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United States House of Representatives elections in Indiana, 2024
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May 7, 2024 |
November 5, 2024 |
2024 U.S. House Elections |
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The U.S. House of Representatives elections in Indiana were on November 5, 2024. Voters elected nine candidates to serve in the U.S. House from each of the state's nine U.S. House districts. The primary was May 7, 2024. The filing deadline was February 9, 2024.
Partisan breakdown
| Members of the U.S. House from Indiana -- Partisan Breakdown | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Party | As of November 2024 | After the 2024 Election | |
| Democratic Party | 2 | 2 | |
| Republican Party | 7 | 7 | |
| Total | 9 | 9 | |
Candidates
District 1
General election candidates
- Frank Mrvan (Incumbent) (Democratic Party) ✔
- Randell Niemeyer (Republican Party)
- Dakotah Miskus (Libertarian Party)
Did not make the ballot:
- Jason Brown (American Independent Party)
- Tiffany Ford (Independent)
- Samuel Kravitz (Independent)
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Democratic primary candidates
- Frank Mrvan (Incumbent) ✔
Republican primary candidates
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District 2
General election candidates
- Rudy Yakym (Incumbent) (Republican Party) ✔
- Lori A. Camp (Democratic Party)
- William Henry (Libertarian Party)
- Mike Hubbard (Independent) (Write-in)
Did not make the ballot:
- Cameron Beamon (Independent)
- Michael S. Young (Independent) (Write-in)
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- Rudy Yakym (Incumbent) ✔
Minor Party convention candidates
Libertarian Party
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District 3
General election candidates
- Kiley Adolph (Democratic Party)
- Marlin A. Stutzman (Republican Party) ✔
- Jarrad Lancaster (Libertarian Party)
Democratic primary candidates
Did not make the ballot:
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- Grant Bucher
- Wendy W. Davis
- Michael Felker
- Jon Kenworthy
- Tim Smith
- Marlin A. Stutzman ✔
- Eric Whalen
- Andy Zay
Did not make the ballot:
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Minor Party convention candidates
Libertarian Party
District 4
General election candidates
- Jim Baird (Incumbent) (Republican Party) ✔
- Derrick Holder (Democratic Party)
- Ashley Groff (Libertarian Party)
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- Jim Baird (Incumbent) ✔
- Charles Bookwalter
- John Piper
Did not make the ballot:
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District 5
General election candidates
- Victoria Spartz (Incumbent) (Republican Party) ✔
- Deborah A. Pickett (Democratic Party)
- Lauri Shillings (Libertarian Party)
- Robby Slaughter (Independent)
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- Victoria Spartz (Incumbent) ✔
- Raju Chinthala
- Max Engling
- Chuck Goodrich
- Mark Hurt
- Patrick Malayter
- Matthew Peiffer
- Lonnie Powell
- Larry L. Savage Jr.
Did not make the ballot:
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District 6
General election candidates
- Cynthia Wirth (Democratic Party)
- Jefferson Shreve (Republican Party) ✔
- James Sceniak (Libertarian Party)
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Did not make the ballot:
- Greg Pence (Incumbent)
- Erik Benson
- Siddharth Mahant
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Minor Party convention candidates
Libertarian Party
District 7
General election candidates
- André Carson (Incumbent) (Democratic Party) ✔
- John Schmitz (Republican Party)
- Rusty Johnson (Libertarian Party)
Democratic primary candidates
- André Carson (Incumbent) ✔
- Curtis Godfrey
- Pierre Quincy Pullins
Republican primary candidates
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Minor Party convention candidates
Libertarian Party
District 8
General election candidates
- Erik Hurt (Democratic Party)
- Mark Messmer (Republican Party) ✔
- K. Richard Fitzlaff (Libertarian Party)
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Did not make the ballot:
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- Jim Case
- Jeremy Heath
- John N. Hostettler
- Dominick Jack Kavanaugh
- Mark Messmer ✔
- Luke Misner
- Richard Moss
- Kristi Risk
Did not make the ballot:
- Larry Bucshon (Incumbent)
- Jon Schrock
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District 9
General election candidates
- Erin Houchin (Incumbent) (Republican Party) ✔
- Timothy Peck (Democratic Party)
- Russell Brooksbank (Libertarian Party)
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Did not make the ballot:
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- Erin Houchin (Incumbent) ✔
- Hugh Doty
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Voting information
- See also: Voting in Indiana
General election race ratings
- See also: Race rating definitions and methods
Ballotpedia provides race ratings from four outlets: The Cook Political Report, Inside Elections, Sabato's Crystal Ball, and DDHQ/The Hill. Each race rating indicates if one party is perceived to have an advantage in the race and, if so, the degree of advantage:
- Safe and Solid ratings indicate that one party has a clear edge and the race is not competitive.
- Likely ratings indicate that one party has a clear edge, but an upset is possible.
- Lean ratings indicate that one party has a small edge, but the race is competitive.[1]
- Toss-up ratings indicate that neither party has an advantage.
Race ratings are informed by a number of factors, including polling, candidate quality, and election result history in the race's district or state.[2][3][4]
Click the following links to see the race ratings in each of the state's U.S. House districts:
- Indiana's 1st Congressional District
- Indiana's 2nd Congressional District
- Indiana's 3rd Congressional District
- Indiana's 4th Congressional District
- Indiana's 5th Congressional District
- Indiana's 6th Congressional District
- Indiana's 7th Congressional District
- Indiana's 8th Congressional District
- Indiana's 9th Congressional District
Ballot access
The table below details filing requirements for U.S. House candidates in Indiana in the 2024 election cycle. For additional information on candidate ballot access requirements in Indiana, click here.
| Filing requirements for U.S. House candidates, 2024 | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| State | Office | Party | Signatures required | Filing fee | Filing deadline | Source |
| Indiana | U.S. House | Ballot-qualified party | N/A (only declaration of candidacy required) | N/A | 2/6/2024 | Source |
| Indiana | U.S. House | Unaffiliated | 2% of total votes cast for the secretary of state in the district in the last election | N/A | 7/1/2024 | Source |
Election analysis
Click the tabs below to view information about competitiveness, presidential election history, and party control in the state.
- Competitiveness - Information about the competitiveness of 2024 U.S. House elections in the state.
- Presidential elections - Information about presidential elections in the state's U.S. House districts.
- State party control - The partisan makeup of the state's congressional delegation and state government.
This section contains data on U.S. House primary election competitiveness in Indiana.
| Indiana U.S. House competitiveness, 2014-2024 | ||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Office | Districts/ offices |
Seats | Open seats | Candidates | Possible primaries | Contested Democratic primaries | Contested Republican primaries | % of contested primaries | Incumbents in contested primaries | % of incumbents in contested primaries | ||||
| 2024 | 9 | 9 | 3 | 63 | 18 | 6 | 8 | 77.8% | 4 | 66.7% | ||||
| 2022 | 9 | 9 | 1 | 49 | 18 | 8 | 4 | 66.7% | 3 | 37.5% | ||||
| 2020 | 9 | 9 | 2 | 78 | 18 | 9 | 6 | 83.3% | 4 | 57.1% | ||||
| 2018 | 9 | 9 | 2 | 71 | 18 | 8 | 7 | 83.3% | 4 | 57.1% | ||||
| 2016 | 9 | 9 | 2 | 51 | 18 | 8 | 8 | 88.9% | 7 | 100.0% | ||||
| 2014 | 9 | 9 | 0 | 49 | 18 | 7 | 6 | 72.2% | 6 | 66.7% | ||||
Post-filing deadline analysis
The following analysis covers all U.S. House districts up for election in Indiana in 2024. Information below was calculated on March 19, 2024, and may differ from information shown in the table above due to candidate replacements and withdrawals after that time.
Sixty-three candidates ran for Indiana’s nine U.S. House districts, including 18 Democrats and 45 Republicans. That’s seven candidates per district, higher than the 5.6 candidates that ran in 2022, but lower than the 8.7 candidates who ran in 2020.
Three districts—the 3rd, the 6th, and the 8th—were open, meaning no incumbents ran. That’s the most open districts in an election cycle this decade.
Rep. Jim Banks (R-3rd) did not run for re-election in order to run for the U.S. Senate, while Reps. Greg Pence (R-6th) and Larry Bucshon (R-8th) retired from public office.
Twelve candidates—four Democrats and eight Republicans—ran for the open 8th Congressional District, the most candidates to run for a seat in 2024.
Fourteen primaries—six Democratic and eight Republican—were contested in 2024. Twelve primaries were contested in 2022, 15 primaries were contested in 2020, and 15 were in 2018.
Four incumbents—one Democrat and three Republicans—faced primary challengers in 2024. That's higher than in 2022, when three incumbents faced challengers, but the same as in 2020 and 2018.
Candidates filed to run in the Republican and Democratic primaries in all eight districts, meaning no seats were guaranteed to either party.| Cook Political Report's Partisan Voter Index for Indiana, 2024 | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| District | Incumbent | Party | PVI |
| Indiana's 1st | Frank Mrvan |  Democratic |
D+3 |
| Indiana's 2nd | Rudy Yakym |  Republican |
R+14 |
| Indiana's 3rd | Jim Banks | Republican |
R+18 |
| Indiana's 4th | Jim Baird | Republican |
R+18 |
| Indiana's 5th | Victoria Spartz | Republican |
R+11 |
| Indiana's 6th | Greg Pence | Republican |
R+19 |
| Indiana's 7th | André Carson | Democratic |
D+19 |
| Indiana's 8th | Larry Bucshon | Republican |
R+19 |
| Indiana's 9th | Erin Houchin | Republican |
R+16 |
| 2020 presidential results in congressional districts based on 2024 district lines, Indiana[5] | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| District | Joe Biden
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Donald Trump
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| Indiana's 1st | 53.4% | 45.0% | ||
| Indiana's 2nd | 37.8% | 60.4% | ||
| Indiana's 3rd | 34.0% | 63.9% | ||
| Indiana's 4th | 34.3% | 63.4% | ||
| Indiana's 5th | 41.0% | 57.0% | ||
| Indiana's 6th | 33.0% | 64.9% | ||
| Indiana's 7th | 70.3% | 27.9% | ||
| Indiana's 8th | 32.7% | 65.5% | ||
| Indiana's 9th | 35.4% | 62.7% | ||
Congressional delegation
The table below displays the partisan composition of Indiana's congressional delegation as of May 2024.
| Congressional Partisan Breakdown from Indiana | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Party | U.S. Senate | U.S. House | Total |
| Democratic | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| Republican | 2 | 7 | 9 |
| Independent | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Vacancies | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Total | 2 | 9 | 11 |
State executive
The table below displays the officeholders in Indiana's top four state executive offices as of May 2024.
| State executive officials in Indiana, May 2024 | |
|---|---|
| Office | Officeholder |
| Governor | Eric Holcomb
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| Lieutenant Governor | Suzanne Crouch
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| Secretary of State | Diego Morales
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| Attorney General | Todd Rokita
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State legislature
Indiana State Senate
| Party | As of February 2024 | |
|---|---|---|
| Democratic Party | 10 | |
| Republican Party | 40 | |
| Other | 0 | |
| Vacancies | 0 | |
| Total | 50 | |
Indiana House of Representatives
| Party | As of February 2024 | |
|---|---|---|
| Democratic Party | 30 | |
| Republican Party | 70 | |
| Other | 0 | |
| Vacancies | 0 | |
| Total | 100 | |
Trifecta control
The table below shows the state's trifecta status from 1992 until the 2024 election.
Indiana Party Control: 1992-2024
No Democratic trifectas • Sixteen years of Republican trifectas
Scroll left and right on the table below to view more years.
| Year | 92 | 93 | 94 | 95 | 96 | 97 | 98 | 99 | 00 | 01 | 02 | 03 | 04 | 05 | 06 | 07 | 08 | 09 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Governor | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R |
| Senate | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R |
| House | D | D | D | R | R | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | R | R | D | D | D | D | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R |
See also
External links
Footnotes
- ↑ Inside Elections also uses Tilt ratings to indicate an even smaller advantage and greater competitiveness.
- ↑ Amee LaTour, "Email correspondence with Nathan Gonzalez," April 19, 2018
- ↑ Amee LaTour, "Email correspondence with Kyle Kondik," April 19, 2018
- ↑ Amee LaTour, "Email correspondence with Charlie Cook," April 22, 2018
- ↑ Daily Kos, "Daily Kos Elections' presidential results by congressional district for 2020, 2016, and 2012," accessed December 15, 2023
