{
 "topic": "senate",
 "site": "electiondata.dev",
 "place": {
  "id": "us-in",
  "name": "Indiana",
  "level": "us-state",
  "parent": "usa",
  "path": "us/in",
  "slug": "in",
  "state": "in",
  "state_name": "Indiana",
  "state_id": "us-in"
 },
 "question": "How did Indiana vote for the Senate?",
 "answer": {
  "verdict": "Jim Banks (Republican) won by 19.9 points",
  "value": 19.9,
  "unit": " pts",
  "digits": 1,
  "label": "Senate, 2024: winner's margin",
  "lines": [
   "Jim Banks (Republican) 58.6%, Valerie Mccray (Democrat) 38.8%, Andrew Horning (Libertarian) 2.6%",
   "2,829,897 votes for Senate candidates"
  ]
 },
 "as_of": "2024",
 "as_of_label": "2024",
 "charts": [
  {
   "id": "senate-margin",
   "title": "Every regular Senate election in Indiana since 1976",
   "description": "17 regular elections; Democrats were ahead in 3 and Republicans in 14.",
   "indicator": "Democratic candidate's share of Senate votes minus the Republican's, points (regular elections; special elections are in the table)",
   "subtitle": "Democratic share minus Republican share, in points. Above the line: the Democrat got more votes.",
   "x": {
    "kind": "year"
   },
   "y": {
    "digits": 1,
    "unit": " pts",
    "format": "party-margin"
   },
   "layers": [
    {
     "type": "bars",
     "name": "Margin",
     "base": 0,
     "points": [
      [
       1976,
       -18.847,
       "rep"
      ],
      [
       1980,
       -7.572,
       "rep"
      ],
      [
       1982,
       -8.249,
       "rep"
      ],
      [
       1986,
       -22.06,
       "rep"
      ],
      [
       1988,
       -36.286,
       "rep"
      ],
      [
       1992,
       -16.633,
       "rep"
      ],
      [
       1994,
       -36.851,
       "rep"
      ],
      [
       1998,
       28.926,
       "dem"
      ],
      [
       2000,
       -34.713,
       "rep"
      ],
      [
       2004,
       24.424,
       "dem"
      ],
      [
       2006,
       -87.357,
       "rep"
      ],
      [
       2010,
       -14.58,
       "rep"
      ],
      [
       2012,
       5.764,
       "dem"
      ],
      [
       2016,
       -9.699,
       "rep"
      ],
      [
       2018,
       -5.89,
       "rep"
      ],
      [
       2022,
       -20.741,
       "rep"
      ],
      [
       2024,
       -19.872,
       "rep"
      ]
     ],
     "legend": [
      {
       "label": "Democrat ahead",
       "cls": "dem"
      },
      {
       "label": "Republican ahead",
       "cls": "rep"
      }
     ]
    }
   ]
  }
 ],
 "limits": [
  "Statewide totals say nothing about who voted or why.",
  "Candidates with a party's support under another name (Minnesota's DFL, New York's fusion lines) are counted with that party, as the MIT data's simplified party does; independents stay independents."
 ],
 "method": "Each candidate's votes are summed over every ballot line; blank, over- and under-votes are left out. The margin is the winner's share of the votes minus the runner-up's. A runoff, where held, is the result.",
 "sources": [
  {
   "name": "electiondata.dev senate-results, version 2026-10-25.247421eda6",
   "url": "https://electiondata.dev/",
   "license": "CC0 1.0"
  },
  {
   "name": "MIT Election Data and Science Lab, U.S. Senate statewide 1976-2024",
   "url": "https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/PEJ5QU",
   "license": "CC0 1.0"
  }
 ],
 "check": {
  "races": [
   {
    "year": 1976,
    "special": false,
    "runoff": false,
    "total": 2161187,
    "votes": {
     "Richard G. Lugar": 1275833,
     "Vance Hartke": 868522,
     "Don L. Lee": 14321,
     "David Lee Hoagland": 2511
    }
   },
   {
    "year": 1980,
    "special": false,
    "runoff": false,
    "total": 2198376,
    "votes": {
     "Dan Quayle": 1182414,
     "Birch Bayh": 1015962
    }
   },
   {
    "year": 1982,
    "special": false,
    "runoff": false,
    "total": 1817287,
    "votes": {
     "Richard G. Lugar": 978301,
     "Floyd J. Fithian": 828400,
     "Raymond James": 10586
    }
   },
   {
    "year": 1986,
    "special": false,
    "runoff": false,
    "total": 1545563,
    "votes": {
     "Dan Quayle": 936143,
     "Jill Lynette Long": 595192,
     "Bradford L. Warren": 8314,
     "Rockland R. Snyder": 5914
    }
   },
   {
    "year": 1988,
    "special": false,
    "runoff": false,
    "total": 2099303,
    "votes": {
     "Richard G. Lugar": 1430525,
     "Jack Wickes": 668778
    }
   },
   {
    "year": 1990,
    "special": true,
    "runoff": false,
    "total": 1502687,
    "votes": {
     "Dan Coats": 806048,
     "Baron P. Hill": 696639
    }
   },
   {
    "year": 1992,
    "special": false,
    "runoff": false,
    "total": 2211426,
    "votes": {
     "Dan Coats": 1267972,
     "Joseph H. Hogsett": 900148,
     "Steve Dillon": 35733,
     "Raymond Tirado": 7474
    }
   },
   {
    "year": 1994,
    "special": false,
    "runoff": false,
    "total": 1543568,
    "votes": {
     "Richard G. Lugar": 1039625,
     "James Jontz": 470799,
     "Barbara Bourland": 17343,
     "Mary Catherine Barton": 15801
    }
   },
   {
    "year": 1998,
    "special": false,
    "runoff": false,
    "total": 1588617,
    "votes": {
     "Evan Bayh": 1012244,
     "Paul Helmke": 552732,
     "Rebecca Sink-burris": 23641
    }
   },
   {
    "year": 2000,
    "special": false,
    "runoff": false,
    "total": 2145209,
    "votes": {
     "Richard G. Lugar": 1427944,
     "David L. Johnson": 683273,
     "Paul Hager": 33992
    }
   },
   {
    "year": 2004,
    "special": false,
    "runoff": false,
    "total": 2428233,
    "votes": {
     "Evan Bayh": 1496976,
     "Marvin Scott": 903913,
     "Albert Barger": 27344
    }
   },
   {
    "year": 2006,
    "special": false,
    "runoff": false,
    "total": 1341111,
    "votes": {
     "Richard G. Lugar": 1171553,
     "Steve Osborn": 168820
    }
   },
   {
    "year": 2010,
    "special": false,
    "runoff": false,
    "total": 1744481,
    "votes": {
     "Dan Coats": 952116,
     "Brad Ellsworth": 697775,
     "Rebecca Sink-burris": 94330
    }
   },
   {
    "year": 2012,
    "special": false,
    "runoff": false,
    "total": 2560102,
    "votes": {
     "Joe Donnelly": 1281181,
     "Richard E. Mourdock": 1133621,
     "Andrew ??andy?? Horning": 145282
    }
   },
   {
    "year": 2016,
    "special": false,
    "runoff": false,
    "total": 2732546,
    "votes": {
     "Todd C. Young": 1423991,
     "Evan Bayh": 1158947,
     "Lucy Brenton": 149481
    }
   },
   {
    "year": 2018,
    "special": false,
    "runoff": false,
    "total": 2282565,
    "votes": {
     "Mike Braun": 1158000,
     "Joe Donnelly": 1023553,
     "Lucy M. Brenton": 100942
    }
   },
   {
    "year": 2022,
    "special": false,
    "runoff": false,
    "total": 1859851,
    "votes": {
     "Todd Young": 1090165,
     "Thomas M. Mcdermott Jr.": 704411,
     "James M. Sceniak": 63814
    }
   },
   {
    "year": 2024,
    "special": false,
    "runoff": false,
    "total": 2829897,
    "votes": {
     "Jim Banks": 1659416,
     "Valerie Mccray": 1097061,
     "Andrew Horning": 73233
    }
   }
  ],
  "dataset": "senate-results",
  "version": "2026-10-25.247421eda6"
 },
 "table": {
  "title": "Every Senate race since 1976",
  "columns": [
   "Race",
   "Winner",
   "Runner-up",
   "Margin",
   "Votes"
  ],
  "num": [
   3,
   4
  ],
  "rows": [
   [
    "2024",
    "Jim Banks (R) 58.6%",
    "Valerie Mccray (D) 38.8%",
    "19.9 pts",
    "2,829,897"
   ],
   [
    "2022",
    "Todd Young (R) 58.6%",
    "Thomas M. Mcdermott Jr. (D) 37.9%",
    "20.7 pts",
    "1,859,851"
   ],
   [
    "2018",
    "Mike Braun (R) 50.7%",
    "Joe Donnelly (D) 44.8%",
    "5.9 pts",
    "2,282,565"
   ],
   [
    "2016",
    "Todd C. Young (R) 52.1%",
    "Evan Bayh (D) 42.4%",
    "9.7 pts",
    "2,732,546"
   ],
   [
    "2012",
    "Joe Donnelly (D) 50.0%",
    "Richard E. Mourdock (R) 44.3%",
    "5.8 pts",
    "2,560,102"
   ],
   [
    "2010",
    "Dan Coats (R) 54.6%",
    "Brad Ellsworth (D) 40.0%",
    "14.6 pts",
    "1,744,481"
   ],
   [
    "2006",
    "Richard G. Lugar (R) 87.4%",
    "Steve Osborn (L) 12.6%",
    "74.8 pts",
    "1,341,111"
   ],
   [
    "2004",
    "Evan Bayh (D) 61.6%",
    "Marvin Scott (R) 37.2%",
    "24.4 pts",
    "2,428,233"
   ],
   [
    "2000",
    "Richard G. Lugar (R) 66.6%",
    "David L. Johnson (D) 31.9%",
    "34.7 pts",
    "2,145,209"
   ],
   [
    "1998",
    "Evan Bayh (D) 63.7%",
    "Paul Helmke (R) 34.8%",
    "28.9 pts",
    "1,588,617"
   ],
   [
    "1994",
    "Richard G. Lugar (R) 67.4%",
    "James Jontz (D) 30.5%",
    "36.9 pts",
    "1,543,568"
   ],
   [
    "1992",
    "Dan Coats (R) 57.3%",
    "Joseph H. Hogsett (D) 40.7%",
    "16.6 pts",
    "2,211,426"
   ],
   [
    "1990 special",
    "Dan Coats (R) 53.6%",
    "Baron P. Hill (D) 46.4%",
    "7.3 pts",
    "1,502,687"
   ],
   [
    "1988",
    "Richard G. Lugar (R) 68.1%",
    "Jack Wickes (D) 31.9%",
    "36.3 pts",
    "2,099,303"
   ],
   [
    "1986",
    "Dan Quayle (R) 60.6%",
    "Jill Lynette Long (D) 38.5%",
    "22.1 pts",
    "1,545,563"
   ],
   [
    "1982",
    "Richard G. Lugar (R) 53.8%",
    "Floyd J. Fithian (D) 45.6%",
    "8.2 pts",
    "1,817,287"
   ],
   [
    "1980",
    "Dan Quayle (R) 53.8%",
    "Birch Bayh (D) 46.2%",
    "7.6 pts",
    "2,198,376"
   ],
   [
    "1976",
    "Richard G. Lugar (R) 59.0%",
    "Vance Hartke (D) 40.2%",
    "18.8 pts",
    "2,161,187"
   ]
  ]
 },
 "api": {
  "now": "/data/places/us-in/senate.json",
  "source": "https://api.electiondata.dev/v1/senate-results/download/senate-results.csv",
  "source_label": "Every Senate race, every state, from electiondata.dev (live, no key)"
 },
 "generated_at": "2026-10-26T20:05:12+00:00"
}