The 1988 United States Senate election in Ohio was held on November 8, 1988. Incumbent
Democratic
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U.S. Senator
Howard Metzenbaum won re-election.
Metzenbaum easily won the Democratic nomination with over 80% of the vote, while Cleveland Mayor
George Voinovich
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was uncontested in his primary. This was the last U.S. senator to win in the Democratic party at this seat until
2006
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. In addition, Metzenbaum's 56.97% of the vote is to date the best performance for a Democrat running for the U.S. Senate in Ohio, though
Sherrod Brown, a Democrat nearly broke that in 2006. Voinovich would later be elected in the other Senate seat
ten years later
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. , this remains the last time that Ohio would support different parties in a concurrent presidential and Senate election.
Major candidates
Democratic
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Howard Metzenbaum, incumbent U.S. Senator
Republican
*
George Voinovich
George Victor Voinovich (July 15, 1936June 12, 2016) was an American politician who served as a United States senator from Ohio from 1999 to 2011, the 65th governor of Ohio from 1991 to 1998 and the 54th mayor of Cleveland from 1980 to 1989, th ...
,
Mayor of Cleveland
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and former
Lieutenant Governor of Ohio.
Results
See also
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1988 United States Senate elections
The 1988 United States Senate elections was an election for the United States Senate in which, in spite of the Republican victory by George H. W. Bush in the presidential election, the Democrats gained a net of one seat in the Senate. Seven seats ...
References
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