A presidential election was held in Indiana on November 7, 1972. The Republican ticket of the incumbent president of the United States Richard Nixon and the vice president of the United States Spiro Agnew defeated the Democratic ticket of the junior U.S. senator from South Dakota George McGovern and the former U.S. ambassador to France Sargent Shriver. Nixon defeated McGovern in the national election with 520 electoral votes.
Nixon became the only presidential candidate from either party to carry every county in the state. His 32-point margin of victory remains the best performance by a Republican presidential candidate in Indiana. , this is the most recent election in which the Republican ticket carried Lake County.