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2024 United States Senate election in Ohio

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2024 United States Senate election in Ohio
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The 2024 United States Senate election in Ohio was held on November 5, 2024, to elect a member of the United States Senate to represent the state of Ohio. Incumbent Democratic Senator Sherrod Brown lost re-election to a fourth term, being defeated by Republican nominee Bernie Moreno.[1][2] Along with Bob Casey Jr. in Pennsylvania and Jon Tester in Montana, Brown was one of three incumbent senators to lose re-election in 2024. Primary elections took place on March 19, 2024.[3] This was the first U.S. Senate race in Ohio where the incumbent was defeated since 2006, when Brown was first elected to the Senate.

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This race was one of two 2024 U.S. Senate races in which Democratic senators sought re-election in states where Republican Donald Trump won in both the 2016 and 2020 presidential elections (the other being Montana). This was the most expensive U.S. Senate election of 2024, with a record-breaking 483.4 million dollars spent in total.[4][5] Brown's reelection was considered essential for Democrats' chances to retain the Senate majority in 2024.[6]

Moreno's campaign was aided by Republican nominee Donald Trump's 11.21% margin of victory in Ohio, helping secure an outright majority for Senate Republicans for the first time since 2021, with a net gain of four seats in the 2024 elections. Although Brown outperformed Kamala Harris in the concurrent presidential election, receiving around 7.6% more of the vote, it was still not enough to win. Moreno defeated Brown by 3.62 percentage points, which was a slightly larger margin than expected. This was Brown's second general election loss of his political career. Brown received about 120,000 more votes than Harris, while Moreno received about 320,000 fewer votes than Trump.

Moreno's swearing in on January 3, 2025 gave Republicans control of both of Ohio's U.S. Senate seats for the first time since 2007. As Ohio's other U.S. senator, JD Vance, was elected vice president of the United States, Moreno became Ohio's senior senator upon Vance's resignation.

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Background

After voting for Barack Obama in both the 2008 and 2012 presidential elections, Ohio has trended increasingly Republican in subsequent years and is now considered a red state. Republicans hold all statewide offices in addition to the majority in both chambers of the state legislature. Republicans also have a majority of the state's US House delegation.

Donald Trump won Ohio in 2016 and again in 2020 by 8 points.

Republican JD Vance defeated Democrat Tim Ryan in the 2022 U.S. Senate election by slightly over 6 points.[7][8]

Brown was first elected in 2006, defeating Senator Mike DeWine (who was subsequently elected governor), and won reelection in 2012 and 2018. If he had been reelected he would have been only the second Ohioan to be elected to the United States Senate four times, the other being John Glenn.[9][10][11][12] Brown led most polls for most of the year.[13]

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Democratic primary

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Sherrod Brown vs. Tim Ryan vs. Shontel Brown

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Republican primary

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  • Doug Stuart, retired businessman[40][41]

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Matt Dolan

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Frank LaRose

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Bernie Moreno

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Results by county:
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  •   40–50%
  •   50–60%
  •   60–70%
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Vote share of Bernie Moreno (left), Matt Dolan (center), Frank LaRose (right) by counties
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Bernie Moreno (R)

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Sherrod Brown vs. Matt Dolan

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Sherrod Brown vs. Frank LaRose

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Sherrod Brown vs. Joel Mutchler

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Sherrod Brown vs. generic Republican

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Moreno won nine of 15 congressional districts, with the remaining six going to Brown, including one that elected a Republican.[170]

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  1. Key:
    A – all adults
    RV – registered voters
    LV – likely voters
    V – unclear
  2. A subset of poll respondents who said they planned to vote in the Democratic primary
  3. $9,000,000 of this total was self-funded by Dolan.
  4. $4,200,000 of this total was self-funded by Moreno.
  5. $250,000 of this total was self-funded by LaRose.
  6. Joel Mutchler with 1%
  7. "Someone else" with 29%; Joel Mutchler with 3%
  8. Joel Mutchler with 0%
  9. A subset of poll respondents who said they planned to vote in the Republican primary
  10. $4,500,838 of this total was self-funded by Moreno.
  11. Calculated by taking the difference of 100% and all other candidates combined.
  12. "Blank/Null/Won't vote" with 2%; "Other" with 1%
  13. With voters who lean towards a given candidate
  14. Kissick (L) with 3%;"Other" with <1%
  15. Kissick (L) with 2%; "Other" with 1%
  16. "Did not vote for Senator" with 1%
  17. "Wouldn't Vote" with 1%
  18. "Wouldn't Vote" with 1%
  19. "Another party's candidate" with 1%
  20. "Won't Vote" with 5%

Partisan clients

  1. Poll sponsored by the Ohio Northern University Institute for Civics and Public Policy
  2. Poll sponsored by Moreno's campaign
  3. Poll sponsored by Buckeye Values PAC, which supports Moreno
  4. Poll sponsored by Leadership for Ohio Fund, which supports LaRose
  5. Poll sponsored by The Hill
  6. Poll sponsored by Senate Opportunity Fund, a super PAC that primarily supports Republican candidates in U.S. Senate races
  7. Poll sponsored by the Napolitan Institute
  8. Poll sponsored by On Point Politics and Red Eagle Politics, the latter of which supports Republican candidates
  9. Poll sponsored by NumbersUSA, a conservative group
  10. Poll sponsored by AARP
  11. Poll sponsored by American Fuel and Petrochemical Manufacturers, a group that supports Republicans.
  12. Poll sponsored by WGW-TV
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