2006 Ohio gubernatorial election

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2006 Ohio gubernatorial election
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Nominee Ted Strickland Ken Blackwell
Party Democratic Republican
Running mate Lee Fisher Tom Raga
Popular vote2,435,3841,474,285
Percentage60.54%36.65%
2006 Ohio gubernatorial election results map by county.svg
2006 Ohio gubernatorial election by Congressional District.svg
Strickland:     40–50%     50–60%     60–70%     70–80%     80–90%
Blackwell:     40–50%     50–60%     60–70%
Governor before election

Bob Taft
Republican

Elected Governor

Ted Strickland
Democratic

The 2006 Ohio gubernatorial election was held on November 7, 2006, and was a race for the Governor and Lieutenant Governor of Ohio. Incumbent Governor Bob Taft could not run for re-election, because Ohio governors are limited to two consecutive terms in office. The election was held concurrently with a U.S. Senate election. The general election for governor pitted Ohio Secretary of State Ken Blackwell, the Republican nominee, against United States Congressman Ted Strickland of Ohio's 6th congressional district, the Democratic nominee. Their running mates were former Ohio Attorney General Lee Fisher on the Democratic ticket and State Representative Tom Raga on the Republican ticket.

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In the end, the contest was not close, and Strickland captured more than 60 percent of the vote, giving him a solid 24-point margin of victory. Strickland was declared the winner right at 7:30 P.M. EST time when the polls closed in Ohio. Blackwell called Strickland and conceded defeat at 8:45 P.M. EST. [1]

Strickland won most areas of the state. In particular, he trounced Blackwell in eastern Ohio, with Blackwell only carrying one county in this region (Holmes). Blackwell did well in the Cincinnati suburbs, although he only won Hamilton County, which encompasses the City of Cincinnati, by just about 2,000 votes. He did win some rural western counties as well, but Strickland defeated Blackwell in Cuyahoga County and Franklin County, home of Cleveland and Columbus respectively. Strickland also performed strongly in the Rust Belt area from Cleveland all the way to Toledo, as well as in the Akron-Youngstown Area.

This would turn out to be one of the most expensive gubernatorial elections in Ohio's history. As of 2024, this is the last time that a Democrat was elected Governor of Ohio.

Historical background

National attention

As the election approached, there was increasing national attention on the Ohio gubernatorial election, focused largely on the ability of the Republican party to maintain control in Ohio. Results in Ohio in 2006 were regarded as a possible bellwether for the 2008 presidential election; [2] Ohio was considered a crucial swing state, with 20 electoral votes. Since the Republican Party's inception in 1854, no Republican presidential candidate has ever been elected to office without the electoral votes of Ohio. In contrast, a Democratic candidate has won the national election without the support of Ohio eight times (1836, 1844, 1856, 1884, 1892, 1944, 1960, and 2020). Overall, Ohio's electoral votes have gone to the winner of the election 78% of the time.

Comedian and talk-show host Jon Stewart taped The Daily Show from October 30 to November 2, 2006, at the Roy Bowen Theater on the campus of Ohio State University. The series of episodes was entitled "Battlefield Ohio: The Daily Show's Midwest Midterm Midtacular" and was intended to bring further national attention to the election in Ohio. [3] This was only the second time that the show had been filmed in a location other than New York City.

Ohio, Blackwell, and the 2004 election

Ohio played a decisive role in the 2004 presidential election, as Ohio's electoral votes would have been sufficient to swing the election from George W. Bush to John Kerry had Kerry won in Ohio. Given the importance of the state, Blackwell's role in the conduct of the election was closely scrutinized. As Ohio Secretary of State, Blackwell was the state's chief elections officer. He was also an honorary co-chair for the Bush re-election campaign in Ohio and the most prominent backer of a ballot measure to ban same-sex marriage on the same ballot.

Leading up to the election Blackwell made a number of decisions about the election process, most of which placed additional restrictions on voting. Opponents argued that Blackwell's decisions would have the effect of suppressing turnout among vulnerable populations, most of whom would be expected to vote for Kerry in the presidential contest—and that Blackwell had a conflict of interest as a co-chair of Bush's re-election campaign. Supporters argued that the Secretary of State had always been a partisan political office and that there was nothing wrong with Blackwell having a preference in the presidential elections; they denied that Blackwell's decisions were designed to benefit Bush.

Reaction to Blackwell's conduct was so strong that a coalition of left-leaning organizations attempted to amend the Ohio Constitution to abolish the Secretary of State's oversight of elections, as part of a package of election reforms. The proposal was rejected by voters in November 2005. [4] Dissatisfaction with Blackwell's involvement in the 2004 election apparently hurt him with Ohio's African-American community; according to exit polls, Blackwell received only 20% of the African-American vote in 2006. [5] Exit polls showed that confidence in the election process among Ohio voters was even lower than voters in Florida, the state which produced an unprecedented five-week post-election fight in 2000. [6] But among voters "very confident" that votes would be counted accurately, Blackwell actually led Strickland.

Republican control

Entering the 2006 campaign, Ohio had been dominated for a decade by Republicans. Republicans had held the governorship for sixteen years, occupied all statewide constitutional offices, and controlled both houses of the state legislature.

Important scandals

Bob Taft

At a low point in his popularity in November 2005, Taft garnered only a 6.5% approval rating. [7] According to polling organization Survey USA, this was a lower proportion than any governor in the United States. [8] A poll taken in May 2006 indicated that only 2% of Ohio residents "strongly approved" of Taft's performance. The low approval ratings led pollster John Zogby to comment, "I'm not aware of anyone who's ever sunk lower." [7] [9]

Taft's low approval ratings follow several years of scandals. In 2005, Taft pleaded no contest to four ethics violations involving illegal gifts totaling $5,800. [10] He was convicted of four misdemeanors and was ordered to pay a $4,000 fine and apologize to the people of Ohio. Taft is the only Ohio governor to be convicted of a crime while in office.

Thomas Noe and Coingate

In 1996 the Republican controlled Ohio General Assembly removed a restriction requiring that state investments only be in safer, though lower-yielding, bonds. After the restriction was eliminated, hundreds of millions of dollars in state funds were invested by a number of investment firms with close ties to the Republican party. Among those investments was $50 million of the Ohio Bureau of Workers' Compensation fund which was given to Thomas Noe, an investor in rare and unusual coins and major donor to the Republican Party including then-governor Bob Taft. [11]

In 2005 it was revealed that Noe could only account for $13 million of the original investment. Among the missing funds were two coins worth over $300,000 alone. Throughout 2005, there was a protracted legal battle over the release of records which Noe claimed were privileged and prosecutors claimed were in the public domain. The Ohio Supreme Court ruled 5-2 in favor of the prosecutors. On February 13, 2006, Noe was indicted on 53 counts, including: engaging in a pattern of corrupt activity (which carries a mandatory 10-year sentence), 11 counts of theft, 11 counts of money laundering, 8 counts of tampering with records, and 22 counts of forgery. The charges also accuse Noe of personally stealing $2 million. On November 20, 2006, Noe was found guilty of theft, money laundering, forgery and corrupt activity, and was sentenced to serve 18 years in prison, fined $213,000, ordered to pay the $2 million cost of his prosecution and make restitution to the Ohio Bureau of Worker's Compensation.

Also in 2006, Noe pleaded guilty to three charges of using over a dozen people in 2004 as illegal "conduits" to make donations to George W. Bush's re-election campaign of over $45,000 in order to skirt laws limiting donations in federal campaigns to $2,000. Noe was convicted and sentenced to 27 months in federal prison and ordered to pay a $136,000 fine. [12]

Democratic primary

Candidates

Campaign

When Strickland first launched his campaign, he was originally also in a tough fight for the nomination, as Columbus Mayor Michael Coleman was also campaigning and raising money. Before attacks were traded between the nominees, Coleman bowed out, citing a need to spend more time with his family. [13]

Results

Democratic primary results [14]
PartyCandidateVotes%
Democratic Ted Strickland 634,114 79.23
Democratic Bryan Flannery166,25320.77
Total votes800,367 100.00

Republican primary

Candidates

Campaign

Blackwell and Petro were initially going to be joined in their competitive primary by Ohio State Auditor Betty Montgomery, but Montgomery withdrew from the contest and instead ran for state attorney general, an office she lost. The campaign between the two candidates then heated up; despite commercials preaching his conservative values, Petro was never able to shake his previous pro-choice stance. [15] As the election approached, the barbs grew worse between Petro and Blackwell, only serving to bring more negative attention to the Ohio Republican Party.

Results

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Results map by county
  Blackwell—50–60%
  Blackwell—60–70%
  Blackwell—70–80%
  Petro—50–60%
  Petro—60–70%
Republican primary results [16]
PartyCandidateVotes%
Republican Ken Blackwell 460,349 55.73
Republican Jim Petro365,61844.27
Total votes825,967 100.00

General election

Campaign finance

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Ted Strickland campaigning before the election

The race for the 2006 election was the most expensive in Ohio's history. Reflective of both the national significance of the race, as well as the powerful fund-raising capabilities of both parties, Blackwell and Strickland passed the previous fund raising record set in 1998. That record, set when current Governor Bob Taft was running against Lee Fisher (Strickland's running mate), totaled a combined $18 million by the end of the election. As of September 9, 2006, Blackwell and Strickland had already raised a combined $21.2 million. Strickland led Blackwell, $11.2 million to $10 million. [17] Most of the money raised in Ohio by both major party candidates came from a single zip code in downtown Columbus, which is home to their respective parties, labor and political groups, lobbyists and lawyers. [18]

A significant amount of money was spent by private groups on behalf of the candidates as well, the estimated combined total at the time of the May 2 primary was $50 million. [19]

Predictions

SourceRankingAs of
The Cook Political Report [20] Solid D (flip)November 6, 2006
Sabato's Crystal Ball [21] Safe D (flip)November 6, 2006
Rothenberg Political Report [22] Likely D (flip)November 2, 2006
Real Clear Politics [23] Likely D (flip)November 6, 2006

Polling

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Graph of average poll results, Nov 2005- Oct 2006

Since the first polls on the general election matchup were taken in November 2005, Strickland led Blackwell, though the margin substantially increased in March 2006.

The greatest margin recorded in an individual poll was found in the October 26, 2006, SurveyUSA poll which showed Strickland leading by 30 points. The smallest recorded margin was the February 6, 2006, Zogby poll showing Strickland leading by a mere 3 points. When the results are averaged across the different polls, the greatest margin was in October 2006 with a difference of 22.6 points in favor of Strickland. The smallest average margin was during January 2006 with Strickland leading Blackwell by 4 points.

Poll sourceDate(s) administeredTed
Strickland (D)		Ken
Blackwell (R)		Bill
Peirce (L)		Bob
Fitrakis (G)
Survey USA November 6, 200655%38%2%1%
University of Cincinnati November 6, 200659%37%4% (Independents combined)
CNN October 31, 200659%36%
Survey USA October 26, 200662%32%1%1%
Quinnipiac October 18, 200659%32%
NY Times/CBS News October 18, 200653%29%2% (Independents combined)
University of Cincinnati October 14, 200652%38%3%1%
Survey USA October 12, 200660%32%2%1%
Rasmussen October 6, 200652%40%
Zogby September 28, 200648.3%39.7%
Survey USA September 28, 200656%35%2%2%
Rasmussen September 20, 200654%35%
Quinnipiac September 19, 200656%34%
University of Cincinnati September 17, 200650%38%3%2%
Zogby September 11, 200647.5%41.8%
Zogby August 28, 200649.7%41.4%
Rasmussen August 27, 200657%32%
Survey USA August 7, 200657%35%2%1%
Rasmussen Archived 2006-08-03 at the Wayback Machine August 1, 200650%39%
Zogby July 24, 200648.4%43.8%
Columbus Dispatch July 23, 200647%27%
Rasmussen June 27, 200650%37%
Zogby June 21, 200649.1%44.3%
Survey USA June 13, 200653%37%2%1%
University of Cincinnati May 25, 200650%44%2% (Independents combined)
Rasmussen May 18, 200652%36%
Rasmussen April 25, 200652%35%
Rasmussen Archived 2006-04-26 at the Wayback Machine March 31, 200650%40%
Rasmussen February 19, 200647%35%
Zogby February 6, 200638%35%
Rasmussen January 7, 200644%40%
Rasmussen Archived 2005-12-15 at the Wayback Machine November 15, 200542%36%

Results

Ohio gubernatorial election, 2006 [24]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Democratic Ted Strickland 2,435,384 60.54% +22.23%
Republican Ken Blackwell 1,474,28536.65%−21.11%
Libertarian Bill Peirce71,4681.78%
Green Bob Fitrakis 40,9651.02%
Write-in 6520.02%
Majority961,09923.89%+4.44%
Turnout 4,022,75453.25%
Democratic gain from Republican Swing

Results by county

CountyTed Strickland
Democratic		Ken Blackwell
Republican		Various candidates
Other parties		MarginTotal
#%#%#%#%
Adams 4,72554.40%3,77143.42%1892.18%95410.98%8,685
Allen 18,00049.68%17,18447.43%1,0452.88%8162.25%36,229
Ashland 9,49249.04%9,15447.30%7093.66%3381.75%19,355
Ashtabula 22,25565.72%10,40630.73%1,2043.56%11,84934.99%33,865
Athens 16,18881.59%3,30316.65%3491.76%12,88564.94%19,840
Auglaize 7,60644.99%8,68751.38%6143.63%-1,081-6.39%16,907
Belmont 17,84274.35%5,59323.31%5612.34%12,24951.05%23,996
Brown 7,74355.13%5,95642.41%3452.46%1,78712.72%14,044
Butler 52,36545.18%60,01851.79%3,5123.03%-7,653-6.60%115,895
Carroll 6,90361.90%3,75333.65%4964.45%3,15028.25%11,152
Champaign 7,47552.40%6,35544.55%4343.04%1,1207.85%14,264
Clark 29,36459.86%18,20037.10%1,4923.04%11,16422.76%49,056
Clermont 27,30742.00%35,68754.89%2,0163.10%-8,380-12.89%65,010
Clinton 6,34250.15%5,94747.03%3572.82%3953.12%12,646
Columbiana 23,91466.02%11,32631.27%9832.71%12,58834.75%36,223
Coshocton 7,75457.83%5,18438.66%4703.51%2,57019.17%13,408
Crawford 8,28749.49%7,86346.96%5943.55%4242.53%16,744
Cuyahoga 335,30673.84%107,23423.61%11,5602.55%228,07250.23%454,100
Darke 9,36546.31%10,01849.54%8404.15%-653-3.23%20,223
Defiance 6,79849.85%6,29846.18%5423.97%5003.67%13,638
Delaware 32,50450.18%30,93147.75%1,3382.07%1,5732.43%64,773
Erie 20,25667.28%9,08930.19%7612.53%11,16737.09%30,106
Fairfield 30,18055.88%22,36341.41%1,4612.71%7,81714.47%54,004
Fayette 4,38452.18%3,84545.76%1732.06%5396.42%8,402
Franklin 241,53664.71%122,60132.85%9,1212.44%118,93531.86%373,258
Fulton 8,19350.76%7,42145.98%5273.26%7724.78%16,141
Gallia 6,57464.67%3,40633.51%1851.82%3,16831.17%10,165
Geauga 22,15456.59%15,85040.49%1,1442.92%6,30416.10%39,148
Greene 28,61248.40%28,71348.57%1,7883.02%-101-0.17%59,113
Guernsey 8,35062.43%4,60134.40%4243.17%3,74928.03%13,375
Hamilton 139,45148.51%141,37449.17%6,6712.32%-1,923-0.67%287,496
Hancock 10,93442.59%14,00754.56%7342.86%-3,073-11.97%25,675
Hardin 5,27354.23%4,09942.16%3513.61%1,17412.07%9,723
Harrison 4,23869.53%1,66127.25%1963.22%2,57742.28%6,095
Henry 5,72349.88%5,37146.81%3793.30%3523.07%11,473
Highland 7,00753.25%5,82244.25%3292.50%1,1859.01%13,158
Hocking 6,61967.13%2,99030.32%2512.55%3,62936.81%9,860
Holmes 3,30140.71%4,51455.67%2933.61%-1,213-14.96%8,108
Huron 10,71856.66%7,59240.13%6073.21%3,12616.52%18,917
Jackson 7,11768.28%3,15030.22%1561.50%3,96738.06%10,423
Jefferson 18,07169.15%7,18727.50%8753.35%10,88441.65%26,133
Knox 10,27849.46%9,94447.85%5582.69%3341.61%20,780
Lake 56,48264.18%28,67532.58%2,8493.24%27,80731.60%88,006
Lawrence 13,53070.80%5,28727.67%2921.53%8,24343.14%19,109
Licking 32,45554.96%24,74041.90%1,8563.14%7,71513.06%59,051
Logan 7,61147.33%7,94149.38%5283.28%-330-2.05%16,080
Lorain 68,78368.35%28,34228.16%3,5073.48%40,44140.19%100,632
Lucas 95,11866.62%44,30731.03%3,3592.35%50,81135.59%142,784
Madison 7,24453.89%5,81543.26%3822.84%1,42910.63%13,441
Mahoning 72,07675.67%20,35621.37%2,8192.96%51,72054.30%95,251
Marion 11,96355.15%9,05441.74%6743.11%2,90913.41%21,691
Medina 39,06159.63%24,62937.60%1,8212.78%14,43222.03%65,511
Meigs 5,29568.70%2,28529.65%1271.65%3,01039.06%7,707
Mercer 5,69236.38%9,42960.26%5253.36%-3,737-23.88%15,646
Miami 17,26346.59%18,39549.64%1,3963.77%-1,132-3.06%37,054
Monroe 4,68277.18%1,23720.39%1472.42%3,44556.79%6,066
Montgomery 107,59356.87%76,18940.27%5,4192.86%31,40416.60%189,201
Morgan 3,46862.87%1,87634.01%1723.12%1,59228.86%5,516
Morrow 6,42551.09%5,66845.07%4823.83%7576.02%12,575
Muskingum 16,73358.26%11,07338.56%9133.18%5,66019.71%28,719
Noble 3,34265.89%1,58331.21%1472.90%1,75934.68%5,072
Ottawa 10,85863.10%5,80933.76%5403.14%5,04929.34%17,207
Paulding 3,71749.70%3,27643.80%4866.50%4415.90%7,479
Perry 7,37165.28%3,57731.68%3433.04%3,79433.60%11,291
Pickaway 10,60959.07%6,95338.71%3982.22%3,65620.36%17,960
Pike 7,11872.81%2,51125.69%1471.50%4,60747.13%9,776
Portage 36,55366.50%16,22329.51%2,1943.99%20,33036.98%54,970
Preble 7,86350.56%7,09645.62%5943.82%7674.93%15,553
Putnam 6,43945.47%7,24851.18%4743.35%-809-5.71%14,161
Richland 24,39853.27%19,85543.35%1,5463.38%4,5439.92%45,799
Ross 15,93066.82%7,45231.26%4571.92%8,47835.56%23,839
Sandusky 13,47359.26%8,46737.24%7963.50%5,00622.02%22,736
Scioto 19,78475.03%6,32824.00%2570.97%13,45651.03%26,369
Seneca 11,38756.79%8,01139.95%6533.26%3,37616.84%20,051
Shelby 8,06147.34%8,35849.08%6103.58%-297-1.74%17,029
Stark 89,41664.14%45,41332.57%4,5853.29%44,00331.56%139,414
Summit 135,14768.34%57,34429.00%5,2562.66%77,80339.34%197,747
Trumbull 60,16174.16%18,55622.87%2,4112.97%41,60551.28%81,128
Tuscarawas 20,55665.08%10,13432.08%8952.83%10,42233.00%31,585
Union 7,68945.56%8,61351.03%5753.41%-924-5.47%16,877
Van Wert 4,51443.37%5,33151.22%5645.42%-817-7.85%10,409
Vinton 3,16571.57%1,16626.37%912.06%1,99945.21%4,422
Warren 27,43440.29%39,09457.41%1,5632.30%-11,660-17.12%68,091
Washington 15,03765.99%7,41232.53%3391.49%7,62533.46%22,788
Wayne 19,82051.42%17,50445.41%1,2223.17%2,3166.01%38,546
Williams 6,69651.38%5,85344.91%4843.71%8436.47%13,033
Wood 26,77158.69%17,50038.36%1,3452.95%9,27120.32%45,616
Wyandot 4,09750.21%3,85247.21%2112.59%2453.00%8,160
Totals2,435,38460.54%1,474,28536.65%113,0852.81%961,09923.89%4,022,754

Counties that flipped from Republican to Democratic

By congressional district

Strickland won 16 of 18 congressional districts, including the 1st, 3rd, 4th, 5th, 7th, 12th, 14th, 15th, and 16th districts, which elected Republicans to the House. [25]

DistrictStricklandBlackwellRepresentative
1st 49.7%47.9% Steve Chabot
2nd 47.4%50.4%
Jean Schmidt
3rd 54.0%43.4% Mike Turner
4th 49.9%46.9% Mike Oxley (109th Congress)
Jim Jordan (110th Congress)
5th 53.2%43.2% Paul Gillmor
6th 70.2%27.4% Ted Strickland (109th Congress)
Charlie Wilson (110th Congress)
7th 59.0%38.3% Dave Hobson
8th 47.1%49.6% John Boehner
9th 66.9%30.5% Marcy Kaptur
10th 71.1%26.1% Dennis Kucinich
11th 80.8%16.9% Stephanie Tubbs Jones
12th 58.4%39.4% Pat Tiberi
13th 67.6%29.5% Sherrod Brown (109th Congress)
Betty Sutton (110th Congress)
14th 62.8%34.3% Steve LaTourette
15th 61.9%35.6% Deborah Pryce
16th 59.9%36.9% Ralph Regula
17th 74.0%22.9% Tim Ryan
18th 61.4%35.7% Bob Ney (109th Congress)
Zack Space (110th Congress)

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<span class="mw-page-title-main">Jennifer Brunner</span> American politician and judge (born 1957)

Jennifer Lee Brunner is an American attorney, politician and judge. She is currently an associate justice of the Ohio Supreme Court, a position to which she was elected after serving as a judge on the Ohio Tenth District Court of Appeals. A member of the Democratic Party, Brunner also served one term as Ohio Secretary of State from 2007 to 2011 and unsuccessfully ran for the U.S. Senate in 2010. Prior to being elected Secretary of State, Brunner worked in the Ohio Secretary of State's Office and served as a County Judge in Franklin County, Ohio.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">2008 United States presidential election in Ohio</span>

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<span class="mw-page-title-main">2010 United States Senate election in Ohio</span>

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<span class="mw-page-title-main">2010 Ohio gubernatorial election</span>

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<span class="mw-page-title-main">2012 United States Senate election in Ohio</span>

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<span class="mw-page-title-main">2012 United States presidential election in Ohio</span>

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<span class="mw-page-title-main">2002 Ohio gubernatorial election</span>

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<span class="mw-page-title-main">2014 Ohio gubernatorial election</span>

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<span class="mw-page-title-main">2016 United States Senate election in Ohio</span>

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<span class="mw-page-title-main">2016 United States presidential election in Ohio</span>

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