2024 Election Results

The 2024 election has concluded, bringing important changes that will impact Ohio's political landscape. Voters across the state made key choices in races for the U.S. Senate, U.S. House of Representatives, Ohio state legislature, and the Ohio Supreme Court, as well as on key ballot issues. Here’s an overview of the major results.

U.S. Senate Race

Bernie Moreno (R) ousted incumbent Sherrod Brown to be Ohio’s Senator.  With JD Vance now the Vice President-Elect, Governor DeWine will pick Vance’s successor to serve until a special election in 2026 to determine who will serve the remaining part of the term that is up in 2028. Some names that have been talked about are State Senator Matt Dolan, who ran in the primary against Mr. Moreno, Secretary of State Frank LaRose, Lt. Governor Jon Husted, former state GOP chair Jane Timken, U.S. Representatives Mike Carey and Warren Davidson.

U.S. House

District 1 (Warren and part of Hamilton County)

• Greg Landsman (D) beat Orlando Sonza (R)

District 2 (Clermont, Brown, Adams, Highland, Highland, and parts of Hamilton, Scioto and Ross)

• David Taylor (R) beat Samantha Meadows (D)

District 3 (part of Franklin County)

• Joyce Beatty (D) kept her seat over Michael Young (R)

District 4 (Allen, Auglaize, Shelby, Logan, Champaign, Union, Crawford and parts of Marion and Shelby)

• Jim Jordan (R) won re-election over Tamie Wilson (D)

District 5 (Williams, Defiance, Paulding, Van Wert, Fulton, Henry, Putnam, Wood, Hancock, Hardin, Wyandot and parts of Ottawa and Lucas)

• Bob Latta (R) won re-election over Keith Mundy (D)

District 6 (Columbiana, Carroll, Jefferson, Harrison, Guernsey, Belmont, Monroe, Noble, Washington, Meigs, Gallia, Lawrence, Jackson and parts of Scioto, Athens, Muskingum, Tuscarawas and Mahoning)

• Michael Rulli (R) won his first full term after filling the seat in a special election, beating Michael Kripchak (D)

District 7 (Medina and Wayne Counties, western Cuyahoga County, and a bit of northern Holmes County)

• Max Miller (R) won over Matthew Diemer (D) and former Democratic Congressman turned Independent, Dennis Kucinich.

District 8 (Clark, Miami, Darke, Preble, Butler and part of Mercer County)

• Warren Davidson (R) won re-election over Vannesa Enoch (D)

District 9 (Parts of Lucas, Ottawa, Erie, Lorain and Cuyahoga)

• Marcy Kaptur (D) barely won her re-election against Derek Merrin (R)

District 10 (Montgomery, Green and part of Fayette County)

• Mike Turner (R) beat his challenger Amy Cox (D)

District 11 (Parts of Cuyahoga and Summit Counties)

• Shontel Brown (D) easily beat Alan Rapoport (D)

District 12 (Madison and Pickaway and part of Franklin County)

• Troy Balderson (R) won against Jerrad Christin (D)

District 13 (Parts of Mahoning, Trumbull, Portage, Stark and Summit counties)

• Emilia Sykes (D) won re-election over former state representative and senator Kevin Coughlin (R)

District 14 (Ashtabula, Lake, Geauga and parts of Trumbull, Portage, Summit and Cuyahoga counties)

• David Joyce (R) easily won against Brian Kenderes (D)

District 15 (All or parts of Franklin, Madison, Clark, Fayette, Miami, and Shelby counties)

• Mike Carey (R) was re-elected against Adam Miller (D)

Ohio House of Representatives

Democrats have flipped at least two seats in the House, with a handful more races outstanding pending delayed returns in Summit County.

Unofficial results show the 136th General Assembly may yield a House breakdown of 65-34 seats, with Republicans leading in three of four other seats in Summit County where election return processing was delayed. Republicans currently have a 67-32 seat majority.

Republican Stephanie Kunze of Franklin County lost her bid to return to the House. Kunze is currently finishing her last term as a state senator.

Ohio Senate

Democrats picked up a seat currently held by term limited State Senator Stephanie Kunze, who lost her bid to return to the House. Beth Liston (D) will switch from the House and be the new senator for the Franklin County seat.

Republicans will hold retain their supermajority 25-8 from their current 26-7 seat margin.

Ohio Supreme Court

Republic Justices, Joseph Deters, Megan Shanahan, and Dan Hawkins all easily beat their opponents for the Supreme Court, expanding the Republican majority on the Court to 6-1. Two of the races saw two democrat members of the Court being defeated with Justice Deters beating fellow Justice Melody Stewart, and Megan Shanahan defeating current Justice Michael Donnelly. 

Issue 1- “Redistricting”

Issue 1, the propose amendment to the state’s constitution that would have replaced the current system of drawing districts with a new, 15 member “citizen” board, was defeated.