2010 Ohio Attorney General election

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2010 Ohio Attorney General election
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Nominee Mike DeWine Richard Cordray
Party Republican Democratic
Popular vote1,821,4141,772,728
Percentage47.5%46.3%

2010 Ohio Attorney General election results map by county.svg
2010 Ohio attorney general election results map by congressional District.svg
DeWine:     40–50%     50–60%     60–70%
Cordray:     40-50%     50–60%     60–70%     70–80%

Attorney General before election

Richard Cordray
Democratic

Elected Attorney General

Mike DeWine
Republican

The 2010 Ohio Attorney General election was held on November 6, 2010, concurrently with other statewide offices including a Class 1 Senate election as well as the Governor election. Incumbent Democratic Attorney General Richard Cordray who was elected in a 2008 special election ran for a full 4-year term but was defeated by Republican challenger and former 2-term United States senator Mike DeWine. Being decided by 1.2%, this was the closest statewide election in Ohio. Cordray and DeWine faced off again in Ohio's 2018 Governor election; DeWine won that election by 3.7 percentage points.

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Background

In 2008, then Ohio State Treasurer Richard Cordray ascended to the office of Attorney General following his victory in a 2008 special election triggered by the resignation of Marc Dann. Cordray won his election in a landslide winning by 18 percentage points, being held concurrently with the presidential election when Barack Obama carried the state by a bit under 5 percentage points. During Cordray's tenure, he got involved in cases against the Bank of America Corporation as well as the American International Group.

In 2009, former United States Senator Mike DeWine announced he would seek the office of Attorney General, 3 years after Sherrod Brown defeated him in the 2006 election. [1] Due to the growing unpopularity of the Obama administration, many political observers predicted 2010 would be a tough year for Democrats. As such, polling predicted that DeWine had a narrow edge over Cordray. [2]

Democratic primary

Candidates

Declared

Results

Democratic primary [4]
PartyCandidateVotes%
Democratic Richard Cordray (Incumbent) 558,810 100.00%
Total votes558,810 100.00%

Republican primary

Candidates

Declared

Results

Republican primary [6]
PartyCandidateVotes%
Republican Mike DeWine 687,507 100.00%
Total votes687,507 100.00%

General election

Polling

Poll sourceDates administeredRichard
Cordray (D)
Mike
DeWine (R)
Survey USA September 10–13, 201040%47%
The Columbus Dispatch August 25 – September 3, 201042%44%
Public Policy Polling August 27–29, 201040%44%
Public Policy Polling June 26–27, 201041%44%

Endorsements

Richard Cordray
Newspapers
Organizations
  • Buckeye Firearms Association [10]
  • Canton Police Patrolman's Association [11]
  • Cleveland Police Patrolmen's Association [12]
  • Toledo Police Command Officers Association [13]
  • Toledo Police Patrolmen's Association [14]
  • Troopers for a Safer Ohio [15]
  • Ohio Patrolmen's Benevolent Association [16]
  • NARAL Pro-Choice Ohio
Unions
Mike DeWine
Organizations
  • Ohio Right to Life
  • Ohio Veterans United

Results

In the end, DeWine defeated Cordary by exactly 1.28 percentage points. Cordray held his own in his home county of Franklin and various other suburbs but, his loss can be mainly attributed to his loss of ground in Appalachian Ohio as well as the overwhelmingly Republican national environment. DeWine similarly did well in his home county of Greene and narrowly carried the ancestrally Republican Hamilton County.

2010 Ohio Attorney General election [17]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Republican Mike DeWine 1,821,414 47.54 +9.13%
Democratic Richard Cordray (incumbent)1,772,72846.26-10.46%
Constitution Robert Owens130,0653.39N/A
Libertarian Marc Allan Feldman107,5212.81N/A
Total votes3,729,428 100.00 N/A
Republican gain from Democratic

Footnotes

  1. "Mike DeWine will run for Ohio attorney general". July 22, 2009.
  2. "Results of SurveyUSA Election Poll #17045". September 13, 2010.
  3. "Ohio Attorney General Richard Cordray Has Announced He'll Run for Re-election". February 16, 2010.
  4. "Our Campaigns - OH Attorney General - R Primary Race - May 04, 2010".
  5. "Mike DeWine will run for Ohio attorney general". July 22, 2009.
  6. "Our Campaigns - OH Attorney General - R Primary Race - May 04, 2010".
  7. "Cincy Enquirer Endorses Cordray, Pepper, Boyce | OhioDaily". www.ohiodailyblog.com. Archived from the original on February 6, 2016. Retrieved June 30, 2022.
  8. "Endorsement: Cordray for attorney general | the Columbus Dispatch". www.dispatch.com. Archived from the original on November 15, 2010. Retrieved June 30, 2022.
  9. "The Plain Dealer endorses Richard Cordray for attorney general of Ohio: Editorial". October 6, 2010.
  10. "Buckeye Firearms Association endorses Richard Cordray for Ohio Attorney General | Buckeye Firearms Association".
  11. "Every law enforcement group in State has endorsed Cordray | Glass City Jungle". glasscityjungle.com. Archived from the original on November 26, 2010. Retrieved June 30, 2022.
  12. "Every law enforcement group in State has endorsed Cordray | Glass City Jungle". glasscityjungle.com. Archived from the original on November 26, 2010. Retrieved June 30, 2022.
  13. "Every law enforcement group in State has endorsed Cordray | Glass City Jungle". glasscityjungle.com. Archived from the original on November 26, 2010. Retrieved June 30, 2022.
  14. "Every law enforcement group in State has endorsed Cordray | Glass City Jungle". glasscityjungle.com. Archived from the original on November 26, 2010. Retrieved June 30, 2022.
  15. "Every law enforcement group in State has endorsed Cordray | Glass City Jungle". glasscityjungle.com. Archived from the original on November 26, 2010. Retrieved June 30, 2022.
  16. "Every law enforcement group in State has endorsed Cordray | Glass City Jungle". glasscityjungle.com. Archived from the original on November 26, 2010. Retrieved June 30, 2022.
  17. "ATTORNEY GENERAL: NOVEMBER 2, 2010. Amended Official Results". Ohio Secretary of State .

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