Jon Husted

Republican · OH · U.S. Senate

On the ballot in 2026

Ohio — U.S. Senate

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D +12 points of win probability since February.

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Bio

Jon Allen Husted is an American politician serving since 2025 as the junior United States senator from Ohio. A member of the Republican Party, he served from 2019 to 2025 as the 66th lieutenant governor of Ohio and from 2011 to 2019 as the 50th Ohio secretary of state.

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Record of service

In office: 1.7 years
First took office: 2025 (1 terms)
Seniority: 97 of 100 by time served
Age: 59
Senate class: 3 · junior senator

District offices

Toledo, OH · 567-304-3777
Columbus, OH · 614-369-4925
Middletown, OH · 513-318-1100
Cleveland, OH · 216-539-7877

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Service history, offices and identifiers from unitedstates/congress-legislators (public domain). Years served sum each term rather than subtracting the first start date, so a break in service is not counted as time in office.

Reported net worth

2025

$3.5M

Most recent filing (2025)

Assets: $1.9M – $5.0M
Liabilities: $0 – $0
Net worth: $1.9M – $5.0M

From annual financial disclosures, which report every asset and debt as a bracket — so these are ranges, and the figure shown is their midpoint. A primary residence is not a reportable asset while its mortgage is a reportable debt, which pushes some members negative. How this is calculated →

Overall lean (DW-NOMINATE)

LeftCenterRight

Issue profile

Taxes & Fiscal

R+1.00

Healthcare

R+1.00

Immigration & Border

R+1.00

Guns

—

Abortion & Reproductive Rights

—

Environment & Energy

R+0.91

Crime & Policing

R+1.00

Defense & Veterans

R+0.99

Economy & Labor

R+0.48

Foreign Policy & Trade

R+0.86

Civil Rights & Social

R+0.15

Education

R+1.00

Government & Democracy

R+0.44

Judicial & Executive Nominations

R+1.00

Each issue runs left ↔ right, scored from how the member voted on bills tagged to that issue (−1…+1). Issues with too few votes are blank. Overall lean uses DW-NOMINATE.

How they score against the parties

Jon Husted's voting record compared with each party's national platform, issue by issue — the same similarity score used across the site.

85%Closest

58%

28%

17%

Democratic Socialists (DSA)

12%

Communist Party USA

11%

On the political map

Jon Husted (the large ringed dot) among every current member of Congress and the party platforms.

Party platforms:Communist Party USADemocratic Socialists (DSA)Green PartyDemocratic PartyRepublican PartyLibertarian Party

Each small dot is a current member (Dem · Rep); the larger dots are party platforms — click one for its closest members. Economic axis: taxes, healthcare, labor, energy. Social axis: abortion, guns, immigration, civil rights, crime.

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Caucuses & committees

Where Hustedsits in Congress's own organization — each group's lean is computed from its members' voting records. Explore them all on the caucuses and committees pages.

Committees

Most and least aligned members

Treating Husted's 14 issue scores as a vector, cosine similarity measures whether two voting records point the same way (+100%) or in opposite directions (−100%) — the colleagues whose records align most and least with theirs.