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United States Senate elections in Ohio occur when voters in the U.S. state of Ohio select an individual to represent the state in the United States Senate in either of the state's two seats allotted by the Constitution. Regularly scheduled general elections occur on Election Day, coinciding with various other federal, statewide, and local races.

Each state is allotted two U.S. Senators elected to staggered six-year terms, which were originally selected by the state legislature. The Senate is divided into three classes to stagger the terms of its members such that one-third of the Senate would be up for re-election every two years. Upon Ohio's admission to the Union in 1803, the state was assigned a Class 1 seat and a Class 3 seat, first elected in 1803. Since the passage of the Seventeenth Amendment in 1913, U.S. Senators are elected directly by the voters of each state. Special elections may be held to fill mid-term vacancies to elect an individual to serve the remainder of the unexpired term.

The list below contains results from all U.S. Senate elections held in Ohio after the passage of the Seventeenth Amendment, sorted by year. The next scheduled election for the Class 1 seat is in 2024, while the Class 3 seat will hold its next election in 2028.

List of recent elections

Class 1

Year Winner Runner(s)-up Others Ref
Candidate Party Votes % Candidate Party Votes % Votes %
1916 Atlee Pomerene Democratic 571,488 49.26% Myron T. Herrick Republican 535,391 46.15% 53,212 4.59% [1]
1922 Simeon D. Fess Republican 794,159 50.90% Atlee Pomerene Democratic 744,558 47.72% 21,514 1.38% [2]
1928 Simeon D. Fess Republican 1,412,805 60.73% Charles V. Truax Democratic 908,952 39.07% 4,448 0.19% [3]
1934 A. Victor Donahey Democratic 1,276,206 59.95% Simeon D. Fess Republican 839,068 39.41% 13,569 0.64% [4]
1940 Harold Hitz Burton Republican 1,602,498 52.37% John McSweeney Democratic 1,457,304 47.63% [5]
1946 (sp) Kingsley A. Taft Republican 1,193,852 56.22% Henry P. Webber Democratic 929,584 43.78% [6]
1946 John W. Bricker Republican 1,275,774 57.02% James W. Huffman Democratic 947,610 42.36% 13,885 0.62%
1952 John W. Bricker Republican 1,878,961 54.58% Michael DiSalle Democratic 1,563,330 45.42% [7]
1958 Stephen M. Young Democratic 1,652,211 52.46% John W. Bricker Republican 1,497,199 47.54% [8]
1964 Stephen M. Young Democratic 1,923,608 50.22% Robert Taft Jr. Republican 1,906,781 49.78% [9]
1970 Robert Taft Jr. Republican 1,565,682 49.68% Howard Metzenbaum Democratic 1,495,262 47.45% 90,330 2.87% [10]
1976 Howard Metzenbaum Democratic 1,941,113 49.51% Robert Taft Jr. Republican 1,823,774 46.52% 155,726 3.97% [11]
1982 Howard Metzenbaum Democratic 1,923,767 56.66% Paul Pfeifer Republican 1,396,790 41.14% 74,906 2.20% [12]
1988 Howard Metzenbaum Democratic 2,480,038 56.97% George Voinovich Republican 1,872,716 43.02% 151 0.00% [13]
1994 Mike DeWine Republican 1,836,556 53.44% Joel Hyatt Democratic 1,348,213 39.23% 84 0.00% [14]
Joe Slovenec Independent 252,031 7.33%
2000 Mike DeWine Republican 2,665,512 59.92% Ted Celeste Democratic 1,595,066 35.85% 188,223 4.23% [15]
2006 Sherrod Brown Democratic 2,257,369 56.16% Mike DeWine Republican 1,761,037 43.82% 830 0.02% [16]
2012 Sherrod Brown Democratic 2,762,766 50.70% Josh Mandel Republican 2,435,744 44.70% 250,617 4.60% [17]
2018 Sherrod Brown Democratic 2,358,508 53.40% Jim Renacci Republican 2,057,559 46.58% 1,017 0.02% [18]
County results of Class 1 elections since 2000

Class 3

Year Winner Runner(s)-up Others Ref
Candidate Party Votes % Candidate Party Votes % Votes %
1914 Warren G. Harding Republican 526,115 49.16% Timothy Sylvester Hogan Democratic 423,742 39.60% 52,803 4.93% [19]
Arthur Lovett Garford Progressive 67,509 6.31%
1920 Frank B. Willis Republican 1,134,953 59.10% William Alexander Julian Democratic 782,650 40.76% 2,647 0.14% [20]
1926 Frank B. Willis Republican 711,359 53.19% Atlee Pomerene Democratic 623,221 46.60% 2,846 0.21% [21]
1928 (sp) Theodore E. Burton Republican 1,429,554 62.43% Graham P. Hunt Democratic 856,807 37.42% 3,451 0.15% [3]
1930 (sp) Robert J. Bulkley Democratic 1,046,561 54.78% Roscoe C. McCulloch Republican 863,944 45.22% [22]
1932 Robert J. Bulkley Democratic 1,293,175 52.53% Gilbert Bettman Republican 1,126,832 45.77% 41,987 1.71% [23]
1938 Robert A. Taft Republican 1,255,414 53.62% Robert J. Bulkley Democratic 1,085,792 46.38% [24]
1944 Robert A. Taft Republican 1,500,609 50.30% William G. Pickrel Democratic 1,482,610 49.70% [25]
1950 Robert A. Taft Republican 1,645,643 57.54% Joseph T. Ferguson Democratic 1,214,459 42.46% [26]
1954 (sp) George H. Bender Republican 1,257,874 50.06% Thomas A. Burke Democratic 1,254,904 49.94% [27]
1956 Frank Lausche Democratic 1,864,589 52.89% George H. Bender Republican 1,660,910 47.11% [28]
1962 Frank Lausche Democratic 1,843,813 61.56% John Marshall Briley Republican 1,151,173 38.44% [29]
1968 William B. Saxbe Republican 1,928,964 51.53% John J. Gilligan Democratic 1,814,152 48.47% 4 0.00% [30]
1974 John Glenn Democratic 1,930,670 64.62% Ralph Perk Republican 918,133 30.73% 138,803 4.65% [31]
1980 John Glenn Democratic 2,770,786 68.80% Jim Betts Republican 1,137,695 28.25% 118,822 2.95% [32]
1986 John Glenn Democratic 1,949,208 62.45% Tom Kindness Republican 1,171,893 37.55% 88 0.00% [33]
1992 John Glenn Democratic 2,444,397 50.88% Mike DeWine Republican 2,028,434 42.22% [34]
Martha Grevatt Workers World 331,125 6.89%
1998 George Voinovich Republican 1,922,087 56.46% Mary O. Boyle Democratic 1,482,054 43.53% 210 0.01% [35]
2004 George Voinovich Republican 3,464,651 63.85% Eric Fingerhut Democratic 1,961,249 36.14% 296 0.01% [36]
2010 Rob Portman Republican 2,168,742 56.85% Lee Fisher Democratic 1,503,297 39.40% 143,059 3.75% [37]
2016 Rob Portman Republican 3,118,567 58.03% Ted Strickland Democratic 1,996,908 37.16% 258,689 4.81% [38]
2022 J. D. Vance Republican 2,192,114 53.04% Tim Ryan Democratic 1,939,489 46.92% 1,739 0.04% [39]
County results of Class 3 elections since 2004

See also

References

  1. ^ "OH Senate Race - Nov 07, 1916". Our Campaigns.
  2. ^ "Statistics of the Congressional Election of November 7, 1922" (PDF). Clerk of the United States House of Representatives.
  3. ^ a b "Statistics of the Congressional and Presidential Election of November 6, 1928" (PDF). Clerk of the United States House of Representatives.
  4. ^ "Statistics of the Congressional Election of November 6, 1934" (PDF). Clerk of the United States House of Representatives.
  5. ^ "Statistics of the Presidential and Congressional Election of November 5, 1940" (PDF). Clerk of the United States House of Representatives.
  6. ^ "Statistics of the Congressional Election of November 5, 1946" (PDF). Clerk of the United States House of Representatives.
  7. ^ "Statistics of the Presidential and Congressional Election of November 4, 1952" (PDF). Clerk of the United States House of Representatives.
  8. ^ "Statistics of the Congressional Election of November 4, 1958" (PDF). Clerk of the United States House of Representatives.
  9. ^ "Statistics of the Presidential and Congressional Election of November 3, 1964" (PDF). Clerk of the United States House of Representatives.
  10. ^ "Statistics of the Congressional Election of November 3, 1970" (PDF). Clerk of the United States House of Representatives.
  11. ^ "Statistics of the Presidential and Congressional Election of November 2, 1976" (PDF). Clerk of the United States House of Representatives.
  12. ^ "Federal Elections 1982" (PDF). Federal Election Commission.
  13. ^ "Federal Elections 1988" (PDF). Federal Election Commission.
  14. ^ "Federal Elections 1994" (PDF). Federal Election Commission.
  15. ^ "Federal Elections 2000" (PDF). Federal Election Commission.
  16. ^ "Federal Elections 2006" (PDF). Federal Election Commission.
  17. ^ "Federal Elections 2012" (PDF). Federal Election Commission.
  18. ^ "Federal Elections 2018" (PDF). Federal Election Commission.
  19. ^ "OH Senate Race - Nov 08, 1914". Our Campaigns.
  20. ^ "Statistics of the Congressional and Presidential Election of November 2, 1920" (PDF). Clerk of the United States House of Representatives.
  21. ^ "Statistics of the Congressional Election of November 2, 1926" (PDF). Clerk of the United States House of Representatives.
  22. ^ "Statistics of the Congressional Election of November 4, 1930" (PDF). Clerk of the United States House of Representatives.
  23. ^ "Statistics of the Congressional and Presidential Election of November 8, 1932" (PDF). Clerk of the United States House of Representatives.
  24. ^ "Statistics of the Congressional Election of November 8, 1938" (PDF). Clerk of the United States House of Representatives.
  25. ^ "Statistics of the Presidential and Congressional Election of November 7, 1944" (PDF). Clerk of the United States House of Representatives.
  26. ^ "Statistics of the Congressional Election of November 7, 1950" (PDF). Clerk of the United States House of Representatives.
  27. ^ "Statistics of the Congressional Election of November 2, 1954" (PDF). Clerk of the United States House of Representatives.
  28. ^ "Statistics of the Presidential and Congressional Election of November 6, 1956" (PDF). Clerk of the United States House of Representatives.
  29. ^ "Statistics of the Congressional Election of November 6, 1962" (PDF). Clerk of the United States House of Representatives.
  30. ^ "Statistics of the Presidential and Congressional Election of November 5, 1968" (PDF). Clerk of the United States House of Representatives.
  31. ^ "Statistics of the Congressional Election of November 4, 1974" (PDF). Clerk of the United States House of Representatives.
  32. ^ "Statistics of the Presidential and Congressional Election of November 4, 1980" (PDF). Clerk of the United States House of Representatives.
  33. ^ "Federal Elections 1986" (PDF). Federal Election Commission.
  34. ^ "Federal Elections 1992" (PDF). Federal Election Commission.
  35. ^ "Federal Elections 1998" (PDF). Federal Election Commission.
  36. ^ "Federal Elections 2004" (PDF). Federal Election Commission.
  37. ^ "Federal Elections 2010" (PDF). Federal Election Commission.
  38. ^ "Federal Elections 2016" (PDF). Federal Election Commission.
  39. ^ "2022 OFFICIAL ELECTION RESULTS". Ohio Secretary of State.

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