2022 United States Senate election in Ohio

2022 United States Senate election in Ohio

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Turnout52.32% Decrease 16.1pp
 
Nominee JD Vance Tim Ryan
Party Republican Democratic
Popular vote 2,192,114 1,939,489
Percentage 53.04% 46.92%

Vance:      50–60%      60–70%      70–80%      80–90%      >90%
Ryan:      50–60%      60–70%      70–80%      80–90%      >90%
Tie:      50%

U.S. senator before election

Rob Portman
Republican

Elected U.S. senator

JD Vance
Republican

The 2022 United States Senate election in Ohio was held on November 8, 2022, to elect a member of the United States Senate to represent the State of Ohio. Republican writer and venture capitalist JD Vance defeated Democratic U.S. Representative Tim Ryan to succeed retiring incumbent Republican Rob Portman.[1]

Vance won by a 6.1 point margin, which was significantly closer than all other concurrently held elections for statewide offices in Ohio won by Republicans, but fairly consistent with polling for the election.[2][3] Despite his defeat, Ryan flipped four counties carried by Portman in re-election in 2016: Summit, Montgomery, Hamilton, and Lorain, the latter of which Trump won in 2020; however, Vance scored wins in Ryan's home county of Trumbull and the industrial-based Mahoning County that contains much of Youngstown. Both counties were represented by Ryan in his congressional district.

Vance was endorsed by Donald Trump and became the only candidate in the seven statewide general election races funded by Trump's PAC to win.[4] Two years later, Vance was elected vice president of the United States as Trump’s running mate.

  1. ^ Gomez, Henry J. (November 8, 2022). "Ohio Senate midterm 2022: JD Vance wins the election". NBC News. NBC Universal. Retrieved November 9, 2022.
  2. ^ "Vance-ism Is Not the Future". National Review. November 9, 2022. Retrieved February 27, 2023.
  3. ^ Silver, Nate (November 9, 2022). "Candidate Quality Mattered". FiveThirtyEight. Retrieved February 27, 2023.
  4. ^ Bender, Michael C. (December 7, 2022). "The key statistics about Trump's endorsement track record this year". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved December 7, 2022.