Sherrod Brown wins Ohio U.S. Senate race, set to restart long, storied Senate career
Sherrod Brown is projected to reclaim an Ohio U.S. Senate seat, defeating incumbent Jon Husted.
Democrat Sherrod Brown is projected to return to the U.S. Senate after defeating incumbent Sen. Jon Husted (R-OH) on Tuesday.
The Associated Press called the race for Brown at 11:10 p.m. EST. As of 11:15 p.m. EST, Brown led over Husted by a count of 48.6% to 46.5%.
Brown’s win comes two years after he lost his bid for a fourth Senate term to U.S. Sen. Bernie Moreno (R-OH). He will now be serving in the Senate next to his former rival.
The pro-labor Democrat is one of two statewide Democrats to win in the Republican-dominated state since 2008, the other being Barack Obama.
Husted faced a number of scandals after being appointed to the Senate by Gov. Mike DeWine (R) in January 2025. This past March, prosecutors had him testify over his role in the FirstEnergy corruption case, the largest corruption case in the state’s history (he was never accused of wrongdoing). He also accepted a total of $116K in donations from Les Wexner, a billionaire businessman who was an associate of sex criminal Jeffery Epstein. He accepted donations as recently as July 3, 2025, two months before voting against a bill to make the Epstein files public.
With an estimated $500 million in spending for this race, it became the most expensive race of this midterm cycle.
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