| Election Name: | Indiana elections, 2008 |
| Country: | Indiana |
| Type: | presidential |
| Ongoing: | no |
| Previous Year: | 2006 |
| Next Year: | 2010 |
| Election Date: | November 4th, 2008 |
Many state and local elections took place in the U.S. state of Indiana on November 4, 2008.
For the first time since 1964, the Democrats won Indiana in a presidential election. Barack Obama, a U.S. senator from the neighboring state of Illinois won Indiana by a margin of 1.03%
There was no Senate election in 2008 in Indiana.
See also: 2008 United States House of Representatives elections in Indiana.
| District makeup | ||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| District | 1st | 2nd | 3rd | 4th | 5th | 6th | 7th | 8th | 9th | |||||||||
| Incumbent | Pete Visclosky | Joe Donnelly | Mark Souder | Steve Buyer | Dan Burton | Mike Pence | André Carson | Brad Ellsworth | Baron Hill | |||||||||
| CPVI | D+8 | R+4 | R+16 | R+17 | R+20 | R+11 | D+9 | R+9 | R+7 | |||||||||
| CQ Rating[1] | Safe D | Safe D | Leans R | Safe R | Safe R | Safe R | Safe D | Safe D | D Favored | |||||||||
| United States House of Representatives elections in Indiana, 2008[2] | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Votes | Percentage | Seats | +/– | ||
| Democratic | 1,388,963 | 51.89% | 5 | - | ||
| Republican | 1,240,577 | 46.34% | 4 | - | ||
| Libertarian | 47,306 | 1.77% | 0 | - | ||
| Independents | 4 | <0.01% | 0 | - | ||
| Totals | 2,676,850 | 100.00% | 9 | - | ||
Incumbent Mitch Daniels won re-election easily, even though Barack Obama won the state narrowly on the Presidential level.
As Incumbent Steve Carter chose not to run for re-election, Republican Greg Zoeller was the republican nominee, while Democrats nominated Linda Pence. Greg Zoeller won by 400,000 votes