The 1992 United States Senate election in Indiana was held on November 3, 1992. Incumbent Republican U.S. Senator Dan Coats won re-election to his first full term.
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 County results Coats: 40–50% 50–60% 60–70% 70–80% Hogsett: 40–50% 50–60% | |||||||||||||||||
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Background
editWhen incumbent Republican U.S. Senator Dan Quayle resigned from the Senate after being elected Vice President of the United States in 1988, Coats was appointed to Quayle’s former seat. He then won re-election to serve the remainder of the term in 1990. Coats would then be elected to this seat 18 years later in 2010.
Major candidates
editDemocratic
editRepublican
edit- Dan Coats, incumbent U.S. Senator
Results
editOverall
editCoats won the election easily. Hogsett did perform well in some counties in southern Indiana, and also managed to win a few counties in western Indiana. Hogsett’s strongest performance by far was in Lake County where he received over 60% of the vote.
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Republican | Dan Coats (incumbent) | 1,267,972 | 57.34% | ||
| Democratic | Joe Hogsett | 900,148 | 40.70% | ||
| Libertarian | Steve Dillon | 35,733 | 1.62% | ||
| New Alliance | Raymond Tirado | 7,474 | 0.34% | ||
| Write-in | 99 | 0.00% | |||
| Total votes | 2,211,426 | 100.0% | |||
| Republican hold | |||||
By county
editCoats won 79 of Indiana's counties compared to 13 for Hogsett.[3]
| County | Coats | Votes | Hogsett | Votes | Others | Votes | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Adams | 65.8% | 8,345 | 32.8% | 4,149 | 1.4% | 174 | 12,668 |
| Allen | 63.5% | 75,991 | 34.7% | 41,499 | 1.8% | 2,207 | 119,697 |
| Bartholomew | 63.4% | 17,034 | 34.2% | 9,178 | 2.4% | 631 | 26,843 |
| Benton | 59.1% | 2,442 | 38.5% | 1,590 | 2.4% | 98 | 4,130 |
| Blackford | 57.2% | 3,253 | 41.2% | 2,342 | 1.6% | 90 | 5,685 |
| Boone | 72.4% | 12,043 | 26.2% | 4,360 | 1.4% | 230 | 16,633 |
| Brown | 61.4% | 3,591 | 36.0% | 2,103 | 2.6% | 149 | 5,843 |
| Carroll | 56.9% | 4,752 | 41.7% | 3,477 | 1.4% | 117 | 8,346 |
| Cass | 56.5% | 8,759 | 41.8% | 6,470 | 1.7% | 257 | 15,486 |
| Clark | 43.9% | 14,200 | 54.9% | 17,716 | 1.2% | 375 | 32,291 |
| Clay | 58.4% | 5,890 | 40.0% | 4,026 | 1.6% | 161 | 10,077 |
| Clinton | 62.9% | 7,514 | 35.1% | 4,186 | 2.0% | 244 | 11,944 |
| Crawford | 45.4% | 2,109 | 53.7% | 2,489 | 0.9% | 40 | 4,638 |
| Daviess | 62.0% | 6,395 | 36.9% | 3,809 | 1.1% | 109 | 10,313 |
| Dearborn | 57.2% | 7,882 | 40.5% | 5,573 | 2.3% | 322 | 13,777 |
| Decatur | 63.5% | 6,481 | 34.4% | 3,500 | 2.1% | 219 | 10,200 |
| DeKalb | 63.2% | 9,117 | 35.3% | 5,099 | 1.5% | 211 | 14,427 |
| Delaware | 58.7% | 28,811 | 38.7% | 18,982 | 2.6% | 1,279 | 49,072 |
| Dubois | 56.3% | 8,359 | 42.2% | 6,254 | 1.5% | 221 | 14,834 |
| Elkhart | 68.8% | 34,644 | 29.7% | 14,949 | 1.5% | 765 | 50,358 |
| Fayette | 53.5% | 5,334 | 45.0% | 4,481 | 1.5% | 148 | 9,963 |
| Floyd | 47.1% | 12,847 | 51.9% | 14,181 | 1.0% | 273 | 27,301 |
| Fountain | 54.8% | 4,565 | 43.0% | 3,578 | 2.2% | 185 | 8,328 |
| Franklin | 58.1% | 4,546 | 39.2% | 3,061 | 2.7% | 212 | 7,819 |
| Fulton | 59.3% | 4,874 | 38.7% | 3,175 | 2.0% | 161 | 8,210 |
| Gibson | 47.7% | 6,936 | 51.1% | 7,424 | 1.2% | 175 | 14,535 |
| Grant | 63.0% | 17,696 | 35.4% | 9,930 | 1.6% | 445 | 28,071 |
| Greene | 51.7% | 6,637 | 46.4% | 5,954 | 1.9% | 250 | 12,841 |
| Hamilton | 79.3% | 43,490 | 18.5% | 10,145 | 2.2% | 1,195 | 54,830 |
| Hancock | 69.8% | 14,267 | 27.7% | 5,648 | 2.5% | 506 | 20,421 |
| Harrison | 46.5% | 6,256 | 51.9% | 6,982 | 1.6% | 213 | 13,451 |
| Hendricks | 73.7% | 23,938 | 24.2% | 7,863 | 2.1% | 668 | 32,469 |
| Henry | 58.1% | 11,465 | 39.9% | 7,873 | 2.0% | 404 | 19,742 |
| Howard | 57.3% | 19,306 | 39.8% | 13,412 | 2.9% | 976 | 33,122 |
| Huntington | 68.1% | 10,511 | 30.8% | 4,750 | 1.1% | 169 | 15,430 |
| Jackson | 57.4% | 8,590 | 41.1% | 6,151 | 1.5% | 231 | 14,972 |
| Jasper | 61.1% | 5,877 | 37.5% | 3,602 | 1.4% | 134 | 9,613 |
| Jay | 61.3% | 5,195 | 37.0% | 3,141 | 1.7% | 142 | 8,478 |
| Jefferson | 48.0% | 5,835 | 50.0% | 6,067 | 2.0% | 247 | 12,149 |
| Jennings | 55.6% | 5,224 | 42.0% | 3,936 | 2.4% | 221 | 9,381 |
| Johnson | 71.5% | 25,069 | 26.0% | 9,131 | 2.5% | 875 | 35,075 |
| Knox | 53.0% | 8,683 | 44.2% | 7,239 | 2.8% | 464 | 16,386 |
| Kosciusko | 71.8% | 17,624 | 26.7% | 6,533 | 1.5% | 375 | 24,532 |
| LaGrange | 66.9% | 4,792 | 31.3% | 2,240 | 1.8% | 128 | 7,160 |
| Lake | 37.2% | 66,132 | 60.8% | 108,174 | 2.0% | 3,627 | 177,933 |
| LaPorte | 49.5% | 20,525 | 48.5% | 20,082 | 2.0% | 831 | 41,438 |
| Lawrence | 57.1% | 9,315 | 41.2% | 6,706 | 1.7% | 275 | 16,296 |
| Madison | 54.3% | 31,709 | 43.3% | 25,279 | 2.4% | 1,430 | 58,418 |
| Marion | 58.9% | 179,213 | 39.1% | 118,781 | 2.0% | 5,999 | 303,993 |
| Marshall | 65.0% | 10,268 | 34.0% | 5,357 | 1.0% | 165 | 15,790 |
| Martin | 51.7% | 2,685 | 47.3% | 2,450 | 1.0% | 54 | 5,189 |
| Miami | 58.4% | 7,638 | 40.1% | 5,248 | 1.5% | 192 | 13,078 |
| Monroe | 56.0% | 23,409 | 40.0% | 16,685 | 4.0% | 1,654 | 41,748 |
| Montgomery | 69.6% | 9,718 | 27.7% | 3,860 | 2.7% | 372 | 13,950 |
| Morgan | 69.3% | 14,260 | 28.2% | 5,807 | 2.5% | 518 | 20,585 |
| Newton | 59.5% | 3,021 | 38.0% | 1,931 | 2.5% | 129 | 5,081 |
| Noble | 63.7% | 8,646 | 34.6% | 4,692 | 1.7% | 225 | 13,563 |
| Ohio | 50.7% | 1,244 | 47.4% | 1,164 | 1.9% | 46 | 2,454 |
| Orange | 54.3% | 4,280 | 44.0% | 3,459 | 1.7% | 131 | 7,870 |
| Owen | 58.1% | 3,716 | 38.3% | 2,450 | 3.6% | 227 | 6,393 |
| Parke | 56.0% | 3,962 | 41.9% | 2,958 | 2.1% | 149 | 7,069 |
| Perry | 41.7% | 3,759 | 57.3% | 5,167 | 1.0% | 91 | 9,017 |
| Pike | 49.4% | 3,104 | 49.0% | 3,084 | 4.6% | 100 | 6,288 |
| Porter | 55.0% | 30,862 | 42.9% | 24,109 | 2.1% | 1,188 | 56,159 |
| Posey | 56.6% | 6,433 | 41.5% | 4,720 | 1.9% | 214 | 11,367 |
| Pulaski | 56.9% | 3,176 | 42.1% | 2,353 | 1.0% | 55 | 5,584 |
| Putnam | 64.7% | 7,639 | 32.7% | 3,864 | 2.6% | 310 | 11,813 |
| Randolph | 60.6% | 7,086 | 37.5% | 4,372 | 1.9% | 227 | 11,685 |
| Ripley | 60.6% | 5,977 | 38.1% | 3,754 | 1.3% | 125 | 9,856 |
| Rush | 51.3% | 4,090 | 46.7% | 3,719 | 2.0% | 156 | 7,965 |
| Saint Joseph | 54.3% | 53,260 | 46.7% | 43,785 | 1.0% | 995 | 98,040 |
| Scott | 40.1% | 2,778 | 58.7% | 4,061 | 1.2% | 81 | 6,920 |
| Shelby | 64.9% | 10,227 | 33.6% | 5,299 | 1.5% | 244 | 15,770 |
| Spencer | 50.2% | 4,630 | 49.4% | 4,549 | 0.4% | 41 | 9,220 |
| Starke | 50.4% | 4,014 | 47.9% | 3,816 | 1.7% | 138 | 7,968 |
| Steuben | 64.0% | 6,611 | 34.6% | 3,573 | 1.4% | 147 | 10,331 |
| Sullivan | 45.2% | 3,649 | 53.1% | 4,282 | 1.7% | 138 | 8,069 |
| Switzerland | 45.5% | 1,279 | 53.5% | 1,500 | 1.0% | 29 | 2,808 |
| Tippecanoe | 60.0% | 29,129 | 36.8% | 17,867 | 3.2% | 1,561 | 48,557 |
| Tipton | 65.1% | 5,063 | 33.2% | 2,584 | 1.7% | 129 | 7,776 |
| Union | 59.6% | 1,705 | 38.4% | 1,097 | 2.0% | 57 | 2,859 |
| Vanderburgh | 54.9% | 41,079 | 43.2% | 32,300 | 1.9% | 1,423 | 74,802 |
| Vermillion | 42.4% | 3,293 | 55.3% | 4,286 | 2.3% | 178 | 7,757 |
| Vigo | 48.5% | 19,436 | 49.1% | 19,659 | 2.4% | 948 | 40,043 |
| Wabash | 63.0% | 8,992 | 35.7% | 5,099 | 1.3% | 189 | 14,280 |
| Warren | 52.2% | 2,051 | 45.7% | 1,793 | 2.1% | 84 | 3,928 |
| Warrick | 55.1% | 11,294 | 43.1% | 8,850 | 1.8% | 371 | 20,515 |
| Washington | 50.5% | 4,661 | 48.1% | 4,433 | 1.4% | 125 | 9,219 |
| Wayne | 57.1% | 15,246 | 40.9% | 10,914 | 2.0% | 524 | 26,684 |
| Wells | 65.5% | 7,834 | 32.9% | 3,926 | 1.6% | 186 | 11,946 |
| White | 58.7% | 5,893 | 38.8% | 3,895 | 2.5% | 249 | 10,037 |
| Whitley | 62.2% | 7,229 | 35.4% | 4,107 | 2.4% | 283 | 11,619 |
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ "Midwest Senate roundup". USA TODAY. October 6, 1992. Archived from the original on October 26, 2012.
- ^ Clerk of the House of Representatives (1993). "Statistics of the Presidential and Congressional election of November 3, 1992" (PDF). U.S. Government Printing Office.
- ^ "United States Senator by County". USA Elections. November 3, 1992. Retrieved November 8, 2008.