Indianapolis Warning: You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.Anti-spam check. Do not fill this in! ===Politics=== Until fairly recently, Indianapolis was considered one of the most [[Conservatism in the United States|conservative]] major cities in the U.S.<ref>{{cite encyclopedia |title=Unigov and Political Participation |encyclopedia=Digital Encyclopedia of Indianapolis |orig-date=1994 |year=2021 |last1=Blomquist |first1=William |last2=Vanderstel |first2=David |publisher=Indianapolis Public Library |url=https://indyencyclopedia.org/unigov-and-political-participation/ |access-date=January 21, 2022}}</ref><ref name="politics"/> According to 2014 research published in the ''[[American Political Science Review]]'', the city's policy preferences are less conservative than the national mean when compared with other large U.S. cities.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Tausanovitch |first1=Chris |last2=Warshaw |first2=Christopher |date=August 2014 |title=Representation in Municipal Government |url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/american-political-science-review/article/abs/representation-in-municipal-government/924BDD2C2ECD0CC9B42E5A19776BC9C3 |journal=American Political Science Review |volume=103 |issue=3 |pages=605β641 |doi=10.1017/S0003055414000318 |hdl=1721.1/96162 |s2cid=1838661 |access-date=January 15, 2022|hdl-access=free }}</ref> While Indianapolis as a whole leans Democratic, the southern third of the city, consisting of [[Decatur Township, Marion County, Indiana|Decatur]], [[Perry Township, Marion County, Indiana|Perry]], and [[Franklin Township, Marion County, Indiana|Franklin]] townships, trends Republican.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Park |first1=Alice |last2=Smart |first2=Charlie |last3=Taylor |first3=Rumsey |last4= Watkins |first4=Miles |date=February 2, 2021 |title=An Extremely Detailed Map of the 2020 Election |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/upshot/2020-election-map.html |access-date=January 23, 2022|issn=0362-4331}}</ref> [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican]]s held the mayor's office for 32 years (1967β1999), and controlled the City-County Council from its inception in 1970 to 2003.<ref name="politics"/> In the [[2000 United States presidential election]], Marion County voters narrowly selected [[George W. Bush]] over [[Al Gore]] by a margin of 1.3%, but voted in favor of [[John Kerry]] by a margin of 1.9% in the [[2004 United States presidential election]]. Presidential election results have increasingly favored Democrats, with Marion County voters selecting [[Joe Biden]] over [[Donald Trump]] in the [[2020 United States presidential election]], 63.3β34.3%.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://uselectionatlas.org/RESULTS/ |title=Dave Leip's Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections |website=uselectionatlas.org}}</ref> Incumbent mayor [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democrat]] [[Joe Hogsett]] faced Republican State Senator [[Jim Merritt (politician)|Jim Merritt]] and [[Libertarian Party (United States)|Libertarian]] Doug McNaughton in the [[2019 Indianapolis mayoral election]]. Hogsett was elected to a second term, with 72% of the vote.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.indystar.com/elections/results/local/2019-11-05/18097/ |title=Marion County Election Results for November 5, 2019 |newspaper=The Indianapolis Star |publisher=Gannett Co. |date=November 5, 2019 |access-date=June 19, 2020}}</ref> The [[2019 Indianapolis City-County Council election|2019 City-County Council elections]] expanded Democratic control of the council, flipping six seats to hold a 20β5 [[supermajority]] over Republicans.<ref>{{cite news |last=Martin |first=Ryan |url=https://www.indystar.com/story/news/politics/elections/2019/12/01/republican-jim-merritt-campaign-handed-indianapolis-election-joe-hogsett-democrats/4296200002/ |title='Worst day': Republicans say failed Merritt campaign handed election to Hogsett, Democrats |newspaper=The Indianapolis Star |publisher=Gannett Co. |date=December 1, 2019 |access-date=June 19, 2020}}</ref> Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here. You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see Christianpedia:Copyrights for details). Do not submit copyrighted work without permission! Cancel Editing help (opens in new window) Discuss this page