2022 Ohio gubernatorial election
The 2022 Ohio gubernatorial election was held on November 8, 2022, to elect the governor of Ohio. Incumbent Republican Governor Mike DeWine won re-election to a second term in a landslide, defeating Democratic nominee Nan Whaley, the former mayor of Dayton, 62.4% to 37.4%. DeWine's 25-point victory marked the continuation of a trend in which every incumbent Republican governor of Ohio since 1994 has won re-election by a double-digit margin.
Image: Gov Mike De Wine (cropped)
Image: Nan Whaley, Mayor of Dayton, Ohio USA
Former U.S. Representative Jim Renacci challenged DeWine in the primary.
Former Cincinnati Mayor John Cranley finished second in the primary.
Richard Michael DeWine is an American politician and attorney serving since 2019 as the 70th governor of Ohio. He served as the 50th Attorney General of Ohio from 2011 to 2019, and in both houses of Congress: in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1983 to 1991 and in the U.S. Senate from 1995 to 2007. He is a member of the Republican Party.
Official portrait, 2018
DeWine and his family with President Ronald Reagan in 1985
DeWine with President George H. W. Bush in 1990
DeWine in 1997
