Indiana 2016 Election Results

Indiana held its general election on November 8, 2016, deciding 125 legislative seats and 4 statewide offices led by the governorship. No chamber changed party control.

Highlights

• Republicans kept full control of state government even after Gov. Mike Pence left the governor's race to run for vice president. They came out of November with a 41-9 Senate and a 70-30 House, where they kept a quorum-proof majority, large enough to do business even if every Democrat stayed away.
• Lt. Gov. Eric Holcomb (R) beat John R. Gregg (D), a former Indiana House speaker, by about 6 points. State Republican leaders had picked Holcomb to replace Pence on the ballot in late July. It was Gregg's second defeat for governor, after losing to Pence in 2012. Suzanne Crouch (R) won the lieutenant governorship on Holcomb's ticket, and Curtis Hill (R) kept the attorney general's office in Republican hands, beating Lorenzo Arredondo (D) by about 25 points. Republicans also took the one statewide office that changed party: Jennifer McCormick (R) ousted Superintendent Glenda Ritz (D), who had won the office in a 2012 upset.
• The 2 legislative seats that changed party went one each way:
  • Former Rep. Mara Candelaria Reardon (D) unseated first-term Rep. William I. (Bill) Fine (R) by about 9 points in House District 12, the only incumbent to lose in November.
  • Mike Bohacek (R) won the open, Democratic-held Senate District 8 in LaPorte County by about 17 points over Maxine Spenner (D).
  Rep. Julie Olthoff (R) survived the closest race, holding House District 19 by 341 votes over former Rep. Shelli VanDenburgh (D). Of the 125 legislative races, 35 had only one candidate on the ballot.
• Voters added a right to hunt and fish to the state constitution, approving Public Question 1 with about 79% of the vote.

Legislature

• House (100 seats): 30 D, 70 R before the election, 30 D, 70 R after; control stayed with Republicans.
• Senate (50 seats): 10 D, 40 R before the election, 9 D, 41 R after; control stayed with Republicans.

Statewide races

Legislative races

Ballot measures