2010 Indiana State Treasurer election
The 2010 Indiana State Treasurer election was held in on Tuesday, November 2, 2010, as part of the 2010 Indiana elections, held during the 2010 midterms.
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| Turnout | 38.96% | ||||||||||||||||
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County results Mourdock: 50–60% 60–70% 70–80% 80–90% Buttigieg: 50–60% | |||||||||||||||||
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Incumbent Republican Treasurer Richard Mourdock won reelection. His Democratic opponent was Navy veteran and future Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg.
Debate in the campaign largely centered around Mourdock's decision to invest $43 million of state pension funds and other state funds in Chrysler junk bonds (losing Indiana a large amount of money due to the restructuring of Chrysler during the company's bankruptcy, and his subsequent decision to launch unsuccessful litigation in an effort to stop Chrysler's bankruptcy plan (including the Chrysler-Fiat merger) from taking effect.
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