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Trumbull County, OH

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U.S. House, Ohio District 14
2 candidates
Federal ▾
David P. Joyce portrait
DP
David P. Joyce
REP INCUMBENT
Biography
Joyce has represented Ohio's 14th District in Congress since January 2013, after his November 2012 election, per the chamber's membership roster. He worked his way up from the public defender's office to serve as Geauga County Prosecutor for nearly 25 years before his election to Congress, per his official House website. He is a Northeast Ohio native who grew up as the son of a World War II veteran, per the campaign site.
Top Priorities
From the campaign site
  • Strengthening the local economy
  • Supporting education and schools
  • Addressing community concerns
Key voting record
Voted yes on the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, the 2025 tax-and-spending package, which passed the House 218-214 in July 2025. Supported
Voted yes on the Laken Riley Act, expanding federal detention of certain immigrants charged with theft or violent crimes, which passed the House 263-156 in January 2025. Supported
Voted yes on the National Defense Authorization Act for fiscal 2026, which passed the House 231-196 in September 2025. Supported
Campaign siteFull profile
MJ
Maria Jukic
DEM
Biography
Jukic is an attorney and healthcare administrator with 24 years in the field, and previously served as a city councilwoman in Euclid, per the campaign site.
Top Priorities
From the campaign site
  • Making healthcare more affordable and accessible
  • Protecting Social Security
  • Tax relief for working families
Campaign siteFull profile
About this race
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U.S. Senate
4 candidates
Federal ▾
Jon Husted portrait
JH
Jon Husted
REP INCUMBENT
Biography
Jon Husted is Ohio's sitting U.S. senator, per the campaign site. The campaign site describes his career as Ohio lieutenant governor, secretary of state and speaker of the Ohio House. As lieutenant governor, he helped bring Intel's chip manufacturing facility to Licking County, pioneered job-training programs including TechCred, and founded InnovateOhio, per the campaign site. The campaign site lists no issues as of October 15, 2026.
Campaign Finance
$10,527,814 raised · top industries: Large donors giving $2,000+ (55% of receipts), Small-dollar donors under $200 (14% of receipts)
Key voting record
Voted yes on the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, the 2025 tax-and-spending package, which passed the Senate 50-50 in July 2025, with the vice president casting the tie-breaking vote. Supported
Campaign siteFull profile
Sherrod Brown portrait
SB
Sherrod Brown
DEM
Biography
Sherrod Brown is a candidate for U.S. Senate in Ohio, per the campaign site. He was born and raised in Mansfield, per the campaign site. The campaign site frames his career around the dignity of work and points to his fights to protect worker pensions, cap insulin costs and expand care for veterans exposed to burn pits.
Top Priorities
From the campaign site
  • Holding health insurance companies accountable
  • Bringing down prescription drug costs
  • Making data centers pay
Campaign Finance
$25,979,968 raised · top industries: Small-dollar donors under $200 (47% of receipts), Large donors giving $2,000+ (27% of receipts)
Key voting record
Voted yes on the Honoring our PACT Act, improving health care and benefits for veterans exposed to toxic substances, which cleared the Senate 86-11 in August 2022. Supported
Voted yes on the CHIPS and Science Act, funding domestic semiconductor manufacturing and scientific research, which cleared the Senate 64-33 in July 2022. Supported
Campaign siteFull profile
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GL
Greg Levy
Biography
Greg Levy is a community organizer, singer, veteran and socialist, per the campaign site. He was born in the Joy Park housing projects and raised in Akron, Ohio, and he founded the Paul Robeson Revolutionary Choir, per the campaign site. He is the Party for Socialism and Liberation candidate for U.S. Senate in Ohio, per the campaign site. The Secretary of State's official sample ballot prints his party as Other.
Top Priorities
From the campaign site
  • Build a new economy that meets our needs
  • Build a democracy for the working class
  • End the war on Black America
Campaign siteFull profile
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WB
William B. Redpath
Biography
Redpath is a longtime Libertarian Party activist who served two terms as chairman of the Libertarian National Committee and chairs the party's Ballot Access Committee, per the campaign site. He has previously run for governor, U.S. Senate, and the U.S. House in Virginia, per the campaign site.
Top Priorities
From the campaign site
  • End tariffs on imported goods and services
  • Reduce federal spending, including ending corporate welfare and farm subsidies
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Governor
3 candidates
Statewide ▾
VR
Vivek Ramaswamy
REP
Biography
Vivek Ramaswamy is the Republican nominee for Ohio governor in the open 2026 race, a Cincinnati-area biotech entrepreneur and author who ran for president in 2024 and briefly co-led the Department of Government Efficiency effort. His plan centers on making Ohio the most affordable, opportunity-rich state in America. His running mate is state Senate President Rob McColley.
Top Priorities
From the campaign site
  • Lower costs and taxes to put more money in Ohioans' pockets
  • Deliver a world-class education for Ohio kids
  • Cut red tape, reduce government waste, and expand energy supply
Campaign siteFull profile
AA
Amy Acton
DEM
Biography
Dr. Amy Acton is the Democratic nominee for Ohio governor, a physician and former director of the Ohio Department of Health who became a familiar figure leading the state's early COVID-19 response. Her campaign says she is running because she refuses to look away from Ohioans who are struggling, with an agenda focused on affordability, cleaning up corruption, and education. Her running mate is former Ohio Democratic Party chair David Pepper.
Top Priorities
From the campaign site
  • Reduce costs for Ohio families through her affordability agenda
  • Clean up corruption in state government
  • Improve education and lower the cost of health care
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DK
Don Kissick
Biography
Kissick is a U.S. Navy veteran who served six years, including deployments during Desert Storm/Desert Shield and Southern Watch, per the campaign site. He is running with running mate James Mills, a business owner and nonprofit leader, per the campaign site.
Top Priorities
From the campaign site
  • Lowering income taxes and ending property taxes
  • Government transparency and accountability
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Secretary of State
3 candidates
Statewide ▾
RS
Robert Sprague
REP
Biography
Robert Sprague is the Republican nominee for Ohio secretary of state, currently serving as Ohio's state treasurer. An engineer by training and former state representative from Findlay, his campaign emphasizes running the most secure elections in Ohio history, stopping fraud, and applying the fiscal-management record he built at the treasury.
Top Priorities
From the campaign site
  • Run secure, trusted elections and stop fraud
  • Apply real-world problem solving from engineering and finance
  • Safeguard tax dollars with the discipline he brought to the treasury
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AR
Allison Russo
DEM
Biography
Allison Russo is the Democratic nominee for Ohio secretary of state, a four-term state representative from the Columbus area and former leader of the Ohio House Democrats. A health-policy researcher by profession, her campaign theme is restoring your power in your government, with a focus on making sure every vote is counted and election rules work for Ohioans rather than the powerful.
Top Priorities
From the campaign site
  • Protect one person, one vote and ensure every vote is counted
  • Defend voter access and honest, transparent elections
Campaign siteFull profile
TP
Tom Pruss
Biography
Pruss is a Toledo native who has worked in the printing industry since 1985 and has owned and operated NorthCoast Print Mail Marketing since 2017, per the campaign site. Per the campaign site, he is vice president of the Northwest Ohio Polish Cultural Center and a past president of the Polish American Community of Toledo.
Top Priorities
From other published sources
  • Ballot access and equal treatment for candidates, per WTOL News
  • Election transparency and secure voting systems, per WTOL News
Campaign siteFull profile
Attorney General
2 candidates
Statewide ▾
KF
Keith Faber
REP
Biography
Keith Faber is the Republican nominee for Ohio attorney general, currently serving as Ohio's auditor of state. A former president of the Ohio Senate and practicing attorney from Celina, his auditor's office reports more than 129 convictions of corrupt public officials and the discovery of roughly $6.9 billion in unemployment-system fraud and overpayments. His campaign emphasizes public safety and support for police and prosecutors.
Top Priorities
From the campaign site
  • Focus the office on public safety and support for police and prosecutors
  • Fight public corruption, building on his auditor record
  • Defend the Constitution and protect Ohio families
Campaign siteFull profile
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JK
John Kulewicz
DEM
Biography
John Kulewicz is the Democratic nominee for Ohio attorney general, a Columbus attorney who spent 44 years at the law firm Vorys, Sater, Seymour and Pease and argued cases before the U.S. Supreme Court. A two-time Upper Arlington city councilman, he visited all 88 Ohio counties before entering the race, and his campaign stresses that he is a lawyer, not a politician, running an independent-minded office for Ohioans.
Top Priorities
From the campaign site
  • Take on corrupt politicians and root out waste, fraud, and abuse
  • Protect consumers from price-fixing monopolies, scams, and robocallers
  • Serve as an independent-minded attorney general who listens to Ohioans
Campaign siteFull profile
Treasurer
2 candidates
Statewide ▾
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JE
Jay Edwards
REP
Biography
Edwards is a Nelsonville native with a mathematics degree from Ohio University, where he attended on a football scholarship, per the campaign site. Per the campaign site, he served in the Ohio House of Representatives beginning in 2016 and chaired the House Finance Committee, where he wrote and sponsored the state's operating and capital budgets.
Top Priorities
From the campaign site
  • Protect taxpayer dollars
  • Keep Ohio's money working in Ohio communities
  • Spend every dollar wisely and transparently
Campaign siteFull profile
SW
Seth Walsh
DEM
Biography
Seth Walsh is the Democratic nominee for Ohio treasurer, a Cincinnati city councilman. His campaign centers on strategic community investment in Ohio's farmers, public-sector employees, and small-business entrepreneurs, and he pledges to serve as an independent steward of taxpayer dollars, pensions, and savings.
Top Priorities
From the campaign site
  • Invest in communities so all Ohioans can thrive
  • Serve as an independent steward of taxpayer dollars, pensions, and savings
  • Support farmers, public employees, and small-business entrepreneurs
Campaign siteFull profile
Auditor
2 candidates
Statewide ▾
FL
Frank LaRose
REP
Biography
Frank LaRose is the Republican nominee for Ohio auditor of state, currently serving as Ohio's secretary of state. A former state senator and Army veteran who serves in the Ohio National Guard, his campaign platform is transparency, efficiency, and accountability, pledging to help state and local offices manage tax dollars openly and hold them accountable when they don't.
Top Priorities
From the campaign site
  • Bring transparency, efficiency, and accountability to state and local spending
  • Help government offices manage tax dollars more openly and efficiently
  • Hold public offices accountable when they mismanage funds
Campaign siteFull profile
Annette Blackwell portrait
AB
Annette Blackwell
DEM
Biography
Annette Blackwell is the Democratic nominee for Ohio auditor of state, the mayor of Maple Heights in Cuyahoga County. Her campaign theme is experience, integrity, and accountability, drawing on her career as a business leader with several large organizations and her record of fiscal responsibility managing her city's budget.
Top Priorities
From the campaign site
  • Bring experience, integrity, and accountability to the auditor's office
  • Protect taxpayer dollars across Ohio's governments
Campaign siteFull profile
Supreme Court, Term Commencing January 1
2 candidates
Statewide ▾
Daniel R. Hawkins portrait
DR
Daniel R. Hawkins
REP INCUMBENT
Biography
Daniel R. Hawkins is an incumbent Ohio Supreme Court justice, per the Secretary of State's official sample ballot. No campaign website was found as of September 10, 2026.
Full profile
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MZ
Marilyn Zayas
DEM
Biography
Marilyn Zayas is a judge who was selected by Ohio's chief justice to sit temporarily on the Ohio Supreme Court and has been appointed to sit with the Second, Sixth, Eighth, and Tenth District Courts of Appeal, running for a full term on the Ohio Supreme Court, per the campaign site.
Top Priorities
From the campaign site
  • Judicial independence and impartiality
  • Expanded access to justice
Campaign siteFull profile
Supreme Court, Term Commencing January 2
2 candidates
Statewide ▾
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JB
Jennifer Brunner
DEM INCUMBENT
Biography
Jennifer Brunner is an incumbent Ohio Supreme Court justice, per the Secretary of State's official sample ballot. No campaign website was found as of September 10, 2026.
Full profile
CO
Colleen O'Donnell
REP
Biography
Colleen O'Donnell is a judge on the certified ballot for this seat, per the Secretary of State's official sample ballot. No campaign website was found as of September 10, 2026.
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Countywide races in Trumbull County

ZIP 44485 sits in Trumbull County, per the Census crosswalk. These seats are voted countywide; district seats, city races and school boards need a street address. All Trumbull County races (6).

Trumbull County Commissioner
2 candidates
County ▾
MJ
Michael J. Hovis
REP
Biography
Hovis is a Bazetta Township trustee, now in his second term, and a retired Bazetta Township police chief and business owner, per WKBN. He is an Ohio Army National Guard veteran, per WKBN. He points to his role in bringing an Amazon facility to Bazetta Township as evidence he can bring economic development to the county, per WFMJ. No campaign website was found as of September 9, 2026.
Full profile
KF
Kristen F. Rock
DEM
Biography
Rock is an attorney and a resident of Liberty Township, per WFMJ. She has served on the Liberty zoning board for six years, the Liberty Local Schools oversight commission for two years, and the Lake Milton Utilities Commission for nearly three years, and has volunteered with the Junior League of Mahoning Valley since 2003, per WFMJ.
Top Priorities
From the campaign site
  • Fiscal stewardship of taxpayer resources
  • Maintaining county infrastructure
  • Economic development
Campaign siteFull profile
About this race
Hovis won the Democratic nomination over incumbent Commissioner Denny Malloy in the May 5, 2026 Republican primary by about 53%-47%, per the Tribune Chronicle. Rock ran unopposed, per the Vindicator.
Trumbull County Auditor
2 candidates
County ▾
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Mike Loychik
REP
Biography
Loychik is a former Ohio state representative who served on the Ohio House Finance Committee, per the Tribune Chronicle. He says his experience overseeing state appropriations prepares him to act as a financial watchdog for the county, per the Tribune Chronicle. No campaign website was found as of September 9, 2026.
Full profile
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Edward D. Stredney
DEM
Biography
Stredney is an at-large Niles City councilman with an accounting degree from Youngstown State University who works as a project manager on water infrastructure projects across the East Coast, per WKBN. No campaign website was found as of September 9, 2026.
Top Priorities
From other published sources
  • Restoring transparency, fraud prevention and compliance in the Auditor's Office, per WFMJ
  • Ensuring fiscal integrity and accountability for county funds, per WFMJ
Full profile
About this race
Loychik won the Republican primary with 51% of the vote, defeating incumbent Auditor Martha Yoder (32%) and Stacy Marling (17%), per the Tribune Chronicle. Stredney ran unopposed for the Democratic nomination, per WKBN.
Trumbull County Court of Common Pleas Judge, General Division
2 candidates
County ▾
ME
Mary Ellen Ditchey
Biography
Ditchey is a magistrate in the Trumbull County Common Pleas Court and vice president of the Trumbull County Bar Association, per WFMJ. No campaign website was found as of September 9, 2026.
Full profile
CB
Chris Becker
Biography
Becker is the Trumbull County First Assistant Prosecuting Attorney with 36 years as an attorney, 26 of them in Trumbull County, per WFMJ. He was named Ohio's Outstanding Assistant Prosecutor by the Ohio Prosecuting Attorneys Association in 2014, per his campaign site.
Top Priorities
From the campaign site
  • Maintaining judicial independence from political influence
  • Ensuring accountability in the court system
Campaign siteFull profile
About this race
Ditchey finished ahead of Devon Stanley in the May 5, 2026 Republican primary, per WFMJ. Becker filed as an independent candidate for the November ballot, per the Tribune Chronicle. Both are running for the seat held by Judge Cynthia Wescott. Ohio judicial candidates appear on the November ballot without a party label.
Trumbull County Court of Common Pleas Judge, Probate Division
1 candidate
County ▾
TA
Thomas A. Campbell
Biography
Campbell has served more than 30 years as judge of the Central District Court in Cortland, first appointed in 1995 by Gov. George Voinovich, per WKBN. He has practiced law for more than 35 years, with a focus on business law, estate planning and probate matters, per his campaign site.
Top Priorities
From the campaign site
  • Modernizing the probate court's online system to post document images and orders for public access
  • Establishing a help desk to support self-represented parties handling straightforward estates
Campaign siteFull profile
Why only one name?
Only one name is on the ballot for this office: no other candidate qualified. An unopposed candidate is elected unless a write-in outpolls them where write-ins are allowed, so this line still counts as a vote.
About this race
Campbell finished ahead of Shelley Pratt in the May 5, 2026 Republican primary with about 69% of the vote and is unopposed on the November ballot, per WKBN. The seat is open because outgoing Judge James A. Fredericka could not seek reelection under Ohio's judicial age limit, per WKBN. Ohio judicial candidates appear on the November ballot without a party label.

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