2026 BFA-PAC Grades and Endorsements for the Ohio General Election
2:11pm Monday, August 03, 2026
For the 2026 General Election, BFA-PAC is focusing primarily on federal legislative candidates (U.S. Senate and U.S. House), Ohio statewide candidates, Ohio legislative candidates (Ohio Senate and Ohio House), and select judicial candidates (Ohio Supreme Court and District Courts of Appeal).
NOTES:
- The following grades and endorsements may not be complete. We will continue to update this voter guide as we collect additional information.
- In general, we grade only candidates who complete our survey.
- "q" after a grade means we are basing the grade primarily on answers to our candidate survey, not on legislative votes or other confirmed information.
DATES:
- September 18 - Military and overseas absentee voting begins
- October 6 - Early in-person and mail-in voting begins
- November 3 - General Election Day
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| U.S. Senate | |||||
| District | Party | Name | Grade | Endorsement | |
| D | Sherrod Brown | F | |||
| R | Jon Husted | A | Endorsed | ||
| U.S. House | |||||
| District | Party | Name | Grade | Endorsement | |
| 4 | R | Jim Jordan | A | Endorsed | |
| 5 | R | Bob Latta | A | Endorsed | |
| 6 | R | Michael Rulli | A | Endorsed | |
| 8 | R | Warren Davidson | A | Endorsed | |
| 9 | R | Derek Merrin | A | Endorsed | |
| 12 | R | Troy Balderson | A | Endorsed | |
| 15 | R | Mike Carey | A | Endorsed | |
| Governor/Lt. Governor | |||||
| District | Party | Name | Grade | Endorsement | |
| R | Vivek Ramaswamy | A+ | Endorsed | ||
| & Rob McColley | |||||
| Attorney General | |||||
| District | Party | Name | Grade | Endorsement | |
| R | Keith Faber | A+ | Endorsed | ||
| Secretary of State | |||||
| District | Party | Name | Grade | Endorsement | |
| D | Allison Russo | F | |||
| R | Robert Sprague | A | Endorsed | ||
| Treasurer | |||||
| District | Party | Name | Grade | Endorsement | |
| R | Jay Edwards | A | Endorsed | ||
| Auditor | |||||
| District | Party | Name | Grade | Endorsement | |
| R | Frank LaRose | A | Endorsed | ||
| State Senate | |||||
| District | Party | Name | Grade | Endorsement | |
| 1 | R | Craig Riedel | A | ||
| 3 | R | Michele Reynolds | A | Endorsed | |
| 5 | R | Phil Plummer | A | Endorsed | |
| 7 | R | Zac Haines | Aq | Endorsed | |
| 11 | D | Paula Hicks-Hudson | D | ||
| 13 | R | Gayle Manning | B | Endorsed | |
| 15 | R | Joseph Healy | Aq | Endorsed | |
| 17 | R | Shane Wilkin | A+ | Endorsed | |
| 19 | R | Ryan Rivers | Aq | Endorsed | |
| 25 | R | Don Roberts | Aq | Endorsed | |
| 27 | R | Steve Demetriou | A | Endorsed | |
| 29 | R | Jane Timken | A | Endorsed | |
| 31 | R | Al Landis | A | Endorsed | |
| 33 | R | Al Cutrona | A | Endorsed | |
| State House | |||||
| District | Party | Name | Grade | Endorsement | |
| 6 | R | Matthew Jackson | Aq | Endorsed | |
| 7 | R | William Mercier | Bq | ||
| 9 | R | Bruce Euans | Aq | Endorsed | |
| 10 | R | Denise D'Angelo | Aq | Endorsed | |
| 12 | R | Brian Stewart | A | Endorsed | |
| 15 | R | Dan Conway | Bq | ||
| 17 | R | Mike Dovilla | A | Endorsed | |
| 29 | R | Cindy Abrams | A | ||
| 31 | R | Mike Kahoe | Aq | Endorsed | |
| 32 | R | Jack Daniels | B | Endorsed | |
| 34 | R | Craig Shubert | Bq | ||
| 37 | R | Tom Young | A | Endorsed | |
| 40 | R | Rodney Creech | A | ||
| 42 | D | Elgin Rogers | D | ||
| 44 | R | Edward Schimmel | Aq | Endorsed | |
| 45 | R | Jennifer Gross | A | Endorsed | |
| 46 | R | Thomas Hall | A | Endorsed | |
| 47 | L | Jason Purviance | Aq | ||
| 48 | R | Christina Hagan | A | Endorsed | |
| 50 | R | Matthew Kishman | A | Endorsed | |
| 51 | R | Jodi Salvo | A | Endorsed | |
| 53 | R | Brad Lacko | Aq | ||
| 54 | R | Kellie Deeter | A | Endorsed | |
| 55 | R | Michelle Teska | A | Endorsed | |
| 56 | R | Adam Mathews | A | Endorsed | |
| 59 | R | Tex Fischer | A | Endorsed | |
| 60 | R | Brian Lorenz | A | Endorsed | |
| 62 | R | Jean Schmidt | A | Endorsed | |
| 63 | R | Adam Bird | A | Endorsed | |
| 64 | R | Nick Santucci | A | Endorsed | |
| 65 | R | David Thomas | A | Endorsed | |
| 66 | R | Sean Hutson | Aq | Endorsed | |
| 67 | R | Melanie Miller | A | Endorsed | |
| 68 | R | Thad Claggett | A | Endorsed | |
| 69 | R | Kevin Miller | A | Endorsed | |
| 70 | R | Brian Lampton | A | Endorsed | |
| 71 | R | Levi Dean | A | Endorsed | |
| 72 | R | Heidi Workman | A | Endorsed | |
| 73 | R | Jeff LaRe | A | Endorsed | |
| 74 | R | Bernard Willis | A | Endorsed | |
| 75 | R | Haraz Ghanbari | A | Endorsed | |
| 76 | R | Marilyn John | A | Endorsed | |
| 77 | R | Meredith Craig | A | Endorsed | |
| 78 | R | Matt Huffman | A | Endorsed | |
| 79 | R | Monica Robb Blasdel | A | Endorsed | |
| 80 | R | Johnathan Newman | A | Endorsed | |
| 81 | R | Patti Rockey | Aq | Endorsed | |
| 82 | L | Christopher Elder | Bq | ||
| 82 | R | Roy Klopfenstein | A | Endorsed | |
| 83 | R | Ty Mathews | A | Endorsed | |
| 84 | R | Angie King | A | Endorsed | |
| 85 | R | Tim Barhorst | A | Endorsed | |
| 86 | R | Ben Weber | Aq | Endorsed | |
| 88 | R | Gary Click | A | Endorsed | |
| 89 | R | DJ Swearingen | A | Endorsed | |
| 90 | R | Justin Pizzulli | A | Endorsed | |
| 91 | R | Bob Peterson | A | Endorsed | |
| 92 | R | Mark Johnson | A | Endorsed | |
| 93 | R | Jason Stephens | A | Endorsed | |
| 94 | R | Kevin Ritter | A | Endorsed | |
| 95 | R | Ty Moore | B | Endorsed | |
| 96 | R | Ron Ferguson | A | Endorsed | |
| 97 | L | Tim Godwin | Aq | ||
| 97 | R | Adam Holmes | A | Endorsed | |
| 98 | R | Mark Hiner | A | Endorsed | |
| 99 | R | Sarah Fowler Arthur | A | Endorsed | |
| Justice Supreme Court | |||||
| District | Party | Name | Grade | Endorsement | |
| R | Colleen O'Donnell | Aq | Endorsed | ||
| R | Dan Hawkins | A | Endorsed | ||
| Court of Appeals | |||||
| District | Party | Name | Grade | Endorsement | |
| 5 | R | Matthew George | A | Endorsed | |
| 11 | R | Marisa Cornachio | A | Endorsed | |
| Other | |||||
| District | Party | Name | Grade | Endorsement | |
| Common Pleas Court | |||||
| Adams | R | Barbara Holt | Aq | Endorsed | |
| Perry | R | Steve Carr | Aq | Endorsed | |
| Commissioner | |||||
| Butler | Michael Ryan | Bq | |||
| Geauga | Steven Oluic | Aq | |||
| County Auditor | |||||
| Trumbull | Mike Loychik | A | Endorsed | ||
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