2012 United States Senate election in Indiana
The 2012 United States Senate election in Indiana took place on November 6, 2012, concurrently with the U.S. presidential election, other elections to the United States Senate and House of Representatives, and various state and local elections. Incumbent Republican U.S. Senator Richard Lugar ran for reelection to a seventh term, but was defeated in the primary by Tea Party-backed Richard Mourdock. Lugar was the longest-serving senator ever to lose renomination. U.S. Representative Joe Donnelly, a Democrat from Indiana's 2nd congressional district, was unopposed in his party's primary, and then defeated both Mourdock and Libertarian Andrew Horning in the general election. Alongside the concurrent election for state superintendent, this was the last time a Democrat would win a statewide election in Indiana until 2026. This was also the last Senate election in which an elected incumbent was defeated in the primary until 2026, and the last time either party would flip a Senate seat in a presidential...
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