Indiana's 6th congressional district

Indiana's 6th congressional district
	Indiana's 6th congressional district since January 3, 2013
	Greg Pence; R–Columbus
Area	5,550.4 sq mi (14,375 km2)
Distribution	59.23% urban; 40.77% rural;
Population (2019)	720,190
Median household; income	$55,959[1]
Ethnicity	91% White[2]; 3% Black; 3% Hispanic; 2% Asian; 2% other; 0% Native American;
Cook PVI	R+18[3]

Indiana's 6th congressional district is a congressional district in the U.S. state of Indiana. The district takes in a large portion of eastern and southeastern Indiana, including Columbus, Muncie and Richmond, as well as a few suburbs of both Cincinnati and Indianapolis. The district is currently represented by Republican Greg Pence. He is the brother of former U.S. Vice President, Mike Pence, who represented this district before serving as Governor of Indiana and Vice President of the United States. Greg Pence was elected on November 6, 2018 after the previous incumbent, Luke Messer, announced his retirement to run for the U.S. Senate in 2018.[4]

Election results from presidential races

Year	Office	Results
2000	President	George W. Bush 59% - Al Gore 40%
2004	President	George W. Bush 64% - John Kerry 35%
2008	President	John McCain 55% - Barack Obama 43.6%
2012	President	Mitt Romney 60.4% - Barack Obama 37.3%
2016	President	Donald Trump 67.7% - Hillary Clinton 27.4%
2020	President	Donald Trump 68.8% - Joe Biden 29.1%

List of members representing the district

Member	Party	Years	Cong ress	Electoral history
District created March 4, 1833
George L. Kinnard	Jacksonian	March 4, 1833 – November 26, 1836	23rd 24th	Elected in 1833. Re-elected in 1835. [data unknown/missing] Died.
Vacant		November 26, 1836 – January 25, 1837	24th
William Herod	Anti-Jacksonian	January 25, 1837 – March 3, 1837	24th 25th	Elected January 2, 1837 to finish Kinnard's term and seated January 25, 1837. Re-elected in 1837. [data unknown/missing]
William Herod	Whig	March 4, 1837 – March 3, 1839	24th 25th
William W. Wick	Democratic	March 4, 1839 – March 3, 1841	26th	[data unknown/missing]
David Wallace	Whig	March 4, 1841 – March 3, 1843	27th	[data unknown/missing]
John W. Davis	Democratic	March 4, 1843 – March 3, 1847	28th 29th	[data unknown/missing]
George G. Dunn	Whig	March 4, 1847 – March 3, 1849	30th	Elected in 1847.[lower-alpha 1] [data unknown/missing]
Willis A. Gorman	Democratic	March 4, 1849 – March 3, 1853	31st 32nd	[data unknown/missing]
Thomas A. Hendricks	Democratic	March 4, 1853 – March 3, 1855	33rd	Redistricted from the 5th district. [data unknown/missing]
Lucien Barbour	Opposition	March 4, 1855 – March 3, 1857	34th	[data unknown/missing]
James M. Gregg	Democratic	March 4, 1857 – March 3, 1859	35th	[data unknown/missing]
Albert G. Porter	Republican	March 4, 1859 – March 3, 1863	36th 37th	[data unknown/missing]
Ebenezer Dumont	Unionist	March 4, 1863 – March 3, 1865	38th 39th	[data unknown/missing]
Ebenezer Dumont	Republican	March 4, 1865 – March 3, 1867	38th 39th	[data unknown/missing]
John Coburn	Republican	March 4, 1867 – March 3, 1869	40th	[data unknown/missing] Redistricted to the 5th district.
Daniel W. Voorhees	Democratic	March 4, 1869 – March 3, 1873	41st 42nd	[data unknown/missing]
Morton C. Hunter	Republican	March 4, 1873 – March 3, 1875	43rd	[data unknown/missing] Redistricted to the 8th district.
Milton S. Robinson	Republican	March 4, 1875 – March 3, 1879	44th 45th	[data unknown/missing]
William R. Myers	Democratic	March 4, 1879 – March 3, 1881	46th	[data unknown/missing]
Thomas M. Browne	Republican	March 4, 1881 – March 3, 1891	47th 48th 49th 50th 51st	Redistricted from the 5th district. [data unknown/missing]
Henry U. Johnson	Republican	March 4, 1891 – March 3, 1899	52nd 53rd 54th 55th	[data unknown/missing]
James E. Watson	Republican	March 4, 1899 – March 3, 1909	56th 57th 58th 59th 60th	[data unknown/missing]
William O. Barnard	Republican	March 4, 1909 – March 3, 1911	61st	[data unknown/missing]
Finly H. Gray	Democratic	March 4, 1911 – March 3, 1917	62nd 63rd 64th	[data unknown/missing]
Daniel W. Comstock	Republican	March 4, 1917 – May 19, 1917	65th	[data unknown/missing] Died.
Vacant		May 19, 1917 – June 29, 1917	65th
Richard N. Elliott	Republican	June 29, 1917 – March 3, 1931	65th 66th 67th 68th 69th 70th 71st	[data unknown/missing]
William Larrabee	Democratic	March 4, 1931 – March 3, 1933	72nd	[data unknown/missing] Redistricted to the 11th district.
Virginia E. Jenckes	Democratic	March 4, 1933 – January 3, 1939	73rd 74th 75th	[data unknown/missing]
Noble J. Johnson	Republican	January 3, 1939 – July 1, 1948	76th 77th 78th 79th 80th	[data unknown/missing] Resigned to become judge of the U.S. Court of Customs and Patent Appeals
Vacant		July 1, 1948 – January 3, 1949	80th
Cecil M. Harden	Republican	January 3, 1949 – January 3, 1959	81st 82nd 83rd 84th 85th	[data unknown/missing]
Fred Wampler	Democratic	January 3, 1959 – January 3, 1961	86th	[data unknown/missing]
Richard L. Roudebush	Republican	January 3, 1961 – January 3, 1967	87th 88th 89th	[data unknown/missing] Redistricted to the 10th district.
William G. Bray	Republican	January 3, 1967 – January 3, 1975	90th 91st 92nd 93rd	Redistricted from the 7th district. [data unknown/missing]
David W. Evans	Democratic	January 3, 1975 – January 3, 1983	94th 95th 96th 97th	[data unknown/missing] Redistricted to the 10th district and lost re-nomination.
Dan Burton	Republican	January 3, 1983 – January 3, 2003	98th 99th 100th 101st 102nd 103rd 104th 105th 106th 107th	[data unknown/missing] Redistricted to the 5th district.
Mike Pence	Republican	January 3, 2003 – January 3, 2013	108th 109th 110th 111th 112th	Redistricted from the 2nd district. Retired to run for Governor of Indiana.
Luke Messer	Republican	January 3, 2013 – January 3, 2019	113th 114th 115th	Elected in 2012. Retired to run for U.S. Senator.
Greg Pence	Republican	January 3, 2019 – Present	116th 117th	Elected in 2018.

Election results

2002

Indiana's 6th Congressional District Election (2002)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Republican	Mike Pence	118,436	63.79
	Democratic	Melina Ann Fox	63,871	34.40
	Libertarian	Doris Robertson	3,346	1.80
Total votes			185,653	100.00
Turnout
	Republican hold

2004

Indiana's 6th Congressional District Election (2004)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Republican	Mike Pence (Incumbent)	182,529	67.09
	Democratic	Melina Ann Fox	85,123	31.29
	Libertarian	Chad (Wick) Roots	4,397	1.62
Total votes			272,049	100.00
Turnout
	Republican hold

2006

Indiana's 6th Congressional District Election (2006)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Republican	Mike Pence (Incumbent)	115,266	60.01
	Democratic	Barry A. Welsh	76,812	39.99
Total votes			192,078	100.00
Turnout
	Republican hold

2008

Indiana's 6th Congressional District Election (2008)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Republican	Mike Pence (Incumbent)	180,549	63.96
	Democratic	Barry A. Welsh	94,223	33.38
	Libertarian	George T. Holland	7,534	2.67
Total votes			282,306	100.00
Turnout
	Republican hold

2010

Indiana's 6th Congressional District Election (2010)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Republican	Mike Pence (Incumbent)	126,027	66.57
	Democratic	Barry A. Welsh	56,647	29.92
	Libertarian	Talmage "T.J." Thompson Jr.	6,635	3.51
Total votes			189,309	100.00
Turnout				41
	Republican hold

2012

Indiana's 6th Congressional District Election (2012)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Republican	Luke Messer	162,613	59.08
	Democratic	Brad Bookout	96,678	35.12
	Libertarian	Rex Bell	15,962	5.80
Total votes			275,253	100.00
Turnout				57
	Republican hold

2014

Indiana's 6th Congressional District Election (2014)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Republican	Luke Messer (Incumbent)	102,187	65.90
	Democratic	Susan Hall Heitzman	45,509	29.35
	Libertarian	Eric Miller	7,375	4.76
Total votes			155,071	100.00
Turnout				32
	Republican hold

2016

Indiana's 6th Congressional District Election (2016)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Republican	Luke Messer (Incumbent)	204,920	69.14
	Democratic	Barry A. Welsh	79,135	26.70
	Libertarian	Rich Turvey	12,330	4.16
Total votes			296,385	100.00
Turnout				59
	Republican hold

2018

Indiana's 6th congressional district, 2018
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Republican	Greg Pence	154,260	63.8
	Democratic	Jeannine Lee Lake	79,430	32.9
	Libertarian	Tom Ferkinhoff	8,030	3.3
	Independent	John Miller (write-in)	5	0.0
	Independent	Heather Leigh Meloy (write-in)	1	0.0
Total votes			241,726	100.0
	Republican hold

2020

Indiana's 6th congressional district, 2020[5]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Republican	Greg Pence (incumbent)	225,318	68.6
	Democratic	Jeannine Lake	91,103	27.8
	Libertarian	Tom Ferkinhoff	11,791	3.6
Total votes			328,212	100.0
	Republican hold

Historical district boundaries

2003 - 2013

Notes

In 1847, Whig George G. Dunn defeated Democrat David M. Dobson by 1 vote, 7,455–7,454, in one of the closest elections in state history.

References

https://www.census.gov/mycd/?st=18&cd=06
https://censusreporter.org/profiles/50000US1806-congressional-district-6-in/
"Partisan Voting Index – Districts of the 115th Congress" (PDF). The Cook Political Report. April 7, 2017. Retrieved April 7, 2017.
By $${element.Contributor} (2017-07-26). "Indiana Rep. Luke Messer Running for Senate". Rollcall.com. Retrieved 2018-04-17.
"Indiana Election Results November 3, 2020". Indiana Election Division. Retrieved November 26, 2020.

Martis, Kenneth C. (1989). The Historical Atlas of Political Parties in the United States Congress. New York: Macmillan Publishing Company.
Martis, Kenneth C. (1982). The Historical Atlas of United States Congressional Districts. New York: Macmillan Publishing Company.
Congressional Biographical Directory of the United States 1774–present

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[5] In 1847, Whig George G. Dunn defeated Democrat David M. Dobson by 1 vote, 7,455–7,454, in one of the closest elections in state history.

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[Cook-3] "Partisan Voting Index – Districts of the 115th Congress" (PDF). The Cook Political Report. April 7, 2017. Retrieved April 7, 2017.

[4] By $${element.Contributor} (2017-07-26). "Indiana Rep. Luke Messer Running for Senate". Rollcall.com. Retrieved 2018-04-17.

[INgenr-6] "Indiana Election Results November 3, 2020". Indiana Election Division. Retrieved November 26, 2020.