9th District
The ninth district lies in south-central Indiana, and consists of the counties of Brown, Clark, Floyd, Harrison, Jackson, Johnson, Lawrence, Monroe, Orange and Washington and portions of Crawford, Morgan and Scott counties. The chief candidates in 2006 were the Republican candidate and the then serving 9th District Congressman Mike Sodrel, Democratic candidate and previous (1999–2005) 9th District Congressman Baron Hill, and Libertarian candidate/Indiana University Southeast professor Eric Schansberg. This was the third time Sodrel and Hill have faced each other; Hill beat Sodrel by 9,485 votes in 2002 and Sodrel beat Hill by 1,425 votes in 2004. Hill beat Sodrel in 2006, and served in the 110th United States Congress.
The 9th District is represented by Bloomington lawyer Republican Todd Young.
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