Steven Joseph Chabot is an American politician and lawyer who represented Ohio's 1st congressional district in the United States House of Representatives from 1995 to 2009 and again from 2011 to 2023. A member of the Republican Party,he lost his 2022 reelection bid to Democrat Greg Landsman.
Lee Irwin Fisher is an American attorney,politician,and academic. A member of the Democratic Party,he served as the 64th lieutenant governor of Ohio,with Governor Ted Strickland,from 2007 until 2011. He has served as Dean of Cleveland State University College of Law since 2017.
Roxanne Qualls is currently an Executive Sales Vice President with Sibcy Cline Realtors in Cincinnati OH.
David Scott Mann is an American lawyer and politician. A member of the Democratic Party,he served as the United States representative for Ohio's 1st congressional district from 1993 to 1995. He also served as a member of the Cincinnati City Council from 2013 to 2022 and from 1974 to 1992,during which time he served as mayor of Cincinnati from 1980 to 1982 and again in 1991. Mann ran in the 2021 Cincinnati mayoral election,but lost to Hamilton County Clerk of Courts Aftab Pureval.
The Charter Committee is an independent political organization dedicated to good government in Cincinnati,Ohio. Members of this committee are called Charterites. Committee organizers prefer the term Charter Committee rather than Charter Party. Because of Ohio State laws regarding vote percentage cutoffs for official party recognition,the Charter Committee is not an officially-recognized political party in Ohio.
The Cincinnati City Council is the lawmaking body of Cincinnati,Ohio. The nine-member city council is elected at-large in a single election in which each voter chooses nine candidates from the field. The nine top vote-getters win seats on the council for a four-year term.
The mayor of Cincinnati,Ohio,is elected directly in a nonpartisan election separate from the City Council election. Until 2001,the candidate who received the most votes in the City Council election would become mayor. Mayoral candidates in the general election are chosen in an open primary.
Christopher E.C. Smitherman is an American politician and businessman who previously served as the Vice Mayor of Cincinnati,Ohio. An Independent,Smitherman has been a member of the Cincinnati City Council and the Cincinnati Planning Commission. Smitherman is the former president of the Cincinnati NAACP,serving from April 2007 to January 2014. From 2013 until January 2022 –when Smitherman was term limited and a newly elected council was sworn in –Smitherman chaired the Law and Public Safety Committee,giving him authority to oversee all legislative issues related to Police,Fire,Safety Policies,Citizen Complaint Authority,Liquor Licenses,and Public Services.
The Connector is a streetcar system in Cincinnati,Ohio,United States. The system opened to passengers on September 9,2016. The streetcar operates on a 3.6-mile (5.8 km) loop from The Banks,Great American Ball Park,and Smale Riverfront Park through Downtown Cincinnati and north to Findlay Market in the northern edge of the Over-the-Rhine neighborhood. Future extensions have been proposed to the Uptown area,home to the University of Cincinnati,the regional hospitals on Pill Hill,and the Cincinnati Zoo;and to Northern Kentucky.
Alexander Paul George Sittenfeld is an American politician and former member of the Cincinnati City Council. He has been convicted of felony bribery and attempted extortion.
Nannette L. Whaley is an American politician who served as the 56th mayor of Dayton,Ohio from 2014 to 2022. A member of the Democratic Party,she was first elected to the mayorship in November 2013,after she served on the city commission for two terms. Whaley presided over the United States Conference of Mayors from 2021 to 2022. She was the Democratic nominee in the 2022 Ohio gubernatorial election,losing to incumbent Mike DeWine in a landslide.
Cecil L. Thomas is an American politician and former law enforcement officer who served as a member of the Ohio Senate from the 9th district.
The 2018 Ohio gubernatorial election took place on November 6,2018,to elect the next governor of Ohio,concurrently with the election of Ohio's Class I U.S. Senate seat,as well as other elections to the United States Senate in other states,elections to the United States House of Representatives,and various Ohio and local elections. Incumbent Republican Governor John Kasich was term-limited and could not seek re-election for a third consecutive term.
The 2013 Cincinnati mayoral election took place on November 5,2013,to elect the Mayor of Cincinnati,Ohio. The election was officially nonpartisan,with the top two candidates from the September 10 primary advancing to the general election,regardless of party. One of the biggest issues for this election was the proposed streetcar which Cranley opposed and Qualls supported.
The 2017 Cincinnati mayoral election took place on November 7,2017,to elect the Mayor of Cincinnati,Ohio. The election was officially nonpartisan,with the top two candidates from the May 2 primary election advancing to the general election,regardless of party. Incumbent Democratic Mayor John Cranley won re-election to a second term.
Yvette Renee Simpson is an American politician,lawyer,former member of the Cincinnati City Council. She is the former chief executive of Democracy for America.
Aftab Karma Singh Pureval is an American attorney and politician serving as the 70th mayor of Cincinnati,Ohio,since January 4,2022. On January 14,2021,he declared his candidacy for the 2021 Cincinnati mayoral election. On November 2,2021,with 65.8% of the vote,he was elected as mayor making him the first Asian American to be elected as the mayor of Cincinnati. He was previously a candidate for Ohio's 1st congressional district in 2018.
The 2022 Ohio gubernatorial election was held on November 8,2022,to elect the governor of Ohio. Incumbent Republican Governor Mike DeWine won re-election to a second term in a landslide,defeating Democrat nominee Nan Whaley,the former mayor of Dayton,62.4% to 37.4%. DeWine's 25-point victory marked the continuation of a trend in which every incumbent Republican Governor of Ohio since 1978 has won re-election by a double digit margin.
The 2021 Cincinnati mayoral election took place on November 2,2021,to elect the Mayor of Cincinnati,Ohio. The election was officially nonpartisan,with the top two candidates from the primary election on May 4,2021,advancing to the general election,regardless of party. Incumbent Democratic Mayor John Cranley,first elected in 2013,was term-limited and could not seek reelection to a third consecutive term. Democratic Hamilton County clerk of court Aftab Pureval won the election over fellow Democrat and former Congressman David S. Mann.
Gregory John Landsman is an American politician and former educator from Ohio serving as the U.S. representative for Ohio's 1st congressional district since 2023.
