Ohio election results so far are being tracked live by NBC News as results arrive in the 2026 midterm elections. The page covers battleground House and Senate contests, along with Ohio’s toss-up race for governor.
Donald Trump carried Ohio by an 11.2-point margin in 2024, the 24th biggest margin he posted among the 50 states. That result is part of why Ohio is being watched closely again, even as the live page focuses on what election officials are reporting now.
Ohio Midterm Elections 2026
Ohio is part of a larger results operation that NBC News uses to follow races in real time. The NBC News Decision Desk provides results as soon as election officials make them available, then independently reviews the tallies before any projection is made.
That means the page is not just a scoreboard. It is also the point where vote totals are checked against other sources and compared with past results before the Decision Desk decides whether a race can be projected.
House and Senate
Ohio’s live coverage includes battleground contests in the House and Senate, plus the governor’s race. The Senate Special results are also part of the coverage.
The election-data process behind the page draws from multiple sources on Election Day. Data reporters and interviewers call in county- and precinct-level results on a rolling basis, and vote data is also collected through state and county websites and feeds.
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The provides election results data to NBC News and other major news organizations. NBC News and the then use those results in separate projection processes, with each making its own calls independently.
For readers following Ohio election results so far, the practical question is no longer the 2024 margin. It is the actual vote totals and leaders in the 2026 races as the count comes in, and the NBC News Decision Desk will keep turning those totals into projections only when the outcome is certain.
