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Indiana gubernatorial election, 2016

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November 8, 2016
  
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51.4%
  
45.4%

1,397,396
  
1,235,503

Indiana gubernatorial election, 2016

The 2016 Indiana gubernatorial election was held November 8, 2016, to elect the Governor and Lieutenant Governor of Indiana, concurrently with the 2016 U.S. presidential election as well as elections to the United States Senate and elections to the United States House of Representatives and various state and local elections. The primaries were held on May 3, 2016. Republican Lieutenant Governor Eric Holcomb won the race with 51.4% of the vote.

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Incumbent Republican Governor Mike Pence was running for reelection to a second term in office until July 15, 2016, when Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump selected Pence as his vice presidential running mate. As Pence was barred by Indiana law from simultaneously running for both offices, he subsequently withdrew from the gubernatorial election. He was replaced on the ballot for Governor by his former running mate, incumbent Lieutenant Governor Eric Holcomb, who was selected by the Indiana Republican State Committee as the nominee on July 26, 2016. Holcomb later selected State Auditor Suzanne Crouch on August 1, 2016, to be his running mate as the nomination for Lieutenant Governor was made vacant by the decision of Holcomb to seek the gubernatorial nomination; she was confirmed at a subsequent meeting of the Indiana Republican State Committee later that day.

John Gregg, the former Speaker of the Indiana House of Representatives, was the Democratic nominee. Gregg previously ran for Governor in 2012, but was defeated by Pence.

Declared

  • Mike Pence, incumbent Governor (withdrew after primary to run for Vice President of the United States as the running mate of Donald Trump)

    • Declined

  • Susan Brooks, U.S. Representative and former United States Attorney for the Southern District of Indiana (ran for re-election)
  • Todd Young, U.S. Representative (ran for the U.S. Senate)
  • Luke Messer, U.S. Representative (ran for re-election)
  • Greg Ballard, former Mayor of Indianapolis

    • Republican State Committee selection

    On July 15, 2016, Pence became the presumptive Republican nominee for vice president when Donald Trump announced that Pence would be his running mate in the 2016 presidential election. Under Indiana law, Pence was unable to run for both governor and vice president simultaneously; he therefore withdrew from the gubernatorial election, creating a vacancy on the Republican ticket. On July 26, the chairman of the Indiana Republican Party, Jeff Cardwell, announced that Eric Holcomb had been nominated by the Indiana Republican State Committee to replace Pence on the ballot for Governor. The vote totals were not released. Holcomb later selected Suzanne Crouch on August 1, 2016, to be his running mate as the nomination for Lieutenant Governor was made vacant by the decision of Holcomb to seek the gubernatorial nomination; she was then confirmed by the Committee at a meeting later that day.

    Declared

  • Susan Brooks, U.S. Representative and former United States Attorney for the Southern District of Indiana
  • Eric Holcomb, Lieutenant Governor of Indiana
  • Running mate: Suzanne Crouch, Indiana State Auditor
  • Todd Rokita, U.S. Representative and former Indiana Secretary of State
  • Jim Tomes, State Senator

    • Declined

  • Brian Bosma, Speaker of the Indiana House of Representatives
  • Mitch Daniels, former Governor of Indiana
  • Lloyd Winnecke, Mayor of Evansville

    • Declared

  • John R. Gregg, former Speaker of the Indiana House of Representatives and nominee for Governor in 2012
  • Running mate: Christina Hale, State Representative

    • Withdrawn

  • Glenda Ritz, Indiana Superintendent of Public Instruction (now running for re-election)
  • Karen Tallian, State Senator

    • Declined

  • Evan Bayh, former U.S. Senator and former Governor of Indiana (running for the U.S. Senate)
  • Peter Buttigieg, Mayor of South Bend
  • Greg Goodnight, Mayor of Kokomo
  • Baron Hill, former U.S. Representative and nominee for the U.S. Senate in 1990
  • Scott Pelath, Minority Leader of the Indiana House of Representatives
  • Tony Roswarski, Mayor of Lafayette
  • Tom Sugar, vice president of Complete College America and former aide to Evan Bayh

    • Declared

  • Rex Bell, businessman
  • Jim Wallace

    • Nominated

  • Rex Bell, businessman
  • Running mate: Karl Tatgenhorst

    • Candidates

  • Democratic: John R. Gregg, former Speaker of the Indiana House of Representatives and nominee for Governor in 2012
  • Running mate: Christina Hale, State Representative
  • Libertarian: Rex Bell, businessman
  • Running mate: Karl Tatgenhorst
  • Republican: Eric Holcomb, Lieutenant Governor of Indiana
  • Running mate: Suzanne Crouch, Indiana State Auditor

    • Polling

  • → Internal poll conducted for Eric Holcomb
  • ↑ Internal poll conducted for John Gregg

    • Results

    Holcomb won with 51.4% of the votes, Gregg taking 45.4%, and Libertarian Rex Bell finishing with 3.2%.

    References

    Indiana gubernatorial election, 2016 Wikipedia
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