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A general election was held in the
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of
Indiana Indiana () is a U.S. state in the Midwestern United States. It is the 38th-largest by area and the 17th-most populous of the 50 States. Its capital and largest city is Indianapolis. Indiana was admitted to the United States as the 19th ...
on November 8, 2016. Elections were held for
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,
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,
Governor of Indiana The governor of Indiana is the head of government of the State of Indiana. The governor is elected to a four-year term and is responsible for overseeing the day-to-day management of the functions of many agencies of the Indiana state governmen ...
, two of Indiana's executive officers and all of Indiana's nine seats in the
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.


President of the United States


United States Senate


United States House of Representatives


Governor


Attorney general

Incumbent Republican
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Greg Zoeller declined to run for a third term in order to run for
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. Republicans chose Curtis Hill, Elkhart County Prosecutor since 2002 over former Attorney General Steve Carter, State Senator
Randall Head Randall "Randy" Head (born November 18, 1968) was a Republican member of the Indiana Senate, representing the 18th District since 2008. He used to be Deputy Prosecutor for Cass County. He resigned from the State Senate on August 12, 2019, to b ...
, and then-deputy Attorney General Abby Kuzma at the Republican state convention on June 11, 2016 Democrats nominated Lorenzo Arredondo, former Lake County Circuit Judge from 1976–2010


Polling


General election


=Results

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Superintendent of Public Instruction

Incumbent Democratic
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Glenda Ritz Glenda Ritz (born 1954) is the former Superintendent of Public Instruction for Indiana. She was elected November 6, 2012, defeating incumbent Superintendent Tony Bennett in an upset election, and she took office with a state government dominated ...
ran for re-election. She was unopposed at the Democratic State Convention on June 18, 2016. Republicans nominated
Jennifer McCormick Jennifer McCormick is an American politician and educator who is the former Indiana Superintendent of Public Instruction. Formerly a Republican, she upset the Democratic incumbent Glenda Ritz in the 2016 election and served one term. Switching t ...
, Superintendent of Yorktown Community Schools since 2010 over Dawn Wooten, adjunct faculty at Fort Wayne-area universities. In 2019, governor
Eric Holcomb Eric Joseph Holcomb (born May 2, 1968) is an American politician who is the 51st and current governor of Indiana, serving since 2017. A member of the Republican Party, he served as the 51st lieutenant governor of Indiana from 2016 to 2017 under ...
signed House Bill 1005, which would abolish the office and create an appointed position of Secretary of Education to replace it effective January 11, 2021. As a consequence, the 2016 election was the last election held for the office.


Polling


General election


=Results

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General Assembly

All 100 seats of the
Indiana House of Representatives The Indiana House of Representatives is the lower house of the Indiana General Assembly, the state legislature of the U.S. state of Indiana. The House is composed of 100 members representing an equal number of constituent districts. House mem ...
and 25 of 50 seats of the
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were up for election. Before the election the composition of the
Indiana General Assembly The Indiana General Assembly is the state legislature, or legislative branch, of the state of Indiana. It is a bicameral legislature that consists of a lower house, the Indiana House of Representatives, and an upper house, the Indiana Senate. ...
was:


Senate


House of Representatives


References

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Indiana Indiana () is a U.S. state in the Midwestern United States. It is the 38th-largest by area and the 17th-most populous of the 50 States. Its capital and largest city is Indianapolis. Indiana was admitted to the United States as the 19th ...