The 2020 Ohio general elections were held on November 3, 2020 throughout the US state of
Ohio
Ohio ( ) is a U.S. state, state in the Midwestern United States, Midwestern region of the United States. It borders Lake Erie to the north, Pennsylvania to the east, West Virginia to the southeast, Kentucky to the southwest, Indiana to the ...
. The office of the
Ohio Secretary of State
The secretary of state of Ohio is an elected statewide official in the state of Ohio. The Secretary of state (U.S. state government), secretary of state is responsible for overseeing elections in the state; registering business entities (corp ...
oversees the election process, including
voting
Voting is the process of choosing officials or policies by casting a ballot, a document used by people to formally express their preferences. Republics and representative democracies are governments where the population chooses representative ...
and
vote counting
Vote counting is the process of counting votes in an election. It can be done manually or by machines. In the United States, the compilation of election returns and validation of the outcome that forms the basis of the official results is call ...
.
To
vote by mail
Postal voting is voting in an election where ballot papers are distributed to electors (and typically returned) by post, in contrast to electors voting in person at a polling station or electronically via an electronic voting system.
In an el ...
, registered Ohio voters must have requested a ballot by October 31, 2020. As of early October some 2,112,685 voters have requested mail ballots.
Federal offices
President
Trump
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won 53.3% compared to
Biden's 45.2%
Senate
There is no U.S. Senate election in Ohio in 2020. Democratic Senator
Sherrod Brown
Sherrod Campbell Brown ( ; 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 from 1993 to 2007 and the 47t ...
was elected in
2018
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, and incumbent Republican Senator
Rob Portman
Robert Jones Portman (born December 19, 1955) is an American attorney and politician who served as a United States senator from Ohio from 2011 to 2023. A member of the Republican Party, Portman was the 35th director of the Office of Management ...
retired and was replaced by Republican
J.D. Vance in
2022
The year began with another wave in the COVID-19 pandemic, with SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant, Omicron spreading rapidly and becoming the dominant variant of the SARS-CoV-2 virus worldwide. Tracking a decrease in cases and deaths, 2022 saw ...
.
House of Representatives
All of Ohio's 16 seats in the
United States House of Representatives
The United States House of Representatives is a chamber of the Bicameralism, bicameral United States Congress; it is the lower house, with the U.S. Senate being the upper house. Together, the House and Senate have the authority under Artic ...
were up for election in 2020. Ohio's delegation to the United States House of Representatives remained at 12 Republicans and 4 Democrats.
State offices
Board of education
6 of Ohio's 19 Board of Education Seats were up in 2020.
General Assembly
Senate
The 16 even-numbered districts out of 33 seats in the
Ohio Senate
The Ohio Senate is the upper house of the Ohio General Assembly. The State Senate, which meets in the Ohio Statehouse in Columbus, first convened in 1803. Senators are elected for four year terms, staggered every two years such that half of t ...
are up for election in 2020. Fourteen of these seats are held by Republicans and two are held by Democrats. Prior to the election, Republicans hold 24 seats and Democrats hold 9 seats.
House of Representatives
All 99 seats in the
Ohio House of Representatives
The Ohio House of Representatives is the lower house of the Ohio General Assembly, the state legislature of the U.S. state of Ohio; the other house of the bicameral legislature being the Ohio Senate.
The House of Representatives first met in ...
are up for election in 2020. Prior to the election, Republicans hold 61 seats and Democrats hold 38 seats.
Supreme Court
While judicial races in Ohio are technically non-partisan (party affiliations are not listed on the ballot), candidates run in party primaries. Terms are six years, and justices may run for re-election an unlimited number of times before their 70th birthday.
Associate Justice (Term commencing 01/01/2021)
Republican primary
=Candidates
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Sharon Kennedy, incumbent Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of Ohio
=Results
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Democratic primary
=Candidates
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*John O'Donnell,
Cuyahoga County
Cuyahoga County ( or , see ) is a large urban county located in the northeastern part of the U.S. state of Ohio. The county seat and most populous city is Cleveland. As of the 2020 census, its population was 1,264,817, making it the second ...
Court of Common Pleas, General Division judge and candidate for Ohio Supreme Court in
2014
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and
2016
2016 was designated as:
* International Year of Pulses by the sixty-eighth session of the United Nations General Assembly.
* International Year of Global Understanding (IYGU) by the International Council for Science (ICSU), the Internationa ...
=Results
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General election
=Results
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Associate Justice (Term commencing 01/02/2021)
Republican primary
=Candidates
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*Judith French, incumbent Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of Ohio
=Results
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Democratic primary
=Candidates
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Jennifer Brunner
Jennifer Lee Brunner (born February 5, 1957) is an American attorney, politician, and judge. She is currently an associate justice of the Ohio Supreme Court, a position to which she was elected after serving as a judge on the Ohio Tenth Distri ...
, incumbent Judge of the
Ohio Court of Appeals
The Ohio District Courts of Appeals are the intermediate appellate courts of the U.S. state of Ohio. The Ohio Constitution provides for courts of appeals that have jurisdiction to review final appealable orders. There are twelve appellate district ...
for the 10th District and former
Ohio Secretary of State
The secretary of state of Ohio is an elected statewide official in the state of Ohio. The Secretary of state (U.S. state government), secretary of state is responsible for overseeing elections in the state; registering business entities (corp ...
(2007–2011)
=Results
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General election
=Results
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This was the last time that Ohio elected a Democrat for a statewide office.
Court of Appeals
District 1
Term commencing 02/09/2021
District 2
Term commencing 02/09/2021
District 3
Term commencing 02/09/2021
District 4
Term commencing 02/09/2021
Unexpired term ending 02/08/2023
District 5
Term commencing 02/09/2021
District 6
Term commencing 02/09/2021
Term commencing 02/10/2021
District 7
Term commencing 02/09/2021
Term commencing 02/10/2021
District 8
Term commencing 02/09/2021
Term commencing 02/10/2021
Term commencing 02/11/2021
Term commencing 02/12/2021
Unexpired Term ending 01/01/2023
District 9
Term commencing 02/09/2021
District 10
Term commencing 02/09/2021
Term commencing 07/01/2021
District 11
Term commencing 02/09/2021
Term commencing 02/10/2021
District 12
Term commencing 01/01/2021
Term commencing 02/09/2021
See also
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Postal voting in the United States, 2020
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Elections in Ohio
Elections in Ohio are held on a county, state, and federal level. The Republicans are strongest in the rural Northwest, the affluent Cincinnati and Columbus suburbs, and have made gains in App ...
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Political party strength in Ohio
The following table indicates the party of elected officials in the U.S. state of Ohio:
*Governor
*Lieutenant Governor
*Attorney General
* Secretary of State
*State Treasurer
*State Auditor
The table also indicates the historical party compositio ...
References
Further reading
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External links
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League of Women Voters
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Ohio
Ohio ( ) is a U.S. state, state in the Midwestern United States, Midwestern region of the United States. It borders Lake Erie to the north, Pennsylvania to the east, West Virginia to the southeast, Kentucky to the southwest, Indiana to the ...