Ohio's 2nd Congressional District
Ohio's 2nd Congressional District in the United States House of Representatives is represented by David Taylor (R).
As of the 2020 Census, Ohio representatives represented an average of 787,257 residents. After the 2010 Census, each member represented 723,031 residents.
Elections
See also: Ohio's 2nd Congressional District election, 2030
There are no official candidates yet for this election.
See also: Ohio's 2nd Congressional District election, 2028
There are no official candidates yet for this election.
See also: Ohio's 2nd Congressional District election, 2026
General election
The primary will occur on May 5, 2026. The general election will occur on November 3, 2026. General election candidates will be added here following the primary.
Republican primary
Republican primary for U.S. House Ohio District 2
Incumbent David Taylor (R) is running in the Republican primary for U.S. House Ohio District 2 on May 5, 2026.
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See also: Ohio's 2nd Congressional District election, 2024
General election
General election for U.S. House Ohio District 2
David Taylor (R) defeated Samantha Meadows (D) and Alexander Schrank (Independent) in the general election for U.S. House Ohio District 2 on November 5, 2024.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | David Taylor (R) | 73.6 | 268,211 |
 | Samantha Meadows (D) | 26.4 | 96,401 | |
| Alexander Schrank (Independent) (Write-in) | 0.0 | 4 | ||
| Total votes: 364,616 | |||
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Democratic primary
Democratic primary for U.S. House Ohio District 2
Samantha Meadows (D) advanced from the Democratic primary for U.S. House Ohio District 2 on March 19, 2024.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Samantha Meadows | 100.0 | 15,022 |
| Total votes: 15,022 | |||
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates
- Joe Wessels (D) (Withdrew, appeared on ballot)
Republican primary
Republican primary for U.S. House Ohio District 2
The following candidates ran in the Republican primary for U.S. House Ohio District 2 on March 19, 2024.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | David Taylor | 25.5 | 26,247 |
 | Tim O'Hara | 22.0 | 22,626 | |
 | Larry Kidd | 19.0 | 19,583 | |
 | Shane Wilkin | 9.6 | 9,932 | |
 | Ron Hood | 8.8 | 9,020 | |
 | Phil Heimlich | 4.9 | 5,080 | |
 | Tom Hwang | 3.1 | 3,202 | |
 | Kim Georgeton | 2.2 | 2,311 | |
 | Charles Tassell | 1.7 | 1,737 | |
 | Niraj Antani | 1.7 | 1,700 | |
 | Derek Myers | 1.5 | 1,565 | |
| Total votes: 103,003 | |||
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates
See also: Ohio's 2nd Congressional District election, 2022
General election
General election for U.S. House Ohio District 2
Incumbent Brad Wenstrup (R) defeated Samantha Meadows (D) in the general election for U.S. House Ohio District 2 on November 8, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Brad Wenstrup (R) | 74.5 | 192,117 |
| | Samantha Meadows (D) | 25.5 | 65,745 | |
| Total votes: 257,862 | |||
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Democratic primary
Democratic primary for U.S. House Ohio District 2
Samantha Meadows (D) defeated Alan Darnowsky (D) in the Democratic primary for U.S. House Ohio District 2 on May 3, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Samantha Meadows | 72.0 | 11,694 |
 | Alan Darnowsky | 28.0 | 4,541 | |
| Total votes: 16,235 | |||
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Republican primary
Republican primary for U.S. House Ohio District 2
Incumbent Brad Wenstrup (R) defeated James Condit Jr. (R) and David Windisch (R) in the Republican primary for U.S. House Ohio District 2 on May 3, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Brad Wenstrup | 77.4 | 56,805 |
 | James Condit Jr. | 12.6 | 9,250 | |
| David Windisch | 10.1 | 7,382 | ||
| Total votes: 73,437 | |||
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See also: Ohio's 2nd Congressional District election, 2020
General election
General election for U.S. House Ohio District 2
Incumbent Brad Wenstrup (R) defeated Jaime Castle (D) and James Condit Jr. (Independent) in the general election for U.S. House Ohio District 2 on November 3, 2020.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Brad Wenstrup (R) | 61.1 | 230,430 |
 | Jaime Castle (D) | 38.9 | 146,781 | |
| | James Condit Jr. (Independent) (Write-in) | 0.0 | 37 | |
| Total votes: 377,248 | |||
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Democratic primary
Democratic primary for U.S. House Ohio District 2
Jaime Castle (D) advanced from the Democratic primary for U.S. House Ohio District 2 on April 28, 2020.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Jaime Castle | 100.0 | 40,956 |
| Total votes: 40,956 | |||
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Republican primary
Republican primary for U.S. House Ohio District 2
Incumbent Brad Wenstrup (R) defeated H. Robert Harris (R) in the Republican primary for U.S. House Ohio District 2 on April 28, 2020.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Brad Wenstrup | 94.2 | 53,674 |
| H. Robert Harris | 5.8 | 3,326 | ||
| Total votes: 57,000 | |||
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See also: United States House of Representatives elections in Ohio, 2018
General election
General election for U.S. House Ohio District 2
Incumbent Brad Wenstrup (R) defeated Jill Schiller (D) and James Condit Jr. (G) in the general election for U.S. House Ohio District 2 on November 6, 2018.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Brad Wenstrup (R) | 57.6 | 166,714 |
 | Jill Schiller (D) | 41.2 | 119,333 | |
| | James Condit Jr. (G) | 1.2 | 3,606 | |
| Other/Write-in votes | 0.0% | 8 | ||
| Total votes: 289,661 (100% precincts reporting) | |||
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates
- Steve Myers (Independent)
Democratic primary
Democratic primary for U.S. House Ohio District 2
Jill Schiller (D) defeated Janet Everhard (D) and William Smith (D) in the Democratic primary for U.S. House Ohio District 2 on May 8, 2018.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Jill Schiller | 54.2 | 18,110 |
 | Janet Everhard | 34.4 | 11,505 | |
 | William Smith | 11.3 | 3,791 | |
| Total votes: 33,406 | |||
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates
- Richard Crosby (D)
- Mickey Edwards (D)
- Russ Hurley (D)
Republican primary
Republican primary for U.S. House Ohio District 2
Incumbent Brad Wenstrup (R) advanced from the Republican primary for U.S. House Ohio District 2 on May 8, 2018.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Brad Wenstrup | 100.0 | 45,508 |
| Total votes: 45,508 | |||
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District map
Redistricting
2025-2026
Ohio was required to redraw its congressional district boundaries ahead of the 2026 elections due to a constitutional amendment that gave shorter expiration dates to maps passed without bipartisan support. On October 31, 2025, the Ohio Redistricting Commission voted unanimously to approve a new congressional map. The map will take effect for the 2026 elections.[9] The legislature had the first opportunity to pass a map with bipartisan support and did not. Had the commission not approved a map by the end of October, the legislature could have passed a map by a simple majority vote.[10]
2020-2021
After the 2020 census, Governor Mike DeWine (R) signed a new congressional map into law on November 20, 2021.[11] The Ohio State Senate voted 24-7 to approve the map on November 16.[12] The Ohio House of Representatives voted 55-36 to approve the map on November 18.[13]
On January 14, 2022, the Ohio Supreme Court struck down the state's enacted congressional map and ordered the Ohio State Legislature to redraw it.[14] On February 9, 2022, legislative leaders said they would not draw a new map, meaning the Ohio Redistricting Commission assumed responsibility for drawing the map.[15]
On September 7, 2023, the Ohio Supreme Court dismissed a lawsuit challenging the state's congressional district boundaries after the petitioners who filed the original lawsuit requested that the court dismiss the case and leave the boundaries in place for the 2024 election.[16]The U.S. Supreme Court had vacated a 2022 state supreme court decision that had overturned the state's 2022 congressional district boundaries[17] Since the congressional district boundaries that the state's redistricting commission adopted in March 2022 and which were used in the 2022 elections did not have support from members of the minority party, they were in effect for only two U.S. House elections with the commission required to enact a new map after the 2024 elections.
On March 2, 2022, the Ohio Redistricting Commission approved a redrawn congressional map in a 5-2 vote along party lines, meaning the map lasted for four years.[18] On March 18, the Ohio Supreme Court ruled that it did not have jurisdiction to overturn the map before the state's primary elections as part of the legal challenge that overturned the initial congressional map.[19] This map took effect for Ohio's 2022 congressional elections.
How does redistricting in Ohio work? In Ohio, the state legislature or a commission may have the opportunity to draw congressional maps. A bipartisan state legislative commission draws state legislative maps. A six-member advisory commission is involved in both the congressional and state legislative redistricting processes.
2020
2024
2010-2011
The Ohio State Legislature approved a new map of the congressional districts based on updated population information from the 2010 census.[20]
District analysis
- See also: The Cook Political Report's Partisan Voter Index
- See also: FiveThirtyEight's elasticity scores
2026
Heading into the 2026 elections, based on results from the 2024 and 2020 presidential elections, the Cook Partisan Voter Index for this district is R+24. This meant that in those two presidential elections, this district's results were 24 percentage points more Republican than the national average. This made Ohio's 2nd the 12th most Republican district nationally.[21]
2024
Heading into the 2024 elections, based on results from the 2020 and 2016 presidential elections, the Cook Partisan Voter Index for this district was R+25. This meant that in those two presidential elections, this district's results were 25 percentage points more Republican than the national average. This made Ohio's 2nd the 14th most Republican district nationally.[22]
Daily Kos calculated what the results of the 2020 presidential election in this district would have been following redistricting. Donald Trump (R) would have defeated Joe Biden (D) 72.0%-26.7%.[23]
2022
Heading into the 2022 elections, based on results from the 2020 and 2016 presidential elections, the Cook Partisan Voter Index for this district was R+25. This meant that in those two presidential elections, this district's results were 25 percentage points more Republican than the national average. This made Ohio's 2nd the 12th most Republican district nationally.[24]
Daily Kos calculated what the results of the 2020 presidential election in this district would have been following redistricting. Joe Biden (D) would have received 26.7% of the vote in this district and Donald Trump (R) would have received 72.0%.[25]
2018
Heading into the 2018 elections, based on results from the 2016 and 2012 presidential elections, the Cook Partisan Voter Index for this district was R+9. This meant that in those two presidential elections, this district's results were 9 percentage points more Republican than the national average. This made Ohio's 2nd Congressional District the 155th most Republican nationally.[26]
FiveThirtyEight's September 2018 elasticity score for states and congressional districts measured "how sensitive it is to changes in the national political environment." This district's elasticity score was 1.08. This means that for every 1 point the national political mood moved toward a party, the district was expected to move 1.08 points toward that party.[27]
See also
- Redistricting in Ohio
- Ohio's 2nd Congressional District election, 2024
- Ohio's 2nd Congressional District election, 2022
- Ohio's 2nd Congressional District election, 2020
- Ohio's 2nd Congressional District election, 2018
External links
Footnotes
- ↑ Ohio Secretary of State, "Ohio 2016 March Primary Candidate List," accessed March 11, 2016
- ↑ Politico, "2012 Election Map, Ohio," accessed November 11, 2012
- ↑ U.S. Congress House Clerk, "Statistics of the Congressional Election of November 2, 2010," accessed March 28, 2013
- ↑ U.S. Congress House Clerk, "Statistics of the Congressional Election of November 4, 2008," accessed March 28, 2013
- ↑ U.S. Congress House Clerk, "Statistics of the Congressional Election of November 7, 2006," accessed March 28, 2013
- ↑ U.S. Congress House Clerk, "Statistics of the Congressional Election of November 2, 2004," accessed March 28, 2013
- ↑ U.S. Congress House Clerk, "Statistics of the Congressional Election of November 5, 2002," accessed March 28, 2013
- ↑ U.S. Congress House Clerk, "Statistics of the Congressional Election of November 7, 2000," accessed March 28, 2013
- ↑ Cite error: Invalid
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- ↑ The Columbus Dispatch, "Gov. DeWine approves congressional map over objections of voting rights groups, Democrats," November 20, 2021
- ↑ The Columbus Dispatch, "Democrats won't support Republican-drawn Ohio congressional districts, limiting map to four years," November 16, 2021
- ↑ WHIO, "Ohio Congressional map heads to Governor; Clark County would be divided," November 19, 2021
- ↑ Cite error: Invalid
<ref>tag; no text was provided for refs namedcnocon - ↑ WKSU, "Legislative leaders send Congressional mapmaking back to Ohio Redistricting Commission," February 9, 2022
- ↑ Neiman, et al v. LaRose, et al," September 5, 2023
- ↑ Supreme Court of the United States, "Order List (6/30/2023)," accessed September 8, 2023
- ↑ Dayton Daily News, "Ohio Redistricting Commission approves new U.S. House map on another party-line vote," March 2, 2022
- ↑ 13ABC, "Ohio Supreme Court makes final judgement on Congressional map challenges," March 18, 2022
- ↑ Washington Times, "Ohio redistricting sets up battles of incumbents," accessed December 21, 2011
- ↑ Cook Political Report, "2025 Cook PVI℠: District Map and List (119th Congress)," accessed July 1, 2025
- ↑ Cook Political Report, "The 2022 Cook Partisan Voting Index (Cook PVI℠)," accessed January 10, 2024
- ↑ Daily Kos, "Daily Kos Elections' 2020 presidential results by congressional district, for new and old districts," accessed September 15, 2022
- ↑ Cook Political Report, "The 2022 Cook Partisan Voting Index (Cook PVI℠)," accessed February 6, 2023
- ↑ Daily Kos, "Daily Kos Elections' 2020 presidential results by congressional district, for new and old districts," accessed September 15, 2022
- ↑ Cook Political Report, "Introducing the 2017 Cook Political Report Partisan Voter Index," April 7, 2017
- ↑ FiveThirtyEight, "Election Update: The Most (And Least) Elastic States And Districts," September 6, 2018
