Three of Indiana's executive offices were up for election, as well as a United States Senate seat and all of Indiana's nine seats in the United States House of Representatives.

[2] Potential Democratic candidates included Monroe County Councilwoman Shelli Yoder.

[3] The Indiana Green Party nominated George Wolfe, a professor emeritus at Ball State University and former director of the Ball State University Center for Peace and Conflict Studies.

[4] The party had to collect 30,000 signatures to get George Wolfe on the ballot in November.

[5] The Libertarian Party nominee was Mark Rutherford, chairman of the Indiana Public Defender Commission and former vice chairman of the Libertarian National Committee.