#1 is the best, #50 is the worst
J.D. Ford beat Victoria Spartz 51.7% to 48.3%, Democrats flipped 16 Indiana House seats to end a 14-year supermajority, and Beau Bayh won the first statewide race for a Democrat since 2012. The ugly: TV ads in Trump's revenge primaries against the state senators who blocked his 9–0 map hit $13.5 million. Then Republicans lost two of those seats in November and picked the map's backers to run both chambers.
On November 11, the House voted 245-175 to force a standalone vote on the Major Richard Star Act, which would stop cutting the retirement pay of about 58,000 combat-wounded veterans. Every no vote came from a Republican. Here are the 153 on this site, and the 85 of them whose names are on the bill.
Trump's budget bill lets states pause Medicaid work requirements after a disaster, a plant closing, or a hospital stay. Missouri, Iowa and Indiana are the only three states declining all four exceptions, and all 17 House Republicans from those states voted for the law, including the 15 on this site.
Trump won Indiana with 58.6% of the vote to 39.6%, a margin of 19 points, with 59.1% of eligible voters turning out. (Full 2024 presidential results, state by state.)
9 of 11 — 82%. In the U.S. House, Indiana has 7 Republicans and 2 Democrats; in the Senate, 2 Republicans and 0 Democrats. (Source: Current members of Congress from Indiana, on Wikipedia.)
Indiana ranks #38 of 50. That is the average of its rank on the 17 measures in the report card above — violent crime, gun deaths, life expectancy, food insecurity, maternal and infant mortality, household income, public education, voter turnout and more. #1 is the best state to live in, #50 the worst.
You can compare Indiana directly to other states on our Compare States page.
We grade Republican incumbents running in 2026 — U.S. Senators, U.S. Representatives and governors — on their record: how they voted, who funds them, and what it has cost Indiana. Democrats and independents do not get report cards.
