Brown, Husted Win Ohio Primaries for November Senate Race — What Time Does Voting End Today
Sherrod Brown and Jon Husted won their party nominations in Ohio on Tuesday, and the race now shifts to the special Senate election on 3 November. The answer to what time does voting end today is no longer the central question for those contests; the nominations are settled, and the November ballot will decide who serves the remainder of JD Vance’s six-year term.
Brown, a former three-term senator, won the Democratic nomination after facing a single opponent. Husted won the Republican nomination without opposition. Their victories set the matchup for a Senate race that Republicans and Democrats are both preparing to contest heavily in a state that Chuck Schumer has placed among four priorities in the effort to retake control of the chamber.
Ohio Senate ballot set
The special election will fill the remainder of the term Vance won in 2022 before he became vice-president. Mike DeWine appointed Husted to take over for Vance, and now Husted will seek to keep the seat after winning the party nomination on Tuesday.
Brown is trying to return to the Senate after losing his re-election bid in 2024. His path now runs through a November race in which the Republican side has already settled on its nominee, and the main Senate Republican Super Pac has announced plans to spend $79m in Ohio.
Ohio House and governor races
Tuesday also produced the Republican nominee for Ohio’s northwest House district, where party members selected Derek Merrin to challenge Marcy Kaptur. Kaptur, centered in Toledo, remains the longest-serving female member of the House of Representatives.
That district changed after a state redistricting commission approved new maps last year, and Kaptur defeated Merrin by fewer than 2,400 votes in 2024. On the same primary ballot, Vivek Ramaswamy won the Republican nomination for governor and Amy Acton won the Democratic nomination.
The November Senate contest now carries the clearest stakes from Tuesday’s results: Brown and Husted are the nominees, and Ohio voters will decide who holds Vance’s old seat for the rest of the term.
