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Latest news on the Ohio Senate, covering the Ohio (OH) Senate race, Sherrod Brown, senators Bernie Moreno (Bernardo Moreno) and Jon Husted, midterms and election results, campaign spending, the state Senate in Columbus, and politics across Cleveland, Cincinnati, Toledo and Akron.

Ohio sends two senators to Washington, each serving a six-year term. Bernie Moreno, a Republican businessman, won his seat in 2024 by defeating three-term Democrat Sherrod Brown. The other seat, left vacant when JD Vance became Vice President, was filled by Governor Mike DeWine's appointment of Jon Husted, a former lieutenant governor, secretary of state and speaker of the Ohio House.

In the midterm elections of 3 November 2026, Brown was projected to win a special election for the rest of Vance's term, defeating Husted and returning to the Senate after his 2024 loss. The race was one of the most expensive Senate contests in the country, with data centres, affordability and health care costs among the issues. Because it was a special election, the seat is next on the ballot in 2028.

Ohio politics is shaped by contrast. Voters in Cleveland, Columbus, Cincinnati, Toledo and Akron, and in rural and industrial communities between them, weigh jobs, manufacturing, farming, technology investment and the cost of living differently. The state has backed Republicans for president in recent cycles, yet personal reputations still matter in Senate races. The 33-member Ohio Senate in Columbus, where Republicans hold a large majority, also makes headlines.

Brown, a former Ohio secretary of state and congressman, first won his Senate seat in 2006 by unseating Republican incumbent Mike DeWine, who later became governor. He served until Moreno beat him in 2024, in what was then the most expensive non-presidential race on record. Husted's long career in Ohio office gave him a route to the Senate before voters had a say.

The NewsNow Ohio Senate feed brings together the latest headlines on Sherrod Brown, Bernie Moreno, Jon Husted, Senate race results, state Senate votes in Columbus and the wider fight for the Senate majority, from reliable sources, so Ohioans and anyone following the Buckeye State can keep up in one place.