Ohio US Senate (special) 2026
Election day is November 3, 2026. A special election to fill a vacant Ohio Senate seat.
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About this race
The 2026 United States Senate special election in Ohio will be held on November 3, 2026, to elect a member of the United States Senate to represent the state of Ohio. Republican appointee Jon Husted and Democratic former senator Sherrod Brown are the nominees for their respective parties. The winner will complete the term won in 2022 by JD Vance, who resigned in 2025 to become vice president.
Seeking to keep the seat after his appointment, Husted ran unopposed for the Republican nomination. Brown, who represented Ohio in the Senate for three terms until his defeat in 2024, won the Democratic nomination with virtually no opposition.
This will be the first U.S. Senate special election in Ohio since 1954.