Indiana gubernatorial election, 1992

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Indiana gubernatorial election, 1992
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  1988 November 3, 1992 (1992-11-03) 1996  

  Evan Bayh official portrait v2.jpg Linley Pearson.jpg
Nominee Evan Bayh Linley E. Pearson
Party Democratic Republican
Running mate Frank O'Bannon Robert D. Green
Popular vote1,382,151822,533
Percentage62.0%36.9%

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Blue counties won by Bayh.
Red counties won by Pearson.

Governor before election

Evan Bayh
Democratic

Elected Governor

Evan Bayh
Democratic

The 1992 Indiana gubernatorial Election was held on November 3, 1992. Incumbent Governor Evan Bayh, a Democrat, won reelection over his Republican challenger, Linley E. Pearson with 62% of the vote. He was the first Democratic governor of Indiana to win reelection since governors became eligible for election to consecutive terms in office in 1972.

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Linley E. Pearson

Linley E. Pearson is an American politician who served as the Attorney General of Indiana from 1981 to 1993. He previously served as Clinton County Prosecutor from 1971 to 1981. He was the Republican nominee for Governor in 1992. Pearson became Judge for the Clinton County Circuit Court in 1994, after he defeated the incumbent, Jack O'Neill, in the Republican primary. He left in December 2012.

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Primaries

Democratic

Incumbent Governor Evan Bayh won unopposed.

Democratic primary results [1]
PartyCandidateVotes%
Democratic Evan Bayh (Incumbent)298,478100.00
Total votes298,478100.00

Republican

Candidates

H. Dean Evans was born at his parents' home on September 1, 1929. He served as the State Superintendent of Indiana from June 6, 1985 to January 11, 1993. At age 75, Evans died peacefully in his home on October 2, 2004.

Republican primary results [2]
PartyCandidateVotes%
Republican Linley E. Pearson223,37348.9
Republican H. Dean Evans153,08933.5
Republican John A. Johnson80,78417.7
Total votes457,246100.00

Minor parties

New Alliance

The New Alliance Party nominated Mary Barton to be its gubernatorial candidate in 1992. Elmetta Wellington became the nominee for lieutenant governor.

The New Alliance Party (NAP) was an American political party formed in New York City in 1979. Its immediate precursor was an umbrella organization known as the Labor Community Alliance for Change, whose member groups included the Coalition of Grass Roots Women and the New York City Unemployed and Welfare Council. All of these groups were associated with controversial psychologist and political activist Fred Newman, whose radical health care collectives, Centers for Change and Marxist International Workers Party, were active in grassroots politics in New York City. The NAP's first chairperson was then-South Bronx City Councilman Gilberto Gerena-Valentin, a veteran Puerto Rican political activist. The party is notable for getting African American psychologist Lenora Fulani on the ballot in all 50 states during her first Presidential campaign in 1988, making her both the first African-American and woman to do so.

Results

Bayh won the election with 62% of the popular vote to Pearson's 37%. Bayh's total in the popular vote was the largest in recent history.

Indiana gubernatorial election, 1992
PartyCandidateVotes%
Democratic Evan Bayh (incumbent)1,382,15162.0
Republican Linley E. Pearson 822,53336.9
New Alliance Mary Barton24,3781.1

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