Daniel Ray Coats is an American politician,attorney,and diplomat. From 2017 to 2019,he served as the Director of National Intelligence in the Trump administration. A member of the Republican Party,he served as a United States Senator from Indiana from 1989 to 1999 and again from 2011 to 2017. He was the United States Ambassador to Germany from 2001 to 2005,and a member of the United States House of Representatives from 1981 to 1989. Coats served on the United States Senate Select Committee on Intelligence while in the U.S. Senate.
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.
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%.
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.
John Nathan Hostettler is an American politician who served in the United States House of Representatives for 12 years,representing Indiana's 8th congressional district as a Republican. He lost his reelection bid for a seventh term to Democratic challenger Brad Ellsworth in the 2006 midterm election.
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.
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 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.
James Edward Banks is an American politician serving as the U.S. representative for Indiana's 3rd congressional district since 2017. A Republican,he previously served as a member of the Indiana Senate from 2010 to 2016.
Sue Ellspermann is an American academic administrator and politician who served as the 50th lieutenant governor of Indiana,from 2013 to 2016. A member of the Republican Party,from 2010 to 2012 Ellspermann served in the Indiana House of Representatives from the 74th District,representing Warrick,Spencer,and parts of Dubois,and Perry County,Indiana. She resigned as lieutenant governor on March 2,2016,to become the president of Ivy Tech Community College of Indiana,a position she has held since July 1,2016.
Rodric D. "Rod" Bray is an American politician from Indiana. A member of the Republican Party,Bray has been a member of the Indiana State Senate since 2012,representing the 37th state Senate district,which comprises all of Morgan County and a portion of Johnson,Owen and Putnam counties.
Presidential primaries and caucuses of the Republican Party took place in many U.S. states,the District of Columbia,and five U.S. territories from February 3 to August 11,2020,to elect most of the 2,550 delegates to send to the Republican National Convention. Delegates to the national convention in other states were elected by the respective state party organizations. The delegates to the national convention voted on the first ballot to select Donald Trump as the Republican Party's nominee for president of the United States in the 2020 election,and selected Mike Pence as the vice-presidential nominee.
The 2020 Libertarian Party presidential primaries and caucuses were a series of electoral contests to indicate non-binding preferences for the Libertarian Party's presidential candidate in the 2020 United States presidential election. These differ from the Republican or Democratic presidential primaries and caucuses in that they do not appoint delegates to represent a candidate at the party's convention to select the party's presidential nominee.
James Richard Baird is an American businessman and politician who serves as the U.S. representative from Indiana's 4th congressional district. Before being elected to Congress,Baird served from 2010 to 2018 as a member of the Indiana House of Representatives and as a Putnam County commissioner from 2006 to 2010. A Vietnam veteran,Baird was elected to Congress on November 6,2018.
The 2020 United States presidential election in Illinois was held on Tuesday,November 3,2020,as part of the 2020 United States presidential election in which all 50 states plus the District of Columbia participated. Illinois voters chose electors to represent them in the Electoral College via a popular vote,pitting the Republican Party's nominee,incumbent President Donald Trump of Florida,and his running mate,Vice President Mike Pence of Indiana,against Democratic Party nominee,former Vice President Joe Biden of Delaware,and his running mate,Senator Kamala Harris of California. Illinois had 20 votes in the Electoral College. Prior to the 2020 election,all news organizations predicted Illinois was a state that Biden would win,or otherwise considered a safe blue state.
The 2020 United States House of Representatives elections in New Hampshire were held on November 3,2020,to elect the two U.S. representatives from the state of New Hampshire,one from each of the state's two congressional districts. The elections coincided with the 2020 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.
The 2020 United States House of Representatives elections in Indiana were held on November 3,2020,to elect the nine U.S. representatives from the state of Indiana,one from each of the state's nine congressional districts. The elections coincided with the 2020 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.
The 2022 elections for the Indiana House of Representatives took place on Tuesday November 8,2022,to elect representatives from all 100 Representative districts in the Indiana House of Representatives. The primary election took place on Tuesday May 3,2022. The Republican Party has held a House majority since 2011.
United States gubernatorial elections are scheduled to be held on November 5,2024,in 11 states and two territories. The previous gubernatorial elections for this group of states took place in 2020,except in New Hampshire and Vermont where governors only serve two-year terms and elected their governors in 2022. In addition to state gubernatorial elections,the territories of American Samoa and Puerto Rico will also hold elections for their governors.
