2008 Indiana elections

Many state and local elections took place in the U.S. state of Indiana on November 4, 2008.

Indiana elections, 2008

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Presidential

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%

United States Senate

There was no Senate election in 2008 in Indiana.

United States House of Representatives

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

The Democrats had just won a decisive victory in 2006, after picking up 3 Republican-held seats. Democrats were on to win it again

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	-

Governor

Incumbent Mitch Daniels won re-election easily, even though Barack Obama won the state narrowly on the Presidential level.

2008 Indiana gubernatorial election^[3]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Republican	Mitch Daniels (incumbent)	1,563,885	57.8%	+4.6
	Democratic	Jill Long Thompson	1,082,463	40.1%	−5.4
	Libertarian	Andy Horning	57,376	2.1%	+0.8
	No party	Write-Ins	27	0.0%	—
Majority			481,422
Turnout			2,703,751	62%
	Republican hold		Swing

Attorney General

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.

Results by county

Zoeller:

•   50–60%
•   60–70%

Pence:

•   50–60%
•   60–70%