Scope and limitations

What this Ohio guide covers

This guide covers all eight Ohio candidate contests and one constitutional amendment decided by every voter statewide, including both Supreme Court elections and all seven approved named write-in choices.

Included

Published now

All 20 printed choices in eight statewide candidate contests
All seven valid named statewide write-in choices listed in Directive 2026-45
Sixteen exact Ohio active-committee finance cards, including fifteen numeric Post-Primary records and one explicit unavailable record
Four processed FEC special U.S. Senate candidate summaries
Registration, early voting, absentee request and return, voter identification, provisional-ballot cure, UOCAVA exception, and Election Day rules
The one confirmed statewide constitutional amendment
Two statewide Supreme Court candidate elections with four printed candidates and no retention questions

Not included

Outside this release

U.S. House, General Assembly, court of appeals, common pleas, county, municipal, township, school, and other district or local contests
Local questions and issues that do not appear on every Ohio ballot
Withdrawn, removed, primary-only, unprinted, district, or local candidates
Later monthly state contribution-only filings because they are not comparable complete reports
Independent expenditures and outside spending beyond the selected candidate and committee summaries
Transaction-level donor and expenditure analysis
Future amendments or filings posted after the October 1 check

Not yet published

District contests, local ballot styles, and itemized finance

Congressional, legislative, lower-court, county, municipal, township, school, local-question, local polling-location, and transaction-level finance expansion are outside this statewide release.

Dataset comparison: Do not compare state datasets as if they use one method. Nevada includes itemized transactions. Alabama uses race-level portal summaries. Alaska uses APOC and FEC records. Arizona uses Spotlight summaries across a calendar-year filter. Arkansas uses candidate summaries for Election Year 2026. California uses CAL-ACCESS committee totals. Colorado uses TRACER and FEC summaries. Connecticut uses W4POLITICS sums of nonoverlapping SEEC30 report periods plus the latest reported balance. Delaware uses verified CFRS filings and FEC summaries. Florida uses candidate-specific All Dates Totals. Georgia uses campaign-to-date PeachFile fields. Hawaii uses Candidate Filing System report totals. Idaho uses Idaho Sunshine candidate totals and processed FEC summaries. Illinois uses one latest non-archived D-2 Quarterly Report per exact office-matching candidate committee plus separate FEC summaries. Iowa uses exact fields from each committee's DR-2 summary for the period ending July 14 and processed FEC summaries through June 30. Kansas uses exact fields from reports covering January 1 through July 23, preserves two exemption affidavits as threshold statements, and uses processed FEC summaries through July 15. Kentucky and Louisiana each have one federal statewide contest and use FEC summaries; no state candidate-finance comparison applies. Maine uses campaign-to-date Ethics profile fields checked October 1 and FEC current-cycle summaries through June 30. Maryland uses one official MDCRIS Pre-General 1 report per exact statewide candidate committee; one ALCE threshold affidavit is not converted into exact totals. Massachusetts uses exact August Composite Depository Bank Report fields and candidate-specific FEC windows. Mississippi has one federal statewide contest and uses FEC summaries. Missouri uses exact fields from the latest full MEC report for each active exact committee match; one missing candidate record is not converted into zero, and no FEC statewide comparison applies. New Hampshire uses exact fields from each Governor candidate's latest available Secretary of State R&E report, preserves candidate-specific windows ending August 30 or September 13, and uses processed FEC candidate summaries through August 19. One missing FEC summary is not converted into zero. Ohio uses one complete Post-Primary cover-page record per exact state committee, with activity through June 5 and candidate-specific filing dates from June 10 through June 12. Later July, August, and September monthly contribution reports are excluded because the official calendar says monthly contributions are independently reported and not repeated; one missing state cover record is not converted into zero. Federal Senate cards use processed FEC candidate summaries through June 30.

Version record

Ohio guide 1.0

PublishedOctober 1, 2026

Contests shown8

Ballot choices20

Ballot measures1

8 statewide candidate contests, 20 printed choices, 7 approved named write-in choices, 16 state finance cards including 1 explicit unavailable record, 4 FEC cards, 1 statewide constitutional amendment, 2 statewide Supreme Court elections with 4 candidates, and 0 statewide judicial retention questions

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Ohio guide publication record
Version	Published	Scope
1.0	October 1, 2026	8 statewide candidate contests, 20 printed choices, 7 approved named write-in choices, 16 state finance cards including 1 explicit unavailable record, 4 FEC cards, 1 statewide constitutional amendment, 2 statewide Supreme Court elections with 4 candidates, and 0 statewide judicial retention questions

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