Riding profile

OH-3

US House district — OH · Mixed · us oh

The question

OH-3: a safe seat for the Democrats?

Current forecast

Democrat

Safe

Probability
100%
Mean margin (pts)
51.0
P(close race)
0%

Projected vote share

Projection by party

  • Democrat 75.5%
  • Republican 24.5%

Watch list

The tightest races

Smallest projected margin. Open one for the numbers.

  1. FL-22Democrat68 %1.1 pt margin
  2. AZ-2Republican57 %1.1 pt margin
  3. OH-10Democrat60 %1.1 pt margin

In context

How this riding stacks up

Democrat Republican
HereOH-3 75.5%24.5%
National averageUnited States 54.3% +21.2 44.9% −20.4

Nationwide averages computed across the 435 riding-level projections (unweighted mean).

Projection track

How the projection has moved

Editorial read

OH-3, a mixed riding in OH, elected a member with the Democrats in the previous cycle, with a 41-point margin. The Vote-Scope model projects the Democrats ahead at 75% vote share, against 25% for the Republicans, and the probability of a close race is negligible.

Sitting member

BEATTY, JOYCE

Sits with Democrat

Who's running

The candidates

Declared and on-ballot candidates for the upcoming election.

  • Democrat Incumbent

    Beatty, Joyce

Previous election · 2024

Won by
Democrat
Margin
41.3 pts
Margin shift vs current projection
+9.7 pts
Last model run
Cycle
us_house_2026