The Green Papers: Indiana 2009 General Election |
Indiana
Elections for Statewide offices and Congress |
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NOTE: In any Primary election in INDIANA, voters state which Party they are affiliated with by asking the poll workers for the ballot of that Party in a given Primary. A voter's party affiliation is determined solely by his or her Primary voting record; the state's voter registration form does NOT provide a place for the voter to state Party affiliation. Even though the history of a voter's Party affiliation- solely as determined by the individual voter's Primary voting record- is part of the public record, the informaton is NOT available at the polling place. Any voter, however, may challenge another voter's Party affiliation at the polls: In such a case, the voter making the challenge (the "challenger") fills out an affidavit that the voter being challenged (the "challengee") has not, in fact, voted in the Party's Primaries in the past, an assertion against which the challengee must fill out a counter-affidavit, asserting that they intend to vote for a majority of the candidates of the challengee's Party of choice in the next General Election. If the challengee fills out this counter-affidavit, the challengee is allowed to vote in the Primary; however, if the challengee refuses, he or she is not allowed to vote in the Primary. Nevertheless, since General Election ballots are cast in secret, the intention expressed in the counter-affidavit by the challengee is impossible to enforce. |
U.S. Senate 6 year term. No Term Limit. 111th Senate Senate Electoral Classes | |||||
Class 1 | Republican | Senator Richard G. Lugar First elected: 1976; re-elected: 1982, 1988, 1994, 2000, 2006 Seat up for election: Tuesday 6 November 2012 |
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Class 3 | Democratic | Senator Evan Bayh First elected: 1998; re-elected: 2004. Seat up for election: Tuesday 2 November 2010 |
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Governor 4 year term, Election Cycle: 2008, 2012. Term Limit: No more than 2 4-year terms in any 3-term period, All Governors | |||||
Republican | Governor Mitchell E. "Mitch" Daniels, Jr. First elected: 2004; re-elected 2008 Chair up for election: Tuesday 6 November 2012 The current Governor is affected by a term limit and cannot run for re-election. Open Chair - At term limit |
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Lieutenant Governor 4 year term, Election Cycle: 2008, 2012. Elected on a ticket with Governor. | |||||
Republican | Lieutenant Governor Becky Skillman First elected: 2004; re-elected: 2008 Seat up for election: Tuesday 6 November 2012 Open Seat - At term limit |
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111th U.S. House of Representatives 2 year term, Election Cycle 2006, 2008. No Term Limit. 111th House | |||||
Partisan Composition (primary disposition): 5 Democratic (5 Undetermined); 4 Republican (4 Undetermined) | |||||
CD 1 {map} |
Democratic | Congressman Peter J. Visclosky First elected: 1984 Seat up for election: Tuesday 2 November 2010 |
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Democratic | Congressman Joseph Simon "Joe" Donnelly First elected: 2006 Seat up for election: Tuesday 2 November 2010 |
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Republican | Congressman Mark Edward Souder First elected: 1994 Seat up for election: Tuesday 2 November 2010 |
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Republican | Congressman Steve Buyer First elected: 1992 Seat up for election: Tuesday 2 November 2010 |
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Republican | Congressman Danny L. "Dan" Burton First elected: 1982 Seat up for election: Tuesday 2 November 2010 |
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Republican | Congressman Mike Pence First elected: 2000 Seat up for election: Tuesday 2 November 2010 |
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Democratic | Congressman André D. Carson First elected: 11 March 2008 in a Special Election called to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Congressman Julia M. Carson (his grandmother) on 15 December 2007. Seat up for election: Tuesday 2 November 2010 |
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Democratic | Congressman Brad Ellsworth First elected: 2006 Seat up for election: Tuesday 2 November 2010 |
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Democratic | Congressman Baron P. Hill First elected: 2006 Seat up for election: Tuesday 2 November 2010 |
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Secretary of State 4 year term, Election Cycle: 2006, 2010 | |||||
Republican | Secretary of State Todd Rokita First elected: 2002; re-elected: 2006 Seat up for election: Tuesday 2 November 2010 Open Seat |
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Candidates for this office are nominated by party convention or petition. That is, there is no primary election for this office. | |||||
Attorney General 4 year term, Election Cycle: 2008, 2012 | |||||
Republican | Attorney General Greg Zoeller First elected: 2008 Seat up for election: Tuesday 6 November 2012 |
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Treasurer 4 year term, Election Cycle: 2006, 2010 | |||||
Republican | Treasurer Richard E. Mourdock First elected: 2006 Seat up for election: Tuesday 2 November 2010 |
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Candidates for this office are nominated by party convention or petition. That is, there is no primary election for this office. | |||||
Auditor 4 year term, Election Cycle: 2006, 2010 | |||||
Republican | Auditor Tim Berry First elected: 2006 Seat up for election: Tuesday 2 November 2010 |
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Candidates for this office are nominated by party convention or petition. That is, there is no primary election for this office. | |||||
Superintendent of Public Instruction 4 year term, Final Election Cycle: 2000. In 2021, this office will be become an appointed position. | |||||
Republican | Public Instruction Superintendent Tony Bennett First elected: 2008 Seat up for election: Tuesday 6 November 2012 |
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. |