4 year term, Election Cycle: 2004, 2008

    Republican   Public Instruction Superintendent Suellen Reed
First elected: 1992; re-elected: 1996, 2000; 2004
Seat up for election: Tuesday 4 November 2008
 Major Party candidates for the offices of Attorney General and Superintendent of Public Instruction are not nominated via Primary but, instead, will be (per Indiana Code 3-8-4-2) nominated at each Party's respective State Conventions.

Clerk of State Supreme Court  4 year term, Final Election Cycle: 2002

    Republican   Clerk of State Supreme Court David C. Lewis
Appointed: 23 November 2003 to fill the vacant seat caused by the resignation of Clerk of State Supreme Court Brian Bishop
Seat up for election: Tuesday 7 November 2006

Political Parties    Parties appear in parenthesis and italics when a candidate receives the endorsement of a given Party and/or official sources indicate a candidate's association with a particular Party but only where the Party in question does not appear on the actual ballot as such.

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