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2026 Ohio Senate Elections
Primary	Pending
General	November 3, 2026

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Elections for the Ohio State Senate will take place in 2026. The general election is on November 3, 2026.

The Ohio State Senate is one of 88 state legislative chambers with elections in 2026. There are 99 chambers throughout the country.

Party control

See also: Partisan composition of state senates and State government trifectas

Party		As of November 2024
	Democratic Party	7
	Republican Party	26
	Other	0
	Vacancies	0
Total		33

Candidates

Note: The following list includes official candidates only. Ballotpedia defines official candidates as people who:

• Register with a federal or state campaign finance agency before the candidate filing deadline
• Appear on candidate lists released by government election agencies

This list will be updated after the candidate filing deadline has passed and the official list of candidates becomes available. Please contact us if you notice an official candidate missing from the list or the inclusion of a candidate who withdrew.

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Voting information

See also: Voting in Ohio

Ballotpedia will publish the dates and deadlines related to this election as they are made available.

Competitiveness

This section will be updated with information about the competitiveness of state legislative elections in Ohio. For more information about Ballotpedia's Competitiveness Analysis of state legislative elections, please click here.

Process to become a candidate

See also: Ballot access requirements for political candidates in Ohio

See statutes: Title 35, Chapter 3513, Section 10 of the Ohio Revised Statutes

For all candidates

Filing fees apply to all candidates and are as follows:

Filing fees
Office	Fee
Governor, United States Senator, and statewide offices	$150
United States Representative and state legislators	$85

For partisan candidates

See statutes: Title 35, Chapter 3513, Section 05 of the Ohio Revised Code

A partisan candidate must file a declaration of candidacy and petition and pay the required filing fees. Petition signature requirements are detailed in the table below (for more information regarding petition requirements, see below).

Signature requirements for partisan candidates
Office	Number of signatures required
Governor, United States Senator, and other statewide offices	1,000 qualified electors who are members of the same political party as the candidate
United States Representative and state legislators	50 qualified electors who are members of the same political party as the candidate
**The signature requirement for minor party candidates is one-half the number required of major parties.

For independent candidates

See statutes: Title 35, Chapter 3513, Section 257 of the Ohio Revised Code

An unaffiliated candidate must submit a declaration of candidacy and nominating petition and pay the required filing fees. Petition signature requirements are detailed in the table below (for more information regarding petition requirements, see below).

Signature requirements for independent candidates
Office	Number of signatures required
Governor, United States Senator, and other statewide offices	5,000 qualified electors
United States Representative and state legislators	Varies by size of district; if 5,000 or more electors voted for the office of governor in the most recent election, 1 percent of electors; if less than 5,000 electors voted for said office, 5 percent of the vote or 25, whichever is less

For write-in candidates

A write-in candidate must file a declaration of intent in order to have his or her votes counted. Write-in candidates may participate in either primary or general elections and are subject to the same filing fees as all other candidates.

Qualifications

See also: State legislature candidate requirements by state

Article 2, Section 3 of the Ohio Constitution states: Senators and representatives shall have resided in their respective districts one year next preceding their election, unless they shall have been absent on the public business of the United States, or of this state.

Article 2, Section 5 of the Ohio Constitution states: No person hereafter convicted of an embezzlement of the public funds, shall hold any office in this state; nor shall any person, holding public money for disbursement, or otherwise, have a seat in the General Assembly, until he shall have accounted for, and paid such money into the treasury.

Salaries and per diem

See also: Comparison of state legislative salaries

State legislative salaries, 2024
Salary	Per diem
$71,099/year	No per diem is paid.

When sworn in

See also: When state legislators assume office after a general election

Ohio legislators assume office the first day of January after a general election.

Ohio political history

Trifectas

A state government trifecta is a term that describes single-party government, when one political party holds the governor's office and has majorities in both chambers of the legislature in a state government.

Ohio Party Control: 1992-2024
No Democratic trifectas  •  Twenty-six years of Republican trifectas
Scroll left and right on the table below to view more years.

Year	92	93	94	95	96	97	98	99	00	01	02	03	04	05	06	07	08	09	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24
Governor	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	D	D	D	D	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R
Senate	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R
House	D	D	D	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	D	D	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R

Presidential politics in Ohio

2020

See also: Presidential election, 2020

Presidential election in Ohio, 2020

		Candidate/Running mate	%	Popular votes	Electoral votes
✔		Donald Trump/Mike Pence (R)	53.3	3,154,834	18
		Joe Biden/Kamala D. Harris (D)	45.2	2,679,165	0
		Jo Jorgensen/Spike Cohen (L)	1.1	67,569	0
		Howie Hawkins/Angela Nicole Walker (G)	0.3	18,812	0
		Brian T. Carroll/Amar Patel (Unaffiliated) (Write-in)	0.0	1,450	0
		Jade Simmons/Claudeliah Roze (Unaffiliated) (Write-in)	0.0	212	0
		Tom Hoefling/Andy Prior (Unaffiliated)	0.0	114	0
		Dario David Hunter/Dawn Neptune Adams (Unaffiliated) (Write-in)	0.0	27	0
		Kasey Wells/Rachel Wells (Unaffiliated) (Write-in)	0.0	16	0
		President Boddie/Eric Stoneham (Unaffiliated)	0.0	3	0

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Incumbents are bolded and underlined The results have been certified.

Total votes: 5,922,202

2016

See also: Presidential election, 2016

U.S. presidential election, Ohio, 2016
Party		Candidate	Vote %	Votes	Electoral votes
	Democratic	Hillary Clinton/Tim Kaine	43.6%	2,394,164	0
	Republican	Donald Trump/Mike Pence	51.7%	2,841,005	18
	Libertarian	Gary Johnson/Bill Weld	3.2%	174,498	0
	Green	Jill Stein/Ajamu Baraka	0.8%	46,271	0
	Other	Richard Duncan/Ricky Johnson	0.4%	24,235	0
	-	Other/Write-in	0.3%	16,314	0
Total Votes				5,496,487	18
Election results via: Federal Election Commission

Ohio presidential election results (1900-2024)

• 12 Democratic wins
• 19 Republican wins

Year	1900	1904	1908	1912	1916	1920	1924	1928	1932	1936	1940	1944	1948	1952	1956	1960	1964	1968	1972	1976	1980	1984	1988	1992	1996	2000	2004	2008	2012	2016	2020	2024
Winning Party	R	R	R	D	D	R	R	R	D	D	D	R	D	R	R	R	D	R	R	D	R	R	R	D	D	R	R	D	D	R	R	R

Redistricting following the 2020 census

Due to a 2022 Ohio Supreme Court ruling, the Ohio Redistricting Commission was required to draw new state legislative maps following the 2022 elections.

On September 26, 2023, the Ohio Redistricting Commission voted 6-0 (with one member absent) to adopt new state legislative maps. On October 5, the ACLU of Ohio filed a motion on behalf of the League of Women Voters of Ohio and other plaintiffs asking the Ohio Supreme Court to invalidate the new state legislative maps on the grounds that they violated the state constitution.

On November 27, the Ohio Supreme Court upheld the maps and dismissed the following cases: League of Women Voters of Ohio et al. v. Ohio Redistricting Commission et al., Bennett et al. v. Ohio Redistricting Commission et al., and Ohio Organizing Collaborative et al. v. Ohio Redistricting Commission et al. Chief Justice Sharon Kennedy wrote for the majority: "The bipartisan adoption of the September 2023 plan is a changed circumstance that makes it appropriate to relinquish our continuing jurisdiction over these cases.

The majority was composed of the court's four Republicans.

Justice Jennifer L. Brunner wrote a dissent on behalf of the court's other two Democrats, saying, "It is illusory to suggest that a bipartisan vote to adopt the September 2023 plan constitutes a change in circumstances that somehow diminishes our review power or renders a unanimous redistricting plan constitutionally compliant. There is nothing in Article XI, Section 6 that suggests that bipartisan agreement on a plan renders it presumptively constitutional, and we have flatly rejected that idea."

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Footnotes

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Current members of the Ohio State Senate

Leadership

Senate President:Matt Huffman

Majority Leader:Kirk Schuring

Minority Leader:Nickie Antonio

Senators

District 1

Robert McColley (R)

District 2

Theresa Gavarone (R)

District 3

Michele Reynolds (R)

District 4

George Lang (R)

District 5

Stephen Huffman (R)

District 6

Niraj Antani (R)

District 7

Steve Wilson (R)

District 8

Louis Blessing (R)

District 9

Catherine Ingram (D)

District 10

Robert Hackett (R)

District 11

Paula Hicks-Hudson (D)

District 12

Matt Huffman (R)

District 13

Nathan Manning (R)

District 14

Terry Johnson (R)

District 15

Hearcel Craig (D)

District 16

Stephanie Kunze (R)

District 17

Shane Wilkin (R)

District 18

Jerry Cirino (R)

District 19

Andrew Brenner (R)

District 20

Tim Schaffer (R)

District 21

Kent Smith (D)

District 22

Mark Romanchuk (R)

District 23

Nickie Antonio (D)

District 24

Matt Dolan (R)

District 25

William DeMora (D)

District 26

Bill Reineke (R)

District 27

Kristina Roegner (R)

District 28

Vernon Sykes (D)

District 29

Kirk Schuring (R)

District 30

Brian Chavez (R)

District 31

Al Landis (R)

District 32

Sandra O'Brien (R)

District 33

Alessandro Cutrona (R)

Republican Party (26)

Democratic Party (7)