Election Name: | Indiana elections, 2004 |
Country: | Indiana |
Type: | presidential |
Ongoing: | no |
Next Year: | 2006 |
Election Date: | 2004 |
Previous Year: | 2002 |
Popular Incumbent Evan Bayh won by a considerably large margin, even as George W. Bush won this state by 20 points at the national level.
Election Name: | 2004 United States House of Representatives elections in Indiana |
Popular Vote1: | 1,381,699 |
Swing2: | 0.76% |
Percentage2: | 41.35% |
Popular Vote2: | 999,082 |
Seat Change2: | 1 |
Seats2: | 2 |
Last Election2: | 3 |
Party2: | Democratic Party (United States) |
Swing1: | 1.92% |
Percentage1: | 57.18% |
Seat Change1: | 1 |
Country: | Indiana |
Seats1: | 7 |
Last Election1: | 6 |
Party1: | Republican Party (United States) |
Seats For Election: | All 9 Indiana seats to the United States House of Representatives |
Next Year: | 2006 |
Next Election: | 2006 United States House of Representatives elections in Indiana |
Previous Year: | 2002 |
Previous Election: | 2002 United States House of Representatives elections in Indiana |
Ongoing: | no |
Type: | legislative |
United States House of Representatives elections in Indiana, 2004[2] | ||||||
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Party | Votes | Percentage | Seats | +/– | ||
Republican | 1,381,699 | 57.18% | 7 | +1 | ||
Democratic | 999,082 | 41.35% | 2 | -1 | ||
Libertarian | 35,470 | 1.47% | 0 | - | ||
Totals | 2,416,251 | 100.00% | 9 | - |
Incumbent Joe Kernan lost in an upset against Mitch Daniels (former Director of the Office of Management and Budget under George W. Bush), this was the first time that the Republicans had held the office in 16 years, and that the Republican Party had control of most of the most important statewide offices
Incumbent Republican Steve Carter won with 59% of the vote against Democrat Joseph Hogsett (former Secretary of State and Chair of the Indiana Democratic Party)