Where 2026 stands
Cumulative ballots by day
Running totals of returned ballots by days before Election Day. Ohio elections fall on a Tuesday, so the same day count lands on the same weekday each cycle. 2026 stops at the as-of day. Past cycles appear only for counties that publish their own history (see comparison counties).
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Comparison counties: 2026 vs 2022 and 2024 at the same day
The statewide SOS file only covers the current election. These counties publish voter-level absentee exports for past elections with the true ballot method, so the 2022 midterm can be rebuilt day by day. Every count is cumulative through days before Election Day. Early in-person voting opened 28 days out in 2024 and 2026 but 27 days out in 2022, so 2022 has one fewer in-person day at any given point.
All comparison counties combined:
Hover for daily values. Counties without a published history (Franklin, Cuyahoga, Butler, Stark, Clermont and a few small ones) are not in this total.
The 12 largest
Every comparison county (click a row to select it)
Who is voting: past turnout behavior
2026 ballots per 100,000 registered voters in each group. History comes from the statewide voter file. Voted 2022 midterm · Presidential only (voted 2020 or 2024, not 2022) · New since Nov 2024 (registered after the 2024 general) · Lapsed / never (everyone else).
Ballots per 100k registered
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Retention: share of last midterm's voters who have already voted
Turnout by modeled voting propensity
Registrants are ranked into quartiles by past participation alone: 2016–2024 generals (midterms weighted ×2) plus the 2022, 2024 and 2026 primaries (×0.5), counting only elections they were registered for. Q1 = least likely, Q4 = most likely. Voters with no eligible elections form their own group.
Ballots per 100k registered
Democratic share of D + R
Unaffiliated and minor-party voters are excluded from both sides.
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Unaffiliated voters, by the last partisan primary they chose
In Ohio, party affiliation is primary history: you are a Democrat or Republican if your most recent partisan primary ballot (within two calendar years) was that party's. So of registrants are "unaffiliated". This splits them by the last partisan primary ballot they ever took.
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Map
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Counties and districts
County deep dive
Counties that publish their own absentee exports report things the statewide file doesn't: how each ballot came back (mail, drop box, in person, at the counter) and ballot problems that need curing (missing ID, signature mismatch…).
How ballots came back
Ballot problems flagged (2026)
Same-day comparison by party and method
Party is the voter's affiliation at the time of that election, as recorded on the absentee application. "Same day" = cumulative through days before each Election Day.