United States House of Representatives elections in Ohio, 2024
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November 5, 2024 |
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The U.S. House of Representatives elections in Ohio were on November 5, 2024. Voters elected 15 candidates to serve in the U.S. House from each of the state's 15 U.S. House districts. The primary was March 19, 2024. The filing deadline was December 20, 2023.
Partisan breakdown
| Congressional Partisan Breakdown from Ohio | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Party | U.S. Senate | U.S. House | Total |
| Democratic | 1 | 5 | 6 |
| Republican | 1 | 10 | 11 |
| Independent | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Vacancies | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Total | 2 | 15 | 17 |
Candidates
District 1
General election candidates
- Greg Landsman (Incumbent) (Democratic Party) ✔
- Orlando Sonza (Republican Party)
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Democratic primary candidates
- Greg Landsman (Incumbent) ✔
Republican primary candidates
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District 2
General election candidates
- Samantha Meadows (Democratic Party)
- David Taylor (Republican Party) ✔
- Alexander Schrank (Independent) (Write-in)
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- Niraj Antani
- Kim Georgeton
- Phil Heimlich
- Ron Hood
- Tom Hwang
- Larry Kidd
- Derek Myers
- Tim O'Hara
- Charles Tassell
- David Taylor ✔
- Shane Wilkin
Did not make the ballot:
District 3
General election candidates
- Joyce Beatty (Incumbent) (Democratic Party) ✔
- Michael Young (Republican Party)
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- Joyce Beatty (Incumbent) ✔
Did not make the ballot:
Republican primary candidates
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District 4
General election candidates
- Jim Jordan (Incumbent) (Republican Party) ✔
- Tamie Wilson (Democratic Party)
Democratic primary candidates
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- Jim Jordan (Incumbent) ✔
District 5
General election candidates
- Bob Latta (Incumbent) (Republican Party) ✔
- Keith Mundy (Democratic Party)
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- Bob Latta (Incumbent) ✔
- Robert Owsiak Jr.
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District 6
General election candidates
- Michael Rulli (Incumbent) (Republican Party) ✔
- Michael Kripchak (Democratic Party)
Did not make the ballot:
- William Farms (Independent)
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- Michael Rulli (Incumbent) ✔
- Reggie Stoltzfus
- Rick Tsai
Did not make the ballot:
District 7
General election candidates
- Max Miller (Incumbent) (Republican Party) ✔
- Matthew Diemer (Democratic Party)
- Dennis J. Kucinich (Independent)
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- Max Miller (Incumbent) ✔
District 8
General election candidates
- Warren Davidson (Incumbent) (Republican Party) ✔
- Vanessa Enoch (Democratic Party)
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- Warren Davidson (Incumbent) ✔
- Kay Rogers
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District 9
General election candidates
- Marcy Kaptur (Incumbent) (Democratic Party) ✔
- Derek Merrin (Republican Party)
- Tom Pruss (Libertarian Party)
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- Marcy Kaptur (Incumbent) ✔
Republican primary candidates
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District 10
General election candidates
- Michael Turner (Incumbent) (Republican Party) ✔
- Amy Cox (Democratic Party)
- Michael Harbaugh (Independent)
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- Michael Turner (Incumbent) ✔
District 11
General election candidates
- Shontel Brown (Incumbent) (Democratic Party) ✔
- Alan Rapoport (Republican Party)
- Sean Freeman (Independent)
- Tracy DeForde (Independent) (Write-in)
- Christopher Zelonish (Independent) (Write-in)
Did not make the ballot:
- Tony Evans (Independent)
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- Shontel Brown (Incumbent) ✔
Republican primary candidates
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District 12
General election candidates
- Troy Balderson (Incumbent) (Republican Party) ✔
- Jerrad Christian (Democratic Party)
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- Troy Balderson (Incumbent) ✔
District 13
General election candidates
- Emilia Sykes (Incumbent) (Democratic Party) ✔
- Kevin Coughlin (Republican Party)
Did not make the ballot:
- Liam Walker (George Wallace Party)
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- Emilia Sykes (Incumbent) ✔
Republican primary candidates
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District 14
General election candidates
- David Joyce (Incumbent) (Republican Party) ✔
- Brian Kenderes (Democratic Party)
Did not make the ballot:
- Maria Jukic (Independent)
Democratic primary candidates
Republican primary candidates
- David Joyce (Incumbent) ✔
- Elayne Cross
- Kenneth Polke
Did not make the ballot:
District 15
General election candidates
- Mike Carey (Incumbent) (Republican Party) ✔
- Adam Miller (Democratic Party)
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- Mike Carey (Incumbent) ✔
Voting information
- See also: Voting in Ohio
General election race ratings
- See also: Race rating definitions and methods
Ballotpedia provides race ratings from four outlets: The Cook Political Report, Inside Elections, Sabato's Crystal Ball, and DDHQ/The Hill. Each race rating indicates if one party is perceived to have an advantage in the race and, if so, the degree of advantage:
- Safe and Solid ratings indicate that one party has a clear edge and the race is not competitive.
- Likely ratings indicate that one party has a clear edge, but an upset is possible.
- Lean ratings indicate that one party has a small edge, but the race is competitive.[1]
- Toss-up ratings indicate that neither party has an advantage.
Race ratings are informed by a number of factors, including polling, candidate quality, and election result history in the race's district or state.[2][3][4]
Click the following links to see the race ratings in each of the state's U.S. House districts:
- Ohio's 1st Congressional District
- Ohio's 2nd Congressional District
- Ohio's 3rd Congressional District
- Ohio's 4th Congressional District
- Ohio's 5th Congressional District
- Ohio's 6th Congressional District
- Ohio's 7th Congressional District
- Ohio's 8th Congressional District
- Ohio's 9th Congressional District
- Ohio's 10th Congressional District
- Ohio's 11th Congressional District
- Ohio's 12th Congressional District
- Ohio's 13th Congressional District
- Ohio's 14th Congressional District
- Ohio's 15th Congressional District
Ballot access
The table below details filing requirements for U.S. House candidates in Ohio in the 2024 election cycle. For additional information on candidate ballot access requirements in Ohio, click here.
| Filing requirements for U.S. House candidates, 2024 | ||||||
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| State | Office | Party | Signatures required | Filing fee | Filing deadline | Source |
| Ohio | U.S. House | Major party | 50 | $85.00 | 12/20/2023 | Source |
| Ohio | U.S. House | Minor party | 25 | $85.00 | 3/18/2024 | Source |
| Ohio | U.S. House | Unaffiliated | 1% of the vote cast for governor in the district in the last election | $85.00 | 3/18/2024 | Source |
Election analysis
Click the tabs below to view information about competitiveness, presidential election history, and party control in the state.
- Competitiveness - Information about the competitiveness of 2024 U.S. House elections in the state.
- Presidential elections - Information about presidential elections in the state's U.S. House districts.
- State party control - The partisan makeup of the state's congressional delegation and state government.
This section contains data on U.S. House primary election competitiveness in Ohio.
| Ohio U.S. House competitiveness, 2014-2024 | ||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Office | Districts/ offices |
Seats | Open seats | Candidates | Possible primaries | Contested Democratic primaries | Contested Republican primaries | % of contested primaries | Incumbents in contested primaries | % of incumbents in contested primaries | ||||
| 2024 | 15 | 15 | 2 | 61 | 30 | 6 | 8 | 46.7% | 4 | 28.6% | ||||
| 2022 | 15 | 15 | 1 | 67 | 30 | 8 | 10 | 60.0% | 6 | 42.9% | ||||
| 2020 | 16 | 16 | 0 | 67 | 32 | 11 | 11 | 68.8% | 10 | 62.5% | ||||
| 2018 | 16 | 16 | 2 | 82 | 32 | 12 | 11 | 71.9% | 8 | 57.1% | ||||
| 2016 | 16 | 16 | 1 | 59 | 32 | 5 | 5 | 31.3% | 4 | 26.7% | ||||
| 2014 | 16 | 16 | 0 | 47 | 32 | 6 | 6 | 37.5% | 5 | 31.3% | ||||
Post-filing deadline analysis
The following analysis covers all U.S. House districts up for election in Ohio in 2024. Information below was calculated on 2/12/2024, and may differ from information shown in the table above due to candidate replacements and withdrawals after that time.
Seventy candidates filed to run for Ohio's 15 U.S. House districts, including 28 Democrats and 42 Republicans. That was 4.7 candidates per district, the most since 2018.
In 2022, the first election after the number of Congressional districts in Ohio decreased from 16 to 15 following the 2020 census, 4.5 candidates ran. In 2020, when the state still had 16 Congressional districts, 4.2 candidates filed per district. In 2018, 5.1 candidates filed.
The total number of candidates who ran for the U.S. House in 2024 was also higher than any other year this decade besides 2018, when 82 candidates ran.
Two districts—the 2nd and the 6th—were open, meaning no incumbents filed to run. That was more than in 2022, when only one district was open, and 2020, when none were.
Rep. Bill Johnson (R), the incumbent in the 6th District, resigned on Jan. 21 to assume the presidency of Youngstown State University. A special election to fill Johnson’s seat took place place on June 11.
Rep. Brad Wenstrup (R), the incumbent in the 2nd district, retired from public office. Eleven candidates—one Democrat and 10 Republicans—ran to replace Wenstrup, the most candidates who ran for a district in 2024.
Fourteen primaries—six Democratic and eight Republican—were contested. That was the fewest contested primaries since 2016, when 10 were. Between 2014 and 2022, an average of 17 primaries were contested.
Three incumbents faced primary challengers, a decade-low. The three incumbents—Reps. Bob Latta (5th), Warren Davidson (8th), and David Joyce (14th)—were Republican.
Democratic and Republican candidates filed to run in all districts, meaning none were guaranteed to either party.
| Cook Political Report's Partisan Voter Index for Ohio, 2024 | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| District | Incumbent | Party | PVI |
| Ohio's 1st | Greg Landsman |  Democratic |
D+2 |
| Ohio's 2nd | Brad Wenstrup |  Republican |
R+25 |
| Ohio's 3rd | Joyce Beatty | Democratic |
D+20 |
| Ohio's 4th | Jim Jordan | Republican |
R+20 |
| Ohio's 5th | Bob Latta | Republican |
R+15 |
| Ohio's 6th | Michael Rulli | Republican |
R+16 |
| Ohio's 7th | Max Miller | Republican |
R+7 |
| Ohio's 8th | Warren Davidson | Republican |
R+14 |
| Ohio's 9th | Marcy Kaptur | Democratic |
R+3 |
| Ohio's 10th | Michael Turner | Republican |
R+4 |
| Ohio's 11th | Shontel Brown | Democratic |
D+28 |
| Ohio's 12th | Troy Balderson | Republican |
R+18 |
| Ohio's 13th | Emilia Sykes | Democratic |
R+1 |
| Ohio's 14th | David Joyce | Republican |
R+9 |
| Ohio's 15th | Mike Carey | Republican |
R+6 |
| 2020 presidential results in congressional districts based on 2024 district lines, Ohio[5] | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| District | Joe Biden
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Donald Trump
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| Ohio's 1st | 53.5% | 45.0% | ||
| Ohio's 2nd | 26.7% | 72.0% | ||
| Ohio's 3rd | 71.1% | 27.4% | ||
| Ohio's 4th | 31.4% | 67.1% | ||
| Ohio's 5th | 35.8% | 62.6% | ||
| Ohio's 6th | 35.0% | 63.7% | ||
| Ohio's 7th | 44.8% | 54.0% | ||
| Ohio's 8th | 38.3% | 60.3% | ||
| Ohio's 9th | 47.7% | 50.6% | ||
| Ohio's 10th | 47.4% | 50.9% | ||
| Ohio's 11th | 78.3% | 20.7% | ||
| Ohio's 12th | 33.8% | 64.7% | ||
| Ohio's 13th | 50.7% | 47.9% | ||
| Ohio's 14th | 41.9% | 56.8% | ||
| Ohio's 15th | 45.8% | 52.6% | ||
Congressional delegation
The table below displays the partisan composition of Ohio's congressional delegation as of May 2024.
| Congressional Partisan Breakdown from Ohio | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Party | U.S. Senate | U.S. House | Total |
| Democratic | 1 | 5 | 6 |
| Republican | 1 | 10 | 11 |
| Independent | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Vacancies | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Total | 2 | 15 | 17 |
State executive
The table below displays the officeholders in Ohio's top four state executive offices as of May 2024.
| State executive officials in Ohio, May 2024 | |
|---|---|
| Office | Officeholder |
| Governor | Richard Michael DeWine
|
| Lieutenant Governor | Jon Husted
|
| Secretary of State | Frank LaRose
|
| Attorney General | Dave Yost
|
State legislature
Ohio State Senate
| Party | As of February 2024 | |
|---|---|---|
| Democratic Party | 7 | |
| Republican Party | 26 | |
| Other | 0 | |
| Vacancies | 0 | |
| Total | 33 | |
Ohio House of Representatives
| Party | As of February 2024 | |
|---|---|---|
| Democratic Party | 31 | |
| Republican Party | 66 | |
| Other | 0 | |
| Vacancies | 0 | |
| Total | 99 | |
Trifecta control
The table below shows the state's trifecta status from 1992 until the 2024 election.
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 |
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| 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 |
See also
External links
Footnotes
- ↑ Inside Elections also uses Tilt ratings to indicate an even smaller advantage and greater competitiveness.
- ↑ Amee LaTour, "Email correspondence with Nathan Gonzalez," April 19, 2018
- ↑ Amee LaTour, "Email correspondence with Kyle Kondik," April 19, 2018
- ↑ Amee LaTour, "Email correspondence with Charlie Cook," April 22, 2018
- ↑ Daily Kos, "Daily Kos Elections' presidential results by congressional district for 2020, 2016, and 2012," accessed December 15, 2023
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