Ohio Election Results

Well, Donald Trump is President. Didn't see that one coming. However, Ohio went as expected.

For the Presidential race, I thought it would be closer, but Donald Trump did win. Trump won over 52% of the votes, Hillary won about 43.5%, with the other 4.5% or so going to the third party candidates.

The Senate race went as expected, with the Republican incumbent Rob Portman winning in a landslide over the Democrat Ted Strickland.

In the House of Representatives races, 12 districts went Republican while 4 went Democrat. The same distribution as before the election, with the districts staying with the same party.

As far as state legislative elections go, the Republicans cleaned house, winning 2/3rds of the state representative seats and claiming all but 2 of the 16 senate seats up for grabs

This is a perfect example of the effects of gerrymandering. The Presidential race shows the legislatures should have stayed Republican, but not by such a wide margin. The state is much more evenly split than is represented by the legislative bodies make up.