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Who is on the ballot in 44125?

Cuyahoga County, OH

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Fields below reflect the November 3, 2026 general election ballot as races are certified.

16 races on your November 3 ballot. Jump to:
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County and municipal contests depend on your exact address — use the address lookup below for the full slate. Every race links to official sources on the Ohio voter hub.
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44125 sample ballot preview: statewide, congressional and Cuyahoga County races

U.S. House

ZIP 44125 spans District 11 and District 7, so your U.S. House race depends on your street address. Enter a full address to pin down your district, or browse both fields on the Ohio hub.

U.S. Senate
4 candidates
Federal ▾
Jon Husted portrait
JH
Jon Husted
REP INCUMBENT
Biography
Jon Husted is Ohio's incumbent U.S. senator and the Republican nominee in the 2026 special election to finish the term. Appointed in January 2025 when JD Vance became vice president, he previously served as Ohio's lieutenant governor, secretary of state, and speaker of the Ohio House. His campaign emphasizes a strong pro-business economy, job training, and cutting government waste.
Top Priorities
  • Grow Ohio's economy and jobs, building on the Intel project and TechCred job training
  • Cut government waste and red tape through technology and regulatory reform
  • Conservative priorities of family, faith, and freedom
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
Supported 2025 Republican tax law, which created deductions for tips and overtime pay and which he says will save the average Ohio family thousands of dollars. Supported
Supported Laken Riley Act requiring federal detention of undocumented immigrants charged with theft and other crimes, which passed with every Senate Republican in favor shortly after he took office. Supported
Campaign siteFull profile
Sherrod Brown portrait
SB
Sherrod Brown
DEM
Biography
Sherrod Brown is the Democratic nominee in Ohio's 2026 special U.S. Senate election, seeking a return to the seat he held for three terms from 2007 to 2025. Raised in Mansfield, he frames his career around the dignity of work, pointing to fights to protect worker pensions, cap insulin costs, and expand care for veterans exposed to burn pits.
Top Priorities
  • Protect worker pensions and the dignity of work
  • Lower prescription drug costs, building on the insulin price cap
  • Expand health care for veterans exposed to toxic burn pits
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
Supported 2022 PACT Act expanding VA health care and benefits for veterans exposed to burn pits and other toxins, a bipartisan law he championed. Supported
Supported 2022 CHIPS and Science Act funding domestic semiconductor manufacturing, which helped land Intel's chip facility in central Ohio. Supported
Campaign siteFull profile
GL
Greg Levy
Biography
Greg Levy prints as an other-party candidate for U.S. Senate, per the Secretary of State's official sample ballot.
Top Priorities
  • Supports expanding Medicaid funding to keep rural hospitals open
  • Supports raising the minimum wage in Ohio
  • Supports expanded affordable housing programs
Per the campaign site.
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
  • End tariffs on imported goods and services
  • Reduce federal spending, including ending corporate welfare and farm subsidies
Per the campaign site.
Campaign siteFull profile
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. Endorsed by President Trump, 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
  • 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
  • Reduce costs for Ohio families through her affordability agenda
  • Clean up corruption in state government
  • Improve education and lower the cost of health care
Campaign siteFull profile
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
  • Lowering income taxes and ending property taxes
  • Government transparency and accountability
Per the campaign site.
Campaign siteFull profile
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
  • 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
Campaign siteFull profile
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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
  • Protect one person, one vote and ensure every vote is counted
  • Defend voter access and honest, transparent elections
  • Push back on backroom deals that keep power in the hands of the few
Campaign siteFull profile
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Tom Pruss
Biography
Tom Pruss is the Libertarian candidate for Ohio secretary of state, per the Secretary of State's official sample ballot. No campaign website was found as of September 10, 2026.
Top Priorities
  • Ballot access and equal treatment for candidates
  • Election transparency and secure voting systems
Per the WTOL News.
Full profile
Attorney General
2 candidates
Statewide ▾
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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
  • 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
  • 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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Jay Edwards
REP
Biography
Jay Edwards is the Republican nominee for Ohio treasurer, a former state representative from Nelsonville in southeast Ohio who chaired the House Finance Committee. His legislative career centered on state budget writing and fiscal policy, experience he cites for managing Ohio's investments and debt as treasurer. No campaign website was found as of September 10, 2026.
Top Priorities
  • Apply state budget-writing experience to Ohio's finances
  • Manage state investments and debt responsibly
  • Protect taxpayer dollars
Full profile
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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
  • 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
  • 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
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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
  • Bring experience, integrity, and accountability to the auditor's office
  • Apply business leadership and municipal budget management to state oversight
  • 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
  • Judicial independence and impartiality
  • Expanded access to justice
Per the campaign site.
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.
Full profile

Countywide races in Cuyahoga County

ZIP 44125 sits in Cuyahoga County, per the Census crosswalk. These seats are voted countywide; district seats, city races and school boards need a street address. All Cuyahoga County races (26).

Cuyahoga County Executive
1 candidate
County ▾
CR
Chris Ronayne
DEM INCUMBENT
Biography
Chris Ronayne has been Cuyahoga County Executive since 2023 and is a longtime Cleveland civic leader, per the county's official Office of the Executive page. He was unopposed in the May Democratic primary and no Republican filed.
Top Priorities
  • Housing and small business development through the county's Department of Housing and Office of Small Business
  • Programs for children and seniors, including the HOPE Campus and Taxpayer Assistance Program
Per the campaign site.
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
Incumbent Chris Ronayne is the only candidate who prints; one certified write-in does not appear on the ballot. Cuyahoga voters also decide two countywide levies November 3: a 2.25 mill developmental disabilities levy and a 7.2 mill health and human services renewal with increase, per the board of elections issues list.
Cuyahoga Court of Appeals Seat A
2 candidates
County ▾
AL
Anita Laster Mays
DEM INCUMBENT
Biography
Anita Laster Mays is a sitting judge of the Eighth District Court of Appeals, per the court's official roster. No campaign website was found as of September 10, 2026.
Full profile
AA
Anthony Alto
REP
Biography
Anthony Alto is on the board of elections certified candidate list for this seat's November 3, 2026 ballot. No campaign website was found as of September 10, 2026.
Full profile
About this race
Judicial candidates appear without party labels on Ohio ballots; parties shown are from the May primary nominations, per the county board of elections certified list. Term commencing February 12, 2027.
Cuyahoga Common Pleas Judge Seat A
2 candidates
County ▾
KK
Kira Krivosh
DEM INCUMBENT
Biography
Kira Krivosh is a sitting Cuyahoga County Common Pleas judge, per the court's official roster.
Campaign siteFull profile
JW
Jacob Westfall
REP
Biography
Jacob Westfall is on the board of elections certified candidate list for this seat's November 3, 2026 ballot. No campaign website was found as of September 10, 2026.
Full profile
About this race
Judicial candidates appear without party labels on Ohio ballots; parties shown are from the May primary nominations, per the county board of elections certified list. Term commencing January 1, 2027.
Cuyahoga Common Pleas Judge Seat B
2 candidates
County ▾
DT
Daryl T. Dennie
DEM
Biography
Daryl T. Dennie is a Senior Lead Attorney in the Cuyahoga County Public Defender's Office with 29 years of courtroom experience, according to his campaign site. He has also worked as a prosecutor, civil advocate and private-practice attorney, per his site. Daryl T. Dennie appears on the November 3, 2026 ballot for Cuyahoga Common Pleas Judge Seat B, per the county elections office's certified candidate list.
Top Priorities
  • Applying the law fairly regardless of background
  • Expediting court proceedings while treating all individuals with dignity
  • Making legal processes more transparent and understandable to the community
Per the campaign site.
Campaign siteFull profile
MR
Morgan Raye Caruso
REP
Biography
Morgan Raye Caruso is on the board of elections certified candidate list for this seat's November 3, 2026 ballot.
Top Priorities
  • Judges who apply the law fairly and treat every person with dignity
  • Access to justice for victims, defendants and families
Per the campaign site.
Campaign siteFull profile
About this race
Judicial candidates appear without party labels on Ohio ballots; parties shown are from the May primary nominations, per the county board of elections certified list. Term commencing January 2, 2027; neither candidate currently sits on the court.
Cuyahoga Common Pleas Judge Seat C
2 candidates
County ▾
WV
William Vodrey
DEM INCUMBENT
Biography
William Vodrey has served on the Cuyahoga County Court of Common Pleas since his election in November 2020, per his campaign website. He previously served 19 years as a Cleveland Municipal Court magistrate, and earlier as an assistant Cuyahoga County prosecutor and a Legal Aid lawyer, per the same source.
Campaign siteFull profile
TW
Timothy W. Clary
REP
Biography
Timothy W. Clary began his legal career in 2012 and served as an assistant Cuyahoga County public defender before Governor Mike DeWine appointed him to the Cuyahoga County Court of Common Pleas in January 2024, according to the governor's office. He was later appointed to the Eighth District Court of Appeals in February 2026, per the court's own announcement. Timothy W. Clary appears on the November 3, 2026 ballot for Cuyahoga Common Pleas Judge Seat C, per the county elections office's certified candidate list. No campaign website was found as of September 10, 2026.
Full profile
About this race
Judicial candidates appear without party labels on Ohio ballots; parties shown are from the May primary nominations, per the county board of elections certified list. Term commencing January 3, 2027: a sitting Common Pleas judge faces a sitting appeals judge.
Cuyahoga Common Pleas Judge Seat D
2 candidates
County ▾
AS
Antonio S. Nicholson
REP INCUMBENT
Biography
Antonio S. Nicholson is a sitting Cuyahoga County Common Pleas judge, per the court's official roster.
Campaign siteFull profile
FM
Fallon Marie Radigan
DEM
Biography
Fallon Marie Radigan is on the board of elections certified candidate list for this seat's November 3, 2026 ballot.
Top Priorities
  • Combating internet crimes against children and educating communities about online safety
  • Supporting human trafficking victims through the county's Safe Harbor Docket
Per the radigan4judge.com.
Campaign siteFull profile
About this race
Judicial candidates appear without party labels on Ohio ballots; parties shown are from the May primary nominations, per the county board of elections certified list. Term commencing February 9, 2027.
Cuyahoga Domestic Relations Judge
2 candidates
County ▾
PA
Pamela A. Hawkins
REP INCUMBENT
Biography
Pamela A. Hawkins was appointed to the Cuyahoga County Court of Common Pleas, Domestic Relations Division, and has served since May 2026, per her campaign website. Her career has included work as a social worker, solo practitioner and assistant prosecuting attorney handling children and family services cases, and she remains an independently licensed social worker, per the same source.
Campaign siteFull profile
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Sunny Simon
DEM
Biography
Sunny Simon is a sitting Cuyahoga County Council member for District 11 and an attorney, per the county council's official roster.
Top Priorities
  • Improving the experience of families in the court system
  • Early childhood programs and literacy initiatives
  • Diversion programs to keep young people out of the court system
Per the campaign site.
Campaign siteFull profile
About this race
Judicial candidates appear without party labels on Ohio ballots; parties shown are from the May primary nominations, per the county board of elections certified list. Term commencing January 9, 2027.

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