State Sen. Ron Alting, a Republican on the ballot for an eighth term, faces Democrat Natasha Baker, a teacher from Battle Ground, in Indiana Senate District 22 in the Nov. 3 election.
Alting, first elected to the Senate seat in 1998, won a May Republican primary against Richard Bagsby, a construction business owner from Tippecanoe County, to win the nomination. Baker beat Marlena Edmondson, a social worker from Lafayette, for the Democratic nomination.
Indiana Senate District 22 includes Lafayette, an eastern portion of Tippecanoe County and all of Carroll County.
Here, candidates answer questions about their approach.
For more: Find bios of each candidate, along with information about where and when to vote, at the end of this article. Watch in the coming days for more candidate Q&As in other races on Tippecanoe County primary ballots.