State reference

How does government work in Indiana?

Indiana’s legislature, governor, courts, local governments and election offices, with a source for every fact.

Facts checked November 5, 2026. Anything we could not verify from a source is left out rather than guessed. Rules change, so confirm deadlines with the official election office.

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State legislators

Legislature

4 years

Governor’s term

Governor

Counties

Local

Seats in the US House

Clerk of the House

Foundation: Constitution of the State of Indiana source
In effect since: 1851 source

What may surprise you here

Indiana limits its governor to eight years in any twelve-year period, not a fixed number of terms for life. source

Legislature

Name: General Assembly source
Senate: seats: 50 source
Senate: term in years: 4 source
House of Representatives: seats: 100 source
House of Representatives: term in years: 2 source
Term limits: None source

Structure set by: Art. 4, s. 1.

Governor and statewide offices

Term in years: 4 source
Term limit: No more than eight years in any twelve-year period source
Next regular election: 2028 source
Lieutenant governor: joint ticket source
Attorney general: elected source
Secretary of state: elected source

Courts

Highest court: Supreme Court source
Intermediate appeals court: Court of Appeals source
Main trial court: Circuit and superior courts source
How high-court judges reach the bench: mixed: merit selection with retention for the Supreme Court and Court of Appeals source

Local government

Called: county source
How many: 92 source
Cities and towns: Indiana’s subcounty general-purpose governments are cities and towns plus township governments, which an elected trustee and township board run. source
Schools: Indiana law treats every type of school district as a school corporation, and Census statistics count 290 independent school districts (2022). source

Elections

Chief election official: Secretary of State source
Who runs elections locally: The elected clerk of the circuit court in most counties; some counties use a board of registration or a board of elections and registration source
Primary type: partially open source
Regular governor elections fall in: even source
Citizen initiatives: no source

Who holds these offices

As of November 5, 2026. Terms of the current Congress run to January 3, 2027. Winners of the November 3, 2026 elections are not shown until results are certified and they take office.

Governor: Mike Braun Republican, in office since January 13, 2025. source

US senators for Indiana
Senator	Party	Seat	Senator since	Current term ends
Jim Banks	Republican	Class 1	January 3, 2025	January 3, 2031
Todd Young	Republican	Class 3	January 3, 2017	January 3, 2029

Members of the House for Indiana
Seat	Member	Party	In the House since
District 1	Frank J. Mrvan	Democratic	January 3, 2021
District 2	Rudy Yakym III	Republican	November 14, 2022
District 3	Marlin A. Stutzman	Republican	January 3, 2025
District 4	James R. Baird	Republican	January 3, 2019
District 5	Victoria Spartz	Republican	January 3, 2021
District 6	Jefferson Shreve	Republican	January 3, 2025
District 7	André Carson	Democratic	March 13, 2008
District 8	Mark B. Messmer	Republican	January 3, 2025
District 9	Erin Houchin	Republican	January 3, 2023

Boundaries for the 119th Congress, simplified from the Census Bureau cartographic boundary file. For an exact address, use the House lookup.

Who has held each Senate seat since 2001

Each band is one person in the seat. The line marks November 2026; anything to its right is the rest of a current term. Dates through 2026 come from the congress-legislators public dataset, whose current members are matched against the Senate’s own roster on every build.

Senate seat, Class 1