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Sherrod Brown

Democrat. Ohio’s Senate seat, on the ballot November 7, 2028.

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Age on Election Day 2028
75
On November 7, 2028. Born November 9, 1952.
Lean
R+5
Lean Republican. Statewide, 2025 Cook PVI.
In the Senate since
Elect
Won the November 3, 2026 election.
Approval
No published rating
No published rating found.

Overview

Cash on hand
Not in our data
Last election
50%
Share of the vote. The special election for the rest of the term, as NBC News counted it on November 5, 2026, with 98% of the vote in.

The state in 2024
Trump won Ohio in 2024.
Earlier offices
  • U.S. Senate, 2007 to 2025
  • U.S. House, 1993 to 2007
  • Ohio secretary of state, 1983 to 1991
  • Ohio House, 1975 to 1982
2028 plans
No public statement on record.

Lean is the state’s 2025 Cook Partisan Voting Index (PVI): R+5 to R+9 is lean Republican, R+10 and up solidly Republican, and D+ leans Democratic. Approval is the latest published Morning Consult rating, from its quarterly survey of registered voters in each state. Last election is the share of the vote the senator won. Cash on hand is the campaign’s money at the end of the reporting period named.

Sources (2)
  1. 1Sherrod Brown, official page Open the source (opens in a new tab)
  2. 22025 Cook PVI, state list (Cook Political Report), checked against the 2020 and 2024 presidential results Open the source (opens in a new tab)

In the Senate

In the Senate since
Senator-electWon the November 3, 2026 special election.
Leadership posts
No leadership post
Committees
No committee assignments listed.

A gold mark names a leadership post. The posts and committees are the 119th Congress’s, as senate.gov lists them: a chair led a full committee for the majority, a ranking member was the senior member of the minority on it. The 120th Congress, which Democrats control, names its own in January 2027.

The filibuster

The senator’s own public position, from a recorded vote or a dated statement. A talking filibuster requires senators to hold the floor to block a vote.

Ending the legislative filibuster

No public position found

Not yet researched for this officeholder.

A talking filibuster

No public position found

Not yet researched for this officeholder.

The state’s other seat

Ohio’s other Senate seat is not on the 2028 ballot.

Senator
Bernie Moreno (opens in a new tab)
Party
Republican
Next on the ballot
2030The current term ends January 3, 2031.

The two seats are on different ballots: this one in 2028, the other in 2030. From the 120th Congress Senate roster: holdover senators from congress-legislators (retrieved 2026-10-03) and the November 3, 2026 winners called by NBC News and the Associated Press, merged by scripts/build_120th.py (opens in a new tab) dataset, retrieved November 5, 2026.

Sources (2)
  1. 3Bernie Moreno’s official site Open the source (opens in a new tab)
  2. 4120th Congress Senate roster: holdover senators from congress-legislators (retrieved 2026-10-03) and the November 3, 2026 winners called by NBC News and the Associated Press, merged by scripts/build_120th.py dataset Retrieved November 5, 2026. Open the source (opens in a new tab)

Election history

2026 election
Won with 50% of the voteThe special election for the rest of the term, as NBC News counted it on November 5, 2026, with 98% of the vote in.Official results (opens in a new tab)
2028
Won the November 3, 2026 special election for the rest of the term, to January 3, 2029. The seat is on the ballot November 7, 2028.

Financial records

Cash on hand
Not reported

Cash on hand from the latest Federal Election Commission filing of the senator’s campaign committee.

Scorecards

Not in our data.

Each out of 100, as the group publishes it: Heritage Action and Turning Point Action (the senator’s lifetime scores), Club for Growth (the senator’s lifetime rating) and GOP Platform (2025), which measures agreement with the national Republican Party platform and is published by the Institute for Legislative Analysis.

“No score published” means the group published none, not zero.

How to read this

Each group’s name links to the senator’s own page on its scorecard, opened on the date shown.

Endorsements

Mirrored for Democrats: Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer, Justice Democrats, the Working Families Party, the Congressional Progressive Caucus PAC and the Democratic Socialists of America, as Republicans are checked against Donald Trump, Club for Growth, Turning Point Action and MAHA PAC.

Not in our data.

Sources

Each section lists its own sources, numbered through the page. Here they are together.

All sources for this record (4)

Overview

  1. 1Sherrod Brown, official page (opens in a new tab)
  2. 22025 Cook PVI, state list (Cook Political Report), checked against the 2020 and 2024 presidential results (opens in a new tab)

The state’s other seat

  1. 3Bernie Moreno’s official site (opens in a new tab)
  2. 4120th Congress Senate roster: holdover senators from congress-legislators (retrieved 2026-10-03) and the November 3, 2026 winners called by NBC News and the Associated Press, merged by scripts/build_120th.py dataset (opens in a new tab) Retrieved November 5, 2026.

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