Official Canvass of Election Returns Safeguarding the Integrity of the Election Process

After completing the Election Night Canvass, each county election board includes a complete set of certified election returns in its minutes. These official returns are subject to future revision if a recount is conducted.

All local level recounts must be completed by June 25, 1999.

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Live Election Night Returns

The Election Night Canvass is posted continuously to this site on Election Night, May 4, 1999.

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The election returns presented on this site only include votes cast in the Democratic and Republican party primaries for mayoral candidates. Contact the appropriate county election board for returns for city council, city clerk, city clerk-treasurer, city judge, town council, town clerk-treasurer, and town judge. In some cases, a political party may not be conducting a primary this year because no candidate has filed in that party's primary or because all of the party's candidates are uncontested in the primary. Towns with a population of less than 3,500 do not conduct a primary, except in Marion County. Third party candidates and independents are nominated for the November 1999 municipal election by convention or petition.

The vote counts reported on the Live Election Night Returns area of this site are not final or official, but represent what is known as "the Election Night Canvass".

Indiana state law requires the ninety-two counties begin counting votes cast in the county immediately after the polls close at 6 p.m., prevailing local time.

In most counties, ballots are counted first at local polling places by precinct election officials. These officials then travel on election night to a central counting location (often the county courthouse) to report the precinct election results to the county election board.

To provide a new service to the public, the Secretary of State has requested that each county election board forward the election night results for mayor to this site. Complete or partial results from each county will be posted on this site continuously on election night as received from each county. Data entry will cease at midnight, and resume the morning after election day until reporting is complete. A county election board may vote to correct any errors in this initial election night canvass through Friday, May 14, 1999. As a result, the election night canvass is not final or official.

Angola, Berne, Bloomington, Bluffton, Butler, Cannelton, Covington, Decatur, Garrett, Greencastle, Huntington, Lebanon, Montpelier, Nappanee, Richmond, Rochester, Scottsburg, Union City, Washington, Woodburn.

To indicate that the names of mayoral candidates in these cities did not appear on the primary ballot, the election returns on this website will state that although the returns are 100% complete, the listed candidates received zero (0) votes.

In most of these cities there were also no contested nominations for other city offices, such as city council or city clerk. As a result, no primary election was conducted in these cities, or the name of the candidate for mayor did not appear on the primary ballot. Instead, each individual who filed in the primary as a candidate for mayor will automatically appear on the November 1999 municipal election ballot as the mayoral candidate of that individual's party.