Ohio Governor
Tue, Nov 3 · Governor Mike DeWine Republican since Jan 2019 (not a candidate in 2026)
Amy Acton 47.9Vivek Ramaswamy 45.7
Average of 11 polls, Sep 22 to Oct 26, from VoteHub · how it’s calculated
Newest poll
1 is a partisan pollNewest · Suffolk University, field dates Oct 21 to Oct 26, released Oct 30, 500 likely votersPoll sponsored by USA TODAY Network OhioPolls updated Oct 31, 2:46 a.m. ET, from VoteHub
Show all 3 candidates on the ballot
- Amy ActonDemocraticwith David Pepper
- Vivek RamaswamyRepublicanwith Robert McColley
- Don KissickLibertarianwith James Mills
Showing major-party nominees, incumbents and candidates with 5%+ in the latest poll or comparable fundraising.
Polls over time
28 polls, through Election Day Nov 3The thick line is the 7-week average, not a forecast. How it’s calculated. All polls. Polls updated Oct 31, 2:46 a.m. ET, from VoteHub.
The polls in this chart (28)
7 polls released in the last 14 days · latest results range from 45 to 50% (D) and 37 to 48% (R) (newest 5 polls on the chart)
28 of the 28 polls for this race, each with both names, plotted on the field end date.
| Pollster | Field dates | Released | Sample | Acton | Ramaswamy |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Suffolk University | Oct 21 to Oct 26 | Oct 30 | 500 likely voters | 48 | 44 |
| Echelon Insights | Oct 16 to Oct 23 | Oct 27 | 508 likely voters | 45 | 47 |
| VoteHub/Verasight | Oct 1 to Oct 20 | Oct 22 | 623 likely voters | 46.2 | 45.4 |
| Beacon Research/Shaw & Co. Research | Oct 15 to Oct 19 | Oct 22 | 1,592 likely voters | 50 | 48 |
| ActiVote | Sep 27 to Oct 19 | Oct 20 | 400 likely voters | 48.6 | 51.4 |
| Marist University | Oct 15 to Oct 18 | Oct 20 | — | 50 | 43 |
| Bowling Green State University/YouGov | Sep 29 to Oct 9 | Oct 16 | 1,000 likely voters | 50 | 44 |
| co/efficient | Oct 5 to Oct 6 | Oct 9 | 925 likely voters | 43 | 45 |
| CNN/SSRS | Sep 29 to Oct 5 | Oct 8 | 760 likely voters | 50 | 42 |
| The New York Times/Siena University | Sep 22 to Oct 1 | Oct 4 | 616 likely voters | 49 | 45 |
| Big Data Poll | Sep 26 to Sep 27 | Sep 29 | 680 likely voters | 46.8 | 47.9 |
| Marist University | Sep 24 to Sep 27 | Sep 29 | 1,298 registered voters | 50 | 44 |
| Suffolk University | Sep 23 to Sep 27 | Sep 29 | 500 likely voters | 50 | 41 |
| Concord Public Opinion Partners | Aug 29 to Aug 31 | Oct 29 | 504 likely voters | 49 | 37 |
| Wedgewood Polls | Aug 11 to Aug 13 | Aug 15 | 800 likely voters | 47 | 46 |
| Beacon Research/Shaw & Co. Research | Aug 6 to Aug 10 | Aug 14 | 1,008 registered voters | 48 | 50 |
| The New York Times/Siena University | Jun 15 to Jun 28 | Jul 1 | 601 likely voters | 47 | 47 |
| Fabrizio Ward/Impact Research | Jun 14 to Jun 16 | Jun 25 | 800 likely voters | 47 | 44 |
| Beacon Research/Shaw & Co. Research | May 28 to Jun 1 | Jun 3 | 1,015 registered voters | 50 | 49 |
| Bowling Green State University/YouGov | Apr 7 to Apr 14 | Apr 27 | 1,000 registered voters | 47 | 48 |
| Echelon Insights | Apr 3 to Apr 9 | Apr 21 | 413 likely voters | 44 | 49 |
| Quantus Insights | Mar 13 to Mar 14 | Apr 27 | 809 likely voters | 45.9 | 44.9 |
| EMC Research | Feb 10 to Feb 22 | Mar 12 | 1,343 likely voters | 53 | 43 |
| Data Targeting | Dec 3 to Dec 8 | Apr 23 | 603 likely voters | 43 | 45 |
| Emerson College | Dec 6 to Dec 8 | Apr 23 | 850 registered voters | 45.9 | 45.2 |
| Bowling Green State University | Oct 2 to Oct 14 | Apr 23 | 800 registered voters | 47 | 50 |
| Hart Research Associates | Sep 19 to Sep 22 | Apr 23 | 800 likely voters | 46 | 45 |
| Emerson College | Aug 18 to Aug 19 | Apr 23 | 1,000 registered voters | 39.4 | 48.7 |
Side by side
Left column: ActonRight column: Ramaswamy
- Age on Election Day
- 60
- Not available
How these are counted
What changed in this race
Newest firstNEW POLLOhio Governor
Ohio Governor: Amy Acton 48, Vivek Ramaswamy 44
Suffolk University, Oct 21 to Oct 26, 500 likely voters
NEW POLLOhio Governor
Ohio Governor: Amy Acton 49, Vivek Ramaswamy 37
Concord Public Opinion Partners, Aug 29 to Aug 31, 504 likely voters
More about this race
Candidates on the ballot
- Amy ActonDemocraticwith David Pepper
- Vivek RamaswamyRepublicanwith Robert McColley
- Don KissickLibertarianwith James Mills
Source: liveresults.ohiosos.gov, dated Oct 29
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History (6 elections for this seat)
- Votes for listed candidates
- 4,134,877
- Election day
- November 8, 2022
Governor, Ohio, 2022, every candidate Candidate Party Votes and share Share RepublicanMike DeWineWon(incumbent) Republican 2,580,42462.4% DemocraticNan Whaley Democratic 1,545,48937.4% Scattered write-ins 8,9640.2% - Votes for listed candidates
- 4,435,462
- Election day
- November 6, 2018
Governor, Ohio, 2018, every candidate Candidate Party Votes and share Share RepublicanMike DeWineWon Republican 2,235,82550.4% DemocraticRichard A. Cordray Democratic 2,070,04646.7% LibertarianTravis M. Irvine Libertarian 80,0551.8% GreenConstance Gadell-Newton Green 49,5361.1% - Votes for listed candidates
- 3,055,913
- Election day
- November 4, 2014
Governor, Ohio, 2014, every candidate Candidate Party Votes and share Share RepublicanJohn R. KasichWon(incumbent) Republican 1,944,84863.6% DemocraticEd Fitzgerald Democratic 1,009,35933.0% OtherAnita Rios Green 101,7063.3% - Votes for listed candidates
- 3,852,469
- Election day
- November 2, 2010
Governor, Ohio, 2010, every candidate Candidate Party Votes and share Share RepublicanJohn R. KasichWon Republican 1,889,18649.0% DemocraticTed Strickland(incumbent) Democratic 1,812,05947.0% LibertarianKen Matesz Libertarian 92,1162.4% GreenDennis Spisak Green 58,4751.5% OtherDavid Sargent Write-in 6330.0% - Votes for listed candidates
- 4,022,681
- Election day
- November 7, 2006
Governor, Ohio, 2006, every candidate Candidate Party Votes and share Share DemocraticTed StricklandWon Democratic 2,435,38460.5% RepublicanKen Blackwell Republican 1,474,28536.6% IndependentBill Peirce Independent 71,4681.8% IndependentBob Fitrakis Independent 40,9651.0% OtherJames Lundeen Write-in 5790.0% - Votes for listed candidates
- 3,228,992
- Election day
- November 5, 2002
Governor, Ohio, 2002, every candidate Candidate Party Votes and share Share RepublicanBob TaftWon Republican 1,865,00757.8% DemocraticTimothy Hagan Democratic 1,236,92438.3% OtherJohn Eastman 126,6863.9% Scattered write-ins 3750.0%
2002 to 2022: Cha, Kuriwaki and Snyder, Candidates in American General Elections, version 3.1 (2006-2023 governor rows), retrieved Oct 28, 2026. Compiled by Cha, Kuriwaki and Snyder (Harvard Dataverse) from official returns; not an official source
Governor races before 2002 are not on file.
Data notes (16)
- Source priority per race: (1) a state election office's own certified results parsed in scripts/data/gov_results.py (NJ Division of Elections PDFs, Virginia Department of Elections, the Civera ElectionStats databases run by CT, VA, VT, CO, NY, NM and SC, the Massachusetts Secretary of the Commonwealth, the NC State Board of Elections archive); (2) the open Cha/Kuriwaki/Snyder 'Candidates in American General Elections' file (Harvard Dataverse, CC0), which copies each state's statement of vote; (3) OpenElections county files and the 2020 Dataverse official-results tables, used only to add named candidates the Dataverse file omitted and to add the write-in count; (4) MEDSL precinct sums, used the same way and only when their Democratic and Republican totals agree with the Dataverse rows to 0.3 percent. Each race's source is listed in web/data/sources/gov-results.json.
- total is the sum of the candidate rows in the file, and pct is votes divided by that total, rounded to one decimal. Blank, void, over and under votes are never in total. Write-in votes are in total as a 'Write-ins' row (writein: true) wherever a source reports them: the official databases, OpenElections, and MEDSL precinct returns. The Dataverse file leaves write-ins out, so MEDSL's write-in sum is added when MEDSL's count for every named candidate equals the Dataverse count exactly (for example AK 2022, 784 write-ins, and AL 2022, 9,432, both matching the state's statement of vote). Each race's source ids are in the race's source and sourceAlso fields and in the gov-results-<st> entry of sources.json.
- 151 races not taken from a state's own results file have no write-in row. Either the state counted no write-ins, or the sources on file leave them out (MEDSL's precinct sums did not match every named candidate exactly, or MEDSL has no file for that year); where they were left out, total is short by the write-ins and pct can run slightly above the state's printed percentage: AK 2006, AK 2010, AK 2014, AL 2006, AL 2010, AL 2014, AL 2018, AR 2006, AR 2014, AR 2018, AR 2022, AZ 2002, AZ 2014, AZ 2022, CA 2014, CA 2018, CA 2022, DE 2008, DE 2012, DE 2016, DE 2020, DE 2024, GA 2014, GA 2018, HI 2006, HI 2010, HI 2014, HI 2018, HI 2022, IA 2006, IA 2010, IA 2014, ID 1998, ID 2006, ID 2010, ID 2022, IL 2010, IL 2014, IL 2018, IN 2004, IN 2008, IN 2012, IN 2016, IN 2020, KS 2006, KS 2010, KS 2014, KS 2018, KS 2022, KY 2007, KY 2011, KY 2015, KY 2019, LA 2007, LA 2011, LA 2015, LA 2019, LA 2023, MD 2006, MD 2014, MD 2022, ME 2006, ME 2010, ME 2014, ME 2022, MI 2006, MI 2010, MI 2014, MI 2022, MN 2006, MN 2010, MN 2014, MO 2020, MS 2007, MS 2011, MS 2015, MS 2019, MS 2023, MT 2000, MT 2004, MT 2008, MT 2012, MT 2016, MT 2020, MT 2024, ND 2008, NE 2006, NE 2010, NE 2014, NE 2018, NE 2022, NH 2008, NH 2010, NH 2012, NH 2014, NH 2024, NM 2010, NV 2006, NV 2010, NV 2014, NV 2018, NV 2022, OH 2014, OH 2018, OK 2006, OK 2010, OK 2014, OK 2018, OK 2022, OR 2006, OR 2010, OR 2014, OR 2018, OR 2022, PA 2002, PA 2006, PA 2010, PA 2014, PA 2018, PA 2022, RI 2006, RI 2010, RI 2014, SC 2006, SD 2006, SD 2010, SD 2014, SD 2018, SD 2022, TX 2014, TX 2018, TX 2022, UT 2008, UT 2010, UT 2012, UT 2020, WA 2008, WA 2012, WA 2016, WI 2006, WI 2010, WI 2014, WI 2018, WV 2008, WV 2011, WV 2012, WV 2016, WV 2020, WV 2024, WY 2002, WY 2006.
- party is D, R, I, L, G, O or N from the party label in the source; party_label keeps the source's wording. The Dataverse file prints short labels (Lbt, Grn, Const, DFL, NPA); those are expanded to Libertarian, Green, Constitution, Democratic-Farmer-Labor and No Party Affiliation. Fusion candidates (NY, CT, SC, and the Democratic-Progressive line in VT) are one candidate with all of their ballot lines added together.
- Names: the Dataverse file stores 'LAST, FIRST MIDDLE (NICKNAME), SUFFIX'; the display name uses the nickname when there is one (Josh Shapiro, Bob Riley) and otherwise the given names. All-caps source names were title-cased by rule and can be wrong for internal capitals (DiGiulio, DeWine). Official lists that print only surnames (NJ 1997; MA tickets from 2010 on) take the full name from the Dataverse row of the same race where the surname and party match, otherwise stay surname-only.
- incumbent is true or false only for races built from the Dataverse file (it carries an incumbency code; code 3, a governor who succeeded to the office, is treated as incumbent). It is null for official-source races and for candidates added from OpenElections or MEDSL.
- Louisiana uses an open primary with a runoff. One race per election is stored: the round that decided it (the October primary when someone won more than 50 percent, otherwise the November runoff, marked runoff:true). Exact dates for those rounds come from the Dataverse/official files where present and are set in the script otherwise (LA_DATES); check them before showing a date.
- Recall elections (Wisconsin June 2012, California September 2021) are not included. Only regular and special general elections for the office are stored; primaries and runoff primaries are not.
- scripts/data/federal_results.py, if it is re-run, rewrites every web/data/results/governor/{ST}.json to []. Run scripts/data/gov_results.py after it, or remove build_governor() from that script.
- OH: No governor general-election result in this file for 3 of 9 expected election years between 1990 and 2025: 1990, 1994, 1998. No open or official bulk source was found and parsed for them yet; they are gaps, not zeroes.
- 2006: built from the Dataverse candidates file only; no second source agreed with it at candidate level, so a minor-party candidate who is missing from that file would be missing here too
- 2010: built from the Dataverse candidates file only; no second source agreed with it at candidate level, so a minor-party candidate who is missing from that file would be missing here too
- 2014: candidates added from OpenElections county files: Anita Rios
- Candidate name is the sitting governor's officials-file spelling for 16 rows (the race's winner, same state, race within the governor's tenure, same surname and a compatible first name). Text encoding and casing are repaired by scripts/data/names.py.
- Governor races earlier than the first year listed are not loaded yet for 50 states (AK from 2006; AL from 2006; AR from 2002; AZ from 2002; CA from 2002; CO from 1990; CT from 1990; DE from 2008; FL from 1990; GA from 2002; HI from 2006; IA from 2002; ID from 1994; IL from 2006; IN from 2004; KS from 2006; KY from 2007; LA from 2007; MA from 1990; MD from 2006; ME from 2006; MI from 2006; MN from 2006; MO from 2008; MS from 2007; MT from 2000; NC from 1992; ND from 2008; NE from 2006; NH from 2006; NJ from 1993; NM from 2002; NV from 2006; NY from 1994; OH from 2002; OK from 2006; OR from 2006; PA from 2002; RI from 2006; SC from 2006; SD from 2006; TN from 2002; TX from 1994; UT from 2008; VA from 1993; VT from 1990; WA from 2008; WI from 2006; WV from 2000; WY from 2002). The sources on file start later; nothing was filled in from memory. Each governor page says so under History.
- 1 duplicate candidate rows merged: a 0-vote placeholder row beside the real row is dropped. governor/CO 2022 Paul Noël Fiorino
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Election Wrld. (2026). Governor of Ohio. https://www.electionwrld.com/oh/governor. Retrieved October 31, 2026.
Sources
Sources: Wikidata SPARQL (governor position holders, party) (CC0-1.0), retrieved Oct 28, 2026, compiled by the Wikidata community (not an official source; to be cross-checked against official governor pages) from official returns, not an official source; 3 U.S.C. 1, 2 U.S.C. 1 and 7: Election Day, first Tuesday after the first Monday in November (US government work, public domain), retrieved Oct 28, 2026; Cha, Kuriwaki and Snyder, Candidates in American General Elections, version 3.1 (2006-2023 governor rows) (CC0 1.0), retrieved Oct 28, 2026, compiled by Cha, Kuriwaki and Snyder (Harvard Dataverse) from official returns, not an official source; Cha, Kuriwaki and Snyder, Candidates in American General Elections, version 4.1 (2024 governor rows) (CC0 1.0), retrieved Oct 28, 2026, compiled by Cha, Kuriwaki and Snyder (Harvard Dataverse) from official returns, not an official source; OpenElections state results repositories (github.com/openelections/openelections-data-<st>) (No license is stated in the OpenElections repositories. OpenElections says its data is free for anyone to use. Written permission requested (docs/PERMISSION-REQUESTS.md). No CC0 claim.), retrieved Oct 28, 2026, compiled by OpenElections volunteers from official returns, not an official source.
DataState data (JSON)Sources: Cha, Kuriwaki and Snyder, Candidates in American General Elections, version 3.1 (2006-2023 governor rows), VoteHub polls (CC BY 4.0), Photo creditsData as of Oct 30, 2026 (candidate list Oct 29, 2026)