The 2020 Indiana Attorney General election was held on November 3, 2020, to elect the Attorney General of the U.S. state of Indiana. The Democratic primary convention was scheduled for June 13, 2020. The Republican primary convention was scheduled with a live stream on June 18, 2020, followed by mail-in voting between June 22 and July 9.
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Incumbent Attorney General Curtis Hill ran for re-election, but was defeated at the Republican nominating convention by former U.S. Representative Todd Rokita, who eventually won after three rounds of votes. Jonathan Weinzapfel, former mayor of Evansville, narrowly won the Democratic nomination at the party's nominating convention.
In the general election, Rokita defeated Weinzapfel by approximately 500,000 votes, a margin of more than 16 percentage points. Due to a smaller third-party vote, both Rokita and Weinzapfel received a larger percentage of the vote than their party's candidates in the state's presidential and gubernatorial elections. Rokita carried Tippecanoe County, which voted for Democrat Joe Biden in the presidential race, while Weinzapfel carried his home of Vanderburgh County, which voted for Republicans Donald Trump and Eric Holcomb in the presidential and gubernatorial races.
Republican convention
Candidates
Nominee
- Todd Rokita, former U.S. Representative from Indiana's 4th district[1]
Eliminated at convention
- Nate Harter, Decatur County prosecutor[2]
- Curtis Hill, incumbent Attorney General[3]
- John Westercamp, attorney[4]
Withdrawn
- Adam Krupp, former Indiana Department of Revenue Commissioner (endorsed Harter)[5]
Endorsements
Nate Harter
- State legislators
- Stephen Bartels, state representative[6]
- Michael Crider, state senator[7]
- Mark Messmer, Majority Leader of the Indiana Senate[8]
- Jeff Raatz, state senator[9]
- Cindy Ziemke, state representative[10]
- Individuals
- Adam Krupp, former Indiana Department of Revenue Commissioner[11]
Curtis Hill
- State officials
- Leslie Rutledge, Arkansas Attorney General since 2015[12]
- State legislators
- Christy Stutzman, state representative[13]
- Jim Tomes, state senator[14]
Todd Rokita
- State legislators
- Michael Aylesworth, state representative[15]
- Karen Engleman, state representative[16]
- Ryan Mishler, state senator[17]
- Rick Niemeyer, state senator[18]
- Heath VanNatter, state representative[19]
- Dennis Zent, state representative[20]
John Westercamp
- U.S. Representatives
- David M. McIntosh, former U.S. representative for IN-02 (1995–2001)[21]
- State legislators
- Eric Bassler, state senator[21]
- Dave Heine, state representative[21]
- Mike Speedy, state representative[21]
- Timothy Wesco, state representative[21]
Results
| Republican convention results | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Candidate | Round 1 | Round 2 | Round 3 | ||||||
| Votes | % | Transfer | Votes | % | Transfer | Votes | % | ||
| Todd Rokita | 479 | 27.37 | +122 | 601 | 34.66 | +272 | 873 | 52.15 | |
| Curtis Hill (inc.) | 655 | 37.43 | +46 | 701 | 40.43 | +100 | 801 | 47.85 | |
| Nate Harter | 327 | 18.69 | +105 | 432 | 24.91 | Eliminated | |||
| John Westercamp | 289 | 16.51 | Eliminated | ||||||
| Active ballots | 1,750 | 100.00 | 1,734 | 100.00 | 1,674 | 100.00 | |||
| Exhausted ballots | 7 | 0.40 | +16 | 23 | 1.31 | +60 | 83 | 4.72 | |
| Total ballots | 1,757 | 100.00 | 1,757 | 100.00 | 1,757 | 100.00 | |||
Democratic convention
Candidates
Nominee
- Jonathan Weinzapfel, former Mayor of Evansville[22]
Eliminated at convention
Results
| Democratic convention results[24] | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Candidate | Round 1 | ||||||||
| Votes | % | ||||||||
| Jonathan Weinzapfel | 1,057 | 51.16 | |||||||
| Karen Tallian | 1,009 | 48.84 | |||||||
| Total ballots | 2,066 | 100.00 | |||||||
General election
Predictions
| Source | Ranking | As of |
|---|---|---|
| The Cook Political Report[25] | Tossup | June 25, 2020 |
Polling
| Poll source | Date(s) administered | Sample size[a] | Margin of error | Todd Rokita (R) | Jonathan Weinzapfel (D) | Undecided |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SurveyUSA/Election Twitter | Oct 8–13, 2020 | 527 (LV) | ± 5.2% | 48% | 35% | 17% |
| Change Research/IndyPolitics/SnydeReport | Sep 3–7, 2020 | 1,033 (LV) | ± 3.1% | 49% | 34% | 18% |
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Results
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Republican | Todd Rokita | 1,722,007 | 58.34 |  3.97 | |
| Democratic | Jonathan Weinzapfel | 1,229,644 | 41.66 |  3.97 | |
| Total votes | 2,951,651 | 100.00 | |||
| Republican hold | |||||
Results by county
| Todd Rokita Republican | Jonathan Weinzapfel Democratic | Total | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| County | Votes | % | Votes | % | Votes |
| Adams | 10,433 | 75.2% | 3,439 | 24.8% | 13,872 |
| Allen | 95,651 | 57.9% | 69,691 | 42.1% | 165,342 |
| Bartholomew | 22,714 | 65.1% | 12,151 | 34.9% | 34,865 |
| Benton | 2,937 | 72.6% | 1,111 | 27.4% | 4,048 |
| Blackford | 3,766 | 72.7% | 1,413 | 27.3% | 5,179 |
| Boone | 23,915 | 63.9% | 13,506 | 36.1% | 37,421 |
| Brown | 5,625 | 64.2% | 3,141 | 35.8% | 8,766 |
| Carroll | 7,067 | 74.7% | 2,399 | 25.3% | 9,466 |
| Cass | 10,506 | 70.1% | 4,478 | 29.9% | 14,984 |
| Clark | 32,918 | 59.5% | 22,416 | 40.5% | 55,334 |
| Clay | 8,982 | 76.5% | 2,765 | 23.5% | 11,747 |
| Clinton | 9,269 | 72.9% | 3,451 | 27.1% | 12,720 |
| Crawford | 3,089 | 67.4% | 1,494 | 32.6% | 4,583 |
| Daviess | 8,931 | 78.3% | 2,473 | 21.7% | 11,404 |
| Dearborn | 19,565 | 78.4% | 5,401 | 21.6% | 24,966 |
| Decatur | 9,118 | 77.4% | 2,665 | 22.6% | 11,783 |
| Dekalb | 13,704 | 73.3% | 5,002 | 26.7% | 18,706 |
| Delaware | 26,834 | 57.0% | 20,242 | 43.0% | 47,076 |
| Dubois | 13,032 | 61.7% | 8,084 | 38.3% | 21,116 |
| Elkhart | 48,604 | 65.9% | 25,171 | 34.1% | 73,775 |
| Fayette | 7,354 | 75.8% | 2,343 | 24.2% | 9,697 |
| Floyd | 23,932 | 58.6% | 16,894 | 41.4% | 40,826 |
| Fountain | 6,050 | 77.0% | 1,811 | 23.0% | 7,861 |
| Franklin | 9,144 | 81.2% | 2,120 | 18.8% | 11,264 |
| Fulton | 6,561 | 73.2% | 2,401 | 26.8% | 8,962 |
| Gibson | 9,811 | 61.6% | 6,122 | 38.4% | 15,933 |
| Grant | 18,266 | 69.9% | 7,872 | 30.1% | 26,138 |
| Greene | 10,578 | 73.3% | 3,859 | 26.7% | 14,437 |
| Hamilton | 109,798 | 58.6% | 77,549 | 41.4% | 187,347 |
| Hancock | 29,571 | 70.6% | 12,324 | 29.4% | 41,895 |
| Harrison | 14,237 | 72.2% | 5,493 | 27.8% | 19,730 |
| Hendricks | 55,159 | 64.2% | 30,711 | 35.8% | 85,870 |
| Henry | 14,689 | 70.7% | 6,084 | 29.3% | 20,773 |
| Howard | 26,399 | 66.4% | 13,369 | 33.4% | 39,768 |
| Huntington | 12,806 | 75.0% | 4,258 | 25.0% | 17,064 |
| Jackson | 13,884 | 76.0% | 4,374 | 24.0% | 18,258 |
| Jasper | 11,265 | 75.5% | 3,658 | 24.5% | 14,923 |
| Jay | 6,202 | 75.1% | 2,051 | 24.9% | 8,253 |
| Jefferson | 9,291 | 66.9% | 4,591 | 33.1% | 13,882 |
| Jennings | 9,016 | 76.8% | 2,731 | 23.2% | 11,747 |
| Johnson | 51,302 | 68.9% | 23,159 | 31.1% | 74,461 |
| Knox | 10,541 | 68.4% | 4,881 | 31.6% | 15,422 |
| Kosciusko | 26,329 | 76.4% | 8,144 | 23.6% | 34,473 |
| Lagrange | 7,971 | 77.7% | 2,294 | 22.3% | 10,265 |
| Lake | 91,316 | 42.9% | 121,406 | 57.1% | 212,722 |
| LaPorte | 25,095 | 53.1% | 22,163 | 46.9% | 47,258 |
| Lawrence | 15,164 | 75.3% | 4,975 | 24.7% | 20,139 |
| Madison | 30,596 | 59.9% | 20,511 | 40.1% | 51,107 |
| Marion | 141,939 | 36.6% | 246,140 | 63.4% | 388,079 |
| Marshall | 13,706 | 71.5% | 5,474 | 28.5% | 19,180 |
| Martin | 3,645 | 73.9% | 1,290 | 26.1% | 4,935 |
| Miami | 10,594 | 76.3% | 3,297 | 23.7% | 13,891 |
| Monroe | 23,187 | 37.6% | 38,405 | 62.4% | 61,592 |
| Montgomery | 13,018 | 77.4% | 3,795 | 22.6% | 16,813 |
| Morgan | 27,058 | 77.6% | 7,826 | 22.4% | 34,884 |
| Newton | 4,942 | 76.8% | 1,496 | 23.2% | 6,438 |
| Noble | 13,717 | 74.3% | 4,753 | 25.7% | 18,470 |
| Ohio | 2,315 | 75.9% | 734 | 24.1% | 3,049 |
| Orange | 6,213 | 73.9% | 2,192 | 26.1% | 8,405 |
| Owen | 6,921 | 72.7% | 2,597 | 27.3% | 9,518 |
| Parke | 5,058 | 75.2% | 1,667 | 24.8% | 6,725 |
| Perry | 4,663 | 55.3% | 3,763 | 44.7% | 8,426 |
| Pike | 3,948 | 65.9% | 2,043 | 34.1% | 5,991 |
| Porter | 46,276 | 54.1% | 39,256 | 45.9% | 85,532 |
| Posey | 7,605 | 57.6% | 5,595 | 42.4% | 13,200 |
| Pulaski | 4,098 | 73.8% | 1,454 | 26.2% | 5,552 |
| Putnam | 12,186 | 76.4% | 4,099 | 23.6% | 16,285 |
| Randolph | 7,994 | 75.5% | 2,589 | 24.5% | 10,583 |
| Ripley | 11,071 | 79.6% | 2,841 | 20.4% | 13,912 |
| Rush | 5,762 | 75.5% | 1,871 | 24.5% | 7,633 |
| Scott | 6,496 | 69.0% | 2,915 | 31.0% | 9,411 |
| Shelby | 13,889 | 72.7% | 5,207 | 27.3% | 19,096 |
| Spencer | 6,138 | 58.7% | 4,314 | 41.3% | 10,452 |
| St. Joseph | 53,530 | 48.6% | 56,536 | 51.4% | 110,066 |
| Starke | 6,861 | 70.5% | 2,877 | 29.5% | 9,738 |
| Steuben | 11,432 | 72.1% | 4,413 | 27.9% | 15,845 |
| Sullivan | 6,082 | 70.0% | 2,609 | 30.0% | 8,691 |
| Switzerland | 2,967 | 75.1% | 984 | 24.9% | 3,951 |
| Tippecanoe | 36,476 | 51.8% | 33,940 | 48.2% | 70,416 |
| Tipton | 5,824 | 74.6% | 1,987 | 25.4% | 7,811 |
| Union | 2,625 | 78.7% | 711 | 21.3% | 3,336 |
| Vanderburgh | 36,681 | 47.5% | 40,531 | 52.5% | 77,212 |
| Vermillion | 4,727 | 66.1% | 2,428 | 33.9% | 7,155 |
| Vigo | 22,772 | 56.6% | 17,474 | 43.4% | 40,246 |
| Wabash | 10,628 | 75.8% | 3,402 | 24.2% | 14,030 |
| Warren | 3,397 | 76.9% | 1,019 | 23.1% | 4,416 |
| Warrick | 18,735 | 56.9% | 14,194 | 43.1% | 32,929 |
| Washington | 8,980 | 76.0% | 2,829 | 24.0% | 11,809 |
| Wayne | 17,845 | 65.7% | 9,319 | 34.3% | 27,164 |
| Wells | 10,799 | 78.1% | 3,029 | 21.9% | 13,828 |
| White | 7,940 | 73.2% | 2,902 | 26.8% | 10,842 |
| Whitley | 12,528 | 74.4% | 4,300 | 25.6% | 16,828 |
Notes
See also
References
External links
- Official campaign websites
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