List of United States Senate elections in Ohio

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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.

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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

YearWinnerRunner(s)-upOthersRef
CandidatePartyVotes %CandidatePartyVotes %Votes %
1916 Atlee Pomerene Democratic 571,48849.26% Myron T. Herrick Republican 535,39146.15%53,2124.59% [1]
1922 Simeon D. Fess Republican 794,159 Atlee Pomerene Democratic 744,55821,514 [2]
1928 Simeon D. Fess Republican 1,412,805 Charles V. Truax Democratic 908,9524,448 [3]
1934 A. Victor Donahey Democratic 1,276,206 Simeon D. Fess Republican 839,06813,569 [4]
1940 Harold Hitz Burton Republican 1,602,498 John McSweeney Democratic 1,457,304 [5]
1946 (sp) Kingsley A. Taft Republican 1,193,852Henry P. Webber Democratic 929,584 [6]
1946 John W. Bricker Republican 1,275,774 James W. Huffman Democratic 947,61013,885
1952 John W. Bricker Republican 1,878,961 Michael DiSalle Democratic 1,563,330 [7]
1958 Stephen M. Young Democratic 1,652,211 John W. Bricker Republican 1,497,199 [8]
1964 Stephen M. Young Democratic 1,923,608 Robert Taft Jr. Republican 1,906,781 [9]
1970 Robert Taft Jr. Republican 1,565,682 Howard Metzenbaum Democratic 1,495,26290,330 [10]
1976 Howard Metzenbaum Democratic 1,941,113 Robert Taft Jr. Republican 1,823,774155,726 [11]
1982 Howard Metzenbaum Democratic 1,923,76756.66% Paul Pfeifer Republican 1,396,79041.14%74,9062.20% [12]
1988 Howard Metzenbaum Democratic 2,480,03856.97% George Voinovich Republican 1,872,71643.02%1510.00% [13]
1994 Mike DeWine Republican 1,836,55653.44% Joel Hyatt Democratic 1,348,21339.23%840.00% [14]
Joe Slovenec Independent 252,0317.33%
2000 Mike DeWine Republican 2,665,51259.92% Ted Celeste Democratic 1,595,06635.85%188,2234.23% [15]
2006 Sherrod Brown Democratic 2,257,36956.16% Mike DeWine Republican 1,761,03743.82%8300.02% [16]
2012 Sherrod Brown Democratic 2,762,76650.70% Josh Mandel Republican 2,435,74444.70%250,6174.60% [17]
2018 Sherrod Brown Democratic 2,358,50853.40% Jim Renacci Republican 2,057,55946.58%1,0170.02% [18]
County results of Class 1 elections since 2000

Class 3

YearWinnerRunner(s)-upOthersRef
CandidatePartyVotes %CandidatePartyVotes %Votes %
1914 Warren G. Harding Republican 526,11549.16% Timothy Sylvester Hogan Democratic 423,74239.60%52,8034.93% [19]
Arthur Lovett Garford Progressive 67,5096.31%
1920 Frank B. Willis Republican 1,134,953 William Alexander Julian Democratic 782,6502,647 [20]
1926 Frank B. Willis Republican 711,359 Atlee Pomerene Democratic 623,2212,846 [21]
1928 (sp) Theodore E. Burton Republican 1,429,554Graham P. Hunt Democratic 856,8073,451 [3]
1930 (sp) Robert J. Bulkley Democratic 1,046,561 Roscoe C. McCulloch Republican 863,944 [22]
1932 Robert J. Bulkley Democratic 1,293,175 Gilbert Bettman Republican 1,126,83241,987 [23]
1938 Robert A. Taft Republican 1,255,414 Robert J. Bulkley Democratic 1,085,792 [24]
1944 Robert A. Taft Republican 1,500,609 William G. Pickrel Democratic 1,482,610 [25]
1950 Robert A. Taft Republican 1,645,643 Joseph T. Ferguson Democratic 1,214,459 [26]
1954 (sp) George H. Bender Republican 1,257,874 Thomas A. Burke Democratic 1,254,904 [27]
1956 Frank Lausche Democratic 1,864,589 George H. Bender Republican 1,660,910 [28]
1962 Frank Lausche Democratic 1,843,813John Marshall Briley Republican 1,151,173 [29]
1968 William B. Saxbe Republican 1,928,964 John J. Gilligan Democratic 1,814,1524 [30]
1974 John Glenn Democratic 1,930,670 Ralph Perk Republican 918,133138,803 [31]
1980 John Glenn Democratic 2,770,786 Jim Betts Republican 1,137,695118,822 [32]
1986 John Glenn Democratic 1,949,20862.45% Tom Kindness Republican 1,171,89337.55%880.00% [33]
1992 John Glenn Democratic 2,444,39750.88% Mike DeWine Republican 2,028,43442.22% [34]
Martha Grevatt Workers World 331,1256.89%
1998 George Voinovich Republican 1,922,08756.46% Mary O. Boyle Democratic 1,482,05443.53%2100.01% [35]
2004 George Voinovich Republican 3,464,65163.85% Eric Fingerhut Democratic 1,961,24936.14%2960.01% [36]
2010 Rob Portman Republican 2,168,74256.85% Lee Fisher Democratic 1,503,29739.40%143,0593.75% [37]
2016 Rob Portman Republican 3,118,56758.03% Ted Strickland Democratic 1,996,90837.16%258,6894.81% [38]
2022 J. D. Vance Republican 2,192,11453.04% Tim Ryan Democratic 1,939,48946.92%1,7390.04% [39]
County results of Class 3 elections since 2004

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