Rupert Vance Hartke was an American politician who served as a Democratic United States Senator from Indiana from 1959 until 1977. Hartke won election to the Senate after serving as the mayor of Evansville,Indiana. In the Senate,he supported the Great Society and became a prominent opponent of the Vietnam War. Hartke ran for president in the 1972 Democratic primaries but withdrew after the first set of primaries. He left the Senate after being defeated in his 1976 re-election campaign by Richard Lugar.
Baron Paul Hill is a retired American politician who served as a U.S. Representative for Indiana's 9th congressional district from 1999 to 2005 and from 2007 to 2011.
The 2006 United States House of Representatives elections were held on November 7,2006,to elect members to the United States House of Representatives. It took place in the middle of President George W. Bush's second term in office. All 435 seats of the House were up for election. Those elected served in the 110th United States Congress from January 3,2007,until January 3,2009. The incumbent majority party,the Republicans,had won majorities in the House consecutively since 1994,and were defeated by the Democrats who won a majority in the chamber,ending 12 years of Republican control in the House.
Jonathan David Weinzapfel is an American politician,attorney,businessman,and Democratic nominee for Indiana Attorney General in the 2020 election. Weinzapfel formerly served as the 33rd mayor of Evansville,Indiana. He was elected in November 2003 and again in 2007. He did not run for a third term in office,and was succeeded by Lloyd Winnecke. He is a member of the Democratic Party. He most previously served as the Chancellor of Ivy Tech Community College's Southwest campus,a position he held from 2014 to 2019.
John Bradley Ellsworth is an American politician who was the U.S. representative for Indiana's 8th congressional district from 2007 to 2011. In 2010,he was the Democratic candidate for a seat in the United States Senate,but he was defeated by Dan Coats,a former Senator,by 55% to 40%.
Francis Xavier McCloskey was an American journalist,lawyer,and politician from Indiana who served in the United States House of Representatives as a Democrat from 1983 to 1995.
Brian Douglas Kerns is an American journalist and politician. He served as a Republican Representative from Indiana's 7th congressional district from January 3,2001 to January 3,2003.
Indiana's 8th congressional district is a congressional district in the U.S. state of Indiana. Based in southwest and west central Indiana,the district is anchored in Evansville and also includes Jasper,Princeton,Terre Haute,Vincennes,and Washington.
The 2008 congressional elections in Virginia were held on November 4,2008 to determine who would represent the Commonwealth of Virginia in the United States House of Representatives,coinciding with the presidential and senatorial elections. Representatives are elected for two-year terms;those elected served in the 111th Congress from January 3,2009 until January 3,2011. Primary elections were held on June 10,2008.
Richard Earl Mourdock is an American politician who served as treasurer of the state of Indiana from 2007 to 2014. Running with the support of the Tea Party movement,he defeated six-term incumbent U.S. Senator Richard Lugar in the May 2012 Republican primary election for U.S. Senate. He lost the November 6,2012 general election for Lugar's seat to Democratic congressman Joe Donnelly.
Indiana has long been considered to be a Republican stronghold and is rated R+11 on the Cook Partisan Voting Index. The current governor of Indiana is Republican Eric Holcomb,and Republicans hold supermajorities in both chambers of the Indiana General Assembly. It has only supported a Democrat for president four times since 1912—in the elections of 1932,1936,1964,and 2008. Historically,the state was a swing state,voting for the national winner all but four times from 1816 to 1912,with the exceptions of 1824,1836,1848,and 1876.
The 2006 congressional elections in Indiana were elections for Indiana's delegation to the United States House of Representatives,which occurred along with congressional elections nationwide on November 7,2006. Indiana played an important role in helping Democrats sweep Congress,when three Republican incumbents were defeated:,giving the Democrats a majority of the delegation again. Republicans held a majority of Indiana's delegation,7–2,before the elections.
The 2010 United States Senate election in Indiana took place on November 2,2010,alongside 33 other elections to the United States Senate in other states and elections to the United States House of Representatives and various state and local elections to fill Indiana's class III United States Senate seat. Incumbent Democratic U.S. Senator Evan Bayh decided in February 2010 to retire instead of seeking a third term shortly after Republican former U.S. Senator Dan Coats,announced his candidacy for Bayh's contested seat. Bayh's announcement came one day before the filing deadline and no Democratic candidate submitted enough signatures by the deadline to run,so the State Democratic Party chose U.S. Congressman Brad Ellsworth as their nominee. The Libertarian Party nominated YMCA instructor Rebecca Sink-Burris,who had previously run against Evan Bayh in the 1998 United States Senate election in Indiana but with less success than in this election. Coats won the open seat;he declined to seek re-election in 2016.
The 2010 congressional elections in Indiana were held on November 2,2010,to determine who would represent the state of Indiana in the United States House of Representatives. Representatives are elected for two-year terms;those elected served in the 112th Congress from January 2011 until January 2013,except for the winner of the 3rd District's special election,who will serve the few remaining weeks of the 111th Congress. As of 2023 this is the last time that the Democrats won more than 2 seats in Indianas house delegation.
William Trent Van Haaften is a Democratic politician from the state of Indiana. He served as a member of the Indiana House of Representatives,representing the 76th District,from 2003 until 2010. He ran,in 2012,for his old seat.
Larry Dean Bucshon is an American politician and physician who has been the U.S. representative for Indiana's 8th congressional district since 2011. He is a member of the Republican Party.
Michael A. Delph is a former Republican member of the Indiana State Senate representing the 29th district from 2005 to 2018. He is considered to be a "socially conservative Republican," who has courted support from the Tea Party movement.
The 2012 United States House of Representatives elections in Indiana were held on Tuesday,November 6,2012 to elect the nine U.S. representatives from the state,one from each of the state's nine congressional districts. The elections coincided with the elections of other federal and state offices,including a quadrennial presidential election,an election to the U.S. Senate,and a gubernatorial election.
Thomas Washburne is a Republican member of the Indiana House of Representatives,representing the 64th District since 2013. In 2017,Washburne announced that he would not be running for reelection to the State House.
The 2024 United States House of Representatives elections in Indiana will be held on November 5,2024,to elect the nine U.S. representatives from the State of Indiana,one from all nine of the state's congressional districts. The elections will coincide with the 2024 U.S. presidential election,as well as other elections to the House of Representatives,elections to the United States Senate,and various state and local elections.
