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November 8, 2016
  
2022 →

58.0%
  
37.2%

3,118,567
  
1,996,908

Date
  
8 November 2016

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Winner
  
Rob Portman

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The 2016 United States Senate election in Ohio was held on November 8, 2016, to elect a member of the United States Senate to represent the State of Ohio, concurrently with the 2016 U.S. presidential election, as well as other elections to the United States Senate in other states and elections to the United States House of Representatives and various state and local elections. The close of registration for electors in the primary election was December 16, 2015, and the primary election took place on March 15, 2016. Incumbent Republican U.S. Senator Rob Portman was selected to face former Democratic Governor Ted Strickland. Green Party nominee Joseph DeMare was also on the ballot along with two other independent candidates and one officially declared write-in candidate.

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Initially, the seat was thought by many to be fertile ground for a Democratic pickup, but after more than five million votes were cast, Senator Portman was re-elected to a second term by a landslide, gathering 58.32% of the popular vote. His popular vote total of 3,118,567 is the second largest in the state's history, falling 346,084 votes short of George Voinovich's record of 3,464,651 in his 2004 reelection to his second and final term.

Republican primary

Republican Senator Rob Portman is running for re-election to a second term in office. He considered running for president in 2016, but ruled out running for two offices at the same time, even though Ohio law does allow it. He ultimately declined to run for president. The National Organization for Marriage and other socially conservative groups, unhappy with Portman's public backing for same-sex marriage, have pledged to back a primary challenger. Tea Party groups, who heavily backed Portman in 2010, have said that they are unlikely to do the same if he runs for re-election.

Declared

  • Rob Portman, incumbent Senator.
  • Don Elijah Eckhart, Independent candidate for OH-15 in 2008

    • Disqualified

  • Melissa Strzala, Tea Party activist (failed to gather enough valid signatures)

    • Declined

  • Josh Mandel, Ohio State Treasurer and nominee for the U.S. Senate in 2012
  • Steve Stivers, U.S. Representative

    • Declared

  • Kelli Prather, occupational therapist and community organizer
  • P.G. Sittenfeld, Cincinnati City Councilman
  • Ted Strickland, former Governor of Ohio and former U.S. Representative

    • Withdrawn

  • Bob Hagan, former member of the Ohio State Board of Education and former State Representative

    • Declined

  • Joyce Beatty, U.S. Representative
  • John Boccieri, former U.S. Representative
  • Jennifer Brunner, Judge on the Ohio Tenth District Court of Appeals, former Ohio Secretary of State and candidate for the U.S. Senate in 2010
  • Michael B. Coleman, Mayor of Columbus
  • Richard Cordray, Director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, former Ohio Attorney General and candidate for the U.S. Senate in 2000
  • Connie Pillich, former State Representative and nominee for Ohio State Treasurer in 2014
  • Tim Ryan, U.S. Representative
  • Betty Sutton, Administrator of the Saint Lawrence Seaway Development Corporation and former U.S. Representative
  • Nina Turner, former State Senator and nominee for Ohio Secretary of State in 2014
  • Nan Whaley, Mayor of Dayton

    • Declared

  • Joe DeMare, factory worker and environmentalist

    • Candidates

  • Rob Portman (R), incumbent Senator
  • Ted Strickland (D), former Governor of Ohio and former U.S. Representative
  • Joe DeMare (G), factory worker and environmentalist
  • Scott Rupert (I), truck driver and candidate for the U.S. Senate in 2012
  • Tom Connors (I)
  • James Stahl (Write-in)

    • Debates

    Key:  P  denotes candidate was present at the debate;  N  denotes candidate was not invited;  A  denotes candidate absent but was invited;  O  denotes candidate was out of the race.

    Polling

  • # Poll conducted for Senate Majority PAC, a Democratic-aligned Super PAC.
  • ↑ Poll conducted for the Ohio Democratic Party

    • References

    United States Senate election in Ohio, 2016 Wikipedia
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