COLUMBUS, Ohio—Elections officials in a Northwest Ohio county are correcting vote totals from the Nov. 3 general election after discovering that practice votes from a mock election were mistakenly mixed into the real results. Figures from one Wyandot County precinct from an Oct. 28 mock election were inadvertently left in its reporting system, inflating the county’s real – though unofficial – ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) — Prediction markets and polls both predicted Ohio’s blue wave, but analysts said they are not interchangeable. “Those markets tell us something. They are quicker than polls and polling averages,” said Dominik Stecula, an Ohio State University assistant professor of communications and political science. “But in general, I’m deeply skeptical of any […]

Ohio Democratic Governor-elect Dr. Amy Acton joins MS NOW’s Lawrence O’Donnell to discuss what winning the governorship means to her as a “scrappy kid from Youngstown” and how her personal experiences,

Subscribe to the Wake Up, cleveland.com’s free morning newsletter, delivered to your inbox weekdays at 5:30 a.m. Will lame-duck Ohio Republicans limit new governor’s power? Ohio voters resoundingly rejected Republicans in last week’s election. Republican lawmakers are now deciding how to respond. This week, as the legislature resumed, state Rep. Ron Ferguson of Jefferson County proposed a ...

House Republicans are moving to select their next leader after a brutal drubbing at the polls

Ohio voters decisively rejected data center developments during the midterm elections, with more than a dozen communities voting to curb such projects.

Rep.-elect Don Leonard (D-OH) is claiming that his party’s senior representatives are threatening him to drop his stated preconditions for backing House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) in the upcoming speaker elections or face intraparty repercussions. Leonard ousted incumbent Rep. Mike Carey (R-OH) in last week’s midterm elections, flipping a district President Donald Trump won […]

A NewsNation compilation exploring the election results sending shockwaves through both parties. Texas, South Carolina and Ohio offer a revealing look at the candidates, campaign strategies and

Democrats swept into power last week as voters also embraced tougher criminal penalties and restrictions on bail. Why it matters: Six years after the George Floyd protests, Democrats won big without promising a return to sweeping 2020-era reforms. Some even adopted border-security rhetoric associated with Republicans. Democrats gained at least 12 state legislative chambers and won governorships in Georgia, Iowa, Nevada, Ohio and Texas. By the...

Outside groups spent more than $400 million on Ohio’s U.S. Senate race this year, nearly five times what the candidates raised. Toledo Democratic Rep. Marcy Kaptur wants voters to at least know who is paying for it.