Political Party Strength In Indiana
The following table indicates the party of elected officials in the U.S. state of Indiana:
- Governor
- Lieutenant Governor
- Attorney General
- Secretary of State
- Treasurer
- Auditor
- Superintendent of Public Instruction
The table also indicates the historical party composition in the:
- State Senate
- State House
- State delegation to the U.S. Senate
- State delegation to the U.S. House of Representatives
For years in which a presidential election was held, the table indicates which party's nominees received the state's electoral votes.
The parties are as follows: Adams (A), Anti-Jacksonian (AJ), Anti-Monopolist (AM), Democratic (D), Democratic-Republican (DR), Free Soil (FS), Greenback (G), Independent (I), Jacksonian (J), Opposition (O), Republican (R), Unionist (U), Whig (W), and a tie or coalition within a group of elected officials.
| Year | Executive offices | General Assembly | United States Congress | Electoral College votes | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Governor | Lt. Governor | Attorney General | Secretary of State |
Treas. | Auditor | Supt. of Pub. Inst. | State Senate | State House | U.S. Senator (Class I) | U.S. Senator (Class III) | U.S. House | ||
| 1816 | Jonathan Jennings (DR) | Christopher Harrison (DR) | No such office |
Robert New (DR) | Daniel Lane (DR) | William Lilly (DR) | No such office |
James Noble (DR) | Waller Taylor (DR) | 1DR | James Monroe and Daniel D. Tompkins (DR) | ||
| 1817 | |||||||||||||
| 1818 | |||||||||||||
| 1819 | James Beggs (DR) | ||||||||||||
| 1820 | Ratliff Boon (DR) | ||||||||||||
| 1821 | |||||||||||||
| 1822 | Ratliff Boon (DR) | ||||||||||||
| 1823 | William Hendricks (DR) | Ratliff Boon (DR) | Samuel Merrill (W) | 2J, 1DR | |||||||||
| 1824 | Andrew Jackson and John C. Calhoun (DR) | ||||||||||||
| 1825 | James B. Ray (I) | John H. Thompson (DR) | William Wick (D) | William Hendricks (A) | 2A, 1J | ||||||||
| 1826 | Benjamin Blyth (DR) | ||||||||||||
| 1827 | 3A | ||||||||||||
| 1828 | Andrew Jackson and John C. Calhoun (D) | ||||||||||||
| 1829 | Milton Stapp (I) | James Morrison (D) | Morris Morris (W) | 2A, 1J | |||||||||
| 1830 | |||||||||||||
| 1831 | Robert Hanna (W) | 3J | |||||||||||
| 1832 | Noah Noble (W) | David Wallace (W) | John S. Tipton (D) | Andrew Jackson and Martin Van Buren (D) | |||||||||
| 1833 | William Sheets (W) | 5J, 1D, 1A | |||||||||||
| 1834 | Nathan Palmer (D) | ||||||||||||
| 1835 | |||||||||||||
| 1836 | William Henry Harrison and Francis P. Granger (W) | ||||||||||||
| 1837 | William Brown (D) | 12W, 7D, 1I | 53W, 43D | Oliver H. Smith (W) | 6W, 1D | ||||||||
| 1838 | David Wallace (W) | David Hillis (W) | |||||||||||
| 1839 | Albert S. White (W) | 5D, 2W | |||||||||||
| 1840 | William Henry Harrison and John Tyler (W) | ||||||||||||
| 1841 | Samuel Bigger (W) | Samuel Hall (W) | William Sheets (W) | George Dunn (W) | 6W, 1D | ||||||||
| 1842 | |||||||||||||
| 1843 | Edward A. Hannegan (D) | 8D, 2W | |||||||||||
| 1844 | James Whitcomb (D) | Jesse D. Bright (D) | Royal Mayhew (D) | Horatio Harris (D) | James K. Polk and George M. Dallas (D) | ||||||||
| 1845 | John Thompson (W) | Jesse D. Bright (D) | |||||||||||
| 1846 | Godlove S. Orth (R) | ||||||||||||
| 1847 | Paris C. Dunning (D) | Samuel Hannah (W) | Douglass Maguire (W) | 6D, 4W | |||||||||
| 1848 | Lewis Cass and William Orlando Butler (D) | ||||||||||||
| 1849 | Paris C. Dunning (D) | James G. Read (D) | Charles Test (R) | James Whitcomb (D) | 8D, 1W, 1FS | ||||||||
| 1850 | Joseph A. Wright (D) | James H. Lane (D) | James Drake (D) | Erastus Ellis (D) | |||||||||
| 1851 | 8D, 2W | ||||||||||||
| 1852 | Nehemiah Hayden (D) | William Larrabee (D) | Franklin Pierce and William R. King (D) | ||||||||||
| 1853 | Ashbel P. Willard (D) | Elijah Newland (D) | John Dunn (D) | Charles W. Cathcart (D) | 10D, 1W | ||||||||
| 1854 | Caleb Mills (W) | John Pettit (D) | |||||||||||
| 1855 | James Morrison (D) | Erasmus Collins (R) | William Nofsinger (R) | Hiram Talbott (R) | 5O, 4R, 2D | ||||||||
| 1856 | James Buchanan and John C. Breckinridge (D) | ||||||||||||
| 1857 | Ashbel P. Willard (D) | Abram A. Hammond (D) | Joseph McDonald (D) | Daniel McClure (D) | Aquilla Jones (D) | John Dodd (D) | William Larrabee (D) | Graham N. Fitch (D) | 6D, 5R | ||||
| 1858 | |||||||||||||
| Cyrus Dunham (D) | |||||||||||||
| 1859 | Nathaniel Cunningham (D) | Samuel Rugg (D) | 7R, 4D | ||||||||||
| 1860 | Abram A. Hammond (D) | James Jones (R) | Abraham Lincoln and Hannibal Hamlin (R) | ||||||||||
| 1861 | Henry S. Lane (R) | Oliver P. Morton (R) | John Usher (R) | William Peelle (R) | Jonathan Harvey (R) | Albert Lange (R) | Miles Fletcher (R) | Henry S. Lane (R) | |||||
| 1862 | Oliver P. Morton (R) | John R. Cravens (R) | John Kibbey (R) | Samuel Hoshour (R) | Joseph A. Wright (U) | ||||||||
| 1863 | Paris C. Dunning (D) | Oscar Hord (D) | James Athon (D) | Matthew Brett (D) | Joseph Ristine (D) | Samuel Rugg (D) | David B. Turpie (D) | 7D, 4R | |||||
| 1864 | Thomas A. Hendricks (D) | Abraham Lincoln and Andrew Johnson (R) | |||||||||||
| 1865 | Conrad Baker (R) | Delano Williamson (R) | Nelson Trusler (R) | John Morrison (R) | Thomas McCarthy (R) | George Hoss (D) | 8R, 3D | ||||||
| 1866 | |||||||||||||
| 1867 | Conrad Baker (R) | Will Cumback (R) | Nathan Kimball (R) | Oliver P. Morton (R) | |||||||||
| 1868 | Ulysses S. Grant and Schuyler Colfax (R) | ||||||||||||
| Barnabas Hobbs (R) | |||||||||||||
| 1869 | Max Hoffman (R) | John Evans (R) | Daniel D. Pratt (R) | 7R, 4D | |||||||||
| 1870 | |||||||||||||
| 1871 | Bayless Hanna (D) | Norman Eddy (D) | James Ryan (D) | John Shoemaker (D) | Milton Hopkins (D) | 6R, 5D | |||||||
| 1872 | John Farquhar (R) | Ulysses S. Grant and Henry Wilson (R) | |||||||||||
| 1873 | Thomas A. Hendricks (D) | Leonidas Sexton (R) | James Denny (R) | William Curry (R) | John Glover (R) | James Wildman (R) | 10R, 3D | ||||||
| 1874 | Alexander Hopkins (D) | ||||||||||||
| 1875 | Clarence Buskirk (D) | John Neff (D) | Benjamin Shaw (D) | Ebenezer Henderson (D) | James Smart (D) | Joseph E. McDonald (D) | 8D, 5R | ||||||
| 1876 | Samuel J. Tilden and Thomas A. Hendricks (D) | ||||||||||||
| 1877 | James D. Williams (D) | Isaac P. Gray (D) | 9R, 4D | ||||||||||
| 1878 | Daniel W. Voorhees (D) | ||||||||||||
| 1879 | Thomas Woollen (D) | John Shanklin (D) | William Fleming (D) | Mahlon Manson (D) | 6D, 6R, 1G | ||||||||
| 1880 | Isaac P. Gray (D) | James A. Garfield and Chester A. Arthur (R) | |||||||||||
| 1881 | Albert G. Porter (R) | Thomas Hanna (R) | Daniel Baldwin (R) | Emanuel Hawn (R) | Roswell Hill (R) | Edward Wolfe (R) | John Bloss (R) | Benjamin Harrison (R) | 8R, 5D | ||||
| 1882 | |||||||||||||
| 1883 | Francis Hord (D) | William Myers (D) | John Cooper (D) | James Rice (D) | John Holcombe (D) | 10D, 2R, 1AM | |||||||
| 1884 | Grover Cleveland and Thomas A. Hendricks (D) | ||||||||||||
| 1885 | Isaac P. Gray (D) | Mahlon D. Manson (D) | 9D, 4R | ||||||||||
| 1886 | |||||||||||||
| Alonzo G. Smith (D) | |||||||||||||
| 1887 | Louis Michener (R) | Charles Griffin (R) | Julius Lemcke (R) | Bruce Carr (R) | Harvey LaFollette (R) | David B. Turpie (D) | 7R, 6D | ||||||
| 1888 | Benjamin Harrison and Levi P. Morton (R) | ||||||||||||
| 1889 | Alvin P. Hovey (R) | Ira J. Chase (R) | 10D, 3R | ||||||||||
| 1890 | |||||||||||||
| 1891 | Alonzo Smith (D) | Claude Matthews (D) | Albert Gall (D) | John Henderson (D) | Hervey Vories (D) | 11D, 2R | |||||||
| Ira J. Chase (R) | Francis M. Griffin (R) | ||||||||||||
| 1892 | Grover Cleveland and Adlai E. Stevenson I (D) | ||||||||||||
| 1893 | Claude Matthews (D) | Mortimer Nye (D) | Myron King (D) | ||||||||||
| 1894 | William Meyers (D) | ||||||||||||
| 1895 | William Ketcham (R) | William Owen (R) | Frederick Scholz (R) | Americus Daily (R) | David Geeting (R) | 13R | |||||||
| 1896 | William McKinley and Garret Hobart (R) | ||||||||||||
| 1897 | James A. Mount (R) | William S. Haggard (R) | Charles W. Fairbanks (R) | 9R, 4D | |||||||||
| 1898 | |||||||||||||
| 1899 | William Taylor (R) | Union Hunt (R) | Leopold Levy (R) | William Hart (R) | Frank Jones (R) | Albert J. Beveridge (R) | |||||||
| 1900 | William McKinley and Theodore Roosevelt (R) | ||||||||||||
| 1901 | Winfield T. Durbin (R) | Newton W. Gilbert (R) | |||||||||||
| 1902 | |||||||||||||
| 1903 | Charles Miller (R) | Daniel Storms (R) | Nathaniel Hill (R) | David Sherrick (R) | Fassett Cotton (R) | ||||||||
| 1904 | Theodore Roosevelt and Charles W. Fairbanks (R) | ||||||||||||
| 1905 | J. Frank Hanly (R) | Hugh Thomas Miller (R) | James A. Hemenway (R) | 11R, 2D | |||||||||
| Warren Bigler (R) | |||||||||||||
| 1906 | |||||||||||||
| Fred Sims (R) | |||||||||||||
| 1907 | James Bingham (R) | Oscar Hadley (R) | John Billheimer (R) | 9R, 4D | |||||||||
| 1908 | William Howard Taft and James S. Sherman (R) | ||||||||||||
| 1909 | Thomas R. Marshall (D) | Frank J. Hall (D) | Robert Aley (D) | Benjamin F. Shively (D) | 11D, 2R | ||||||||
| 1910 | Charles Greathouse (D) | ||||||||||||
| 1911 | Thomas Honan (D) | L. G. Ellingham (D) | William Vollmer (D) | William O'Brien (D) | John W. Kern (D) | 12D, 1R | |||||||
| 1912 | Woodrow Wilson and Thomas R. Marshall (D) | ||||||||||||
| 1913 | Samuel M. Ralston (D) | William P. O'Neill (D) | 13D | ||||||||||
| 1914 | |||||||||||||
| 1915 | Richard Milburn (D) | Homer Cook (D) | George Bittler (D) | Dale Crittenberger (D) | 11D, 2R | ||||||||
| 1916 | Evan Stotsenburg (D) | Thomas Taggart (D) | Charles Evans Hughes and Charles W. Fairbanks (R) | ||||||||||
| 1917 | James P. Goodrich (R) | Edgar D. Bush (R) | Ele Stansbury (R) | Edward Jackson (R) | Uz McMurtrie (R) | Otto Klauss (R) | Horace Ellis (R) | Harry S. New (R) | James E. Watson (R) | 9R, 4D | |||
| 1918 | William Roach (R) | ||||||||||||
| 1919 | Linnaeus Hines (R) | 13R | |||||||||||
| 1920 | Edward Jackson (R) | Warren G. Harding and Calvin Coolidge (R) | |||||||||||
| 1921 | Warren T. McCray (R) | Emmett F. Branch (R) | U. S. Lesh (R) | Ora Davies (R) | William Oliver (R) | Benjamin Burris (R) | |||||||
| 1922 | |||||||||||||
| 1923 | Robert Bracken (D) | Samuel M. Ralston (D) | 8R, 5D | ||||||||||
| 1924 | Emmett F. Branch (R) | James J. Nejdl (R) | Henry Sherwood (R) | Calvin Coolidge and Charles G. Dawes (R) | |||||||||
| 1925 | Edward L. Jackson (R) | F. Harold Van Orman (R) | Arthur Gilliom (R) | Fred Schortemeier (R) | Bernhardt Urbahns (R) | Lewis Bowman (R) | 10R, 3D | ||||||
| Arthur R. Robinson (R) | |||||||||||||
| 1926 | |||||||||||||
| Grace Urbahns (R) | |||||||||||||
| 1927 | Charles Miller (R) | ||||||||||||
| 1928 | Roy Wisehart (R) | Herbert Hoover and Charles Curtis (R) | |||||||||||
| 1929 | Harry G. Leslie (R) | Edgar D. Bush (R) | James Ogden (R) | Otto Fifield (R) | Arch Bobbitt (R) | ||||||||
| 1930 | |||||||||||||
| 1931 | Frank Mayr, Jr. (D) | William Storen (D) | Floyd Williamson (D) | George Cole (D) | 9D, 4R | ||||||||
| 1932 | Franklin D. Roosevelt and John Nance Garner (D) | ||||||||||||
| 1933 | Paul V. McNutt (D) | M. Clifford Townsend (D) | Philip Lutz, Jr. (D) | Frederick Van Nuys (D) | 12D | ||||||||
| 1934 | Floyd McMurray (D) | ||||||||||||
| 1935 | August Mueller (D) | Peter Hein (D) | Laurence Sullivan (D) | Sherman Minton (D) | 11D, 1R | ||||||||
| 1936 | |||||||||||||
| 1937 | M. Clifford Townsend (D) | Henry F. Schricker (D) | Omer Jackson (D) | ||||||||||
| 1938 | |||||||||||||
| 1939 | James Tucker (R) | Joseph Robertson (D) | Frank Thompson (D) | 7R, 5D | |||||||||
| 1940 | Samuel Jackson (D) | Wendell Willkie and Charles L. McNary (R) | |||||||||||
| 1941 | Henry F. Schricker (D) | Charles M. Dawson (D) | George Beamer (D) | James Givens (R) | Richard James (R) | Clement Malan (R) | Raymond E. Willis (R) | 8R, 4D | |||||
| 1942 | Maurice Robinson (R) | ||||||||||||
| 1943 | James Emmert (R) | Rue Alexander (R) | 9R, 2D | ||||||||||
| 1944 | Thomas E. Dewey and John W. Bricker (R) | ||||||||||||
| Samuel D. Jackson (D) | |||||||||||||
| William E. Jenner (R) | |||||||||||||
| 1945 | Ralph F. Gates (R) | Richard T. James (R) | Frank Millis (R) | Alvan Burch (R) | Homer E. Capehart (R) | ||||||||
| 1946 | |||||||||||||
| 1947 | Cleon Foust (R) | Thomas Bath, Jr. (R) | Ben Watt (R) | William E. Jenner (R) | |||||||||
| 1948 | Rue J. Alexander (D) | Thomas E. Dewey and Earl Warren (R) | |||||||||||
| 1949 | Henry F. Schricker (D) | John A. Watkins (D) | J. Emmett McManamon (D) | Charles Fleming (D) | F. Shirley Wilcox (D) | James Propst (D) | Deane Walker (D) | 7D, 4R | |||||
| 1950 | |||||||||||||
| 1951 | Leland Smith (R) | William Fortune (R) | Frank Millis (R) | Wilbur Young (R) | 9R, 2D | ||||||||
| 1952 | Dwight D. Eisenhower and Richard Nixon (R) | ||||||||||||
| 1953 | George N. Craig (R) | Harold W. Handley (R) | Edwin Steers (R) | Crawford Parker (R) | John Peters (R) | 10R, 1D | |||||||
| 1954 | |||||||||||||
| 1955 | Curtis Rardin (R) | 9R, 2D | |||||||||||
| 1956 | |||||||||||||
| 1957 | Harold W. Handley (R) | Crawford F. Parker (R) | Frank Lenning (R) | Aldolph Fossler (R) | Roy Combs (R) | ||||||||
| 1958 | |||||||||||||
| 1959 | John Walsh (D) | Jack Haymaker (D) | Albert Steinwedel (D) | William Wilson (D) | Vance Hartke (D) | 8D, 3R | |||||||
| 1960 | Richard Nixon and Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr. (R) | ||||||||||||
| 1961 | Matthew E. Welsh (D) | Richard O. Ristine (R) | Charles Hendricks (R) | Robert Hughes (R) | Dorothy Gardner (R) | 7R, 4D | |||||||
| 1962 | |||||||||||||
| 1963 | Birch Bayh (D) | ||||||||||||
| 1964 | Lyndon B. Johnson and Hubert Humphrey (D) | ||||||||||||
| 1965 | Roger D. Branigin (D) | Robert L. Rock (D) | John Dillon (D) | John Bottorff (D) | Jack New (D) | Mark France (D) | 6D, 5R | ||||||
| 1966 | |||||||||||||
| 1967 | Edgar Whitcomb (R) | John Synder (R) | John Gallagher (R) | Richard Wells (R) | 6R, 5D | ||||||||
| 1968 | Richard Nixon and Spiro Agnew (R) | ||||||||||||
| 1969 | Edgar D. Whitcomb (R) | Richard E. Folz (R) | Theodore Sendak (R) | William Salin (R) | Trudy Etherton (R) | 7R, 4D | |||||||
| 1970 | |||||||||||||
| 1971 | Larry Conrad (D) | Jack New (D) | Mary Aikins Currie (D) | John Laughlin (D) | 6R, 5D | ||||||||
| 1972 | |||||||||||||
| 1973 | Otis R. Bowen (R) | Robert D. Orr (R) | Harold Negley (R) | 7R, 4D | |||||||||
| 1974 | |||||||||||||
| 1975 | 9D, 2R | ||||||||||||
| 1976 | Gerald Ford and Bob Dole (R) | ||||||||||||
| 1977 | Richard Lugar (R) | 8D, 3R | |||||||||||
| 1978 | |||||||||||||
| 1979 | Edwin Simcox (R) | Julian Ridlen (R) | Charles Loos (R) | 7D, 4R | |||||||||
| 1980 | Ronald Reagan and George H. W. Bush (R) | ||||||||||||
| 1981 | Robert D. Orr (R) | John Mutz (R) | Linley Pearson (R) | Dan Quayle (R) | 6D, 5R | ||||||||
| 1982 | |||||||||||||
| 1983 | Otis Cox (D) | 5D, 5R | |||||||||||
| 1984 | |||||||||||||
| 1985 | |||||||||||||
| H. Dean Evans (R) | |||||||||||||
| 1986 | |||||||||||||
| 1987 | Evan Bayh (D) | Majorie O'Laughlin (R) | Sue Anne Gilroy (R) | 6D, 4R | |||||||||
| 1988 | George H. W. Bush and Dan Quayle (R) | ||||||||||||
| 1989 | Evan Bayh (D) | Frank O'Bannon (D) | Joseph Hogsett (D) | 50D, 50R | Dan Coats (R) | 7D, 3R | |||||||
| 1990 | |||||||||||||
| 1991 | 8D, 2R | ||||||||||||
| 1992 | |||||||||||||
| 1993 | Pamela Carter (D) | Suellen Reed (R) | 7D, 3R | ||||||||||
| 1994 | |||||||||||||
| 1995 | Sue Anne Gilroy (R) | Joyce Brinkman (R) | Morris Wooden (R) | 6R, 4D | |||||||||
| 1996 | Bob Dole and Jack Kemp (R) N | ||||||||||||
| 1997 | Frank O'Bannon (D) | Joe Kernan (D) | Jeff Modisett (D) | ||||||||||
| 1998 | Evan Bayh (D) | ||||||||||||
| 1999 | Tim Berry (R) | Connie Kay Nass (R) | |||||||||||
| 2000 | Karen Freeman-Wilson (D) | George W. Bush and Dick Cheney (R) Y | |||||||||||
| 2001 | Steve Carter (R) | ||||||||||||
| 2002 | |||||||||||||
| 2003 | Todd Rokita (R) | 6R, 3D | |||||||||||
| Joe Kernan (D) | Kathy Davis (D) | ||||||||||||
| 2004 | |||||||||||||
| 2005 | Mitch Daniels (R) | Becky Skillman (R) | 7R, 2D | ||||||||||
| 2006 | |||||||||||||
| 2007 | Richard Mourdock (R) | Tim Berry (R) | 33R, 17D | 51D, 49R | 5D, 4R | ||||||||
| 2008 | Barack Obama and Joe Biden (D) Y | ||||||||||||
| 2009 | Greg Zoeller (R) | Tony Bennett (R) | 52D, 48R | ||||||||||
| 2010 | |||||||||||||
| 2011 | Charles P. White (R) | 37R, 13D | 60R, 40D | Dan Coats (R) | 6R, 3D | ||||||||
| 2012 | Jerry Bonnet (R) | Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan (R) N | |||||||||||
| Connie Lawson (R) | |||||||||||||
| 2013 | Mike Pence (R) | Sue Ellspermann (R) | Glenda Ritz (D) | 69R, 31D | Joe Donnelly (D) | 7R, 2D | |||||||
| Year | Governor | Lt. Governor | Attorney General | Secretary of State |
Treas. | Auditor | Supt. of Pub. Inst. | State Senate | State House | U.S. Senator (Class I) | U.S. Senator (Class III) | U.S. House | Electoral College votes |
| Executive offices | General Assembly | United States Congress | |||||||||||
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