Rep. Jeff Ellington files for re-election, will challenge incumbent Rep. Bruce Borders in HD 45

Indiana Rep. Jeff Ellington (R-Bloomfield) filed Tuesday for re-election to the Indiana House of Representatives.

He’ll run against Rep. Bruce Borders (R-Jasonville) in the Republican primary for House District 45. 

Ellington has represented House District 62 since 2015. After the state completed redistricting last year, he announced he would run for the District 45 seat. Greene County, which makes up a majority of Ellington’s District 62, will be incorporated into District 45 once the new district maps go into effect this November. 

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Ellington wrote in a statement that his campaign would focus on defending the Second Amendment, expanding property rights, increasing economic development in southwest Indiana, improving roads and bridges, supporting pro-life legislation, and protecting Indiana coal from “the Indianapolis-Bloomington Democrats, the Biden-Harris administration and other regulators.”

“I also vow to go to Indianapolis again to protect Greene, Sullivan, Daviess, Knox and Vigo counties from the Indianapolis-Carmel elites, the establishment types in both parties,” Ellington said.

Indiana’s primary elections will be held May 3.

Correction: An earlier vesrion of this post stated that Rep. Jeff Ellington (R-Bloomfield) has represented House District 62 since 2016. That was incorrect. He was appointed to his seat in December 2015.