2026 General Election · Tuesday, November 3, 2026
The levels of government on this ballot
A ballot lists offices without saying how they fit together or what they are for. These pages do that part. Each level of government gets one page: what that level is responsible for, a diagram of how its offices work together, every office in it, and the problems whoever wins will have to solve in the next term. Each line in a diagram is a step the law requires, with the citation for it. Some diagrams also include bodies that are appointed rather than elected, such as a state agency; those are drawn with a dashed outline, so you can see where your vote stops and somebody else's decision begins.
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Federal government
Congress writes federal law and the federal budget. Indiana fills nine U.S. House seats this year and no Senate seat.
1 office
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State government
The General Assembly writes state law, the two-year state budget, and the property tax and local income tax rules that every county, city, township and school corporation has to work inside.
5 offices
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County government
Eleven separate county offices share the work of valuing property, setting the budget, collecting the taxes and running the jail, the courts' records and the roads.
11 offices
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Cities and towns
A city or town runs its own services and sets its own levy, on the same property the county is also taxing.
6 offices
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Township government
A township provides emergency assistance to residents who need it and, in many places, the fire service, on its own small levy.
5 offices
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School boards
A school corporation is its own unit of government, with an elected board that hires the superintendent, adopts the budget and the levies, and decides which buildings stay open.
1 office
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The courts
Courts are a separate branch. They appear on this ballot in two different forms: contested elections for trial judges, and keep-or-remove retention questions.
4 offices
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Special districts
A special district is a unit of local government created to provide one service, with its own board and its own levy.
1 office
- What's included
- the U.S. House, statewide offices, every Indiana House and Senate district on the ballot, Indiana's statewide public questions and judicial retention questions, and county, township, city, town and school board races from the Indiana Election Division's candidate list.
- Everything else
- Local races (county, city, school board, judges) and anything else on your ballot are on your official sample ballot: IndianaVoters.in.gov.
- Candidate lists
- As of Monday, October 19, 2026.
- At the polls
- Indiana law lets you bring a list of candidates and public questions into the polling place, including one stored on your phone, as long as you don't electioneer. IC 3-11-8-18.5
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