1996 general · November 5, 1996

1996 Ohio election results

Every race on Ohio's ballot in the 1996 general election: winners, margins and seats that changed party.

Races135

Changed party8

Unopposed7%9 races

Incumbents defeated2

President

D 1

Race	Winner	Won by	Notes
Ohio	Bill Clinton (D)	6.4

D 8 · R 11 · 2 changed party

Race	Winner	Won by	Notes
OH-1	Steve Chabot (R)	10.8
OH-2	Rob Portman (R)	49.4
OH-3	Tony Hall (D)	30.3
OH-4	Michael Oxley (R)	34.5
OH-5	Paul Gillmor (R)	27.1
OH-6	Ted Strickland (D)	2.7	Flipped
OH-7	David Hobson (R)	41.5
OH-8	John A. Boehner (R)	44.2
OH-9	Marcy Kaptur (D)	56.3
OH-10	Dennis J. Kucinich (D)	2.7	Flipped
OH-11	Louis Stokes (D)	66.0
OH-12	John Kasich (R)	30.7
OH-13	Sherrod Brown (D)	25.2
OH-14	Thomas Sawyer (D)	12.6
OH-15	Deborah Pryce (R)	41.6
OH-16	Ralph Regula (R)	40.7
OH-17	James Traficant (D)	81.9
OH-18	Robert Ney (R)	3.9
OH-19	Steven C. LaTourette (R)	13.7

D 3 · R 13 · 1 changed party

Race	Winner	Won by	Notes
SD-2	Bob Latta (R)	9.5
SD-4	Scott R. Nein (R)	36.9
SD-6	Charles F. Horn (R)	41.3
SD-8	Louis Blessing Jr. (R)	37.7
SD-10	Merle Grace Kearns (R)	33.1
SD-12	Bob Cupp (R)	43.4
SD-14	Doug White (R)	38.4
SD-16	Eugene Watts (R)	14.3
SD-18	Robert A. Gardner (R)	3.5	Flipped
SD-20	Jim Carnes (R)	12.2
SD-22	Grace L. Drake (R)	30.7
SD-24	Gary C. Suhadolnik (R)	34.5
SD-26	Karen L. Gillmor (R)	27.1
SD-28	Leigh E. Herington (D)	30.8
SD-30	Greg L. Didonato (D)	36.5
SD-32	Anthony A. Latell Jr. (D)	23.2

D 39 · R 60 · 5 changed party

Results are each source's final count; margins are the winner's lead over the runner-up in points of the vote. Source: Harvard Dataverse / Carl Klarner; MIT Election Data and Science Lab