Ohio's 6th Congressional District election, 2024

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Ohio's 6th Congressional District
	Democratic primary; Republican primary; General election
Election details
	Filing deadline: December 20, 2023
	Primary: March 19, 2024; General: November 5, 2024
How to vote
	Poll times: 6:30 a.m. to 7:30 p.m.; Voting in Ohio
Race ratings
	Cook Political Report: Solid Republican; DDHQ and The Hill: Safe Republican; Inside Elections: Solid Republican; Sabato's Crystal Ball: Safe Republican
Ballotpedia analysis
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Ohio 2024 elections

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This page contains information on the regular 2024 election. For information on the special 2024 election, see this article.

Michael Rulli (R) defeated Michael Kripchak (D) in the general election for Ohio's 6th Congressional District on November 5, 2024.^[1]^[2]

All U.S. House districts, including the 6th Congressional District of Ohio, held elections in 2024. The general election was November 5, 2024. The primary was March 19, 2024. The filing deadline was December 20, 2023. The outcome of this race affected the partisan balance of the U.S. House of Representatives in the 119th Congress. All 435 House districts were up for election.

At the time of the election, Republicans held a 220-212 majority with three vacancies.^[3] As a result of the election, Republicans retained control of the U.S. House, winning 220 seats to Democrats' 215.^[4] To read more about the 2024 U.S. House elections, click here.

In the 2022 election in this district, the Republican candidate won 67.7%-32.3%. 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) 63.7%-35.0%.^[5]

For more information about the primaries in this election, click on the links below:

On November 21, 2023, Bill Johnson, the incumbent, announced that he would not seek re-election to Ohio's 6th Congressional District.^[6] He resigned his seat on January 21, 2024. Michael Rulli (R) was elected to the seat in a special election on June 11, 2024.

Candidates and election results

General election

General election for U.S. House Ohio District 6

Incumbent Michael Rulli defeated Michael Kripchak in the general election for U.S. House Ohio District 6 on November 5, 2024.

	Candidate	%	Votes
✔	Michael Rulli (R)	66.7	245,860
	Michael Kripchak (D)	33.3	122,515

	Incumbents are bolded and underlined. The results have been certified. Source	Total votes: 368,375
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates

William Farms (Independent)

Democratic primary election

Democratic primary for U.S. House Ohio District 6

Michael Kripchak defeated Rylan Finzer in the Democratic primary for U.S. House Ohio District 6 on March 19, 2024.

	Candidate	%	Votes
✔	Michael Kripchak	66.3	20,632
	Rylan Finzer	33.7	10,480

	There were no incumbents in this race. The results have been certified. Source	Total votes: 31,112
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates

Lou Lyras (D)

Republican primary election

Republican primary for U.S. House Ohio District 6

Incumbent Michael Rulli defeated Reggie Stoltzfus and Rick Tsai in the Republican primary for U.S. House Ohio District 6 on March 19, 2024.

	Candidate	%	Votes
✔	Michael Rulli	49.5	43,857
	Reggie Stoltzfus	40.7	36,033
	Rick Tsai	9.8	8,641

	Incumbents are bolded and underlined. The results have been certified. Source	Total votes: 88,531
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates

Kurt Hilderbrand (R)

Candidate profiles

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Michael Kripchak

Party: Democratic Party

Incumbent: No

Political Office: None

Submitted Biography: "Trained by the military to always be above politics, I am now choosing to run because it feels like our Republic is on the brink of collapse or breaking bad. Looking through history, wealth gaps destroy societies. The US currently has the largest wealth gap in the last century. Thus, my main goal is to close this gap and Restore the American Dream."

Key Messages

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Our industrial might is what made America the greatest country on Earth, our grandfathers used it to beat the Nazis and our fathers used it to beat the Communists. Weak and impotent leadership in Columbus and DC allowed our great state's industry to be gutted and sold off to China. It is time we bring high-pay, high-skill, high-dignity industrial jobs strengthened by Ohio Union Labor to restore the beating heart of America to its former glory.

American values are learned in American schools by American teachers. Education shouldn't be based on a lottery of where you live — all American children deserve the best opportunities to learn to become American adults. Our teachers deserve all the resources they need to make this happen — they have the will, we need to give them the way. Restoring our District to greatness starts in our communities. Education builds these communities both inside and outside the school. Well-funded schools and well-funded teachers will ensure our children and our District will prosper well into the future.

Our farmers deserve a Farm Bill that serves them. I will direct funding into agricultural innovation and sustainable farming practices which will lower input costs and be freely available to our farmers to free them from the yoke of BigAg. Rural broadband infrastructure is a necessity and a basic undertaking for our farmers to reap the benefits of modern agricultural technology. Its rollout will happen — I will have it no other way. You deserve to own the seeds you grow, fix the equipment you use, and own the land you cultivate free from worry of losing it to forces outside your control.

This information was current as of the candidate's run for U.S. House Ohio District 6 in 2024.

Voting information

See also: Voting in Ohio

Election information in Ohio: Nov. 5, 2024, election.

What was the voter registration deadline?

In-person: Oct. 7, 2024
By mail: Postmarked by Oct. 7, 2024
Online: Oct. 7, 2024

Was absentee/mail-in voting available to all voters?

Yes

What was the absentee/mail-in ballot request deadline?

In-person: Oct. 29, 2024
By mail: Received by Oct. 29, 2024
Online: Oct. 29, 2024

What was the absentee/mail-in ballot return deadline?

In-person: Nov. 5, 2024
By mail: Postmarked by Nov. 4, 2024

Was early voting available to all voters?

Yes

What were the early voting start and end dates?

Oct. 8, 2024 to Nov. 3, 2024

Were all voters required to present ID at the polls? If so, was a photo or non-photo ID required?

N/A

When were polls open on Election Day?

6:30 a.m. - 7:30 p.m. (EST)

Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey responses

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Survey responses from candidates in this race

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Michael Kripchak (D)

Our industrial might is what made America the greatest country on Earth, our grandfathers used it to beat the Nazis and our fathers used it to beat the Communists. Weak and impotent leadership in Columbus and DC allowed our great state's industry to be gutted and sold off to China. It is time we bring high-pay, high-skill, high-dignity industrial jobs strengthened by Ohio Union Labor to restore the beating heart of America to its former glory.

American values are learned in American schools by American teachers. Education shouldn't be based on a lottery of where you live — all American children deserve the best opportunities to learn to become American adults. Our teachers deserve all the resources they need to make this happen — they have the will, we need to give them the way.

Restoring our District to greatness starts in our communities. Education builds these communities both inside and outside the school. Well-funded schools and well-funded teachers will ensure our children and our District will prosper well into the future.

Our farmers deserve a Farm Bill that serves them. I will direct funding into agricultural innovation and sustainable farming practices which will lower input costs and be freely available to our farmers to free them from the yoke of BigAg. Rural broadband infrastructure is a necessity and a basic undertaking for our farmers to reap the benefits of modern agricultural technology. Its rollout will happen — I will have it no other way.

You deserve to own the seeds you grow, fix the equipment you use, and own the land you cultivate free from worry of losing it to forces outside your control.

What areas of public policy are you personally passionate about?

Michael Kripchak (D)

This is the wrong question; treating public policies in isolation starts us down a defeatist path. Candidates spouting talking points as policies in isolation thus is a damaging practice and does not serve the American voter well. Instead, I operate under the framework of one common objective: to Restore the American Dream. Many of my policies are interrelated and leverage each other to provide an outsized benefit to us in the 6th greater than if approached in isolation.

Is there a book, essay, film, or something else you would recommend to someone who wants to understand your political philosophy?

Michael Kripchak (D)

"The Federalist Papers" by Publius for my political thought and "The Wealth of Nations" by Adam Smith for my economic thought.

What characteristics or principles are most important for an elected official?

Michael Kripchak (D)

The voters deserve Congressional candidates with the empathy, intellect, and temperament to adequately represent them in Congress. Some may tout their personal experiences as a strength on a specific issue, but we can ill afford to rely on this as a basis for informed judgment in governing. A Representative must be empathetic to be able to put themselves in the shoes of their diverse constituency, have the intellect to not only know how to govern but know when and how to assimilate expert opinions, and have the temperament to fight the good fight on behalf of those they represent.

What qualities does the U.S. House of Representatives possess that makes it unique as an institution?

Michael Kripchak (D)

The House is the People’s House, and as such, is the most effective tool for our citizens to petition the government. We must ensure that the House remains in the intent of the Founding Fathers by listening to the petitions of the People and not corporations.

Do you believe that it's beneficial for representatives to have previous experience in government or politics?

Michael Kripchak (D)

Absolutely; experience is a force multiplier. Those who ACTUALLY know how the government works can leverage their “inside baseball” knowledge to benefit the people whom they serve. The government must serve its citizenry and an experienced agent of the government can only help affect that into reality.

Is there a particular representative, past or present, whom you want to model yourself after?

Michael Kripchak (D)

Congressman Charlie Wilson and Tim Ryan.

Tell us your favorite joke.

Michael Kripchak (D)

The Republican Party

How should the U.S. House use its investigative powers?

Michael Kripchak (D)

I am in accord with all investigative powers of a punitive nature that most people (and this question specifically) allude to. I also would like to remind the voters that Congress has an even greater obligation with their investigative powers of a prescriptive nature. Laws should be drafted in an informed manner that benefits the citizens. One of the greatest tragedies in this area is the GOP’s slashing of the budget of the Congressional Research Service and the outright defunding of the Office of Technology Assessment. These agencies are vital in providing Congress with nonpartisan expertise on policy decisions and should be fully restored. In their absence, special interests and corporate lobbying have taken their place.

Campaign finance

Name	Party	Receipts*	Disbursements**	Cash on hand	Date
Michael Rulli	Republican Party	$1,154,952	$1,084,315	$70,637	As of December 31, 2024
Rylan Finzer	Democratic Party	$8,385	$8,029	$381	As of April 3, 2024
Michael Kripchak	Democratic Party	$79,013	$111,516	$3,735	As of December 31, 2024
Reggie Stoltzfus	Republican Party	$645,692	$645,692	$0	As of December 31, 2024
Rick Tsai	Republican Party	$42,223	$42,124	$99	As of March 31, 2024
Source: Federal Elections Commission, "Campaign finance data," 2024. This product uses the openFEC API but is not endorsed or certified by the Federal Election Commission (FEC). * According to the FEC, "Receipts are anything of value (money, goods, services or property) received by a political committee." ** According to the FEC, a disbursement "is a purchase, payment, distribution, loan, advance, deposit or gift of money or anything of value to influence a federal election," plus other kinds of payments not made to influence a federal election.

General election race ratings

See also: Race rating definitions and methods

Ballotpedia provides race ratings from four outlets: The Cook Political Report, Inside Elections, Sabato's Crystal Ball, and DDHQ/The Hill. Each race rating indicates if one party is perceived to have an advantage in the race and, if so, the degree of advantage:

Safe and Solid ratings indicate that one party has a clear edge and the race is not competitive.
Likely ratings indicate that one party has a clear edge, but an upset is possible.
Lean ratings indicate that one party has a small edge, but the race is competitive.^[7]
Toss-up ratings indicate that neither party has an advantage.

Race ratings are informed by a number of factors, including polling, candidate quality, and election result history in the race's district or state.^[8]^[9]^[10]

Race ratings: Ohio's 6th Congressional District election, 2024
Race tracker	Race ratings
	November 5, 2024	October 29, 2024	October 22, 2024	October 15, 2024
The Cook Political Report with Amy Walter	Solid Republican	Solid Republican	Solid Republican	Solid Republican
Decision Desk HQ and The Hill	Safe Republican	Safe Republican	Safe Republican	Safe Republican
Inside Elections with Nathan L. Gonzales	Solid Republican	Solid Republican	Solid Republican	Solid Republican
Larry J. Sabato's Crystal Ball	Safe Republican	Safe Republican	Safe Republican	Safe Republican
Note: Ballotpedia reviews external race ratings every week throughout the election season and posts weekly updates even if the media outlets have not revised their ratings during that week.

Ballot access

The table below details filing requirements for U.S. House candidates in Ohio in the 2024 election cycle. For additional information on candidate ballot access requirements in Ohio, click here.

Filing requirements for U.S. House candidates, 2024
State	Office	Party	Signatures required	Filing fee	Filing deadline	Source
Ohio	U.S. House	Major party	50	$85.00	12/20/2023	Source
Ohio	U.S. House	Minor party	25	$85.00	3/18/2024	Source
Ohio	U.S. House	Unaffiliated	1% of the vote cast for governor in the district in the last election	$85.00	3/18/2024	Source

District analysis

Click the tabs below to view information about voter composition, past elections, and demographics in both the district and the state.

District map - A map of the district in place for the election.
Competitiveness - Information about the competitiveness of 2024 U.S. House elections in the state.
Presidential elections - Information about presidential elections in the district and the state.
State party control - The partisan makeup of the state's congressional delegation and state government.

District map

Competitiveness
Presidential elections

State party control

Below was the map in use at the time of the election. Click the map below to enlarge it.

See also: Primary election competitiveness in state and federal government, 2024

This section contains data on U.S. House primary election competitiveness in Ohio.

Ohio U.S. House competitiveness, 2014-2024
Office	Districts/ offices	Seats	Open seats	Candidates	Possible primaries	Contested Democratic primaries	Contested Republican primaries	% of contested primaries	Incumbents in contested primaries	% of incumbents in contested primaries
2024	15	15	2	61	30	6	8	46.7%	4	30.8%
2022	15	15	1	67	30	8	10	60.0%	6	42.9%
2020	16	16	0	67	32	11	11	68.8%	10	62.5%
2018	16	16	2	82	32	12	11	71.9%	8	57.1%
2016	16	16	1	59	32	5	5	31.3%	4	26.7%
2014	16	16	0	47	32	6	6	37.5%	5	31.3%

Post-filing deadline analysis

The following analysis covers all U.S. House districts up for election in Ohio in 2024. Information below was calculated on 2/12/2024, and may differ from information shown in the table above due to candidate replacements and withdrawals after that time.

Seventy candidates filed to run for Ohio's 15 U.S. House districts, including 28 Democrats and 42 Republicans. That was 4.7 candidates per district, the most since 2018.

In 2022, the first election after the number of Congressional districts in Ohio decreased from 16 to 15 following the 2020 census, 4.5 candidates ran. In 2020, when the state still had 16 Congressional districts, 4.2 candidates filed per district. In 2018, 5.1 candidates filed.

The total number of candidates who ran for the U.S. House in 2024 was also higher than any other year this decade besides 2018, when 82 candidates ran.

Two districts—the 2nd and the 6th—were open, meaning no incumbents filed to run. That was more than in 2022, when only one district was open, and 2020, when none were.

Rep. Bill Johnson (R), the incumbent in the 6th District, resigned on Jan. 21 to assume the presidency of Youngstown State University. A special election to fill Johnson’s seat took place place on June 11.

Rep. Brad Wenstrup (R), the incumbent in the 2nd district, retired from public office. Eleven candidates—one Democrat and 10 Republicans—ran to replace Wenstrup, the most candidates who ran for a district in 2024.

Fourteen primaries—six Democratic and eight Republican—were contested. That was the fewest contested primaries since 2016, when 10 were. Between 2014 and 2022, an average of 17 primaries were contested.

Three incumbents faced primary challengers, a decade-low. The three incumbents—Reps. Bob Latta (5th), Warren Davidson (8th), and David Joyce (14th)—were Republican.

Democratic and Republican candidates filed to run in all districts, meaning none were guaranteed to either party.

Partisan Voter Index

See also: The Cook Political Report's Partisan Voter Index

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+16. This meant that in those two presidential elections, this district's results were 16 percentage points more Republican than the national average. This made Ohio's 6th the 73rd most Republican district nationally.^[11]

2020 presidential election results

The table below shows what the vote in the 2020 presidential election would have been in this district. The presidential election data was compiled by Daily Kos.

2020 presidential results in Ohio's 6th based on 2024 district lines
Joe Biden	Donald Trump
35.0%	63.7%

Inside Elections Baselines

See also: Inside Elections

Inside Elections' Baseline is a figure that analyzes all federal and statewide election results from the district over the past four election cycles. The results are combined in an index estimating the strength of a typical Democratic or Republican candidate in the congressional district.^[12] The table below displays the Baseline data for this district.

Inside Elections Baseline for 2024
Democratic Baseline	Republican Baseline	Difference
36.6	61.9	R+25.3

Presidential voting history

See also: Presidential election in Ohio, 2020

Ohio presidential election results (1900-2020)

12 Democratic wins
19 Republican wins

Year	1900	1904	1908	1912	1916	1920	1924	1928	1932	1936	1940	1944	1948	1952	1956	1960	1964	1968	1972	1976	1980	1984	1988	1992	1996	2000	2004	2008	2012	2016	2020
Winning Party	R	R	R	D	D	R	R	R	D	D	D	R	D	R	R	R	D	R	R	D	R	R	R	D	D	R	R	D	D	R	R

See also: Party control of Ohio state government

Congressional delegation

The table below displays the partisan composition of Ohio's congressional delegation as of May 2024.

Congressional Partisan Breakdown from Ohio
Party	U.S. Senate	U.S. House	Total
Democratic	0	5	5
Republican	2	10	12
Independent	0	0	0
Vacancies	0	0	0
Total	2	15	17

State executive

The table below displays the officeholders in Ohio's top four state executive offices as of May 2024.

State executive officials in Ohio, May 2024
Office	Officeholder
Governor	Richard Michael DeWine
Lieutenant Governor	Jon Husted
Secretary of State	Frank LaRose
Attorney General	Dave Yost

State legislature

Ohio State Senate

Party		As of February 2024
	Democratic Party	7
	Republican Party	26
	Other	0
	Vacancies	0
Total		33

Ohio House of Representatives

Party		As of February 2024
	Democratic Party	31
	Republican Party	66
	Other	0
	Vacancies	0
Total		99

Trifecta control

The table below shows the state's trifecta status from 1992 until the 2024 election.

Ohio Party Control: 1992-2024
No Democratic trifectas • Twenty-six years of Republican trifectas
Scroll left and right on the table below to view more years.

Year	92	93	94	95	96	97	98	99	00	01	02	03	04	05	06	07	08	09	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24
Governor	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	D	D	D	D	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R
Senate	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R
House	D	D	D	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	D	D	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R

District history

The section below details election results for this office in elections dating back to 2018.