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Ohio State Senate elections, 2024
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| Primary | March 19, 2024 |
| General | November 5, 2024 |
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Elections for the Ohio State Senate took place in 2024. The general election was on November 5, 2024. The primary was March 19, 2024. The filing deadline was December 20, 2023.
Following the election, Republicans maintained a 24-9 veto-proof majority.
The Ohio State Senate was one of 85 state legislative chambers with elections in 2024. There are 99 chambers throughout the country.
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| Party | As of November 5, 2024 | After November 6, 2024 | |
| Democratic Party | 7 | 9 | |
| Republican Party | 26 | 24 | |
| Total | 33 | 33 | |
Candidates
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Voting information
- See also: Voting in Ohio
General election race ratings
The table below displays race ratings for each race in this chamber from CNalysis.
Campaign finance
- See also: Campaign finance
The section and tables below contain data from financial reports submitted to state agencies. Districts and elections are grouped in sections of 10. To view data for a district, click on the appropriate bar below to expand it. The data is gathered and made available by Transparency USA.
Incumbents who were not re-elected
Incumbents defeated in general elections
No incumbents lost in general elections. Five incumbents have lost a general election since Ballotpedia began tracking this data in 2010.
Incumbents defeated in primaries
No incumbents lost in primaries. No incumbent has lost a primary since Ballotpedia began gathering data in 2010.
Retiring incumbents
Six incumbents did not file for re-election in 2024.[1] This equaled the average of six retirements per election cycle from 2010 to 2022. Those incumbents were:
Primary election competitiveness
This section contains data on state legislative primary election competitiveness in Ohio. These totals include data from all regularly-scheduled House and Senate elections. For more information about Ballotpedia's competitiveness analysis of state legislative elections, please click here.
Post-filing deadline analysis
The following analysis covers all state legislative districts up for election in Ohio in 2024. Information below was calculated on March 13, 2024, and may differ from information shown in the table above due to candidate replacements and withdrawals after that time.
Twenty-five incumbents facd primary challenges, representing 29% of all incumbents running for re-election. This was the highest number and percentage of contested incumbents since at least 2014.
Of the 25 incumbents in contested primaries, four were Democrats and 21 were Republicans.
See also
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Footnotes
- ↑ Ballotpedia defines an incumbent as retiring if the incumbent did not file for office or filed for office but withdrew, was disqualified, or otherwise left a race in a manner other than losing the primary, primary runoff, or convention. If an incumbent runs as a write-in candidate, Ballotpedia does not consider them to be retiring. If an incumbent runs in the same chamber for a different seat, Ballotpedia does not consider them to be retiring.
- ↑ Ballotpedia defines a seat as open if the incumbent did not file to run for re-election or filed but withdrew and did not appear on any ballot for his or her seat. If the incumbent withdrew from or did not participate in the primary but later chose to seek re-election to his or her seat as a third party or independent candidate, the seat would not be counted as open. If the incumbent retired or ran for a different seat in the same chamber, his or her original seat would be counted as open unless another incumbent from the same chamber filed to run for that seat, in which case it would not be counted as open due to the presence of an incumbent.
- ↑ Ohio Revised Code, "Title 35, Chapter 3513, Section 10," accessed March 4, 2025
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Ohio Revised Code, "Title 35, Chapter 3513, Section 05," accessed March 4, 2025
- ↑ Ohio Revised Code, "Title 35, Chapter 3513, Section 257," accessed March 4, 2025
- ↑ Ohio Revised Code, "Title 35, Chapter 3513, Section 041," accessed March 4, 2025
- ↑ National Conference of State Legislatures, "2024 Legislator Compensation," August 21, 2024
- ↑ Ohio Constitution, "Article 2, Section 02," accessed November 1, 2021
- ↑ Ohio.gov, "A Guidebook for Ohio Legislators," accessed November 1, 2021
- ↑ Cleveland.com, "Ohio is about to hold elections for unconstitutional congressional and legislative districts. Here’s how it happened," October 9, 2022
- ↑ Ohio Capital Journal, "Ohio Redistricting Commission adopts sixth version of Statehouse maps with bipartisan support," September 27, 2023
- ↑ WCBE, "Ohio Redistricting Commission unanimously approves 6th version of House and Senate maps," September 27, 2023
- ↑ WFMJ, "Newly enacted district maps challenged by voting rights groups," October 5, 2023
- ↑ AP, "Ohio Supreme Court dismisses 3 long-running redistricting lawsuits against state legislative maps," November 28, 2023
- ↑ Ohio Capital Journal, "Ohio Supreme Court dismisses redistricting challenge, leaving Statehouse maps in place," November 28, 2023
- ↑ Supreme Court of Ohio, "League of Women Voters v. Ohio Redistricting Commission," accessed September 11, 2024
