2008 general · November 4, 2008

2008 Ohio election results

Every race on Ohio's ballot in the 2008 general election: winners, margins and seats that changed party.

Races134

Changed party14

Unopposed14%19 races

Incumbents defeated4

President

D 1

Race	Winner	Won by	Notes
Ohio	Barack H. Obama (D)	4.6

D 10 · R 8 · 3 changed party

Race	Winner	Won by	Notes
OH-1	Steve Driehaus (D)	5.0	Flipped
OH-2	Jean Schmidt (R)	7.4
OH-3	Mike Turner (R)	26.6
OH-4	Jim Jordan (R)	30.3
OH-5	Bob Latta (R)	28.2
OH-6	Charles Wilson (D)	29.4
OH-7	Steve Austria (R)	16.4
OH-8	John A. Boehner (R)	35.8
OH-9	Marcy Kaptur (D)	48.7
OH-10	Dennis J. Kucinich (D)	17.9
OH-11	Marcia L. Fudge (D)	70.5
OH-12	Patrick J. Tiberi (R)	12.5
OH-13	Betty Sutton (D)	29.4
OH-14	Steven C. LaTourette (R)	19.6
OH-15	Mary Jo Kilroy (D)	0.8	Flipped
OH-16	John Boccieri (D)	10.7	Flipped
OH-17	Tim Ryan (D)	56.3
OH-18	Zachary Space (D)	19.7

D 3 · R 13

Race	Winner	Won by
SD-2	Mark Wagoner (R)	20.4
SD-4	Gary Cates (R)	22.3
SD-6	Jon Husted (R)	22.9
SD-8	Bill Seitz (R)	19.0
SD-10	Chris Widener (R)	24.2
SD-12	Keith Faber (R)	37.8
SD-14	Tom Niehaus (R)	30.3
SD-16	Jim Hughes (R)	16.1
SD-18	Timothy Grendell (R)	Unopposed
SD-20	Jimmy Stewart (R)	14.4
SD-22	Bob Gibbs (R)	18.1
SD-24	Tom Patton (R)	36.8
SD-26	Karen L. Gillmor (R)	26.1
SD-28	Thomas C. Sawyer (D)	36.7
SD-30	Jason H. Wilson (D)	21.7
SD-32	Capri Cafaro (D)	Unopposed

D 53 · R 46 · 11 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