United States presidential election in Indiana, 2016 (Ferguson Scenario)



The 2016 United States presidential election in Indiana took place on November 8, 2016, as part of the 2016 United States presidential election. Indiana voters chose eleven representatives, or electors to the Electoral College, who voted for President and Vice-President.

Before this election, Indiana had not voted Democratic since Al Gore's 42-state landslide of 2004, although Mitt Romney had won the state by a very narrow margin in 2012. Republican candidate William H. Pryor, Jr. naturally considered Indiana critical given its GOP loyalty and campaigned in the state during October, where he argued to a very negative reaction that the United States should carpet-bomb Syria.

Indiana was won by incumbent President Henry T. Ferguson (D-Texas) with 55.98 percent of the popular vote, against Senator William H. Pryor, Jr. (R-Alabama), with 43.56 percent of the popular vote. Powerful hostility to Pryor's views on foreign policy, trade, and entitlements, and in particular to his running mate, Paul Ryan's, advocacy for Social Security privatization, allowed Ferguson to carry the state, although Indiana was still 9.86 percentage points more Republican than the national average.