COLUMBUS, Ohio – Ohio’s congressional delegation will remain the same, though the Congress to which they return will not.
EXTRA: Statewide results
Republicans have seized control of the Senate from the Democrats for the first time since 2006. And the GOP has an even tighter grip on the House.
House Speaker John Boehner says yesterday’s victory is still not a time for celebration for his fellow GOP. He says, “It’s time for government to start getting results and implementing solutions to the challenges facing our country, starting with our still-struggling economy.”
Boehner was one of the 16 Ohio congressional incumbents who won re-election in Tuesday’s midterm elections. That keeps the delegation at 12 Republicans and four Democrats.
The sweep was expected, with most incumbents holding safe seats after U.S. House districts were redrawn because of population changes in the 2010 U.S. Census.
In partial, unofficial returns, nearly all the incumbents had more than 60 percent of the vote.
That includes Pat Tiberi (D-Genoa Twp.) who took in 68 percent of the vote to turn back Democratic challenger David Arthur Tibbs and the Green Party’s Bob Hart, Steve Stivers (R-Columbus) who beat back Democrat Scott Wharton 66-34 percent and Joyce Beatty (D-Columbus) who defeated Republican challenger John Adams with 64 percent of the vote.
Ohio didn’t have a U.S. Senate race in this election.