Ohio's 10th Congressional District election, 2024 (March 19 Democratic primary)

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Ohio's 10th Congressional District
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Election details
Filing deadline: December 20, 2023
Primary: March 19, 2024 General: November 5, 2024
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Poll times: 6:30 a.m. to 7:30 p.m. Voting in Ohio
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Cook Political Report: Solid Republican DDHQ and The Hill: Safe Republican Inside Elections: Solid Republican Sabato's Crystal Ball: Safe Republican
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A Democratic Party primary took place on March 19, 2024, in Ohio's 10th Congressional District to determine which Democratic candidate would run in the district's general election on November 5, 2024.

Amy Cox advanced from the Democratic primary for U.S. House Ohio District 10.

All 435 seats were up for election. At the time of the election, Republicans had a 220 to 212 majority with three vacancies. As of June 2024, 45 members of the U.S. House had announced they were not running for re-election. To read more about the U.S. House elections taking place this year, click here.

In the 2022 election in this district, the Republican candidate won 61.7%-38.3%. 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) 50.9%-47.4%.

Candidate filing deadline	Primary election	General election
December 20, 2023	March 19, 2024	November 5, 2024

A primary election is an election in which registered voters select a candidate that they believe should be a political party's candidate for elected office to run in the general election. They are also used to choose convention delegates and party leaders. Primaries are state-level and local-level elections that take place prior to a general election. Ohio utilizes an open primary system. In an open primary system, a voter does not have to register with a political party beforehand in order to vote in that party's primary. In Ohio, voters select their preferred party primary ballots at their polling places on Election Day.

For information about which offices are nominated via primary election, see this article.

This page focuses on Ohio's 10th Congressional District Democratic primary. For more in-depth information on the district's Republican primary and the general election, see the following pages:

• Ohio's 10th Congressional District election, 2024 (March 19 Republican primary)
• Ohio's 10th Congressional District election, 2024

Candidates and election results

Democratic primary election

Democratic primary for U.S. House Ohio District 10

Amy Cox defeated David Esrati, Tony Pombo, and Joseph Kuzniar in the Democratic primary for U.S. House Ohio District 10 on March 19, 2024.

		Candidate	%	Votes
✔		Amy Cox	63.3	22,640
		David Esrati	21.7	7,767
		Tony Pombo	9.2	3,296
		Joseph Kuzniar	5.7	2,046

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	There were no incumbents in this race. The results have been certified. Source	Total votes: 35,749
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates

• Kirk Benjamin (D)
• Manuel Foggie (D)

Candidate profiles

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Amy Cox

Party: Democratic Party

Incumbent: No

Political Office: None

Submitted Biography:  "I have a Bachelor of Science in Biology (Wright State) and a Master's Degree in Science Education (IU East, 2011). I've worked as a science teacher in both rural and urban schools from 2003 to 2019. Since then, I've used my background in science to become director of operations and co-owner of a local mushroom farm. I'm married to a retired Union Ironworker and have 2 sons, Grant and Lee. "

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Key Messages

To read this candidate's full survey responses, click here.

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We must protect democracy from those who would destroy it.

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We must establish healthcare as a human right

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We must strengthen the middle class by ensuring that all jobs pay a living wage.

This information was current as of the candidate's run for U.S. House Ohio District 10 in 2024.

David Esrati

Party: Democratic Party

Incumbent: No

Political Office: None

Submitted Biography:  "David Esrati is the guy you call when everything else has failed, or the powers that be have overstepped their boundaries. He's been involved in local Dayton politics as an outsider since he first ran for Mayor in 1993. That was the year Mike Turner surprised everyone by beating Richard Clay Dixon by 400 votes. It probably wouldn't have happened, had Esrati not been on the campaign trail- asking the hard questions- like where did the money come from for Dixon's campaign. Turner had Esrati arrested in 1996 for a silent protest. Turner and the city lost in 5 different courts. Since 2005, Esrati has been doing citizen journalism in Dayton on his blog, esrati.com He's exposed the dirty little underside that the FBI called the "Culture of Corruption" in Dayton. He owns The Next Wave Marketing Innovation, an award winning ad agency. His 2 non-profits focus on fixing our broken political system: see reconstructingdayton.org focused on uni-gov and modernpolicy.org focused on open transparent voting via Ranked Choice- and having a true voter information system. He's a US Army Veteran, a bad hockey player and the maker of great buttermilk pancakes (come to a fund raiser). He graduated from WSU with a degree in Marketing, and has taught at the collegiate level at UD. His involvement in Historic South Park over the years has helped his neighborhood become one of the hottest places to live in Dayton. He's rehabbed 5 properties. "

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Key Messages

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You should have the same health care your congressman has. National Security means you should be safe to go to the doctor, without worrying about bankruptcy. Go fund me is not a substitute for national health care.

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Money in politics has warped the system. Why is it that you don't need a background check to run for Congress (George Santos) and that we have to register to vote- but no one has to register to donate? I want to require all donors to register, with reports in real time of donations, and eliminate the self-reporting by campaigns. It's time to end Citizens United if we ever want Congress to work for us again.

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It's time to put an age limit on public service. At 70, you're done. Supreme Court, the Federal Bench, Congress- all of it. Make room for younger people, and new ideas.

This information was current as of the candidate's run for U.S. House Ohio District 10 in 2024.

Joseph Kuzniar

Party: Democratic Party

Incumbent: No

Political Office: None

Submitted Biography:  "B.A. Mathematics, Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA M.S. Aerospace Engineering, Air Force Institute of Technology, W-PAFB, OH Program Management Course, Defense Systems Management College, Fort Belvoir, VA Birthplace: Reading, PA U.S. Air Force Lt. Colonel (Retired): ICBMs and Space Systems Air Force Research Laboratory Program Manager (Retired) Joseph Kuzniar retired from active duty in the U.S. Air Force as a Lt. Colonel. Initial assignment was as a Minuteman ICBM Combat Crew Member, followed by work in Intelligence, then Vandenberg AFB, CA supporting 23 Minuteman R&D missions (including the C-5 Minuteman air drop launch). Worked as a Minuteman Manager at Los Angeles AFS, CA. Became Manager for all DoD Space Shuttle missions. Worked multi-year Air Force Budget submittals and with Congressional staffers on plus-ups. After active duty retirement, was hired by the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) as a Program Manager, initially for the Strategic Defense Initiative (Star Wars), followed by Aging Aircraft, during which time I Chaired the 1st & 4th Joint DoD/NASA/FAA Aging Aircraft Conferences…followed by serving as the Air Force Representative to the “White House Wire Safety Research Interagency Working Group”. When the Space Shuttle Columbia Disaster occurred, the Kennedy Space Center requested my review of the onboard electronics to see if they contributed to the disaster…they did not."

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Key Messages

To read this candidate's full survey responses, click here.

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End the deteriorating conditions at W-PAFB,OH.

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Help solve the problems plaguing Ohio's Aging and Homeless veteran population.

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Don't mess with Social Security...many of the aging population depend on this safety net.

This information was current as of the candidate's run for U.S. House Ohio District 10 in 2024.

Tony Pombo

Party: Democratic Party

Incumbent: No

Political Office: None

Submitted Biography:  "Tony Pombo came from a middle-class family in Hamilton, Ohio. His mother owned a small business and his step-father worked as a union member at Ford Motor Company. His close relatives are public school teachers, small business owners, and several medical professionals. He witnessed firsthand the advantages of being in a union and the challenges of running a small business under different administrations. He relocated to Beavercreek in 1990 to attend Wright State University and never left the area. He obtained a B.S. in Computer Science and has earned several industry certifications. Throughout his career, he worked as a computer programmer, network administrator, and security architect as either an employee or consultant. For about 10 years, he took a break from corporate computer work, and launched an electrical contracting company and worked as an electrician. He went back to computers when he felt that was not challenging enough. He is currently the Systems Architect and Security Officer at a business-to-business web services company based in Beavercreek, Ohio. Tony Pombo is intelligent, rational, and a root-cause problem solver. He does not fear hard work or facing tough challenges. He confronts the status quo and holds the influential responsible for their actions."

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Key Messages

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For years, politicians have sacrificed the American people's quality of life to satisfy the greedy interests of corporations, billionaires, lobbyists, and their own self-interest. This must stop! The people are the lifeblood of this nation and they deserve the government to work for everyone, not only the rich and powerful.

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We must take urgent action to address climate change and pollution. The last 8 years were the hottest on record. The Great Pacific Garbage Patch consists of mainly plastics and is now three times bigger than Texas, and growing every day.

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We have to curb corporate avarice. When profit is the only criterion of success, the public pays the price. Outsourcing jobs (to increase profit) destroyed decent, middle-class jobs, and created an undesired reliance on China and their oppressive regime. Our government should do more to shield the people from corporate abuse.

This information was current as of the candidate's run for U.S. House Ohio District 10 in 2024.

Voting information

See also: Voting in Ohio

Election information in Ohio: March 19, 2024, election.

What was the voter registration deadline?

• In-person: Feb. 20, 2024
• By mail: Received by Feb. 20, 2024
• Online: Feb. 20, 2024

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

N/A

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

• In-person: March 12, 2024
• By mail: Received by March 12, 2024
• Online: March 12, 2024

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

• In-person: March 19, 2024
• By mail: Postmarked by March 18, 2024

Was early voting available to all voters?

N/A

What were the early voting start and end dates?

Feb. 21, 2024 to March 19, 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. (CST)

Campaign finance

Name	Party	Receipts*	Disbursements**	Cash on hand	Date
Amy Cox	Democratic Party	$205,054	$205,054	$0	As of December 31, 2024
David Esrati	Democratic Party	$5,928	$1,992	$4,459	As of March 31, 2024
Joseph Kuzniar	Democratic Party	$0	$0	$0	Data not available***
Tony Pombo	Democratic Party	$10,025	$8,390	$1,635	As of December 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. *** Candidate either did not report any receipts or disbursements to the FEC, or Ballotpedia did not find an FEC candidate ID.

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+4. This meant that in those two presidential elections, this district's results were 4 percentage points more Republican than the national average. This made Ohio's 10th the 198th most Republican district nationally.

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 10th based on 2024 district lines
Joe Biden	Donald Trump
47.4%	50.9%

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. The table below displays the Baseline data for this district.

Inside Elections Baseline for 2024
Democratic Baseline	Republican Baseline	Difference
43.7	54.8	R+11.1

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

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

See also

• Ohio's 10th Congressional District election, 2024 (March 19 Republican primary)
• Ohio's 10th Congressional District election, 2024
• United States House elections in Ohio, 2024 (March 19 Democratic primaries)
• United States House elections in Ohio, 2024 (March 19 Republican primaries)
• United States House Democratic Party primaries, 2024
• United States House Republican Party primaries, 2024
• United States House of Representatives elections, 2024
• U.S. House battlegrounds, 2024

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Footnotes

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Ohio's current delegation to the United States Congress

Senators

Jon Husted (R)

Bernie Moreno (R)

Representatives

District 1

Greg Landsman (D)

District 2

David Taylor (R)

District 3

Joyce Beatty (D)

District 4

Jim Jordan (R)

District 5

Bob Latta (R)

District 6

Michael Rulli (R)

District 7

Max Miller (R)

District 8

Warren Davidson (R)

District 9

Marcy Kaptur (D)

District 10

Michael Turner (R)

District 11

Shontel Brown (D)

District 12

Troy Balderson (R)

District 13

Emilia Sykes (D)

District 14

David Joyce (R)

District 15

Mike Carey (R)

Republican Party (12)

Democratic Party (5)

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