OH Governor · 2026
Republicans are strongly favored to win this governorship
81% probability
Candidates
Last verified 2026-09-14.
Amy Acton
Democrat
Amy Leigh Acton is an American physician and researcher who is the Democratic nominee for governor of Ohio.
Vivek Ramaswamy
Republican
Vivek Ganapathy Ramaswamy is an American entrepreneur and politician.
Open seat -- the current officeholder is a Republican, who is not running.
Not applicable to this race: Candidate fundraising split, Candidate fundraising data available · Built on annual structural data, current release 2026-05-29: State mood: Domestic Stability, State mood: Isolation. See /status for current data freshness.
Why we think this
- This state's baseline partisan lean favors Republicans by about 15 points of margin before anything else is considered.
- This is an open seat: the current officeholder (a Republican) is not on the ballot, which tends to make the race more competitive than a defended seat.
- Separately, current public mood in this state specifically is shifting significantly toward Republicans, on top of the structural baseline.
- Independently, the national midterm environment is shifting every race this cycle significantly toward Democrats -- a separate, nationwide force layered on top of the state-specific factors above, not a restatement of them.
Model details -- coefficients, calibration, and the full technical decomposition.
Model sengov-2026-govmoney-v1 · computed 2026-09-16