A presidential election was held in Indiana on November 5, 1996, as part of the 1996 United States presidential election. The Republican ticket of the senior U.S. senator from Kansas Bob Dole and the former U.S. secretary of housing and urban development Jack Kemp defeated the Democratic ticket of the incumbent president of the United States Bill Clinton and the vice president of the United States Al Gore. The Reform ticket of the businessman Ross Perot and James Campbell finished third. Clinton defeated Dole and Perot in the national election with 379 electoral votes.
The Indiana Democratic presidential primary was held on May 7, 1996, in Indiana as one of the Democratic Party's statewide nomination contests ahead of the 1996 presidential election. Incumbent President Bill Clinton won the primary unopposed.
Clinton carried Porter County, Indiana, which had previously supported the Republican presidential candidate in every election since the party's founding, ending the second-longest Republican streak in U.S. presidential politics. (The longest, Carroll County, Illinois's, would remain unbroken until the 2008 United States presidential election.) , this is the most recent presidential election in which Blackford, Clark, Crawford, Floyd, Gibson, Jefferson, Knox, Pike, Posey, Sullivan, Switzerland, and Warrick counties voted for the Democratic ticket.