Ohio 2024 Election Results

Ohio held its general election on November 5, 2024, deciding 115 legislative seats. No chamber changed party control.

Highlights

• Issue 1, the Citizens Not Politicians amendment that would have handed redistricting to a 15-member citizens' commission, went down 54-46 despite an eight-to-one spending edge and a failed court challenge to ballot language, written by the Republican-controlled Ballot Board, that supporters said turned the measure's own voters against it. The maps stay with the Republican-controlled Ohio Redistricting Commission.
• Republicans kept three-fifths supermajorities in both chambers, but Democrats netted two seats in each, the Senate going from 26-7 to 24-9 and the House from 67-32 to 65-34. The Senate pickups, Willis Blackshear Jr. (D) in Dayton's Senate District 6 and Beth Liston (D) in Columbus's Senate District 16, were the first Democratic Senate gains in 40 years. The more consequential Republican result was in Lima's open House District 78, where term-limited Senate President Matt Huffman (R) won unopposed and, as the Vorys summary anticipated, used the seat to take the speakership from Jason Stephens in January.
• The net House gain came from two open seats: Mark Sigrist (D) won Franklin County's House District 10 by about three points, and Erika White (D) won Toledo's House District 41 by 22. No incumbent lost in either chamber. Across the 115 legislative races, none finished inside two points and 14 seats drew a single candidate.

Legislature

• House (99 seats): 32 D, 67 R before the election, 34 D, 65 R after; control stayed with Republicans.
• Senate (33 seats): 7 D, 26 R before the election, 9 D, 24 R after; control stayed with Republicans.

Legislative races

Ballot measures