Marion County turnout reached 53.24 percent in the November 3 general election — 20,613 ballots from 38,719 registered voters — as the county backed Republicans in every statewide race in its official canvass, even as Democrats Amy Acton and Sherrod Brown were winning those same races statewide, according to the Election Summary Report for Marion County’s official canvass, dated November 13 and published by the Marion County Board of Elections, with all 45 of 45 precincts reporting.
At home, the margins were not close. Vivek Ramaswamy carried Marion County with 11,544 votes, 56.89 percent, to 7,737, 38.13 percent, for Acton in the governor’s race, with Libertarian Don Kissick taking 998 votes, and Jon Husted carried the county with 11,688 votes, 57.51 percent, to 7,198, 35.41 percent, for Brown in the U.S. Senate race, according to the board’s canvass summary. U.S. Rep. Jim Jordan won the county’s 4th District vote with 12,705 votes, 62.42 percent.
The county’s two state House districts stayed Republican as well. Ben Weber won the Marion County portion of the 86th District with 8,441 votes, 59.69 percent, to 5,700 for Kent Halloran, and Jeffrey A. McClain took the county’s 87th District precincts with 4,319 votes, 71.11 percent, according to the canvass summary. County Commissioner Kenneth H. Stiverson, Auditor Joan Kasotis and Coroner Timothy F. Garner were each unopposed.
Marion County’s two countywide service levies both passed. Voters renewed the Marion County Board of Developmental Disabilities levy — the 3-mill, five-year renewal that headlined the county’s ballot this fall — with 12,074 votes in favor, 60.07 percent, and renewed the 1-mill ADAMH levy with 11,341 votes in favor, 56.47 percent, according to the board’s summary. Statewide Issue 3, the photo ID constitutional amendment, carried the county overwhelmingly, 15,440 to 4,814, 76.23 percent in favor.
The night’s closest Marion County finish came in the Ridgedale Local School District, where a 2.44-mill renewal passed by seven votes — 848 in favor to 841 against, 50.21 percent. The Elgin Local School District’s 2.88-mill renewal failed, 1,291 against to 1,160 in favor, and Marion city voters rejected staggered council terms, 4,297 against to 3,579 in favor, 54.56 percent against, according to the canvass summary.
What happens next is the state’s certification: the county’s canvass is complete, and Ohio’s results are certified at the state level by the November 24 deadline, after which the winners take office on their scheduled January dates. All figures in this report are from the Marion County Board of Elections’ Election Summary Report for the official canvass.