On March 4, Greg Ballard, former Mayor of Indianapolis, said he will run as an independent candidate for Indiana Secretary of State this year. See this story. He will need 36,943 signatures. No statewide independent petition has succeeded in Indiana since 1992, when Ross Perot ran as an independent presidential candidate.

Indiana has no gubernatorial nor U.S. Senate election this year. Secretary of State is the most important statewide office up, and is at the top of the 2026 ballot.