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The Indianapolis mayoral election of 1971 took place on November 2, 1971. This was the first election after the creation of the Unigov. [1] Incumbent Republican Richard Lugar was reelected to a second term. Lugar's challenger had been Democrat John Neff, a former state senator. Neff had campaigned in opposition to the Unigov, promising to seek its abolishment if elected. [2]
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
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| Republican | Richard Lugar (incumbent) | 155,164 | 60.5 | |
| Democratic | John Neff | 101,367 | 39.5 | |
| Turnout | 256,531 | 53.8 | ||
| Majority | 53,797 | 21.0 | ||
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The 1974 United States Senate election in Indiana took place on November 5, 1974. Incumbent Democratic U.S. Senator Birch Bayh was re-elected to a third consecutive term in office, defeating Mayor of Indianapolis Richard Lugar.
The Indianapolis mayoral election of 1967 took place on November 7, 1967. Richard Lugar defeated incumbent Democratic mayor John J. Barton, becoming the first Republican to be elected mayor of Indianapolis in nearly two-decades. Democrats had long dominated mayoral elections before 1967, having won ten of the thirteen mayoral elections since 1930. No Democrat would subsequently recapture the mayoralty until 1999, largely due to the city-county merger that created the Unigov in 1970 adding the votes of suburban Marion County, which shifted the composition the electorate towards the Republicans.
The Indianapolis mayoral election of 1975 took place on November 4, 1975 and saw the election of Republican William H. Hudnut III.
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| Preceded by 1967 | Indianapolis mayoral election 1971 | Succeeded by 1975 |
