GOP Retains Supermajorities in Indiana House, Senate

Republicans in both the Indiana House and Senate retained their supermajorities in Tuesday night’s GOP wave.

House Republicans poured hundreds of thousands of dollars in the final weeks of the campaign into races in northwest Indiana. They were concerned about losing at least two or three seats there, possibly even more. When the dust settled, they’d lost only one – Democrat Mara Candelaria Reardon took back a seat from Republican Bill Fine she’d lost in 2014.

The House GOP will return in January with a 70-30 majority, down from 71-29.

Speaker Brian Bosma says, moving forward, his caucus will maintain its strategy.

“We’ll do the same thing that we’ve done even in the minority, in a slim majority and in a supermajority – and that is set a vision for the future of the state of Indiana, get Hoosiers to buy into it and then take meaningful steps every day to achieve it,” Bosma says.

Senate Republicans added to their already overwhelming majority, picking up a seat in LaPorte vacated by Democratic Senator Jim Arnold. The GOP’s Senate supermajority is now 41 to nine.