The Indianapolis mayoral election of 1967 took place on November 7, 1967.[1] Richard Lugar defeated incumbent Democratic mayor John J. Barton, becoming the first Republican to be elected mayor of Indianapolis in nearly two-decades.[1][2] Democrats had long dominated mayoral elections before 1967, having won ten of the thirteen mayoral elections since 1930.[1] No Democrat would subsequently recapture the mayoralty until 1999, largely due to the city-county merger that created the Unigov in 1970 adding the votes of suburban Marion County, which shifted the composition the electorate towards the Republicans.[3]
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