1982 general · November 2, 1982

1982 Indiana election results

Every race on Indiana's ballot in the 1982 general election: winners, margins and seats that changed party.

Races113

Changed party0

Unopposed15%17 races

Incumbents defeated8

U.S. Senate

R 1

Race	Winner	Won by	Notes
Indiana	Richard G. Lugar (R)	8.2

D 5 · R 5

Race	Winner	Won by
IN-1	Katie Hall (D)	13.2
IN-2	Philip Sharp (D)	12.4
IN-3	John Hiler (R)	2.3
IN-4	Daniel Coats (R)	29.2
IN-5	Elwood H. Hillis (R)	22.1
IN-6	Dan Burton (R)	29.9
IN-7	John Myers (R)	24.5
IN-8	Francis McCloskey (D)	3.3
IN-9	Lee Hamilton (D)	34.7
IN-10	Andrew Jacobs (D)	33.6

D 13 · R 12

Race	Winner	Won by	Notes
SD-1	Frank Mrvan (D)	63.1
SD-4	John Bushemi (D)	48.5
SD-6	Ernest Niemeyer (R)	26.1
SD-11	Joseph C. Zakas (R)	6.8
SD-14	Richard Worman (R)	25.2
SD-15	Elmer Macdonald (R)	12.2
SD-17	Gene Snowden (R)	8.8
SD-19	W. Wayne Townsend (D)	20.7
SD-21	James R. Butcher (R)	3.9
SD-22	Michael E. Gery (D)	16.8
SD-23	Joseph W. Harrison (R)	17.9
SD-25	William D. McCarty (D)	4.8	Incumbent lost
SD-26	Allie V. Craycraft Jr. (D)	27.1
SD-27	David L. Nicholson (D)	6.8	Incumbent lost
SD-29	Leslie Duvall (R)	46.8
SD-31	William H. Vobach (R)	17.5
SD-38	William C. Dunbar (R)	6.8
SD-39	James R. Monk (D)	17.7
SD-41	Robert D. Garton (R)	Unopposed
SD-43	Johnny Nugent (R)	16.1
SD-45	James A. Lewis (D)	Unopposed
SD-46	Clay Baird (D)	9.5
SD-47	Frank O'Bannon (D)	Unopposed
SD-48	Lindel O. Hume (D)	25.2
SD-49	Joseph F. Oday (D)	33.4

D 43 · R 57

Results are each source's final count; margins are the winner's lead over the runner-up in points of the vote. Source: Harvard Dataverse / Carl Klarner; MIT Election Data and Science Lab