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Election 1988 Results

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1988 presidential election in Indiana

George H. W. Bush (Republican) beat Michael Dukakis (Democrat) in Indiana in 1988, 59.8% to 39.7%, a margin of 20.2 points and 437,120 votes.

Indiana voted 12.4 points more Republican than the country as a whole, where the margin was R+7.7.

The Republican hold continued from 1984, when Ronald Reagan won.

Republicans led in 88 of the 92 counties as they stood then and Democrats in 4. The largest, Marion, cast 315,095 votes and went to the Republican by 17.7 points. The closest was Sullivan, where 74 votes separated the two parties.

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Early projection, based on early and incomplete polling: the likely matchups, each weighted by the betting markets' odds of both nominations, not a result. Each county is its 2024 presidential margin moved by its state's projected swing; set a national vote and every state, district and county moves by the same amount from our projection. Colours run in 100 steps from a safe Republican to a safe Democratic margin. Boundaries: US Census Bureau.

Result

CandidatePartyVotesShare
George H. W. Bush won Republican 1,297,763 59.8%
Michael Dukakis Democratic 860,643 39.7%
All other candidates 10,215 0.5%
Total2,168,621

Every county

CountyDemocratRepublicanOthersTotalMargin
Marion 128,627 40.8% 184,519 58.6% 1,949 315,095 R+17.7
Lake 105,026 56.5% 79,929 43.0% 780 185,735 D+13.5
Allen 39,238 34.1% 74,638 64.9% 1,059 114,935 R+30.8
St. Joseph 48,056 49.1% 49,481 50.6% 327 97,864 R+1.5
Vanderburgh 31,270 44.4% 38,928 55.3% 255 70,453 R+10.9
Madison 24,443 42.7% 32,596 56.9% 202 57,241 R+14.2
Porter 19,390 39.3% 29,790 60.4% 165 49,345 R+21.1
Elkhart 14,236 29.5% 33,793 70.1% 171 48,200 R+40.6
Delaware 20,548 42.7% 27,348 56.8% 216 48,112 R+14.1
Hamilton 8,853 19.4% 36,654 80.4% 108 45,615 R+60.9
Tippecanoe 16,256 36.6% 27,897 62.9% 211 44,364 R+26.2
Vigo 19,192 46.5% 21,929 53.1% 172 41,293 R+6.6
La Porte 17,585 45.9% 20,537 53.6% 163 38,285 R+7.7
Monroe 15,855 42.8% 20,756 56.0% 427 37,038 R+13.2
Johnson 9,001 26.6% 24,654 73.0% 123 33,778 R+46.3
Howard 11,518 36.4% 19,971 63.2% 131 31,620 R+26.7
Clark 14,528 46.6% 16,544 53.0% 120 31,192 R+6.5
Hendricks 7,643 25.6% 22,090 74.1% 70 29,803 R+48.5
Grant 10,799 36.8% 18,441 62.8% 131 29,371 R+26.0
Wayne 10,209 38.2% 16,388 61.4% 105 26,702 R+23.1
Bartholomew 8,804 33.5% 17,364 66.0% 123 26,291 R+32.6
Floyd 11,024 43.4% 14,291 56.3% 78 25,393 R+12.9
Kosciusko 5,321 23.0% 17,761 76.7% 81 23,163 R+53.7
Morgan 5,375 27.2% 14,284 72.4% 77 19,736 R+45.1
Henry 7,779 40.7% 11,280 59.0% 57 19,116 R+18.3
Hancock 5,355 28.5% 13,374 71.2% 51 18,780 R+42.7
Warrick 7,999 43.1% 10,504 56.6% 61 18,564 R+13.5
Knox 7,006 41.5% 9,813 58.1% 62 16,881 R+16.6
Cass 5,784 34.3% 10,970 65.1% 97 16,851 R+30.8
Lawrence 5,787 34.9% 10,742 64.7% 70 16,599 R+29.9
Dubois 5,954 37.1% 9,995 62.3% 99 16,048 R+25.2
Marshall 5,488 34.2% 10,490 65.4% 60 16,038 R+31.2
Boone 4,168 26.4% 11,608 73.4% 30 15,806 R+47.1
Shelby 5,382 34.5% 10,176 65.1% 63 15,621 R+30.7
Huntington 3,873 24.8% 11,675 74.9% 46 15,594 R+50.0
Jackson 5,550 36.8% 9,470 62.8% 68 15,088 R+26.0
Gibson 7,031 47.9% 7,610 51.8% 43 14,684 R+3.9
Montgomery 3,623 25.0% 10,793 74.6% 56 14,472 R+49.5
Greene 5,979 43.5% 7,689 55.9% 78 13,746 R+12.4
De Kalb 4,657 34.0% 9,018 65.7% 41 13,716 R+31.8
Wabash 4,168 31.1% 9,153 68.4% 63 13,384 R+37.2
Dearborn 5,066 38.1% 8,195 61.6% 48 13,309 R+23.5
Miami 4,613 34.9% 8,533 64.5% 90 13,236 R+29.6
Clinton 4,412 33.9% 8,570 65.8% 39 13,021 R+31.9
Jefferson 5,221 42.6% 6,949 56.6% 98 12,268 R+14.1
Noble 4,143 34.3% 7,889 65.3% 57 12,089 R+31.0
Adams 3,811 31.8% 8,137 67.8% 49 11,997 R+36.1
Harrison 4,933 42.3% 6,702 57.5% 26 11,661 R+15.2
Whitley 3,642 32.0% 7,679 67.4% 65 11,386 R+35.5
Wells 3,437 30.7% 7,712 68.9% 39 11,188 R+38.2
Putnam 3,850 34.9% 7,119 64.6% 52 11,021 R+29.7
Randolph 3,990 36.6% 6,856 62.9% 62 10,908 R+26.3
Posey 4,468 42.6% 5,987 57.1% 35 10,490 R+14.5
Daviess 3,483 33.8% 6,768 65.7% 43 10,294 R+31.9
Fayette 4,118 40.7% 5,949 58.9% 41 10,108 R+18.1
Ripley 3,605 35.9% 6,414 63.8% 32 10,051 R+27.9
Steuben 3,114 31.1% 6,855 68.6% 31 10,000 R+37.4
Clay 3,724 38.7% 5,852 60.8% 53 9,629 R+22.1
Perry 4,804 50.1% 4,720 49.3% 56 9,580 D+0.9
White 3,256 34.2% 6,220 65.4% 37 9,513 R+31.2
Jennings 3,667 39.2% 5,636 60.3% 45 9,348 R+21.1
Jasper 3,237 34.8% 6,009 64.7% 46 9,292 R+29.8
Decatur 2,979 32.1% 6,245 67.4% 48 9,272 R+35.2
Spencer 4,061 44.8% 4,964 54.8% 30 9,055 R+10.0
Jay 3,212 37.3% 5,363 62.2% 45 8,620 R+25.0
Starke 4,104 47.7% 4,458 51.8% 44 8,606 R+4.1
Sullivan 4,320 50.3% 4,246 49.4% 31 8,597 D+0.9
Fountain 3,279 38.8% 5,113 60.6% 49 8,441 R+21.7
Washington 3,370 40.0% 4,998 59.4% 48 8,416 R+19.3
Fulton 2,788 34.6% 5,234 65.0% 29 8,051 R+30.4
Orange 2,739 34.2% 5,245 65.4% 31 8,015 R+31.3
Carroll 2,952 37.1% 4,981 62.5% 31 7,964 R+25.5
Vermillion 4,044 52.0% 3,674 47.3% 54 7,772 D+4.8
Tipton 2,485 32.4% 5,148 67.2% 33 7,666 R+34.7
Rush 2,451 32.3% 5,112 67.4% 20 7,583 R+35.1
Franklin 2,472 34.0% 4,777 65.7% 22 7,271 R+31.7
Parke 2,563 36.3% 4,458 63.2% 32 7,053 R+26.9
Scott 3,378 49.3% 3,455 50.4% 21 6,854 R+1.1
Lagrange 2,029 31.0% 4,495 68.7% 22 6,546 R+37.7
Pike 3,037 47.7% 3,294 51.7% 40 6,371 R+4.0
Owen 2,484 39.0% 3,837 60.3% 42 6,363 R+21.3
Pulaski 2,213 37.4% 3,677 62.1% 27 5,917 R+24.7
Blackford 2,253 40.2% 3,336 59.5% 19 5,608 R+19.3
Brown 2,115 38.4% 3,348 60.9% 38 5,501 R+22.4
Martin 2,132 40.9% 3,066 58.7% 21 5,219 R+17.9
Newton 1,744 34.6% 3,274 65.0% 17 5,035 R+30.4
Crawford 2,036 44.3% 2,532 55.1% 28 4,596 R+10.8
Benton 1,349 33.2% 2,698 66.3% 22 4,069 R+33.2
Warren 1,542 40.6% 2,243 59.0% 14 3,799 R+18.5
Switzerland 1,479 48.3% 1,572 51.4% 8 3,059 R+3.0
Union 946 34.2% 1,814 65.5% 10 2,770 R+31.3
Ohio 1,113 44.0% 1,412 55.8% 6 2,531 R+11.8

Counties as they stood in 1988; some have since been split, merged or renamed. Margin: the Democrat's share of all votes minus the Republican's. Sources and how the results were checked.

Indiana in every presidential election we hold

YearWinnerMargin
2024 Donald Trump (R) R+19.0
2020 Donald Trump (R) R+16.1
2016 Donald Trump (R) R+19.2
2012 Mitt Romney (R) R+10.2
2008 Barack Obama (D) D+1.0
2004 George W. Bush (R) R+20.7
2000 George W. Bush (R) R+15.6
1996 Bob Dole (R) R+5.6
1992 George H. W. Bush (R) R+6.1
1988 George H. W. Bush (R) R+20.2
1984 Ronald Reagan (R) R+24.0
1980 Ronald Reagan (R) R+18.4
1976 Gerald Ford (R) R+7.6
1972 Richard Nixon (R) R+32.8
1968 Richard Nixon (R) R+12.3
1964 Lyndon B. Johnson (D) D+12.4
1960 Richard Nixon (R) R+10.4
1956 Dwight D. Eisenhower (R) R+20.2
1952 Dwight D. Eisenhower (R) R+17.1
1948 Thomas E. Dewey (R) R+0.8
1944 Thomas E. Dewey (R) R+5.7
1940 Wendell Willkie (R) R+1.4
1936 Franklin D. Roosevelt (D) D+14.7
1932 Franklin D. Roosevelt (D) D+11.7
1928 Herbert Hoover (R) R+20.1
1924 Calvin Coolidge (R) R+16.6
1920 Warren G. Harding (R) R+14.6
1916 Charles Evans Hughes (R) R+1.0
1912 Woodrow Wilson (D) D+20.0
1908 William Howard Taft (R) R+1.5
1904 Theodore Roosevelt (R) R+13.8
1900 William McKinley (R) R+4.0
1896 William McKinley (R) R+2.9
1892 Grover Cleveland (D) D+1.3
1888 Benjamin Harrison (R) R+0.4
1884 Grover Cleveland (D) D+1.3
1880 James A. Garfield (R) R+1.4
1876 Samuel J. Tilden (D) D+1.3
1872 Ulysses S. Grant (R) R+6.4
1868 Ulysses S. Grant (R) R+2.8