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United States Senate elections in Ohio occur when voters in the U.S. state of Ohio select an individual to represent the state in the United States Senate in either of the state's two seats allotted by the Constitution. Regularly scheduled general elections occur on Election Day, coinciding with various other federal, statewide, and local races.
The table does not include appointments or special elections, though it does include elections that occurred upon a state delegation's admission or readmission to the Senate. The table also includes elections that filled vacancies to unexpired terms that had never been filled due to legislative deadlock or an elected candidate's failure to qualify.
Sherrod Campbell Brown (/ ˈ ʃ ɛr ə d / SHERR-əd; born November 9, 1952) is an American politician who served from 2007 to 2025 as a United States senator from Ohio.A member of the Democratic Party, he was the U.S. representative for Ohio's 13th congressional district from 1993 to 2007 and the 47th secretary of state of Ohio from 1983 to 1991.
Ohio was admitted to the Union on March 1, 1803, and elects U.S. senators to class 1 and class 3. Its current U.S. senators are Republicans Bernie Moreno (serving since 2025) and Jon Husted (serving since 2025). Not counting Vermont and Maine, where independents have caucused with the Democrats since 2001 and 2013, Ohio had the longest current ...
The biggest race on Ohio's Nov. 5 ballot is that between Sen. Sherrod Brown and businessman Bernie Moreno.
The 2026 United States Senate special election in Ohio will be held on November 3, 2026, following the election of Senator JD Vance as vice president of the United States, as he resigned from the Senate on January 10, 2025, and assumed the vice presidency on January 20, 2025.
Moreno captured 50.6% of the state (2,667,385 votes) to Brown's 46% (2,428,433) with 92% of the votes counted, the Associated Press reports.
Moreno's campaign was aided by Republican nominee Donald Trump's 11.2% margin of victory in Ohio, helping secure an outright majority for Senate Republicans for the first time since 2021, with a net gain of 4 seats in the 2024 elections. The victory gave Republicans control of both of Ohio's U.S. Senate seats for the first time since 2007.