2022 United States Senate election in Ohio
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 J. D. Vance defeated Democratic U.S. Representative Tim Ryan to succeed retiring incumbent Republican Rob Portman.
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| Turnout | 51.5% 16.9pp | ||||||||||||||||
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Vance: 50–60% 60–70% 70–80% 80–90% >90% Ryan: 50–60% 60–70% 70–80% 80–90% >90% Tie: 50% | |||||||||||||||||
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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. 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. Overall however, this election marked the worst Republican performance in the Class III seat since 1968 in which the Republicans won the seat, and the best Democratic performance since 1998. It is also the closest election since 1992.
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.