John J. Barton Democratic Richard Lugar Republican The Indianapolis mayoral election of 1967 took place on November 7, 1967.

[1] No Democrat would subsequently recapture the mayoralty until 1999, largely due to the city-county merger that created the Unigov in 1970 adding the votes of suburban Marion County, which shifted the composition the electorate towards the Republicans.

[4] A former member of the Indianapolis School Board,[4] earlier that year Lugar had unsuccessfully sought to become President of the but lost by a vote of four to three.

Green & Co.[4] After this, he was convinced by L. Keith Bulen, the chair of the Marion County Republican Committee, to run for mayor.

[4] He also spoke on issues such as the construction of the highway inner loop, minority demands, and a lack of adequate recreation space.