Indiana's state legislative elections this year are the state's most competitive since 2010

Indiana’s state legislative elections this year are shaping up to be generally more competitive than previous years. Voters will see the greatest number of candidates, contested primaries, and contested incumbents of any election year since 2010.

Indiana’s 2026 state legislative elections follow a December 2025 special legislative session in which the Indiana Senate voted against a mid-decade redistricting plan that would have shifted the state’s two Democratic U.S. House districts toward Republicans ahead of this year’s midterms. Ballotpedia is covering the Indiana Senate Republican primaries as a battleground election this year. Click here to read more about those primaries.

Twelve seats are open in Indiana’s state legislative elections this year, meaning no incumbents filed. That is just short of the average of 13 open seats each cycle between 2010 and 2024. As a result, at least 8% of the state’s legislature will be represented by newcomers next year.

Thirty-three incumbents face primary contests in Indiana’s state legislative elections this year, 29.2% of the 113 incumbents running and the most of any year since 2010.



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