A presidential election was held in Indiana on Tuesday, November 5, 2024, as part of the 2024 United States presidential election in which all 50 states plus the District of Columbia participated. Indiana voters chose electors to represent them in the Electoral College via a popular vote. The state of Indiana has 11 electoral votes in the Electoral College, following reapportionment due to the 2020 United States census in which the state neither gained nor lost a seat.
Republican Donald Trump won Indiana for the third time in a row, with a comfortable margin of 18.96%; he had swept the state in the previous two presidential election cycles with former Governor of Indiana Mike Pence on the ticket: by 19% in 2016 and by 16% in 2020. This makes the first time since 2008 that it voted for the winner of the national popular vote. Prior to the election, all major news organizations considered Indiana a state Trump would win, or a red state. Trump flipped Tippecanoe County, which voted for him in 2016 but not in 2020. He also improved his margins in most other counties in the state, notably in Lake County, home to Gary and parts of the Chicago Metropolitan Area, which is also the most longtime Democratic county in the state. Despite Trump losing it by 5.6 points, this was the best performance by a Republican in this county since 1972, when Nixon carried it as part of his national landslide victory.
Despite Democrat Kamala Harris's loss, she slightly improved on Joe Biden's margins of defeat in a handful of suburban Indianapolis counties â most notably Hamilton, which went for Trump by less than 7% in both this election and 2020; and Boone, in which she became the first presidential Democrat to garner over 40% of the vote since Lyndon Johnson, who lost the county by a mere 4.9% in 1964. This is the first election in history in which Carmel voted to the left of the country. With Harris narrowly winning St. Joseph County, home to South Bend, this was the first election since 1976 in which said county did not vote for the winner of the nationwide popular vote.
The 2024 Indiana Democratic presidential primary was held on May 7, 2024. 88 delegates, 79 pledged and nine superdelegates, to the Democratic National Convention would be allocated to presidential candidates.
In Indiana, candidates have to gather at least 500 signatures from each congressional district, for a total of 4,500 signatures, to make the primary ballot. Incumbent President Joe Biden was the only candidate who met the requirements. "Uncommitted" would not appear on the ballot, and write-in votes were not allowed.
With no opposition, President Biden won 100% of the primary vote.
The Indiana Republican primary was held on May 7, 2024. Nikki Haley, who had already dropped out, and Donald Trump appeared on the ballot.
Donald Trump vs. Kamala Harris
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Donald Trump vs. Joe Biden
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Donald Trump vs. Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. vs. Joe Biden
Nikki Haley vs. Joe Biden
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Counties that flipped from Democratic to Republican
Trump won seven of nine congressional districts.
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