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Ohio: 2026 Senate special election

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Race in this source version

Listed election day
November 3, 2026
Election type
Special election · Class III
Candidate directory
Not imported
Reported or certified results
Not imported — missing figures are not zero votes

FEC calendar data as of May 18, 2026. GPO class directory published October 9, 2026. A dated source snapshot, not a guarantee of today’s complete ballot or local voting deadlines. The date alone does not create results.

Imported poll for this race

Marist Poll · Ohio · October 20, 2026

Senate poll: registered voters in Ohio

Catalogue contest: Ohio · special election. Response options come from the poll, not an imported candidate directory.

Ohio · registered voters · rounded source percentages
Response optionShare
Sherrod Brown (D)51 %
Jon Husted (R)42 %
Another party’s candidate3 %
Undecided4 %
No response1 %
Sum of published percentages101 %

The publisher’s rounded percentages are retained. They are not adjusted to 100 percent or to D/R only.

Fieldwork
October 15, 2026 – October 18, 2026
Sample: registered voters
n=1,176
Reported sampling error for this population
±3.9 percentage points
Confidence level
Not stated in the imported methodology excerpt
Fieldwork age
2 days
Retrieved

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Source tables and methodology

Question ID: SNVT26R. PDF pages: 1 (methodology), 40 (registered-voter total), 41 (October row). Tables reconciled during import.

  • Marist release ↗Retrieved: SHA-256 4d40bef71d80e0950094c3bcb4a5c2c8589cc5b69952e3404580d2b3e0869696
  • Original tables, PDF ↗Retrieved: SHA-256 d3a5ad98eb9f28b6d7b3ab930ec8761fe744a30565dc8ade62c80f12a03b3373
  • Terms of use ↗Retrieved: SHA-256 1fa0577f93a3a7be1ef89875b3c56680932b44f1de5d31488c0a2e0272e77600

Marist Poll. Midterm Elections in Ohio, October 2026. October 20, 2026. Tables, pages 1, 40–41.

© 2026 Marist Poll / Marist University. Attributed numeric subset; no Marist endorsement.

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