Indiana Presidential and Vice Presidential Candidate Information (1816-2016)

Year

Winning Party in Indiana Winning Party

1816 Democratic-Republican
Democratic-Republican
1820 Democratic-Republican
Democratic-Republican

1824 Democratic-Republican
1828 Democrat
1832 Democrat

Democratic-Republican
Democrat
Democrat

1836 Whig

Whig

1840 Whig
1844 Democrat
1848 Democrat
1852 Democrat
1856 Democrat
1860 Republican
1864 Republican
1868 Republican
1872 Republican

Whig
Democrat
Whig
Democrat
Democrat
Republican
Republican
Republican
Republican

1876 Democrat
1880 Republican
1884 Democrat

Republican
Republican
Democrat

1888 Republican
1892 Democrat
1896 Republican
1900 Republican

Republican
Democrat
Republican
Republican

1904 Republican

Republican

Candidates from Indiana

(see notes below)

Notes

Indiana voted for Andrew Jackson who won the

plurality of the popular vote, but did not have enough
electoral votes. John Quincy Adams won the
presidency by a vote in the House of Representatives.

William Henry Harrison

(Whig)
William Henry Harrison
(Whig)

Harrison was a territorial governor of Indiana (18011812).

Harrison was a territorial governor of Indiana (18011812).

George W. Julian (Free Soil)

Schuyler Colfax (Rep.)

Thomas Hendricks (Dem.)

Willam English (Dem.)
Thomas Hendricks (Dem.)
Benjamin Harrison (Rep.)
Benjamin Harrison (Rep.)
Eugene V. Debs (Socialist)
Eugene V. Debs (Socialist);
Charles Fairbanks (Rep.)
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Rutherford B. Hayes beat Samuel J. Tilden in the

Electoral College, but not the popular vote.

Benjamin Harrison beat Grover Cleveland in the

Electoral College, but not the popular vote.

Indiana Presidential and Vice Presidential Candidate Information (1816-2016)

Year

Winning Party in Indiana Winning Party

1908 Republican

Republican

1912 Democrat

Democrat

1916 Republican
1920 Republican
1924 Republican
1928 Republican
1932 Democrat
1936 Democrat

Democrat
Republican
Republican
Republican
Democrat
Democrat

1940 Republican
1944 Republican
1948 Republican
1952 Republican
1956 Republican
1960 Republican
1964 Democrat
1968 Republican
1972 Republican
1976 Republican
1980 Republican
1984 Republican
1988 Republican
1992 Republican
1996 Republican

Democrat
Democrat
Democrat
Republican
Republican
Democrat
Democrat
Republican
Republican
Democrat
Republican
Republican
Republican
Democrat
Democrat

2000 Republican

Republican

Candidates from Indiana

(see notes below)
Notes
Eugene V. Debs (Socialist);
John W. Kern (Dem.)
Eugene V. Debs (Socialist);
Thomas Riley Marshall
(Dem.)
Charles Fairbanks (Rep.);
Thomas Riley Marshall
(Dem.)
Eugene V. Debs (Socialist)

Wendell Wilkie (Rep.)

Wilkie was born in Indiana, but was living in New

York when he ran for president.

J. Danforth Quayle (Rep.)

J. Danforth Quayle (Rep.)
George W. Bush beat Al Gore in the Electoral College,
but not the popular vote.
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Indiana Presidential and Vice Presidential Candidate Information (1816-2016)

Year

Winning Party in Indiana

2004 Republican
2008 Democrat
2012 Republican
2016 ?????

Winning Party
Republican
Democrat
Democrat
?????

Candidates from Indiana

(see notes below)

Notes

Three have been 5 vice presidents from Indiana: Schuyler Colfax (President Ulysses Grant (R)) 1869-1873; Thomas Hendricks (President
Grover Cleveland (D)) 1885-1885 (died in office); Charles Fairbanks (President Theodore Roosevelt (R)) 1905-1909; Thomas Riley Marshall
Summary (President Woodrow Wilson(D)) 1913-1921; J. Danforth Quayle (President George H. W. Bush (R)) 1989-1993
Indiana has voted in 51 presidential elections.
There have been Hoosiers on the ballot in 17 of the 51 elections
The winner of the presidential election has carried Indiana in 40 of the 51 elections (78.4%).
There were Hoosiers on the ballot in 4 of the 11 elections when the winner of the presidential election did not carry Indiana. In 3 of the 4
cases, the Hoosier candidates were vice presidential candidates. In 1916, the vice presidential candidates for the Democrats and Republicans
were from Indiana.
Candidate Notes
Schuyler Colfax: Republican vice president with Ulysses S. Grant (1869 - 1873); Republican vice presidential candidate with Ulysses S. Grant in 1868
Eugene V. Debs: Socialist candidate for president 1900, 1904, 1908, 1912, and 1920
William English: Democrat vice presidential candidate with Winfield S. Hancock in 1880
Charles Fairbanks: Republican vice president with Theodore Roosevelt (1905-1090); Republican vice presidental candidate with Theodore Roosevelt in
1904 and with Charles Evans Hughes in 1916
Benjamin Harrison: Republican president (1889-1893); Republican presidential candidate in 1888 and 1892
William Henry Harrison: Whig president (1841, first president to die in office); Whig presidential candidate in 1836 and 1840
Thomas Hendricks: Democrat vice president with Grover Cleveland (1885, died in office); Democrat vice presidential candidate with Grover Cleveland
in 1884 and with Samuel J. Tilden in 1876
George W. Julian: Free Soil vice presidential candidate with John P. Hale in 1852
John W. Kern: Democrat vice presidential candidate with William Jennings Bryan in 1908
Thomas Riley Marshall: Democrat vice president with Woodrow Wilson (1913 - 1921); Democrat vice presidential candidate with Woodrow Wilson in
1912 and 1916
J. Danforth Quayle: Republican vice president with George H. W. Bush (1989-1993); Republican vice presidential candidate with George H. W. Bush
in 1988 and 1992
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Indiana Presidential and Vice Presidential Candidate Information (1816-2016)

Year
Winning Party in Indiana Winning Party
Wendell Wilkie: Republican presidential candidate in 1940

Candidates from Indiana

(see notes below)

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Notes

Backed the Winner

No
No

Year Winning Party in Indiana Winning Party

1876 Democrat
Republican
1848 Democrat
Whig

No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
Yes
Yes

1916 Republican
1992 Republican
1940 Republican
1944 Republican
1948 Republican
1960 Republican
1976 Republican
1996 Republican
2012 Republican
2016 ?????
1892 Democrat

Democrat
Democrat
Democrat
Democrat
Democrat
Democrat
Democrat
Democrat
Democrat
?????
Democrat

Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes

1912 Democrat
1852 Democrat
1884 Democrat
1828 Democrat
1832 Democrat
1844 Democrat
1856 Democrat
1932 Democrat
1936 Democrat
1964 Democrat
2008 Democrat
1816 Democratic-Republican
1820 Democratic-Republican
1824 Democratic-Republican
1888 Republican
1920 Republican

Democrat
Democrat
Democrat
Democrat
Democrat
Democrat
Democrat
Democrat
Democrat
Democrat
Democrat
Democratic Republican
Democratic Republican
Democratic Republican
Republican
Republican

Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes

1904 Republican
1908 Republican
1988 Republican
1868 Republican
1880 Republican
1860 Republican
1864 Republican
1872 Republican
1896 Republican
1900 Republican

Republican
Republican
Republican
Republican
Republican
Republican
Republican
Republican
Republican
Republican

Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes

1924 Republican
1928 Republican
1952 Republican
1956 Republican
1968 Republican
1972 Republican
1980 Republican
1984 Republican
2000 Republican
2004 Republican
1836 Whig
1840 Whig
Total

Republican
Republican
Republican
Republican
Republican
Republican
Republican
Republican
Republican
Republican
Whig
Whig

Candidate(s) from Indiana

Thomas Hendricks
Charles Fairbanks; Thomas
Riley Marshall
J. Danforth Quayle
Wendell Wilkie

Benjamin Harrison
Eugene V. Debs; Thomas Riley
Marshall
George W. Julian
Thomas Hendricks

Benjamin Harrison
Eugene V. Debs
Eugene V. Debs; Charles
Fairbanks
Eugene V. Debs; John W. Kern
J. Danforth Quayle
Schuyler Colfax
Willam English

William Henry Harrison

William Henry Harrison