Election Name: | 2018 Indiana elections |
Country: | Indiana |
Type: | presidential |
Ongoing: | no |
Previous Year: | 2016 |
Next Year: | 2020 |
Election Date: | November 6, 2018 |
A general election was held in the U.S. state of Indiana on November 6, 2018. Three of Indiana's executive offices were up for election, as well as a United States Senate seat and all of Indiana's nine seats in the United States House of Representatives.
See main article: 2018 United States Senate election in Indiana.
See main article: 2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Indiana.
Election Name: | 2018 Indiana Secretary of State election |
Country: | Indiana |
Type: | presidential |
Ongoing: | no |
Previous Year: | 2014 |
Next Year: | 2022 |
Election Date: | November 6, 2018 |
Nominee1: | Connie Lawson |
Party1: | Republican Party (United States) |
Popular Vote1: | 1,261,878 |
Percentage1: | 56.2% |
Nominee2: | Jim Harper |
Party2: | Democratic Party (United States) |
Popular Vote2: | 910,744 |
Percentage2: | 40.6% |
Map Size: | 250px |
Secretary of State | |
Before Election: | Connie Lawson |
Before Party: | Republican Party (United States) |
After Election: | Connie Lawson |
After Party: | Republican Party (United States) |
Incumbent Republican secretary of state Connie Lawson, who was appointed to the office in 2012, ran for re-election to a second full term in office.[1]
Jim Harper, an attorney and 2016 Democratic nominee for the state senate in the 5th District, sought the Democratic nomination.[2] Potential Democratic candidates include Monroe County Councilwoman Shelli Yoder.[3]
The Indiana Green Party nominated George Wolfe, a Professor Emeritus at Ball State University and former director of the Ball State University Center for Peace and Conflict Studies.[4] The party has to collect 30,000 signatures to get George Wolfe on the ballot in November.[5] The Libertarian Party nominee was Mark Rutherford, chairman of the Indiana Public Defender Commission and former vice chairman of the Libertarian National Committee.[6]
Poll source | Date(s) administered | class=small | Sample size | Margin of error | Connie Lawson (R) | Jim Harper (D) | Other[8] | Undecided | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Gravis Marketing | May 10–15, 2018 | 400 | ± 4.9% | align=center | 33% | 23% | 14% | 31% |
Election Name: | Indiana State Treasurer election, 2018 |
Country: | Indiana |
Type: | presidential |
Ongoing: | no |
Previous Year: | 2014 |
Next Year: | 2022 |
Election Date: | November 6, 2018 |
Nominee1: | Kelly Mitchell |
Party1: | Republican Party (United States) |
Popular Vote1: | 1,300,631 |
Percentage1: | 58.6% |
Nominee2: | John C. Aguilera |
Party2: | Democratic Party (United States) |
Popular Vote2: | 910,744 |
Percentage2: | 41.4% |
Map Size: | 250px |
Treasurer | |
Before Election: | Kelly Mitchell |
Before Party: | Republican Party (United States) |
After Election: | Kelly Mitchell |
After Party: | Republican Party (United States) |
Incumbent Republican state treasurer Kelly Mitchell ran for re-election to a second term in office.
Election Name: | Indiana Auditor election, 2018 |
Country: | Indiana |
Type: | presidential |
Ongoing: | no |
Previous Year: | 2014 |
Next Year: | 2022 |
Election Date: | November 6, 2018 |
Nominee1: | Tera Klutz |
Party1: | Republican Party (United States) |
Popular Vote1: | 1,235,579 |
Percentage1: | 55.5% |
Nominee2: | Joselyn Whitticker |
Party2: | Democratic Party (United States) |
Popular Vote2: | 913,701 |
Percentage2: | 41.0% |
Map Size: | 250 |
Auditor | |
Before Election: | Tera Klutz |
Before Party: | Republican Party (United States) |
After Election: | Tera Klutz |
After Party: | Republican Party (United States) |
Incumbent Republican state auditor Tera Klutz was appointed to the office on January 9, 2017, to replace Republican Suzanne Crouch, who was elected lieutenant governor.[9] Klutz ran for election to a first full term.[10]