The chair of the Libertarian Party of Indiana, Evan McMahon, won an election to lead the national party at its convention May 21-25.
McMahon, who’s headed the state party since 2021, beat five other candidates to win the national chair position. His victory comes after a streak of relative success for Indiana Libertarians, which nabbed 11.4% of the gubernatorial vote in 2020 — the best showing of a statewide Libertarian candidate in Indiana history and better than all other Libertarians in a three-way race that year. In 2024, the same candidate, Donald Rainwater, again received the highest percentage of votes for Libertarian gubernatorial candidates nationally, according to the Libertarian Party of Indiana.
“Our party has seen incredible successes over the last 20 years,” McMahon said at the convention, according to a state party news release. “We will go out to support the candidates by door-knocking, phone [banking], putting out signs, donating to the effort, working with their county and state parties, and that is how we will elect people to office and change this country. We will end the bureaucracy through the next generation of our membership.”
An Indianapolis resident, McMahon previously served as executive director for the Libertarian National Campaign Committee, campaign manager for Rupert Boneham’s gubernatorial campaign in 2012 and executive director of a Libertarian political action committee.
His vision for the national chair position includes boosting party membership from 9,000 to 66,000 and more than quadrupling fundraising by 2028, according to his campaign website, by engaging registered Libertarians who have not yet become members. He will lead the party with a newly elected cabinet, including vice chair Amanda Griffiths, secretary Jonathan McGee and treasurer Douglas Knebel.
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Reporting by Marissa Meador, Indianapolis Star / Indianapolis Star
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