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2022 United States Senate election in Indiana
Template:Country data Indiana
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Nominee Todd Young Thomas McDermott Jr.
Party Republican Party (United States) Democratic Party (United States)
Popular vote 1,090,165 704,411
Percentage 58.6% 37.9%


Young: Template:Legend0 Template:Legend0 Template:Legend0 Template:Legend0
McDermott: Template:Legend0 Template:Legend0

U.S. senator before election

Todd Young
Republican Party (United States)

Elected U.S. Senator

Todd Young
Republican Party (United States)

Template:ElectionsIN The 2022 United States Senate election in Indiana was held on November 8, 2022 to elect a member of the United States Senate to represent the state of Indiana. Incumbent Republican Senator Todd Young was reelected to a second term.[1]

Young announced on March 2, 2021, that he would be running for a second term.[2] He was first elected to the Senate in 2016 with 52.1% of the vote, succeeding retiring U.S. Senator Dan Coats. Hammond Mayor Thomas McDermott Jr. ran for the Democratic nomination. Both ran unopposed and won their respective primaries on May 3, 2022.

Republican primary[edit | edit source]

Candidates[edit | edit source]

Nominee[edit | edit source]

Removed from ballot[edit | edit source]

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Democratic primary[edit | edit source]

Candidates[edit | edit source]

Nominee[edit | edit source]

Removed from ballot[edit | edit source]

On February 18, 2022, the Indiana Election Commission removed Democratic candidates Haneefah Khaaliq and Valerie McCray, as well as Republican candidate Danny Niederberger, from the primary ballot.[9] On February 4, 2022, McDermott campaign adviser Kevin Smith said the campaign would look closely at whether Khaaliq and McCray met the ballot requirements and that avoiding a primary challenge could benefit McDermott as he entered this year with about $50,000 in campaign cash.[10] Khaaliq then conducted an investigation[11] and discovered that the individual who filed the challenge against both her and McCray was Scott Yahne, an attorney who was a close friend and ally of McDermott.[12]

As a result of the investigation findings, Khaaliq filed a lawsuit against the Indiana Election Commission[13] and announced her decision to proceed as a write-in candidate in the 2022 general election. Khaaliq was the first African American to run for the U.S. Senate in a general election in Indiana's history.[14]

Declined[edit | edit source]

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Libertarian convention[edit | edit source]

Candidates[edit | edit source]

Nominee[edit | edit source]

  • James Sceniak, activist and behavior therapist[19]

Eliminated at convention[edit | edit source]

Write-ins[edit | edit source]

Candidates[edit | edit source]

Declared[edit | edit source]

  • Haneefah Khaaliq, professor at Indiana University[20]
  • Thomas Baer
  • Phillip Beachy
  • David G. Storer
  • Danny Niederberger
  • Antonio Xavier Alvarez

Withdrew/Disqualified[edit | edit source]

  • Ellen Kizik, retail worker[21]

General election[edit | edit source]

Predictions[edit | edit source]

Source Ranking As of
The Cook Political Report[22] Template:USRaceRating March 4, 2022
Inside Elections[23] Template:USRaceRating April 1, 2022
Sabato's Crystal Ball[24] Template:USRaceRating March 1, 2022
Politico[25] Template:USRaceRating April 1, 2022
RCP[26] Template:USRaceRating February 24, 2022
Fox News[27] Template:USRaceRating May 12, 2022
DDHQ[28] Template:USRaceRating July 20, 2022
538[29] Template:USRaceRating July 6, 2022
The Economist[30] Template:USRaceRating September 7, 2022

Endorsements[edit | edit source]

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Polling[edit | edit source]

Poll source Date(s)
administered
Sample
size[lower-alpha 1]
Margin
of error
Todd
Young (R)
Thomas
McDermott Jr. (D)
James
Sceniak (L)
Other Undecided
Civiqs November 4–7, 2022 707 (LV) ± 4.7% Template:Party shading/Republican|49% 38% 9%[lower-alpha 2] 4%
ARW Strategies September 25–26, 2022 600 (LV) ± 4.0% Template:Party shading/Republican|39% 37% 6% 17%
Change Research (D)[upper-alpha 1] August 20–24, 2022 2,111 (LV) ± 2.6% Template:Party shading/Republican|45% 42% 13%

Results[edit | edit source]

Template:Election box write-in with party linkTemplate:Election box totalTemplate:Election box hold with party link no swing
2022 United States Senate election in Indiana[31]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Republican Todd Young (incumbent) 1,090,165 58.62% +6.51%
Democratic Thomas McDermott Jr. 704,411 37.87% −4.54%
Libertarian James Sceniak 63,814 3.43% −2.04%

By congressional district[edit | edit source]

Young won 7 of 9 congressional districts.[32]

District Young McDermott Representative
Template:Party shading/Democratic|1st 46.1% 52% Template:Party shading/Democratic|Frank J. Mrvan
Template:Party shading/Republican|2nd 65% 32.4% Template:Party shading/Republican|Rudy Yakym
Template:Party shading/Republican|3rd 66.7% 30.4% Template:Party shading/Republican|Jim Banks
Template:Party shading/Republican|4th 63.6% 31.4% Template:Party shading/Republican|Jim Baird
Template:Party shading/Republican|5th 58.5% 37.2% Template:Party shading/Republican|Victoria Spartz
Template:Party shading/Republican|6th 63.9% 30.5% Template:Party shading/Republican|Greg Pence
Template:Party shading/Democratic|7th 29% 67.5% Template:Party shading/Democratic|André Carson
Template:Party shading/Republican|8th 67.5% 30% Template:Party shading/Republican|Larry Bucshon
rowspan=2 Template:Party shading/Republican|9th 63.7% 33.2% Template:Party shading/Republican|Trey Hollingsworth (117th Congress)
Template:Party shading/Republican|Erin Houchin (118th Congress)

See also[edit | edit source]

Notes[edit | edit source]

  1. Key:
    A – all adults
    RV – registered voters
    LV – likely voters
    V – unclear
  2. "Someone else" with 9%
Partisan clients
  1. This poll was sponsored by McDermott's campaign

References[edit | edit source]

  1. "2022 US Senate Election Results: Live Map". ABC News. November 8, 2022. Retrieved 2022-11-09.
  2. 2.0 2.1 "'I'm running': Todd Young to seek re-election to US Senate". WANE-TV. March 2, 2021. Archived from the original on 2021-04-19. Retrieved March 2, 2021.
  3. Lange, Kaitlin (August 10, 2021). "Sen. Todd Young to vote against infrastructure bill after initially supporting it". The Indianapolis Star. Gannett (published August 9, 2021). Archived from the original on August 22, 2021. Retrieved August 22, 2021.
  4. Lange, Kaitlin (May 12, 2020). "2020 Elections: Here's who is running in Indiana's 5th Congressional District". The Indianapolis Star. Gannett (published October 11, 2019). Archived from the original on January 21, 2021. Retrieved August 22, 2021.
  5. 5.0 5.1 5.2 Lange, Kaitlin. "Sen. Young won't face primary challengers after commission removes opponent from ballot". IndyStar. The Indianapolis Star. Retrieved 19 February 2022.
  6. 6.0 6.1 "Indiana mayor starts challenge to Republican US Sen. Young". Associated Press. Hammond, Ind. August 19, 2021. Archived from the original on August 19, 2021. Retrieved August 22, 2021.
  7. Burgess, Rob (July 27, 2021). "Democratic senatorial candidate visits Wabash". Chronicle-Tribune. Retrieved August 22, 2021.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: deprecated archival service (link)
  8. Kukulka, Alexandra (July 26, 2021). "Porter County march, rally calls for access to reproductive health care: 'Nobody should be ashamed of their own particular health care decision'". Post-Tribune. Archived from the original on July 26, 2021. Retrieved August 22, 2021.
  9. "Major party candidates for Senate will run unopposed in primary". NPR. 18 February 2022. Retrieved November 7, 2022.
  10. "3 longshot US Senate hopefuls file for Indiana primary race". Associated Press. 4 February 2022. Retrieved November 7, 2022.
  11. "Haneefah Khaaliq on her Decision to be a Write-in Candidate in the 2022 U.S. Senate Race". Hoosiers for Haneefah Campaign. Retrieved November 7, 2022.
  12. "Indiana Election Commission Public Session" (PDF). Indiana Election Commission. Retrieved November 7, 2022.
  13. "Enough is Enough". The Crusader Newspaper Group. 27 September 2022. Retrieved November 7, 2022.
  14. "Enough is Enough". The Crusader Newspaper Group. 27 September 2022. Retrieved November 7, 2022.
  15. 15.0 15.1 Wren, Adam (January 24, 2021). "3 takeaways from Buttigieg's first week in Washington". Importantville. Retrieved January 24, 2021.
  16. Laris, Michael; Duncan, Ian. "Senate confirms Pete Buttigieg to lead Transportation Dept., the first openly gay person confirmed to a Cabinet seat". Washington Post. ISSN 0190-8286. Retrieved 2021-02-02.
  17. Howey, Brian. "Joe Donnelly passes on a challenge to Sen. Todd Young". KPCNews. Retrieved 2021-03-14.
  18. "2022 Candidate List" (PDF). Indianan Secretary of State. Retrieved 8 February 2022.
  19. 19.0 19.1 Box, Terri (2022-03-08). "The Libertarian Party of Indiana nominates candidates for 2022 | WBIW". Retrieved 2022-05-03.
  20. "United States Senate Election in Indiana". Ballotpedia. Retrieved June 4, 2022.
  21. "Indiana 2022 General Election". The Green Papers. Retrieved May 5, 2022.
  22. "2022 Senate Race ratings". The Cook Political Report. Retrieved January 14, 2021.
  23. "Senate ratings". Inside Elections. Retrieved January 18, 2021.
  24. "2022 Senate". Sabato's Crystal Ball. Retrieved January 28, 2021.
  25. "Indiana Senate Race 2022". Politico. April 1, 2022.
  26. "Battle for the Senate 2022". RCP. January 10, 2022.
  27. "2022 Election Forecast". Fox News. 12 May 2022. Retrieved May 12, 2022.
  28. "2022 Election Forecast". DDHQ. July 20, 2022. Retrieved July 20, 2022.
  29. "2022 Election Forecast". FiveThirtyEight. June 30, 2022. Retrieved June 30, 2022.
  30. "Economist's 2022 Senate forecast". The Economist. September 7, 2022. Retrieved September 7, 2022.
  31. "Indiana Election Results November 8, 2022". Indiana Election Division.
  32. Results. docs.google.com (Report).

External links[edit | edit source]

Official campaign websites

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