Ohio · U.S. Senate
OH Class 3 Senate seat (2026 special — unexpired term ending 2029-01-03)
Coverage: this seat is included in the 2026 national listing.
Candidate sources — 10 documents
- Ohio SOS Directive 2026-45 — Form of the Official Ballot for the November 3, 2026 General Election (with write-in list)sha256 d3c0441930796d8f06db94911dbe899885265db9f0185b990e720d27c5b1903b
- Hamilton County November 2026 All Certified Candidates (2-part archived capture)sha256 7bd0547bfa43b1c07d0796caeb33be947561727ddf0201b2edcc2e02efbfdf6d
- Wood County certified candidate list (certified 08/26/2026)sha256 954ad0b2b43c5f832017f6d4bf707a1b127acda8eab96c7c32407d1120b68e99
- Butler County November 3 2026 General Election ballot listsha256 2ff249fa37b33fa68e164383365ac1767462c94a8569e8de646e6997551e2ed6
- Cuyahoga County candidate listsha256 5eaa1507f117fb441da88983f85e9495ae11e86c8c4d2670364773c70eb31df0
- Franklin County 2026 General Candidate Listsha256 eab35eee4330e6f2c3be3ff6d5661b5d0153d618999c6760d5866686c1dae6f4
- Licking County election candidates list (run 8/28/2026)sha256 3c8aceaea0ac6484765d68013423d674954168706830cabaed44ac554292179f
- Summit County election candidate list (run 09/01/26)sha256 c71b9bcafb8ec413ad3b185b549c2ce03e8875ceb52670522833588818fc7e38
- Trumbull County candidate list (CAND 11-3-26)sha256 81a73080ba40630cf13de0f3b4217c88530e5fcb9dd8295bc6f6325a87d35433
- Mahoning County Filings for November 3, 2026 General Election (DocumentCenter 2640)sha256 7f837e74bd12fb74ef4a60adfa3229ca87d17af59fa70d99ef9a7fde4ad13dd1
Absence of a candidate row is never evidence that a race has no candidates.
How the candidate list was checked
Rows read from the official source: 62 · published here: 43 · left out by rule: 19 · held back for review: 0. 62 federal candidate rows observed across 12 official sources; 19 duplicate observations of the same candidacies across overlapping county sources (e.g. Senate rows appear in D-45, Hamilton certified list, and Mahoning filings; D14 in Geauga+Trumbull+Mahoning; D8 on both Butler and Hamilton lists) were collapsed to unique candidacies. Missing districts (12 of 15 emitted after the 2026-09-29 Butler quarantine withdrew the three archive-unsupported OH-10 rows): OH-02 (Clermont Co.) - Clermont BOE publishes issues certifications and May-primary candidate lists only; no November 3, 2026 certified candidate list was published or locatable on voteclermontohio.gov (homepage news items, candidate_tools page, sitemap, root-PDF name patterns, and Wayback CDX all checked; ~10 min honest attempts) and Warren Co. BOE (warrencountyboe.us, the other D2 county) refused TLS handshake from this environment (LibreSSL 'tlsv1 alert protocol version'; Wayback captures are cPanel default pages only). OH-04 (Richland/Allen Cos.) - www.boe.ohio.gov/richland homepage still lists only the May 5, 2026 Primary Election as current with no November candidate list published; Allen Co. lookup.boe.ohio.gov/vtrapp CFIS portal postbacks fail to errorpage.aspx and no Wayback captures exist for either county. US Senate 2026 in Ohio is the unexpired term ending 1/3/2029 (Vance seat); district '00' denotes the statewide office. Ohio has exactly 15 congressional districts; no district 17 exists. Franklin Co. prints party 'N/A' for no-affiliation candidates; Cuyahoga prints bilingual party strings; Summit prints '(Nonparty candidate)' for Dixit. Samuel Ronan carries Franklin's 'Yes' write-in flag; Kathy McKinstry, Thahbia Asad, and Andrey Joseph Martinichin are valid write-ins per their county lists. Senate rows carry senate_class=3 + designation=special per the SOS writ of election and Directive 2026-45 ballot form ('U.S. Senator (Unexpired term ending 1/3/2029)'); the Class 3 seat is held by appointed Senator Husted (Senate official directory, class column 'III').
Hot Races · statewide: Tightly polled: the current poll average is D+3.3, within 5 points. Neither is a forecast of this race. How the list works
Boundaries and sources
County–district classifications come from official block-assignment files, cross-checked against Census representations; render geometry is display-only.
Current officeholder
The current officeholder has not been confirmed in this edition. This does not establish that the seat is vacant.
Upcoming contests
2026-11-03 — general (special)
Anthony Holliman
Declared write-in candidacy
Source: Ohio SOS Directive 2026-45 — Form of the Official Ballot for the November 3, 2026 General Election (with write-in list) (Sec. III.B(ii) write-in list) · sha256 d3c0441930796d8f…
Greg Levy · Other-party candidate
Qualified for the general-election ballot
Source: Ohio SOS Directive 2026-45 — Form of the Official Ballot for the November 3, 2026 General Election (with write-in list) (Sec. VI.H) · sha256 d3c0441930796d8f…
Jon Husted · Republican Party
Qualified for the general-election ballot
Source: Ohio SOS Directive 2026-45 — Form of the Official Ballot for the November 3, 2026 General Election (with write-in list) (Sec. VI.H) · sha256 d3c0441930796d8f…
Sherrod Brown · Democratic Party
Qualified for the general-election ballot
Source: Ohio SOS Directive 2026-45 — Form of the Official Ballot for the November 3, 2026 General Election (with write-in list) (Sec. VI.H) · sha256 d3c0441930796d8f…
Stephen Faris
Declared write-in candidacy
Source: Ohio SOS Directive 2026-45 — Form of the Official Ballot for the November 3, 2026 General Election (with write-in list) (Sec. III.B(ii) write-in list) · sha256 d3c0441930796d8f…
Timothy Telymonde
Declared write-in candidacy
Source: Ohio SOS Directive 2026-45 — Form of the Official Ballot for the November 3, 2026 General Election (with write-in list) (Sec. III.B(ii) write-in list) · sha256 d3c0441930796d8f…
William B. Redpath · Libertarian Party
Qualified for the general-election ballot
Source: Ohio SOS Directive 2026-45 — Form of the Official Ballot for the November 3, 2026 General Election (with write-in list) (Sec. VI.H) · sha256 d3c0441930796d8f…
Polling
D+3.3 — Sherrod Brown (Democrat) against Jon Husted (Republican), averaging each pollster’s latest poll in the 30 days to October 7, 2026: 5 polls from 4 pollsters. Within 5 points: this race is on the Hot Races list as tightly polled.
A poll average describes what recent surveys found. Each poll has its own sampling error, larger for smaller samples. The average is not a forecast and not a probability. Matchup: certified candidate list. 2 polls in the source were left out: party-sponsored or internal polls, other matchups, duplicate versions of the same poll, or polls missing who was surveyed.
All 19 polls
| Pollster | Fieldwork | Sample | Sherrod Brown | Jon Husted | Margin |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| InsiderAdvantage | September 28, 2026 – September 29, 2026 | 1,200 likely voters | 44% | 43% | D+1.0 |
| Marist University | September 24, 2026 – September 27, 2026 | 1,298 registered voters | 51% | 43% | D+8.0 |
| Big Data Poll for Public Polling Project | September 26, 2026 – September 27, 2026 | 680 likely voters | 46.3% | 42.6% | D+3.7 |
| Quantus Insights | September 21, 2026 – September 23, 2026 | 695 likely voters | 47.8% | 47.3% | D+0.5 |
| InsiderAdvantage | September 8, 2026 – September 9, 2026 | 1,200 likely voters | 47.3% | 41.9% | D+5.4 |
| Wedgewood Polls | August 11, 2026 – August 13, 2026 | 800 likely voters | 48% | 44% | D+4.0 |
| Beacon Research/Shaw & Co. Research for Fox News | August 6, 2026 – August 10, 2026 | 1,008 registered voters | 53% | 45% | D+8.0 |
| The New York Times/Siena University | June 15, 2026 – June 28, 2026 | 601 likely voters | 47% | 50% | R+3.0 |
| Fabrizio Ward/Impact Research for AARP | June 14, 2026 – June 16, 2026 | 800 likely voters | 48% | 45% | D+3.0 |
| Beacon Research/Shaw & Co. Research for Fox News | May 28, 2026 – June 1, 2026 | 1,015 registered voters | 53% | 45% | D+8.0 |
| Bowling Green State University/YouGov | April 7, 2026 – April 14, 2026 | 1,000 registered voters | 47% | 50% | R+3.0 |
| Quantus Insights | March 13, 2026 – March 14, 2026 | 925 likely voters | 44% | 46% | R+2.0 |
| OnMessage for Insurance Watchdog Coalition | March 3, 2026 – March 8, 2026 | 600 likely voters | 47% | 45% | D+2.0 |
| EMC Research for Ohio Environmental Council | February 10, 2026 – February 22, 2026 | 1,343 likely voters | 51% | 47% | D+4.0 |
| Emerson College | December 6, 2025 – December 8, 2025 | 850 registered voters | 46.3% | 48.8% | R+2.5 |
| Bowling Green State University/YouGov | October 2, 2025 – October 14, 2025 | 800 registered voters | 49% | 48% | D+1.0 |
| Emerson College | August 18, 2025 – August 19, 2025 | 1,000 registered voters | 43.7% | 49.5% | R+5.8 |
| Bowling Green State University/YouGov | April 18, 2025 – April 24, 2025 | 800 registered voters | 46% | 49% | R+3.0 |
| Bowling Green State University/YouGov | February 14, 2025 – February 21, 2025 | 800 registered voters | 41% | 47% | R+6.0 |
PrivateVoteHub Polls from the VoteHub Polling API, retrieved October 7, 2026, used under CC BY 4.0. How polls are chosen
Economic profile of the state this seat represents
FederalCensus Bureau American Community Survey 2020-2024 (5-year) · survey period 2020-2024 · State of Ohio
- Median household income$71,389± $321
- Poverty rate13.3%± 0.2 ppPopulation for whom poverty status is determined
- Rent burden (30%+ of income on gross rent)45.9%± 0.4 ppRenter-occupied households paying cash rent for which rent burden is computed
- Homeownership rate67.2%± 0.3 ppOccupied housing units
- Bachelor's degree or higher (age 25+)31.5%± 0.2 ppPopulation 25 years and over
Technical definitions (ACS tables)
- Rent burden (30%+ of income on gross rent)
- Renter-occupied households paying cash rent for which rent burden is computed: B25070_001 minus B25070_011 (Not computed)
This seat's geography is exactly coterminous with its state (or the District), so the state estimates from the same edition apply directly.
Structural five-year survey conditions — not current monthly conditions. Uncertainties are 90% margins of error: the published ACS margin for median income; Census-formula approximations (ACS handbook ch. 8) for the rates. “Margin unavailable” means the source supplies no usable margin — never zero.
Campaign finances
2025-2026 two-year period (FEC cycle 2026). Committee totals are the FEC’s own candidate-level aggregation — never summed from committee rows here. Independent spending is reported separately and is never part of a candidate’s receipts. An FEC registration is not proof of ballot qualification; candidacy status comes verbatim from the accepted release.
General election · November 3, 2026
“No matching FEC candidate record” means no filing was located — it is never evidence that a candidacy does not exist, and never a ballot-status claim. Candidates’ coverage dates can differ; each row carries its own.
Current officeholder — Congress.gov context
Congress.gov member context: not available for this seat’s current officeholder (no_authoritative_officeholder_record). The officeholder record above is unchanged.
Counties and this district
County boundaries for this seat are not published in this release. Explore individual counties on the county map.