2024 Indiana Attorney General election (Blackford)

The **2024 Indiana Attorney General election** was held on November 5, 2024, to elect the Attorney General of Indiana, and was held alongside the 2024 United States presidential election, a gubernatorial election and other state and local elections. The incumbent was Todd Rokita, a member of the Republican Party, and the Democratic Party nominated Destiny Wells, who had been the party's nominee for Secretary of State two years prior. The Republican Party had long been Indiana's dominant political party, and had held the attorney generalship since the 2000 election. The race was not initially expected to be competitive for the Democrats, as Democratic candidates in the state tend to rely on Republican voters voting across party lines, however Rokita had enjoyed a substantial amount of popularity amongst many Republicans.

However, this changed when Rokita was defeated for renomination by one vote in the state convention in a massive upset by Lucas Cook, an online streamer and alt-right political activist who had long been considered the underdog, enjoying little popular support. Cook was extremely unpopular, with his open ties to white supremacist and neo-Nazi groups leading to many Republicans distancing themselves from his campaign, while the state Republican Party refused to provide any sort of campaign funding for Cook. Almost all of Cook's fundraising and campaign funding came from alt-tech platforms and far-right supporters, and he would only raise $60,000 to Wells' $4,000,000, with even Libertarian nominee Emma Hunter outraising him in fundraising by the day of the election.

Ultimately, Cook was defeated in a landslide margin by Wells, with Wells winning 42 of the state's 92 counties, flipping 38 that had gone Republican four years prior, including multiple longtime Republican strongholds such as Hamilton and Randolph Counties. It marked the first time since 2012 that a Democrat had won a statewide race in Indiana, and another Democrat would not win a statewide race in the state until the 2050 Indiana State Auditor election.

## General election

##### Counties that flipped from Republican to Democratic

* Adams (largest municipality: Decatur)
* Allen (largest municipality: Fort Wayne)
* Bartholomew (largest municipality: Columbus)
* Boone (largest municipality: Zionsville)
* Brown (largest municipality: Nashville)
* Cass (largest municipality: Logansport)
* Clark (largest municipality: Jeffersonville)
* Crawford (largest municipality: Marengo)
* Delaware (largest municipality: Muncie)
* Elkhart (largest municipality: Elkhart)
* Floyd (largest municipality: New Albany)
* Hamilton (largest municipality: Carmel)
* Hendricks (largest municipality: Plainfield)
* Howard (largest municipality: Kokomo)
* Jay (largest municipality: Portland)
* Johnson (largest municipality: Greenwood)
* Knox (largest municipality: Vincennes
* LaPorte (largest municipality: Michigan City)
* Madison (largest municipality: Anderson)
* Orange (largest municipality: Paoli)
* Parke (largest municipality: Rockville)
* Perry (largest municipality: Tell City)
* Pike (largest municipality: Petersburg)
* Porter (largest municipality: Portage)
* Randolph (largest municipality: Winchester)
* Scott (largest municipality: Scottsburg)
* Spencer (largest municipality: Santa Claus)
* St. Joseph (largest municipality: South Bend)
* Starke (largest municipality: Knox)
* Steuben (largest municipality: Angola)
* Sullivan (largest municipality: Sullivan)
* Tippecanoe (largest municipality: Lafayette)
* Vermillion (largest municipality: Clinton)
* Vigo (largest municipality: Terre Haute)
* Warrick (largest municipality: Boonville)
* Wayne (largest municipality: Richmond)
* Whitley (largest municipality Columbia City)