United States presidential elections in Indiana

{{Short description|United States presidential election results in Indiana from 1864 to present}}

{{Use mdy dates|date=April 2025}}

{{Infobox U.S. presidential elections by state

| state = Indiana

| number_of_elections = 53

| voted_democratic = 14

| voted_republican = 34

| voted_whig = 2

| voted_dem_rep = 3

| voted_other = 0

| voted_winning = 40

| voted_losing = 13

}}

Following is a table of United States presidential elections in Indiana, ordered by year. Since its admission to statehood in 1816, Indiana has participated in every U.S. presidential election.

Winners of the state are in bold. The shading refers to the state winner, and not the national winner.

Elections from 1864 to present

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data-sort-type="number" | Year

! Winner (nationally)

! data-sort-type="number" | Votes

! data-sort-type="number" | Percent

! Runner-up (nationally)

! data-sort-type="number" | Votes

! data-sort-type="number" | Percent

! Other national
candidates{{efn|name="national"|For purposes of these lists, other national candidates are defined as those who won at least one electoral vote, or won at least ten percent of the vote in multiple states.}}

! data-sort-type="number" | Votes

! data-sort-type="number" | Percent

! data-sort-type="number" | Electoral
votes

! class="unsortable" | Notes

{{Party shading/Republican}}

| 2020{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/11/03/us/elections/results-president.html |title=Presidential Election Results: Biden Wins|work=The New York Times|date=3 November 2020 |access-date=November 15, 2020}}

Joe Biden1,242,41640.96Donald Trump1,729,51657.0211
{{Party shading/Republican}}

| 2016[https://transition.fec.gov/pubrec/fe2016/federalelections2016.pdf 2016 official Federal Election Commission report].

Donald Trump{{efn|name="PV"|Won the electoral college while losing the popular vote}}1,557,28656.47Hillary Clinton1,033,12637.4611
{{Party shading/Republican}}

| 2012[http://www.fec.gov/pubrec/fe2012/federalelections2012.pdf 2012 official Federal Election Commission report].

Barack Obama1,152,88743.93Mitt Romney1,420,54354.13 |
|11
{{Party shading/Democratic}}

| 2008[http://www.fec.gov/pubrec/fe2008/federalelections2008.pdf 2008 official Federal Election Commission report].

Barack Obama1,374,03949.95John McCain1,345,64848.91-11
{{Party shading/Republican}}

| 2004{{cite web|url= http://www.fec.gov/pubrec/fe2004/federalelections2004.pdf |title= Federal Elections 2004: Election Results for the U.S. President, the U.S. Senate and the U.S. House of Representatives|date=May 2005 |publisher= Federal Elections Commission}}

George W. Bush1,479,43859.94John Kerry969,01139.26-11
{{Party shading/Republican}}

| 2000{{cite web|url=https://uselectionatlas.org/RESULTS/stats.php?year=2000&f=1&off=0&elect=0|title=2000 Presidential Election Statistics|publisher=Dave Leip’s Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections}}

George W. Bush{{efn|name="PV"}}1,245,83656.65Al Gore901,98041.01-12
{{Party shading/Republican}}

| 1996{{cite web|url=https://uselectionatlas.org/RESULTS/stats.php?year=1996&f=1&off=0&elect=0|title=1996 Presidential Election Statistics|publisher=Dave Leip’s Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections|access-date=2018-03-05}}

Bill Clinton887,42441.55Bob Dole1,006,69347.13Ross Perot224,29910.5012
{{Party shading/Republican}}

| 1992

Bill Clinton848,42036.79George H. W. Bush989,37542.91Ross Perot455,93419.7712
{{Party shading/Republican}}

| 1988

George H. W. Bush1,297,76359.84Michael Dukakis860,64339.69-12
{{Party shading/Republican}}

| 1984

Ronald Reagan1,377,23061.67Walter Mondale841,48137.68-12
{{Party shading/Republican}}

| 1980

Ronald Reagan1,255,65656.01Jimmy Carter844,19737.65John B. Anderson111,6394.9813
{{Party shading/Republican}}

| 1976

Jimmy Carter1,014,71445.70Gerald Ford1,183,95853.32-13
{{Party shading/Republican}}

| 1972

Richard Nixon1,405,15466.11George McGovern708,56833.34-13
{{Party shading/Republican}}

| 1968

Richard Nixon1,067,88550.29Hubert Humphrey806,65937.99George Wallace243,10811.4513
{{Party shading/Democratic}}

| 1964

Lyndon B. Johnson1,170,84855.98Barry Goldwater911,11843.56-13
{{Party shading/Republican}}

| 1960

John F. Kennedy952,35844.60Richard Nixon1,175,12055.03-13
{{Party shading/Republican}}

| 1956

Dwight D. Eisenhower1,182,81159.90Adlai Stevenson II783,90839.70T. Coleman Andrews/
Unpledged Electors{{efn|Was allied with a slate of unpledged electors in Louisiana, Mississippi and South Carolina}}
-13
{{Party shading/Republican}}

| 1952

Dwight D. Eisenhower1,136,25958.11Adlai Stevenson II801,53040.99-13
{{Party shading/Republican}}

| 1948

Harry S. Truman807,83348.78Thomas E. Dewey821,07949.58Strom Thurmond-13
{{Party shading/Republican}}

| 1944

Franklin D. Roosevelt781,40346.73Thomas E. Dewey875,89152.38-13
{{Party shading/Republican}}

| 1940

Franklin D. Roosevelt874,06349.03Wendell Willkie899,46650.45-14
{{Party shading/Democratic}}

| 1936

Franklin D. Roosevelt934,97456.63Alf Landon691,57041.89-14
{{Party shading/Democratic}}

| 1932

Franklin D. Roosevelt862,05454.67Herbert Hoover677,18442.94-14
{{Party shading/Republican}}

| 1928

Herbert Hoover848,29059.68Al Smith562,69139.59-15
{{Party shading/Republican}}

| 1924

Calvin Coolidge703,04255.25John W. Davis492,24538.69Robert M. La Follette71,7005.6415
{{Party shading/Republican}}

| 1920

Warren G. Harding696,37055.14James M. Cox511,36440.49Parley P. Christensen16,4991.3115
{{Party shading/Republican}}

| 1916

Woodrow Wilson334,06346.47Charles E. Hughes341,00547.44-15
{{Party shading/Democratic}}

| 1912

Woodrow Wilson281,89043.07Theodore Roosevelt162,00724.75William H. Taft151,26723.1115
{{Party shading/Republican}}

| 1908

William H. Taft348,99348.40William Jennings Bryan338,26246.91-15
{{Party shading/Republican}}

| 1904

Theodore Roosevelt368,28953.99Alton B. Parker274,34540.22-15
{{Party shading/Republican}}

| 1900

William McKinley336,06350.60William Jennings Bryan309,58446.62-15
{{Party shading/Republican}}

| 1896

William McKinley323,75450.82William Jennings Bryan305,57347.96-15
{{Party shading/Democratic}}

| 1892

Grover Cleveland262,74047.46Benjamin Harrison255,61546.17James B. Weaver22,2084.0115
{{Party shading/Republican}}

| 1888

Benjamin Harrison{{efn|name="PV"}}263,36149.05Grover Cleveland261,01348.61-15
{{Party shading/Democratic}}

| 1884

Grover Cleveland245,00549.46James G. Blaine238,48948.15-15
{{Party shading/Republican}}

| 1880

James A. Garfield232,16449.33Winfield S. Hancock225,52247.91James B. Weaver12,9862.7615
{{Party shading/Democratic}}

| 1876

Rutherford B. Hayes{{efn|name="PV"}}208,01147.39Samuel J. Tilden213,52648.65 |
|15
{{Party shading/Republican}}

| 1872

Ulysses S. Grant186,14753.00Horace Greeley163,63246.59-15
{{Party shading/Republican}}

| 1868

Ulysses S. Grant176,54851.4Horatio Seymour166,98048.6-13
{{Party shading/Republican}}

| 1864

Abraham Lincoln149,88753.5George B. McClellan130,23046.5-13

Election of 1860

The election of 1860 was a complex realigning election in which the breakdown of the previous two-party alignment culminated in four parties each competing for influence in different parts of the country. The result of the election, with the victory of an ardent opponent of slavery, spurred the secession of eleven states and brought about the American Civil War.

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data-sort-type="number" | Year

! Winner (nationally)

! data-sort-type="number" | Votes

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! Runner-up (nationally)

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! data-sort-type="number" | Electoral
votes

{{Party shading/Republican}}

| style"text-align:left" | 1860

| Abraham Lincoln

| 139,033

| 51.1

| Stephen A. Douglas

| 115,509

| 42.4

| John C. Breckinridge

| 12,295

| 4.5

| John Bell

| 5,306

| 1.9

| 13

Elections from 1828 to 1856

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! Winner (nationally)

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! Runner-up (nationally)

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! data-sort-type="number" | Percent

! Other national
candidates{{efn|name="national"}}

! data-sort-type="number" | Votes

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votes

! class="unsortable" | Notes

{{Party shading/Democratic}}

| 1856

James Buchanan118,67050.41John C. Frémont94,37540.09Millard Fillmore22,3869.5113
{{Party shading/Democratic}}

| 1852

Franklin Pierce95,34052.05Winfield Scott80,90144.17John P. Hale6,9293.7813
{{Party shading/Democratic}}

| 1848

Zachary Taylor69,90745.77Lewis Cass74,74548.93Martin Van Buren8,1005.312
{{Party shading/Democratic}}

| 1844

James K. Polk70,18150.07Henry Clay67,86748.42-12
{{Party shading/Whig}}

| 1840

William Henry Harrison65,30255.86Martin Van Buren51,60444.14-9
{{Party shading/Whig}}

| 1836

Martin Van Buren32,47844.03William Henry Harrison41,28155.97various{{efn|Three other candidates ran and received electoral votes nationally as part of the unsuccessful Whig strategy to defeat Martin Van Buren by running four candidates with local appeal in different regions of the country. The others were Hugh Lawson White, Daniel Webster, and Willie Person Mangum. None of these candidates appeared on the ballot in Indiana.}}9
{{Party shading/Democratic}}

| 1832

Andrew Jackson31,55167.1Henry Clay15,47232.9William Wirtno ballots9
{{Party shading/Democratic}}

| 1828

Andrew Jackson22,20156.62John Quincy Adams17,00943.38-5

Election of 1824

The election of 1824 was a complex realigning election following the collapse of the prevailing Democratic-Republican Party, resulting in four different candidates each claiming to carry the banner of the party, and competing for influence in different parts of the country. The election was the only one in history to be decided by the House of Representatives under the provisions of the Twelfth Amendment to the United States Constitution after no candidate secured a majority of the electoral vote. It was also the only presidential election in which the candidate who received a plurality of electoral votes (Andrew Jackson) did not become president, a source of great bitterness for Jackson and his supporters, who proclaimed the election of Adams a corrupt bargain.

class="wikitable sortable"
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! Winner (nationally)

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! Runner-up (nationally)

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votes

{{Party shading/Democratic-Republican}}

| style"text-align:left" | 1824

Andrew Jackson7,34346.61John Quincy Adams3,09519.65Henry Clay5,31533.74William H. Crawfordno ballots-5

Elections of 1816 and 1820

In the election of 1820, incumbent President James Monroe ran effectively unopposed, winning all three of Indiana’s electoral votes, and all electoral votes nationwide except one vote in New Hampshire. To the extent that a popular vote was held, it was primarily directed to filling the office of vice president.

The election of 1816 was contested between James Monroe and Rufus King. In this election, Indiana did not conduct a popular vote. Each Elector was appointed by state legislature, which assigned all three of Indiana’s electoral votes to Monroe.

See also

Notes

{{Notelist}}

References

{{Reflist}}

{{United States presidential elections}}

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