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The Ohio Republican Party is the Ohio affiliate of the Republican Party.It was founded in Columbus, Ohio, in 1854. [1]It currently holds the bulk of the state's political power, controlling the majority of Ohio's U.S. House seats, one of its two U.S. Senate seats, the governorship, supermajorities in both houses of the state legislature, and a majority on the Ohio Supreme Court.
Political control of Ohio has oscillated between the two major parties. Republicans outnumber Democrats in Ohio government. The governor, Mike DeWine, is a Republican, as are all other non-judicial statewide elected officials: Lieutenant Governor of Ohio Jon A. Husted, Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost, Ohio State Auditor Keith Faber, Ohio Secretary of State Frank LaRose and Ohio State Treasurer ...
Following is a table of United States presidential elections in Ohio, ordered by year. Since its admission to statehood in 1803, Ohio has participated in every U.S. presidential election. For most of its statehood from the Twentieth century on, Ohio has been considered a swing state , being won by either the Democratic or Republican candidates ...
Gerrymandering has produced a legislature in which Republicans hold 68% of the Ohio House’s seats, and 78% of the Ohio Senate’s, in a state that cast 53% of its 2020 presidential vote for ...
The results, Republicans today hold 10 of our state's 15 seats in Congress (67%) and supermajorities in the Ohio House (68%) and Ohio Senate (79%). We all know Ohio is not 67% or more Republican.
No Republican has ever been elected president without winning Ohio. In 2004, Ohio was the tipping point state, as Bush won the state with 51% of the vote, giving him its 20 electoral votes and the margin he needed in the Electoral College for re-election.
A 2012 Washington Post headline read, "Why Ohio is the most important state in the country." That year, President Barack Obama defeated Republican Mitt Romney by almost 3 percentage points.
A former bellwether state, Ohio has not been won by a Democrat at the presidential level since fellow Midwesterner Barack Obama did in 2012 and since then has been trending towards the GOP, with the state nowadays being moderately to strongly Republican and Trump's 2024 statewide victory being the first double-digit win at the presidential ...