#1 is the best, #50 is the worst
On November 11, the House voted 245-175 to force a standalone vote on the Major Richard Star Act, which would stop cutting the retirement pay of about 58,000 combat-wounded veterans. Every no vote came from a Republican. Here are the 153 on this site, and the 85 of them whose names are on the bill.
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Jon Husted and Vivek Ramaswamy were completely rejected as Ohio sent a massive shockwave through the Republican party.
A week after their worst election in decades, House Republicans voted 106-73 to make Jim Jordan their leader: a man who has never passed a law, ignored a subpoena about January 6th, and has never come clean about what he knew at Ohio State.
Trump won Ohio with 55.1% of the vote to 43.9%, a margin of 11.2 points, with 65.4% of eligible voters turning out. (Full 2024 presidential results, state by state.)
12 of 17 — 71%. In the U.S. House, Ohio has 10 Republicans and 5 Democrats; in the Senate, 2 Republicans and 0 Democrats. (Source: Current members of Congress from Ohio, on Wikipedia.)
Ohio ranks #35 of 50. That is the average of its rank on the 17 measures in the report card above — violent crime, gun deaths, life expectancy, food insecurity, maternal and infant mortality, household income, public education, voter turnout and more. #1 is the best state to live in, #50 the worst.
You can compare Ohio directly to other states on our Compare States page.
We grade Republican incumbents running in 2026 — U.S. Senators, U.S. Representatives and governors — on their record: how they voted, who funds them, and what it has cost Ohio. Democrats and independents do not get report cards.