The Green Papers: Indiana 2025 General Election
 
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Elections for Statewide offices and Congress
Senators:2(Electoral Classes 1 and 3)
Governor:1 
2020 Census:6,790,280 (2.19% of 309,785,186)
2024, 2028 Electoral Votes:11(0.00% of 538)
2022-2030 Representatives:9(2.07% of 435)
Capital:Indianapolis
 

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Indiana State and Local Government


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.


Indiana law forbids anyone from appearing on the general election ballot more the once.


The Libertarian Party nominates by convention rather than by primary.

Democratic and Republican Party nominations for Secretary of State, Auditor, and Treasurer are decided by convention.


A special election is required to be held under Indiana Code 3-10-8-1(3) "Whenever a vacancy occurs in the office of United States Representative, unless the vacancy occurs less than 74 days before a general election." There is no primary. Major party candidates are nominated at a party caucus and minor party and independent candidates are nominated by petition.

The party selects a nominee for Special Elections or in the event their nominee dies. The nominee "shall be filled by appointment by the district chairman of the political party."

 
           

U.S. Senate  6 year term. No Term Limit. 119th Senate  Senate Electoral Classes

Class 1 Republican Senator  James E. "Jim" Banks
First elected: 2024.
Seat up for regular election: Tuesday 5 November 2030

Class 3 Republican Senator  Todd Christopher Young
Served in the U.S. House: 2011-2017. First elected to the U.S. Senate: 2016; re-elected: 2022.
Seat up for regular election: Tuesday 7 November 2028
 Candidate list (1)
  Candidate Democratic     Diego Antonio Gonzalez, Jr.
FEC S8IN00239 or S8IN00247

FEC S8IN00239

Governor  4 year term, Election Cycle: 2024, 2028. Term Limit: No more than 2 4-year terms in any 3-term period, All Governors

  Republican Governor  Michael K. "Mike" Braun
First elected: 2024.
Chair up for regular election: Tuesday 7 November 2028
The current Governor is unaffected by the State's term limit.

Lieutenant Governor  4 year term, Election Cycle: 2024, 2028. Elected on a ticket with Governor.

  Republican Lieutenant Governor  Micah Beckwith
First elected: 2024.
Seat up for regular election: Tuesday 7 November 2028

119th U.S. House of Representatives  2-year term. Election Cycle 2026, 2028. No Term Limit. 119th House
Partisan Composition (primary disposition):
2 Democratic (2 Undetermined);
7 Republican (7 Undetermined)

Incumbent - 119th Congress
CD 1 Democratic Member of Congress  Frank J. Mrvan
First elected: 2020
Seat up for regular election: Tuesday 3 November 2026

Incumbent - 119th Congress
CD 2 Republican Member of Congress  Rudolph C. "Rudy" Yakym, III
First elected: 2022.
Seat up for regular election: Tuesday 3 November 2026

Incumbent - 119th Congress
CD 3 Republican Member of Congress  Marlin A. Stutzman
First elected: 2024.
Seat up for regular election: Tuesday 3 November 2026

Incumbent - 119th Congress
CD 4 Republican Member of Congress  James R. "Jim" Baird
First elected: 2018
Seat up for regular election: Tuesday 3 November 2026

Incumbent - 119th Congress
CD 5 Republican Member of Congress  Victoria Spartz
First elected: 2020
Seat up for regular election: Tuesday 3 November 2026

Incumbent - 119th Congress
CD 6 Republican Member of Congress Jefferson Shreve
First elected: 2024.
Seat up for regular election: Tuesday 3 November 2026

Incumbent - 119th Congress
CD 7 Democratic Member of Congress  André D. Carson
First elected: 11 March 2008 in a Special Election called to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Member of Congress Julia M. Carson (his grandmother) on 15 December 2007.
Seat up for regular election: Tuesday 3 November 2026

Incumbent - 119th Congress
CD 8 Republican Member of Congress  Mark Messmer
First elected: 2024.
Seat up for regular election: Tuesday 3 November 2026

Incumbent - 119th Congress
CD 9 Republican Member of Congress  Erin Houchin
First elected: 2022.
Seat up for regular election: Tuesday 3 November 2026

Secretary of State  4 year term, Election Cycle: 2022, 2026

  Republican Secretary of State  Diego Morales
First elected: 2022.
Seat up for regular election: Tuesday 3 November 2026
 

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: 2024, 2028

  Republican Attorney General  Todd Rokita
Previously served as Indiana state Secretary of State: 2002-2010; first elected to the U.S. House: 2010. Reelected 2012, 2014, 2016. Not a candidate for reelection to Congress: 2018, unsuccessful candidate for nomination to the United States Senate: 2018; re-elected as Attorney General: 2020, 2024.
Seat up for regular election: Tuesday 7 November 2028
 Major Party candidates for the offices of Attorney General 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: 2022, 2026

  Republican Treasurer  Daniel Elliott
First elected: 2022.
Seat up for regular election: Tuesday 3 November 2026
 Candidates for this office are nominated by party convention or petition. That is, there is no primary election for this office.

Comptroller  4 year term, Election Cycle: 2022, 2026

  Republican Comptroller  Elise Nieshalla
Appointed 1 December 2023 [re: resignation of Comptroller Tera Klutz (Republican) ].
Seat up for regular election: Tuesday 3 November 2026
 

Candidates for this office are nominated by party convention or petition. That is, there is no primary election for this office.

On 1 July 2023, the official title of this office was changed from Auditor to Comptroller.

Auditor Tera K. Klutz (Republican) who was appointed 9 January 2017 [re: resignation of Auditor Suzanne Crouch (Republican) due to her 2016 election as Lieutenant Governor], first elected in 2018, and re-elected in 2022, announced her resignation on 28 September 2023 effective 30 November 2023.
1 December 2023: Governor Eric J. Holcomb (Republican) appoints Elise Nieshalla as the 58th state Comptroller.

 

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.

Major Parties   Those parties which received electoral votes through winning a plurality of a state's [or the District of Columbia's] popular vote in any presidential election between 1984 and 2016. See Classification of Political parties.
  Democratic (affiliates): 2 incumbents, 1 candidate
  Republican: 15 incumbents
Major Third Parties   Any Party, other than a Major Party, receiving a minimum of 15/100ths of 1 percent of the nationwide popular vote in any presidential election between 1984 and 2016. See Classification of Political parties.
  Constitution (affiliates)
  Green (affiliates)
  Libertarian
Other Third Parties
  Boston Tea
  Justice Party
  Right to Life
  Unity
 
Candidates running under the banner of more than one party are counted towards each party's total. A candidate who has lost a primary or is apparently no longer a candidate is not counted.

Notes

Candidates for office appear on this page in italics where 'The Green Papers' does not yet have independent confirmation from a legal election authority that the person has been officially certified to appear on the ballot.

Primary dates marked "presumably" and polling times marked "reportedly" are based on unofficial or estimated data (especially as regards local variations from a jurisdictionwide statutory and/or regulatory standard) and are, thereby, subject to change.

"FEC" indicates the Federal Election Commission (FEC) Campaign Finance Summary.

When available, we post each candidate's FEC identification number, the date of their most recently filed Report of Receipts and Disbursements, their "Tot" [Total Receipts (contributions received or what came in: FEC Form 3, Line 16, Column B)] and their "Dsb" [Total Disbursements (expenditures or what was spent: FEC Form 3, Line 23, Column B)]. A link is provided to the Federal Election Commission's Summary Report for those who might wish to explore the details.

If a candidate raises or spends $5,000 or less, he or she is not subject to FEC reporting requirements.


Links Links to other web sites

Election Authority
  Indiana Election Commission
Legislature   Links to State Legislatures
  Indiana General Assembly
  Indiana Senate Democratic Caucus
  Indiana Senate Republican Caucus
Democratic
  Indiana Democratic Party
Republican
  Indiana House Republicans
  The Indiana Republican Party
Third Party
  Boston Tea Party of Indiana
  Constitution Party of Indiana
  Indiana Green Party
  Indiana Right To Life
  Indiana Right To Life
  Justice Party of Indiana
  Libertarian Party of Indiana
  The Unity Party of Indiana
Media & others
  Decatur Daily Democrat
  Goshen News
  Greensburg Daily News
  Indianapolis Business Journal
  InGroup Online - Noblesville
  Kendallville Publishing Company - Northeast Indiana
  Kokomo Tribune
  Lebanon Reporter
  NewsLink.org - Indiana
  Pharos-Tribune - Logansport
  Politics1.com - Indiana
  Post-Tribune - Merrillville
  The Courier-Times - New Castle
  The Evening News - Jefferson / The Tribune - New Albany
  The Herald Bulletin - Anderson
  The Herald-Press - Huntington County
  The News-Dispatch - Michigan City
  The News-Sentinel - Fort Wayne
  The Shelbyville News
  The Times - Frankfort
  The Times - Munster
  The Times - Northwest Indiana / Southeast Chicago
  The Wabash PlainDealer
  Tri-State Media
  Tribune Star - Terre Haute
  WISH TV - CBS - Indianapolis
  WRTV - ABC - Indianapolis
  WTHR - NBC - Indianapolis
  Zionsville Times Sentinel

 


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