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Mike Braun

IN-Gov enters through the Republican-held flip route at 20.9 with 65% of the component weight available: statewide competitiveness and state-level Democratic primary contestation.

Priority score20.9#3,147 of 5,726Tie of 7

THE MEMBER

Record

Mike Braun is the Republican governor of IN. The Open States roster records a term ending 2029-01-08; the office is next contested in 2028.

Term start
Jan 13, 2025
Next election
2028
Alignment gap
Not in this score
Open States record
ocd-person/bdc262d7-ce67-4fd1-a96d-f92059ac0dfd

THE STATE

IN-Gov

IN recorded a R+19.0 presidential margin statewide in 2024. State campaign-finance filings are not retained.

2024 presidential margin
R+19.0
Cash on hand
Not reported
Receipts / disbursements
Not reported / Not reported
Finance through
Not reported
Route
Republican-held flip screen
Baseline score
24.2

SCORE ANATOMY

What makes the score

General-election competitiveness

24.2

The statewide 2024 presidential result was R+19.0. A tied state begins at 100 and each Republican margin point subtracts four points.

Cash vulnerability

Not in this score

State campaign-finance filings are not retained, so the weight is omitted.

State Democratic primary contestation

24.5

The retained 2024 state-legislative Democratic primaries in this state score 24.5 on a scale where a 40% contested share is 100.

GUBERNATORIAL TERM

Recorded service

2025–nowIN-GovernorCurrent at source cutoff

Formula renormalized(0.45 × competitiveness + 0.20 × cash vulnerability + 0.15 × local context + 0.20 × state contestation) × (0.6 + 0.4 × 0.65)

Source cutoff Aug 4, 2026 · How the score is built · Source ledger