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Indiana's 8th Congressional District
Indiana's 8th congressional district is a congressional district in the U.S. state of Indiana. Based in Southwestern Indiana, southwest and west central Indiana, the district is anchored in Evansville, Indiana, Evansville and also includes Jasper, Indiana, Jasper, Princeton, Indiana, Princeton, Terre Haute, Indiana, Terre Haute, Vincennes, Indiana, Vincennes, and Washington, Indiana, Washington. Previously referred to as "The Bloody Eighth" at the local (and sometimes national) levels (see below for explanation), it was formerly a notorious swing district. However, due to a political realignment, it has in recent elections become a safe Republican Party (United States), Republican district. With a Cook Partisan Voting Index rating of R+18, it is the most Republican district in Indiana. Recent election results from statewide races Composition As of 2023, Indiana's 8th congressional district is located in southwest and west central Indiana. It includes Clay, Crawford, Da ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Indiana's 8th Congressional District (since 2023)
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. Previously referred to as "The Bloody Eighth" at the local (and sometimes national) levels (see below for explanation), it was formerly a notorious swing district. However, due to a political realignment, it has in recent elections become a safe Republican district. With a Cook Partisan Voting Index rating of R+18, it is the most Republican district in Indiana. Recent election results from statewide races Composition As of 2023, Indiana's 8th congressional district is located in southwest and west central Indiana. It includes Clay, Crawford, Daviess, Dubois, Gibson, Greene, Knox, Martin, Orange, Owen, Parke, Perry, Pike, Posey, Spencer, Sullivan, Vanderburgh, Vermillion, Vigo, and Warrick Counties, and half of Founta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2016 United States Presidential Election In Indiana
The 2016 United States presidential election in Indiana was held on Tuesday, November 8, 2016, as part of the 2016 United States presidential election in which all 50 states plus the Washington, D.C., District of Columbia participated. Indiana voters chose electors to represent them in the United States Electoral College, Electoral College via a popular vote, pitting the Republican Party (United States), Republican Party's nominee, businessman Donald Trump, and running mate Governor of Indiana, Indiana Governor Mike Pence against Democratic Party (United States), Democratic Party nominee, former United States Secretary of State, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, and her running mate Virginia United States Senate, Senator Tim Kaine. Indiana has 11 electoral votes in the Electoral College. Trump won the state with 56.94% of the vote, while Clinton received 37.77%. Indiana is the home state of Pence, which was believed to have provided assistance to the Trump campaign in what ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Todd Rokita
Theodore Edward Rokita ( ; born February 9, 1970) is an American lawyer and politician serving as the 44th and current Indiana Attorney General, Attorney General of Indiana. He served as a member of the United States House of Representatives from from 2011 to 2019. A member of the Republican Party (United States), Republican Party, he served two terms as Secretary of State of Indiana from 2002 to 2010. When Rokita was elected to office in 2002 at age 32, he became the youngest Secretary of State (U.S. state government), secretary of state in the United States at the time. Rokita was a candidate to replace Mike Pence in the 2016 Indiana gubernatorial election after Pence withdrew from the race to be Donald Trump's running mate in the 2016 United States presidential election, 2016 U.S. presidential election. He lost to Eric Holcomb, Pence's lieutenant governor. Rokita vacated his U.S. House seat and unsuccessfully sought the Republican nomination for U.S. Senate in 2018 United Sta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2020 Indiana Attorney General Election
The 2020 Indiana Attorney General election was held on November 3, 2020, to elect the Indiana Attorney General, Attorney General of the U.S. state of Indiana. The Indiana Democratic Party, Democratic primary convention was scheduled for June 13, 2020. The Indiana Republican Party, Republican primary convention was scheduled with a live stream on June 18, 2020, followed by mail-in voting between June 22 and July 9. Incumbent Attorney General Curtis Hill ran for re-election, but was defeated at the Republican nominating convention by former United States House of Representatives, U.S. Representative Todd Rokita, who eventually won after three rounds of votes. Jonathan Weinzapfel, former mayor of Evansville, Indiana, Evansville, narrowly won the Democratic nomination at the party's nominating convention. In the general election, Rokita defeated Weinzapfel by approximately 500,000 votes, a margin of more than 16 percentage points. Due to a smaller third-party vote, both Rokita and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2020 Indiana Gubernatorial Election
The 2020 Indiana gubernatorial election was won by incumbent Republican Eric Holcomb on November 3, 2020. The election was held concurrently with the 2020 U.S. presidential election, as well as elections to the United States House of Representatives and various state and local elections. Holcomb was eligible to run for re-election to a second term in office, and announced his intention to do so on July 13, 2019, alongside his lieutenant governor, Suzanne Crouch. He faced Democrat Woody Myers, the former health commissioner of Indiana (and later, of New York City) and his running mate, Linda Lawson, the former minority leader of the Indiana House of Representatives, in addition to Libertarian Donald Rainwater, a U.S. Navy veteran and his running mate William Henry. Primary elections were held on June 2; Holcomb and Myers ran unopposed. In the general election, Holcomb won re-election to a second term. Myers also became the first major party candidate to receive fewer t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2020 United States Presidential Election In Indiana
The 2020 United States presidential election in Indiana was held on Tuesday, November 3, 2020, as part of the 2020 United States presidential election in which all 50 states plus the Washington, D.C., District of Columbia participated. Indiana voters chose electors to represent them in the United States Electoral College, Electoral College via a popular vote, pitting the Republican Party (United States), Republican Party's nominee, incumbent President Donald Trump, and running mate Vice President of the United States, Vice President Mike Pence against Democratic Party (United States), Democratic Party nominee, former Vice President Joe Biden, and his running mate California Senator Kamala Harris. Indiana has 11 electoral votes in the Electoral College. Indiana was the home state of Pence, who served as Governor of Indiana from 2013 to 2017. Pence retained a 59% approval among voters in his home state. On the day of the election, most news organizations considered Indiana a sta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mike Braun
Michael Braun (born March 24, 1954) is an American businessman and politician serving as the 52nd governor of Indiana since 2025. A member of the Republican Party, he served from 2019 to 2025 as a United States senator from Indiana and from 2014 to 2017 as the representative for the 63rd district in the Indiana House of Representatives. Born in Jasper, Indiana, Braun graduated from Wabash College with a degree in economics and subsequently earned a MBA from Harvard Business School. After serving in the Indiana House of Representatives from 2014 to 2017, he was elected to the United States Senate in 2018, defeating Democratic incumbent Joe Donnelly. He was elected governor in 2024, defeating Democratic nominee Jennifer McCormick and Libertarian nominee Donald Rainwater by a margin of 13.3%, the highest margin in an open seat election for governor since 1980. Braun opposes the Affordable Care Act, same-sex marriage, abortion, and a pathway to citizenship for undocumented im ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2018 United States Senate Election In Indiana
The 2018 United States Senate election in Indiana took place on November 6, 2018, along with 2018 United States Senate elections, other elections to the United States Senate and United States House of Representatives, House of Representatives and various state and local elections. Incumbent Democratic Party (United States), Democratic Senator Joe Donnelly ran for re-election to a second term, however, he lost in the general election to Republican Party (United States), Republican Mike Braun by a margin of 6%. This was the second consecutive election for this seat in which the incumbent was defeated and/or the seat flipped parties. This was one of ten Democratic-held Senate seats up for election in a state won by Donald Trump in the 2016 United States presidential election, 2016 presidential election. In 2017, ''Politico'' described the race as "possibly the GOP's best opportunity to seize a Senate seat from Democrats" in the 2018 elections. The primary election was held on Ma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Curtis Hill
Curtis Theophilus Hill Jr. (born February 21, 1961) is an American prosecutor from the Republican Party who served as the 43rd Attorney General of Indiana from 2017 to 2021. A graduate of Indiana University and Indiana University School of Law, Hill was a lawyer in private practice and part-time prosecutor until 2002, when he was elected Elkhart County prosecutor. He was reelected to the post, ultimately serving four terms from 2003 before his election as state attorney general in 2016. During his tenure, Curtis led with a conservative agenda, opposing marijuana legalization and attempting to stop restrictions from being imposed during the COVID-19 pandemic. In 2018, Hill was accused of sexual misconduct by four women, prompting calls for his resignation. Hill has denied the allegations. A subsequent investigation by a special prosecutor found the allegations credible, but also found that there was insufficient evidence to convict Hill of a crime. In 2020, in an attorney dis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2016 Indiana Elections
A general election was held in the U.S. state of Indiana on November 8, 2016. Elections were held for President of the United States, United States Senator, Governor of Indiana, two of Indiana's executive officers and all of Indiana's nine seats in the United States House of Representatives. President of the United States United States Senate United States House of Representatives Governor Attorney general Incumbent Republican Indiana Attorney General, attorney general Greg Zoeller declined to run for a third term in order to run for United States House of Representatives, Congress. Republicans chose Curtis Hill, Elkhart County, Indiana, Elkhart County Prosecutor since 2002 over former attorney general Steve Carter (Indiana politician), Steve Carter, State Senator Randall Head, and then-deputy Attorney General Abby Kuzma at the Republican state convention on June 11, 2016 Democrats nominated Lorenzo Arredondo, former Lake County, Indiana, Lake County Circuit Judge from ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eric Holcomb
Eric Joseph Holcomb ( ; born May 2, 1968) is an American politician who served as the 51st governor of Indiana, from 2017 to 2025. A member of the Republican Party (United States), Republican Party, he served from 2016 to 2017 as the 51st Lieutenant Governor of Indiana, lieutenant governor of Indiana under Governor Mike Pence, who left the governorship in 2017 to become the Vice President of the United States, vice president of the United States. Holcomb was nominated to fill the remainder of Lieutenant Governor Sue Ellspermann's term after she resigned on March 2, 2016, to become president of Ivy Tech Community College. He won the 2016 Indiana gubernatorial election, 2016 election for governor of Indiana over Democratic Party (United States), Democratic nominee John R. Gregg, and was reelected in 2020 Indiana gubernatorial election, 2020 over Democratic nominee Woody Myers and Libertarian Party (United States), Libertarian nominee Donald Rainwater. Early life and education Holcom ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2016 Indiana Gubernatorial Election
The 2016 Indiana gubernatorial election was held on November 8, 2016, to elect the Governor of Indiana, governor and lieutenant governor of Indiana, concurrently with the 2016 United States presidential election, 2016 U.S. presidential election as well as United States Senate elections, 2016, elections to the United States Senate and United States House of Representatives elections, 2016, elections to the United States House of Representatives and various United States elections, 2016#State elections, state and United States elections, 2016#Local elections, local elections. The primaries were held on May 3, 2016. Republican lieutenant governor Eric Holcomb won the race with 51.4% of the vote. Incumbent Republican Party (United States), Republican Governor Mike Pence was running for reelection to a second term in office until July 15, 2016, when then-Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump selected Pence as his vice presidential running mate. As Pence was barred by Indian ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
