1988 United States presidential election in Indiana

Main article: 1988 United States presidential election
1988 United States presidential election in Indiana
November 8, 1988
Turnout60.4%[1] 0.5 pp
 
Nominee George H. W. Bush Michael Dukakis
Party Republican Democratic
Home state Texas Massachusetts
Running mate Dan Quayle Lloyd Bentsen
Electoral vote 12 0
Popular vote 1,297,763 860,643
Percentage 59.84% 39.69%
President before election

Ronald Reagan
Republican

Elected President

George H.W Bush
Republican

A presidential election was held in Indiana on November 8, 1988, as part of the 1988 United States presidential election. The Republican ticket of the vice president of the United States George H. W. Bush and the junior U.S. senator from Indiana Dan Quayle defeated the Democratic ticket of the governor of Massachusetts Michael Dukakis and the senior U.S. senator from Texas Lloyd Bentsen. Bush defeated Dukakis in the national election with 426 electoral votes.[2]

Primary elections

Republican Party

Main article: 1988 Republican Party presidential primaries
Indiana Republican primary, May 3, 1988[3]
Party Candidate Votes %
Republican George H. W. Bush 351,829 80.39
Republican Bob Dole (withdrawn) 42,878 9.80
Republican Pat Robertson (withdrawn) 28,712 6.56
Republican Jack Kemp (withdrawn) 14,236 3.25
Total votes 437,655 100.00

Democratic Party

Main article: 1984 Democratic Party presidential primaries
Indiana Democratic primary, May 3, 1988[3]
Party Candidate Votes %
Democratic Michael Dukakis 449,495 69.61
Democratic Jesse Jackson 145,021 22.46
Democratic Al Gore (withdrawn) 21,865 3.39
Democratic Dick Gephardt (withdrawn) 16,777 2.60
Democratic Paul Simon (withdrawn) 12,550 1.94
Total votes 645,708 100.00

General election

Results

1988 United States presidential election in Indiana[4]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Republican George H. W. Bush
Dan Quayle 		1,297,763 59.84 1.83
Democratic Michael Dukakis
Lloyd Bentsen 		860,643 39.69 2.01
New Alliance Lenora Fulani
Mamie Moore 		10,215 0.47 0.47
Total votes 2,168,621 100.00

Results by county

1988 United States presidential election in Indiana by county[4]
County George H. W. Bush
Republican 		Michael Dukakis
Democratic 		Lenora Fulani
New Alliance 		Margin Total
Votes % Votes % Votes % Votes %
Adams 8,137 67.83% 3,811 31.77% 49 0.41% 4,326 36.06% 11,997
Allen 74,638 64.94% 39,238 34.14% 1,059 0.92% 35,400 30.80% 114,935
Bartholomew 17,364 66.05% 8,804 33.49% 123 0.47% 8,560 32.56% 26,291
Benton 2,698 66.31% 1,349 33.15% 22 0.54% 1,349 33.16% 4,069
Blackford 3,336 59.49% 2,253 40.17% 19 0.34% 1,083 19.32% 5,608
Boone 11,608 73.44% 4,168 26.37% 30 0.19% 7,440 47.07% 15,806
Brown 3,348 60.86% 2,115 38.45% 38 0.69% 1,233 22.41% 5,501
Carroll 4,981 62.54% 2,952 37.07% 31 0.39% 2,029 25.47% 7,964
Cass 10,970 65.10% 5,784 34.32% 97 0.58% 5,186 30.78% 16,851
Clark 16,544 53.04% 14,528 46.58% 120 0.38% 2,016 6.46% 31,192
Clay 5,852 60.77% 3,724 38.67% 53 0.55% 2,128 22.10% 9,629
Clinton 8,570 65.82% 4,412 33.88% 39 0.30% 4,158 31.94% 13,021
Crawford 2,532 55.09% 2,036 44.30% 28 0.61% 496 10.79% 4,596
Daviess 6,768 65.75% 3,483 33.84% 43 0.42% 3,285 31.91% 10,294
Dearborn 8,195 61.57% 5,066 38.06% 48 0.36% 3,129 23.51% 13,309
Decatur 6,245 67.35% 2,979 32.13% 48 0.52% 3,266 35.22% 9,272
DeKalb 9,018 65.75% 4,657 33.95% 41 0.30% 4,361 31.80% 13,716
Delaware 27,348 56.84% 20,548 42.71% 216 0.45% 6,800 14.13% 48,112
Dubois 9,995 62.28% 5,954 37.10% 99 0.62% 4,041 25.18% 16,048
Elkhart 33,793 70.11% 14,236 29.54% 171 0.35% 19,557 40.57% 48,200
Fayette 5,949 58.85% 4,118 40.74% 41 0.41% 1,831 18.11% 10,108
Floyd 14,291 56.28% 11,024 43.41% 78 0.31% 3,267 12.87% 25,393
Fountain 5,113 60.57% 3,279 38.85% 49 0.58% 1,834 21.72% 8,441
Franklin 4,777 65.70% 2,472 34.00% 22 0.30% 2,305 31.70% 7,271
Fulton 5,234 65.01% 2,788 34.63% 29 0.36% 2,446 30.38% 8,051
Gibson 7,610 51.83% 7,031 47.88% 43 0.29% 579 3.95% 14,684
Grant 18,441 62.79% 10,799 36.77% 131 0.45% 7,642 26.02% 29,371
Greene 7,689 55.94% 5,979 43.50% 78 0.57% 1,710 12.44% 13,746
Hamilton 36,654 80.36% 8,853 19.41% 108 0.24% 27,801 60.95% 45,615
Hancock 13,374 71.21% 5,355 28.51% 51 0.27% 8,019 42.70% 18,780
Harrison 6,702 57.47% 4,933 42.30% 26 0.22% 1,769 15.17% 11,661
Hendricks 22,090 74.12% 7,643 25.65% 70 0.23% 14,447 48.47% 29,803
Henry 11,280 59.01% 7,779 40.69% 57 0.30% 3,501 18.32% 19,116
Howard 19,971 63.16% 11,518 36.43% 131 0.41% 8,453 26.73% 31,620
Huntington 11,675 74.87% 3,873 24.84% 46 0.29% 7,802 50.03% 15,594
Jackson 9,470 62.77% 5,550 36.78% 68 0.45% 3,920 25.99% 15,088
Jasper 6,009 64.67% 3,237 34.84% 46 0.50% 2,772 29.83% 9,292
Jay 5,363 62.22% 3,212 37.26% 45 0.52% 2,151 24.96% 8,620
Jefferson 6,949 56.64% 5,221 42.56% 98 0.80% 1,728 14.08% 12,268
Jennings 5,636 60.29% 3,667 39.23% 45 0.48% 1,969 21.06% 9,348
Johnson 24,654 72.99% 9,001 26.65% 123 0.36% 15,653 46.34% 33,778
Knox 9,813 58.13% 7,006 41.50% 62 0.37% 2,807 16.63% 16,881
Kosciusko 17,761 76.68% 5,321 22.97% 81 0.35% 12,440 53.71% 23,163
LaGrange 4,495 68.67% 2,029 31.00% 22 0.34% 2,466 37.67% 6,546
Lake 79,929 43.03% 105,026 56.55% 780 0.42% -25,097 -13.52% 185,735
LaPorte 20,537 53.64% 17,585 45.93% 163 0.43% 2,952 7.71% 38,285
Lawrence 10,742 64.71% 5,787 34.86% 70 0.42% 4,955 29.85% 16,599
Madison 32,596 56.95% 24,443 42.70% 202 0.35% 8,153 14.25% 57,241
Marion 184,519 58.56% 128,627 40.82% 1,949 0.62% 55,892 17.74% 315,095
Marshall 10,490 65.41% 5,488 34.22% 60 0.37% 5,002 31.19% 16,038
Martin 3,066 58.75% 2,132 40.85% 21 0.40% 934 17.90% 5,219
Miami 8,533 64.47% 4,613 34.85% 90 0.68% 3,920 29.62% 13,236
Monroe 20,756 56.04% 15,855 42.81% 427 1.15% 4,901 13.23% 37,038
Montgomery 10,793 74.58% 3,623 25.03% 56 0.39% 7,170 49.55% 14,472
Morgan 14,284 72.38% 5,375 27.23% 77 0.39% 8,909 45.15% 19,736
Newton 3,274 65.02% 1,744 34.64% 17 0.34% 1,530 30.38% 5,035
Noble 7,889 65.26% 4,143 34.27% 57 0.47% 3,746 30.99% 12,089
Ohio 1,412 55.79% 1,113 43.97% 6 0.24% 299 11.82% 2,531
Orange 5,245 65.44% 2,739 34.17% 31 0.39% 2,506 31.27% 8,015
Owen 3,837 60.30% 2,484 39.04% 42 0.66% 1,353 21.26% 6,363
Parke 4,458 63.21% 2,563 36.34% 32 0.45% 1,895 26.87% 7,053
Perry 4,720 49.27% 4,804 50.15% 56 0.58% -84 -0.88% 9,580
Pike 3,294 51.70% 3,037 47.67% 40 0.63% 257 4.03% 6,371
Porter 29,790 60.37% 19,390 39.29% 165 0.33% 10,400 21.08% 49,345
Posey 5,987 57.07% 4,468 42.59% 35 0.33% 1,519 14.48% 10,490
Pulaski 3,677 62.14% 2,213 37.40% 27 0.46% 1,464 24.74% 5,917
Putnam 7,119 64.59% 3,850 34.93% 52 0.47% 3,269 29.66% 11,021
Randolph 6,856 62.85% 3,990 36.58% 62 0.57% 2,866 26.27% 10,908
Ripley 6,414 63.81% 3,605 35.87% 32 0.32% 2,809 27.94% 10,051
Rush 5,112 67.41% 2,451 32.32% 20 0.26% 2,661 35.09% 7,583
Scott 3,455 50.41% 3,378 49.29% 21 0.31% 77 1.12% 6,854
Shelby 10,176 65.14% 5,382 34.45% 63 0.40% 4,794 30.69% 15,621
Spencer 4,964 54.82% 4,061 44.85% 30 0.33% 903 9.97% 9,055
St. Joseph 49,481 50.56% 48,056 49.10% 327 0.33% 1,425 1.46% 97,864
Starke 4,458 51.80% 4,104 47.69% 44 0.51% 354 4.11% 8,606
Steuben 6,855 68.55% 3,114 31.14% 31 0.31% 3,741 37.41% 10,000
Sullivan 4,246 49.39% 4,320 50.25% 31 0.36% -74 -0.86% 8,597
Switzerland 1,572 51.39% 1,479 48.35% 8 0.26% 93 3.04% 3,059
Tippecanoe 27,897 62.88% 16,256 36.64% 211 0.48% 11,641 26.24% 44,364
Tipton 5,148 67.15% 2,485 32.42% 33 0.43% 2,663 34.73% 7,666
Union 1,814 65.49% 946 34.15% 10 0.36% 868 31.34% 2,770
Vanderburgh 38,928 55.02% 31,270 44.20% 555 0.78% 7,658 10.82% 70,753
Vermillion 3,674 47.27% 4,044 52.03% 54 0.69% -370 -4.76% 7,772
Vigo 21,929 53.11% 19,192 46.48% 172 0.42% 2,737 6.63% 41,293
Wabash 9,153 68.39% 4,168 31.14% 63 0.47% 4,985 37.25% 13,384
Warren 2,243 59.04% 1,542 40.59% 14 0.37% 701 18.45% 3,799
Warrick 10,504 56.58% 7,999 43.09% 61 0.33% 2,505 13.49% 18,564
Washington 4,998 59.39% 3,370 40.04% 48 0.57% 1,628 19.35% 8,416
Wayne 16,388 61.37% 10,209 38.23% 105 0.39% 6,179 23.14% 26,702
Wells 7,712 68.93% 3,437 30.72% 39 0.35% 4,275 38.21% 11,188
White 6,220 65.38% 3,256 34.23% 37 0.39% 2,964 31.15% 9,513
Whitley 7,679 67.44% 3,642 31.99% 65 0.57% 4,037 35.45% 11,386
TOTAL 1,297,763 59.84% 860,643 39.69% 10,215 0.47% 437,120 20.15% 2,168,621

Counties that flipped from Republican to Democratic

See also

References

  1. ^ Jennings 1989, p. 37.
  2. ^ Congressional Quarterly 2010, pp. 796, 886.
  3. ^ a b Congressional Quarterly 2010, p. 441.
  4. ^ a b Hogsett 1988, pp. 33–34.

Bibliography

  • Congressional Quarterly (2010). Congressional Quarterly's Guide to U.S. Elections (6th ed.). Washington D.C.: Congressional Quarterly.
  • Hogsett, Joseph H. (1988). 1988 Election Report State of Indiana. Indianapolis: Indiana Secretary of State.
  • Jennings, Jerry T. (1989). Voting and Registration in the Election of November 1988. Washington, D.C.: United States Department of Commerce.
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