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The 2008 United States presidential election in Indiana took place on November 4, 2008, and was part of the 2008 United States presidential election. Voters chose 11 representatives, or electors to the Electoral College , who voted for president and vice president .
The election of 1824 was a complex realigning election following the collapse of the prevailing Democratic-Republican Party, resulting in four different candidates each claiming to carry the banner of the party, and competing for influence in different parts of the country. The election was the only one in history to be decided by the House of ...
For the first time since 1964, the Democrats won Indiana in a presidential election. Barack Obama, a U.S. senator from the neighboring state of Illinois won Indiana by a margin of 1.03% United States Senate
As of the 2024 presidential election, this is the most recent time a Democrat carried Indiana and North Carolina in a presidential election, as well as the most recent presidential election where any candidate would win with over two-thirds of the electoral vote. McCain remains the last presidential candidate to receive fewer than 200 electoral ...
Senator Barack Obama of Illinois was the Democratic nominee, and Senator John McCain of Arizona was the Republican nominee. Incumbent President George W. Bush was ineligible for re-election per the Twenty-second Amendment to the United States Constitution, which limits a president to two terms, and incumbent Vice President Dick Cheney declined to run for the office.
The 2008 Indiana Republican presidential primary took place on May 6, 2008. 27 delegates to the 2008 Republican National Convention were selected in the election. [1] In addition, 27 other delegates were selected during the state convention from June 9 to June 10, 2008. John McCain was the winner of the election and of all of Indiana's delegates.
Under state law, presidential candidates need to qualify with 500 signatures from each of Indiana's nine congressional districts. Indiana elections officials said that in St. Joseph County, which is the 2nd Congressional District, the Obama campaign qualified with 534 signatures; Clinton's camp had 704.
2011 Indianapolis City-County Council election; 2010. 2010 Indiana elections; 2008. March 11: 2008 Indiana's 7th congressional district special election; May 6: 2008 Indiana Democratic primary; 2008 Indiana Republican primary; November 4: 2008 Indiana gubernatorial election; 2008 United States House of Representatives elections in Indiana