United States Senate elections in Ohio occur when voters in theU.S. state ofOhio select an individual to represent the state in theUnited States Senate in either of the state's two seats allotted by theConstitution. Regularly scheduledgeneral elections occur onElection Day, coinciding with various other federal, statewide, and local races.
Each state is allotted two U.S. Senators elected to staggered six-year terms, which were originally selected by thestate legislature. The Senate is divided intothree 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'sadmission to the Union in 1803, the state was assigned a Class 1 seat and a Class 3 seat, first elected in1803. Since the passage of theSeventeenth Amendment in 1913, U.S. Senators areelected 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 in2030, while the Class 3 seat will hold its next election in2026.
| Year | Winner | Runner(s)-up | Others | Ref | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Candidate | Party | Votes | % | Candidate | Party | Votes | % | Votes | % | ||||
| 1916 | Atlee Pomerene* | Democratic | 571,488 | 49.26% | Myron T. Herrick | Republican | 535,391 | 46.15% | 53,212 | 4.59% | [1] | ||
| 1922 | Simeon D. Fess | Republican | 794,159 | 50.90% | Atlee Pomerene* | Democratic | 744,558 | 47.72% | 21,514 | 1.38% | [2] | ||
| 1928 | Simeon D. Fess* | Republican | 1,412,805 | 60.73% | Charles V. Truax | Democratic | 908,952 | 39.07% | 4,448 | 0.19% | [3] | ||
| 1934 | A. Victor Donahey | Democratic | 1,276,206 | 59.95% | Simeon D. Fess* | Republican | 839,068 | 39.41% | 13,569 | 0.64% | [4] | ||
| 1940 | Harold Hitz Burton | Republican | 1,602,498 | 52.37% | John McSweeney | Democratic | 1,457,304 | 47.63% | [5] | ||||
| 1946 (sp) | Kingsley A. Taft | Republican | 1,193,852 | 56.22% | Henry P. Webber | Democratic | 929,584 | 43.78% | [6] | ||||
| 1946 | John W. Bricker | Republican | 1,275,774 | 57.02% | James W. Huffman | Democratic | 947,610 | 42.36% | 13,885 | 0.62% | |||
| 1952 | John W. Bricker* | Republican | 1,878,961 | 54.58% | Michael DiSalle | Democratic | 1,563,330 | 45.42% | [7] | ||||
| 1958 | Stephen M. Young | Democratic | 1,652,211 | 52.46% | John W. Bricker* | Republican | 1,497,199 | 47.54% | [8] | ||||
| 1964 | Stephen M. Young* | Democratic | 1,923,608 | 50.22% | Robert Taft Jr. | Republican | 1,906,781 | 49.78% | [9] | ||||
| 1970 | Robert Taft Jr. | Republican | 1,565,682 | 49.68% | Howard Metzenbaum | Democratic | 1,495,262 | 47.45% | 90,330 | 2.87% | [10] | ||
| 1976 | Howard Metzenbaum | Democratic | 1,941,113 | 49.51% | Robert Taft Jr.* | Republican | 1,823,774 | 46.52% | 155,726 | 3.97% | [11] | ||
| 1982 | Howard Metzenbaum* | Democratic | 1,923,767 | 56.66% | Paul Pfeifer | Republican | 1,396,790 | 41.14% | 74,906 | 2.20% | [12] | ||
| 1988 | Howard Metzenbaum* | Democratic | 2,480,038 | 56.97% | George Voinovich | Republican | 1,872,716 | 43.02% | 151 | 0.00% | [13] | ||
| 1994 | Mike DeWine | Republican | 1,836,556 | 53.44% | Joel Hyatt | Democratic | 1,348,213 | 39.23% | 84 | 0.00% | [14] | ||
| Joe Slovenec | Independent | 252,031 | 7.33% | ||||||||||
| 2000 | Mike DeWine* | Republican | 2,665,512 | 59.92% | Ted Celeste | Democratic | 1,595,066 | 35.85% | 188,223 | 4.23% | [15] | ||
| 2006 | Sherrod Brown | Democratic | 2,257,369 | 56.16% | Mike DeWine* | Republican | 1,761,037 | 43.82% | 830 | 0.02% | [16] | ||
| 2012 | Sherrod Brown* | Democratic | 2,762,766 | 50.70% | Josh Mandel | Republican | 2,435,744 | 44.70% | 250,617 | 4.60% | [17] | ||
| 2018 | Sherrod Brown* | Democratic | 2,358,508 | 53.40% | Jim Renacci | Republican | 2,057,559 | 46.58% | 1,017 | 0.02% | [18] | ||
| 2024 | Bernie Moreno | Republican | 2,857,383 | 50.09% | Sherrod Brown* | Democratic | 2,650,949 | 46.47% | 196,288 | 3.44% | [19] | ||
| Year | Winner | Runner(s)-up | Others | Ref | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Candidate | Party | Votes | % | Candidate | Party | Votes | % | Votes | % | ||||
| 1914 | Warren G. Harding | Republican | 526,115 | 49.16% | Timothy Sylvester Hogan | Democratic | 423,742 | 39.60% | 52,803 | 4.93% | [20] | ||
| Arthur Lovett Garford | Progressive | 67,509 | 6.31% | ||||||||||
| 1920 | Frank B. Willis | Republican | 1,134,953 | 59.10% | William Alexander Julian | Democratic | 782,650 | 40.76% | 2,647 | 0.14% | [21] | ||
| 1926 | Frank B. Willis* | Republican | 711,359 | 53.19% | Atlee Pomerene | Democratic | 623,221 | 46.60% | 2,846 | 0.21% | [22] | ||
| 1928 (sp) | Theodore E. Burton | Republican | 1,429,554 | 62.43% | Graham P. Hunt | Democratic | 856,807 | 37.42% | 3,451 | 0.15% | [3] | ||
| 1930 (sp) | Robert J. Bulkley | Democratic | 1,046,561 | 54.78% | Roscoe C. McCulloch | Republican | 863,944 | 45.22% | [23] | ||||
| 1932 | Robert J. Bulkley* | Democratic | 1,293,175 | 52.53% | Gilbert Bettman | Republican | 1,126,832 | 45.77% | 41,987 | 1.71% | [24] | ||
| 1938 | Robert A. Taft | Republican | 1,255,414 | 53.62% | Robert J. Bulkley* | Democratic | 1,085,792 | 46.38% | [25] | ||||
| 1944 | Robert A. Taft* | Republican | 1,500,609 | 50.30% | William G. Pickrel | Democratic | 1,482,610 | 49.70% | [26] | ||||
| 1950 | Robert A. Taft* | Republican | 1,645,643 | 57.54% | Joseph T. Ferguson | Democratic | 1,214,459 | 42.46% | [27] | ||||
| 1954 (sp) | George H. Bender | Republican | 1,257,874 | 50.06% | Thomas A. Burke* | Democratic | 1,254,904 | 49.94% | [28] | ||||
| 1956 | Frank Lausche | Democratic | 1,864,589 | 52.89% | George H. Bender* | Republican | 1,660,910 | 47.11% | [29] | ||||
| 1962 | Frank Lausche* | Democratic | 1,843,813 | 61.56% | John Marshall Briley | Republican | 1,151,173 | 38.44% | [30] | ||||
| 1968 | William B. Saxbe | Republican | 1,928,964 | 51.53% | John J. Gilligan | Democratic | 1,814,152 | 48.47% | 4 | 0.00% | [31] | ||
| 1974 | John Glenn | Democratic | 1,930,670 | 64.62% | Ralph Perk | Republican | 918,133 | 30.73% | 138,803 | 4.65% | [32] | ||
| 1980 | John Glenn* | Democratic | 2,770,786 | 68.80% | Jim Betts | Republican | 1,137,695 | 28.25% | 118,822 | 2.95% | [33] | ||
| 1986 | John Glenn* | Democratic | 1,949,208 | 62.45% | Tom Kindness | Republican | 1,171,893 | 37.55% | 88 | 0.00% | [34] | ||
| 1992 | John Glenn* | Democratic | 2,444,397 | 50.88% | Mike DeWine | Republican | 2,028,434 | 42.22% | [35] | ||||
| Martha Grevatt | Workers World | 331,125 | 6.89% | ||||||||||
| 1998 | George Voinovich | Republican | 1,922,087 | 56.46% | Mary O. Boyle | Democratic | 1,482,054 | 43.53% | 210 | 0.01% | [36] | ||
| 2004 | George Voinovich* | Republican | 3,464,651 | 63.85% | Eric Fingerhut | Democratic | 1,961,249 | 36.14% | 296 | 0.01% | [37] | ||
| 2010 | Rob Portman | Republican | 2,168,742 | 56.85% | Lee Fisher | Democratic | 1,503,297 | 39.40% | 143,059 | 3.75% | [38] | ||
| 2016 | Rob Portman* | Republican | 3,118,567 | 58.03% | Ted Strickland | Democratic | 1,996,908 | 37.16% | 258,689 | 4.81% | [39] | ||
| 2022 | JD Vance | Republican | 2,192,114 | 53.04% | Tim Ryan | Democratic | 1,939,489 | 46.92% | 1,739 | 0.04% | [40] | ||