{
 "topic": "senate",
 "site": "electiondata.dev",
 "place": {
  "id": "us-oh",
  "name": "Ohio",
  "level": "us-state",
  "parent": "usa",
  "path": "us/oh",
  "slug": "oh",
  "state": "oh",
  "state_name": "Ohio",
  "state_id": "us-oh"
 },
 "question": "How did Ohio vote for the Senate?",
 "answer": {
  "verdict": "Bernie Moreno (Republican) won by 3.6 points",
  "value": 3.6,
  "unit": " pts",
  "digits": 1,
  "label": "Senate, 2024: winner's margin",
  "lines": [
   "Bernie Moreno (Republican) 50.1%, Sherrod Brown (Democrat) 46.5%, Don Kissick (Libertarian) 3.4%",
   "5,704,620 votes for Senate candidates"
  ]
 },
 "as_of": "2024",
 "as_of_label": "2024",
 "charts": [
  {
   "id": "senate-margin",
   "title": "Every regular Senate election in Ohio since 1976",
   "description": "17 regular elections; Democrats were ahead in 9 and Republicans in 8.",
   "indicator": "Democratic candidate's share of Senate votes minus the Republican's, points (regular elections; special elections are in the table)",
   "subtitle": "Democratic share minus Republican share, in points. Above the line: the Democrat got more votes.",
   "x": {
    "kind": "year"
   },
   "y": {
    "digits": 1,
    "unit": " pts",
    "format": "party-margin"
   },
   "layers": [
    {
     "type": "bars",
     "name": "Margin",
     "base": 0,
     "points": [
      [
       1976,
       2.992,
       "dem"
      ],
      [
       1980,
       40.55,
       "dem"
      ],
      [
       1982,
       15.52,
       "dem"
      ],
      [
       1986,
       24.905,
       "dem"
      ],
      [
       1988,
       13.952,
       "dem"
      ],
      [
       1992,
       8.68,
       "dem"
      ],
      [
       1994,
       -14.209,
       "rep"
      ],
      [
       1998,
       -12.926,
       "rep"
      ],
      [
       2000,
       -24.061,
       "rep"
      ],
      [
       2004,
       -27.704,
       "rep"
      ],
      [
       2006,
       12.349,
       "dem"
      ],
      [
       2010,
       -17.442,
       "rep"
      ],
      [
       2012,
       6.001,
       "dem"
      ],
      [
       2016,
       -20.871,
       "rep"
      ],
      [
       2018,
       6.845,
       "dem"
      ],
      [
       2022,
       -6.112,
       "rep"
      ],
      [
       2024,
       -3.619,
       "rep"
      ]
     ],
     "legend": [
      {
       "label": "Democrat ahead",
       "cls": "dem"
      },
      {
       "label": "Republican ahead",
       "cls": "rep"
      }
     ]
    }
   ]
  }
 ],
 "limits": [
  "Statewide totals say nothing about who voted or why.",
  "Candidates with a party's support under another name (Minnesota's DFL, New York's fusion lines) are counted with that party, as the MIT data's simplified party does; independents stay independents."
 ],
 "method": "Each candidate's votes are summed over every ballot line; blank, over- and under-votes are left out. The margin is the winner's share of the votes minus the runner-up's. A runoff, where held, is the result.",
 "sources": [
  {
   "name": "electiondata.dev senate-results, version 2026-10-25.247421eda6",
   "url": "https://electiondata.dev/",
   "license": "CC0 1.0"
  },
  {
   "name": "MIT Election Data and Science Lab, U.S. Senate statewide 1976-2024",
   "url": "https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/PEJ5QU",
   "license": "CC0 1.0"
  }
 ],
 "check": {
  "races": [
   {
    "year": 1976,
    "special": false,
    "runoff": false,
    "total": 3920613,
    "votes": {
     "Howard M. Metzenbaum": 1941113,
     "Robert Taft Jr.": 1823774,
     "John O'neill": 53657,
     "Donald E. Babcock": 36979,
     "Emma Lila Fundaburk": 33285,
     "Melisa Singler": 31805
    }
   },
   {
    "year": 1980,
    "special": false,
    "runoff": false,
    "total": 4027303,
    "votes": {
     "John Glenn": 2770786,
     "James E. Betts": 1137695,
     "John E. Powers": 76412
    }
   },
   {
    "year": 1982,
    "special": false,
    "runoff": false,
    "total": 3395463,
    "votes": {
     "Howard M. Metzenbaum": 1923767,
     "Paul E. Pfeifer": 1396790,
     "Alicia Merel": 38803,
     "Philip Herzing": 36103
    }
   },
   {
    "year": 1986,
    "special": false,
    "runoff": false,
    "total": 3121189,
    "votes": {
     "John Glenn": 1949208,
     "Thomas N. Kindness": 1171893
    }
   },
   {
    "year": 1988,
    "special": false,
    "runoff": false,
    "total": 4352905,
    "votes": {
     "Howard M. Metzenbaum": 2480038,
     "George V. Voinovich": 1872716
    }
   },
   {
    "year": 1992,
    "special": false,
    "runoff": false,
    "total": 4793953,
    "votes": {
     "John Glenn": 2444419,
     "Michael Dewine": 2028300,
     "Martha Grevatt": 321234
    }
   },
   {
    "year": 1994,
    "special": false,
    "runoff": false,
    "total": 3436884,
    "votes": {
     "Mike Dewine": 1836556,
     "Joel Hyatt": 1348213,
     "Joseph J. Slovenec": 252031
    }
   },
   {
    "year": 1998,
    "special": false,
    "runoff": false,
    "total": 3404351,
    "votes": {
     "George V. Voinovich": 1922087,
     "Mary O. Boyle": 1482054
    }
   },
   {
    "year": 2000,
    "special": false,
    "runoff": false,
    "total": 4448801,
    "votes": {
     "Mike Dewine": 2665512,
     "Ted Celeste": 1595066,
     "John R. Mcalister": 116724,
     "John A. Eastman": 70713
    }
   },
   {
    "year": 2004,
    "special": false,
    "runoff": false,
    "total": 5425823,
    "votes": {
     "George V. Voinovich": 3464356,
     "Eric D. Fingerhut": 1961171
    }
   },
   {
    "year": 2006,
    "special": false,
    "runoff": false,
    "total": 4019236,
    "votes": {
     "Sherrod Brown": 2257369,
     "Mike Dewine": 1761037
    }
   },
   {
    "year": 2010,
    "special": false,
    "runoff": false,
    "total": 3815098,
    "votes": {
     "Rob Portman": 2168742,
     "Lee Fisher": 1503297,
     "Eric W. Deaton": 65856,
     "Michael L. Pryce": 50101,
     "Daniel H. Labotz": 26454
    }
   },
   {
    "year": 2012,
    "special": false,
    "runoff": false,
    "total": 5449018,
    "votes": {
     "Sherrod Brown": 2762690,
     "Josh Mandel": 2435712,
     "Scott A. Rupert": 250616
    }
   },
   {
    "year": 2016,
    "special": false,
    "runoff": false,
    "total": 5374164,
    "votes": {
     "Rob Portman": 3118567,
     "Ted Strickland": 1996908,
     "Tom Connors": 93041,
     "Joseph R. Demare": 88246,
     "Scott Rupert": 77291
    }
   },
   {
    "year": 2018,
    "special": false,
    "runoff": false,
    "total": 4410898,
    "votes": {
     "Sherrod Brown": 2355923,
     "Jim Renacci": 2053963
    }
   },
   {
    "year": 2022,
    "special": false,
    "runoff": false,
    "total": 4133342,
    "votes": {
     "Jd Vance": 2192114,
     "Tim Ryan": 1939489
    }
   },
   {
    "year": 2024,
    "special": false,
    "runoff": false,
    "total": 5704620,
    "votes": {
     "Bernie Moreno": 2857383,
     "Sherrod Brown": 2650949,
     "Don Kissick": 195648
    }
   }
  ],
  "dataset": "senate-results",
  "version": "2026-10-25.247421eda6"
 },
 "table": {
  "title": "Every Senate race since 1976",
  "columns": [
   "Race",
   "Winner",
   "Runner-up",
   "Margin",
   "Votes"
  ],
  "num": [
   3,
   4
  ],
  "rows": [
   [
    "2024",
    "Bernie Moreno (R) 50.1%",
    "Sherrod Brown (D) 46.5%",
    "3.6 pts",
    "5,704,620"
   ],
   [
    "2022",
    "Jd Vance (R) 53.0%",
    "Tim Ryan (D) 46.9%",
    "6.1 pts",
    "4,133,342"
   ],
   [
    "2018",
    "Sherrod Brown (D) 53.4%",
    "Jim Renacci (R) 46.6%",
    "6.8 pts",
    "4,410,898"
   ],
   [
    "2016",
    "Rob Portman (R) 58.0%",
    "Ted Strickland (D) 37.2%",
    "20.9 pts",
    "5,374,164"
   ],
   [
    "2012",
    "Sherrod Brown (D) 50.7%",
    "Josh Mandel (R) 44.7%",
    "6.0 pts",
    "5,449,018"
   ],
   [
    "2010",
    "Rob Portman (R) 56.8%",
    "Lee Fisher (D) 39.4%",
    "17.4 pts",
    "3,815,098"
   ],
   [
    "2006",
    "Sherrod Brown (D) 56.2%",
    "Mike Dewine (R) 43.8%",
    "12.3 pts",
    "4,019,236"
   ],
   [
    "2004",
    "George V. Voinovich (R) 63.8%",
    "Eric D. Fingerhut (D) 36.1%",
    "27.7 pts",
    "5,425,823"
   ],
   [
    "2000",
    "Mike Dewine (R) 59.9%",
    "Ted Celeste (D) 35.9%",
    "24.1 pts",
    "4,448,801"
   ],
   [
    "1998",
    "George V. Voinovich (R) 56.5%",
    "Mary O. Boyle (D) 43.5%",
    "12.9 pts",
    "3,404,351"
   ],
   [
    "1994",
    "Mike Dewine (R) 53.4%",
    "Joel Hyatt (D) 39.2%",
    "14.2 pts",
    "3,436,884"
   ],
   [
    "1992",
    "John Glenn (D) 51.0%",
    "Michael Dewine (R) 42.3%",
    "8.7 pts",
    "4,793,953"
   ],
   [
    "1988",
    "Howard M. Metzenbaum (D) 57.0%",
    "George V. Voinovich (R) 43.0%",
    "14.0 pts",
    "4,352,905"
   ],
   [
    "1986",
    "John Glenn (D) 62.5%",
    "Thomas N. Kindness (R) 37.5%",
    "24.9 pts",
    "3,121,189"
   ],
   [
    "1982",
    "Howard M. Metzenbaum (D) 56.7%",
    "Paul E. Pfeifer (R) 41.1%",
    "15.5 pts",
    "3,395,463"
   ],
   [
    "1980",
    "John Glenn (D) 68.8%",
    "James E. Betts (R) 28.2%",
    "40.6 pts",
    "4,027,303"
   ],
   [
    "1976",
    "Howard M. Metzenbaum (D) 49.5%",
    "Robert Taft Jr. (R) 46.5%",
    "3.0 pts",
    "3,920,613"
   ]
  ]
 },
 "api": {
  "now": "/data/places/us-oh/senate.json",
  "source": "https://api.electiondata.dev/v1/senate-results/download/senate-results.csv",
  "source_label": "Every Senate race, every state, from electiondata.dev (live, no key)"
 },
 "generated_at": "2026-10-26T20:05:12+00:00"
}