Ohio holds midterm Election Day with governor and Senate races on ballot
The gist
Ohio polls opened at 6:30 a.m. and close at 7:30 p.m. on Nov. 3, with results to follow.
Early in-person voting ran nearly four times the 2022 pace.
How it unfolded
- May 5, 2026Ohio held its primary, with polls open 6:30 a.m. to 7:30 p.m. Incumbent Republican Sen. Jon Husted and former Democratic Sen. Sherrod Brown easily won their Senate primaries, and Vivek Ramaswamy won the G.O.P. governor nomination.
- Oct 29, 2026With five days to go, nearly four times as many voters were voting early in person as at the same point in 2022, per the NBC News Decision Desk. 16% of 7.97M registered voters had cast an early ballot.
- Nov 3, 2026Election Day: polls open 6:30 a.m. to 7:30 p.m. Results begin appearing after polls close but are not yet official; Signal Ohio carries Associated Press results for statewide races.