2026 results · Ohio

Sherrod Brown, the Democrat, flips Ohio’s Senate seat

Sherrod Brown won by 4.9 points, 16.1 points more Democratic than the state voted for president in 2024.

Amy Acton, the Democrat, also took the governorship from the Republicans.

In the House, every one of the 15 contested seats moved toward Democrats, the median one 13.0 points.

Who won each county, and how far it moved

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Ohio’s 15 House seats

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Before5–10

20268–7

Solid: won. The tick marks a majority (8 of 15). 3 seats change party: OH-07, OH-15, OH-10.

Republicans lost 4 seats by under 10 points: OH-10 D+1.6, OH-09 D+5.5, OH-15 D+6.6, OH-07 D+9.9. A majority took 8 of 15; they held 7, and the closest would have made it.

The seat that decided the majority: OH-10, D+1.6, a district that voted R+7.7 for president in 2024.

Every seat, 2024 to 2026. Open circle: the 2024 presidential margin in the district. Filled: the 2026 House margin. Ordered from the most Democratic result to the most Republican; the rule marks the 8 seats needed for a majority.

← moved toward Democrats, → toward Republicans, in points from the 2024 presidential vote in the district. * still counting: the expected finish.

Close up: the four counties that moved most

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Each county’s move from the 2024 presidential vote in the Senate race; the maps above show the result beside it.

In the Senate race, these moved furthest toward Democrats, among counties with 2,000 or more votes in 2024 and at least half a percent of the state’s.

Scioto County
Moved 22.5 points toward Democrats: R+48.0 for president in 2024; Jon Husted, the Republican, carried it at R+25.5.
21,506 votes counted, 31,179 cast in 2024.
Belmont County
Moved 21.0 points toward Democrats: R+47.3 for president in 2024; Jon Husted, the Republican, carried it at R+26.3.
22,007 votes counted, 31,032 cast in 2024.
Tuscarawas County
Moved 19.9 points toward Democrats: R+43.3 for president in 2024; Jon Husted, the Republican, carried it at R+23.4.
32,117 votes counted, 43,019 cast in 2024.
Jefferson County
Moved 19.6 points toward Democrats: R+43.9 for president in 2024; Jon Husted, the Republican, carried it at R+24.3.
22,077 votes counted, 31,257 cast in 2024.

No county compared moved the other way.

Who lives where it moved

Across counties, ten more points of adults with a degree went with a county about 1.9 points more Republican, on average (r = −0.67, a strong relationship).

By place

Urban7 counties, 2,009,759 votes13.3 pts → D

Suburban47 counties, 2,196,754 votes16.5 pts → D

Rural34 counties, 395,412 votes17.2 pts → D

By race and ethnicity

White non-Hispanic 85% or more69 counties, 1,632,295 votes17.3 pts → D

Every other county19 counties, 2,969,630 votes14.3 pts → D

Each group’s counties added together: its 2026 margin against its 2024 presidential margin. Census Bureau American Community Survey, 2019–2023. Counties, not voters: there are no exit polls here.

Every race in Ohio

Ballot measures

State Issue 3 To require voters to present photo identification in order to vote65.3% yespassing

Margins are the winner’s or leader’s lead in points of all votes cast. * Still counting: where we expect the count to finish. The move is the 2026 margin against the 2024 presidential margin on the same ground, for races between a Democrat and a Republican.

Ticket splitting

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Across the 88 counties, the Senate race went D+4.9 and the governor's race D+7.9: the Senate margin ran 3.1 points more Republican than the governor's. Every county was carried by the same party in both.

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Points of difference between the Senate margin and the governor's in each county.

Each circle is a county, its area the votes cast. Above the line the Senate Democrat did better than the governor Democrat; below it, worse.

39049Democratic in both

Senate: D+42.1Brown against Husted
Governor: D+45.9Acton against Ramaswamy
Difference: R+3.7Husted ran ahead
Votes: about 505,716

Most votes firstSen.Gov.Diff.

Margins are the Democrat minus the Republican in points of all votes cast in that race, from the counts the state’s election office has published so far; a county still counting is compared on what it has counted in both. A difference is not a count of split tickets: a voter who skipped one race moves it too.

Ohio’s legislature

Senate17 of 33 seats on the ballotBefore9–24Leaders11–222 seats are led by another party than held them. Republicans keep control.Every district, mapped →House99 of 99 seats on the ballotBefore34–65Leaders43–569 seats are led by another party than held them. Republicans keep control.Every district, mapped →

Counts are Ohio’s official state and county counts. Where a race is still being counted, its margin is where we expect the count to finish, marked *. A move from 2024 is the 2026 margin against Kamala Harris’s margin over Donald Trump in the same place. A race is won when we call it or the state certifies it.

Who won each county, and how far it moved

Ohio’s 15 House seats

Close up: the four counties that moved most

Scioto County

Belmont County

Tuscarawas County

Jefferson County