2022 Ohio Attorney General election

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2022 Ohio Attorney General election
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  2018 November 8, 20222026 
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Nominee Dave Yost Jeffrey Crossman
Party Republican Democratic
Popular vote2,484,7531,647,644
Percentage60.13%39.87%

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Yost:     50–60%     60–70%     70–80%     80–90%     >90%
Crossman:     50–60%     60–70%     70–80%     80–90%     >90%
Tie:     50%
     No votes

Attorney General before election

Dave Yost
Republican

Elected Attorney General

Dave Yost
Republican

The 2022 Ohio Attorney General election took place on November 8, 2022, to elect the Attorney General of the state of Ohio. David Yost was re-elected to a second term in a landslide, defeating Democratic opponent Jeffrey Crossman by a comfortable 20 percentage points. The election coincided with various other federal and state elections, including that for governor of Ohio.

Contents

Republican primary

Candidates

Declared

Endorsements

Dave Yost
U.S. Executive Branch officials
Organizations

Results

Republican primary results [4]
PartyCandidateVotes%
Republican Dave Yost (incumbent) 870,124 100.00
Total votes870,124 100.00

Democratic primary

Candidates

Declared

Endorsements

Jeffrey Crossman

Results

Democratic primary results [4]
PartyCandidateVotes%
Democratic Jeffrey Crossman 433,014 100.00
Total votes433,014 100.00

General election

Predictions

SourceRankingAs of
Sabato's Crystal Ball [8] Safe RSeptember 14, 2022
Elections Daily [9] Safe RNovember 1, 2022

Endorsements

Dave Yost (R)
U.S. Executive Branch officials
Organizations
Newspapers
Jeffrey Crossman (D)

Polling

Graphical summary
Poll sourceDate(s)
administered
Sample
size
Margin
of error
Dave
Yost (R)
Jeffrey
Crossman (D)
OtherUndecided
The Trafalgar Group August 16–18, 20221,087 (LV)± 2.9%53%37%10%

Results

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State Senate district results
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State House district results
2022 Ohio Attorney General election
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Republican Dave Yost (incumbent) 2,484,753 60.13% +7.97
Democratic Jeffrey Crossman 1,647,64439.87%-7.97
Total votes4,132,397 100.00%
Republican hold

By congressional district

Yost won 13 of 15 congressional districts, including three that elected Democrats. [13]

DistrictYostCrossmanRepresentative
1st 52%48% Steve Chabot (117th Congress)
Greg Landsman (118th Congress)
2nd 76%24% Brad Wenstrup
3rd 35%65% Joyce Beatty
4th 73%27% Jim Jordan
5th 69%31% Bob Latta
6th 70%30% Bill Johnson
7th 60%40% Bob Gibbs (117th Congress)
Max Miller (118th Congress)
8th 67%33% Warren Davidson
9th 58%42% Marcy Kaptur
10th 59%41% Mike Turner
11th 27%73% Shontel Brown
12th 71%29% Troy Balderson
13th 55%45% Tim Ryan (117th Congress)
Emilia Sykes (118th Congress)
14th 63%37% David Joyce
15th 60%40% Mike Carey

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