COLUMBUS, Ohio — For the first time in more than a decade, the Republican supermajority in the Ohio House of Representatives is at risk in the Nov. 3 midterm election, and several of the races that will decide it are in central Ohio. All 99 House seats are on the ballot; Democrats need to flip just six to end a supermajority Republicans have held since 2013.
The stakes go beyond bragging rights: under the Ohio Constitution, a three-fifths majority in both chambers lets lawmakers override a governor’s veto. If Democrat Amy Acton wins the governor’s race and Democrats break the House supermajority, Acton would wield veto leverage over the legislature for at least two years.
Among the closest contests: the 10th House District, where Democratic incumbent Mark Sigrist of Grove City faces Republican Denise D’Angelo, a South-Western school board member, in a district split almost evenly between the parties; the 11th, where Democratic incumbent Crystal Lett of Hilliard takes on Dublin teacher Shawn Kaeser; and the 60th, where Republican incumbent Brian Lorenz of Powell faces Marine Corps and Army veteran Shelby Kimball.
In the 3rd Ohio Senate District, Republican incumbent Michele Reynolds of Canal Winchester is defending her seat against Democrat Stacie Baker, a Reynoldsburg city council member. The district — Grove City, Circleville, Reynoldsburg and much of Madison and Pickaway counties — leans Republican but has flipped before: Reynolds took it from a Democrat in 2022.
