Medina County backed Republicans in the November 3 general election even as Democrats Amy Acton and Sherrod Brown were winning the same races statewide, according to the Associated Press’s unofficial county results, with 121 of the county’s 124 precincts reporting and an estimated 98 percent of the vote counted.
In the governor’s race, Vivek Ramaswamy carried Medina County with 44,003 votes to 38,701 for Acton, the Associated Press reported. In the U.S. Senate race, Jon Husted carried the county with 44,892 votes to 36,900 for Brown, according to the AP’s unofficial county count. Both margins ran against the statewide outcome, in which Acton and Brown won their races.
Down the ballot, the county stayed Republican as well. Republican Melanie Miller won re-election to the Ohio House in the 67th District, defeating Democrat Heather Sample with 30,628 votes, 63.90 percent, to Sample’s 17,300 votes, 36.10 percent, in combined final unofficial results from Ashland and Medina counties, WiseVoter reported, in coverage that included information reported by Ashland Source. The 67th District covers all of Ashland County and parts of western Medina County.
In the 7th Congressional District, incumbent U.S. Rep. Max Miller won Medina County on election night even as Democrat Brian Poindexter built a large lead in Cuyahoga County, the Akron Beacon Journal reported in its election-night coverage.
Medina’s result fits the pattern this series has found across northern Ohio: the county voted the opposite way from the state as a whole, as its neighbors split — Lorain County, directly to the west, backed Democrats in its unofficial results, while Medina’s Republican margins in the two statewide races were decisive at home even though neither Republican won statewide.
All of the figures in this report are unofficial. The Medina County Board of Elections has published its November 3 cumulative, precinct-detail and overlap results, and Ohio’s county results are certified at the state level by the November 24 deadline under the Secretary of State’s canvass schedule, after which the winners take office on their scheduled January dates.
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