Cleveland: who represents it, and who is running
U.S. general election (federal, state and county offices) votes on 2026-11-03. It elects u.S. Senator (Ohio special election for the unexpired term ending 1/3/29); U.S. Representative OH-11; Governor and Lieutenant Governor (joint ticket, open seat) and other statewide offices; Ohio Senate SD-23 and Ohio House HD-20 (city hall; both open seats); Cuyahoga County Executive, County Council and judges. No City of Cleveland office is on the 2026 ballot..
Holding office23
the sitting council
On the ballot15
2 sitting members running again
The official candidate list ↗ · What Cleveland is like — the /local page
Congressional district (city hall): Ohio's 11th congressional district (city hall, and the whole city on both the 119th and 120th Congress maps) — Shontel Brown (Democratic)
1
Mayor
| Name | Office | Party / slate | Seat | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Justin M. Bibb ✉️ Elected | Mayor | Independent | City of Cleveland |
2
Councilmember
| Name | Office | Party / slate | Seat | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Austin N. Davis ✉️ Elected | Councilmember | Independent | Ward 7 | Cleveland City Council |
| Blaine A. Griffin ✉️ Elected | Councilmember | Independent | Ward 6 | Cleveland City Council |
| Brian Kazy ✉️ Elected | Councilmember | Independent | Ward 13 | Cleveland City Council |
| Charles J. Slife ✉️ Elected | Councilmember | Independent | Ward 15 | Cleveland City Council |
| Deborah Gray ✉️ Elected | Councilmember | Independent | Ward 3 | Cleveland City Council |
| Jasmin Santana ✉️ Elected | Councilmember | Independent | Ward 14 | Cleveland City Council |
| Joseph T. Jones ✉️ Elected | Councilmember | Independent | Ward 1 | Cleveland City Council |
| Kevin Conwell ✉️ Elected | Councilmember | Independent | Ward 9 | Cleveland City Council |
| Kevin L. Bishop ✉️ Elected | Councilmember | Independent | Ward 2 | Cleveland City Council |
| Kris Harsh ✉️ Elected | Councilmember | Independent | Ward 4 | Cleveland City Council |
| Michael D. Polensek ✉️ Elected | Councilmember | Independent | Ward 10 | Cleveland City Council |
| Nikki Hudson ✉️ Elected | Councilmember | Independent | Ward 11 | Cleveland City Council |
| Richard A. Starr ✉️ Elected | Councilmember | Independent | Ward 5 | Cleveland City Council |
| Stephanie D. Howse-Jones ✉️ Elected | Councilmember | Independent | Ward 8 | Cleveland City Council |
| Tanmay Shah ✉️ Elected | Councilmember | Independent | Ward 12 | Cleveland City Council |
3
Governor
| Name | Office | Party / slate | Seat | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mike DeWine Elected | Governor | Republican | Cuyahoga County Board of Elections | |
| Amy Acton | Governor Running | Democratic | Cuyahoga County Board of Elections | |
| Don Kissick | Governor Running | Libertarian | Cuyahoga County Board of Elections | |
| Vivek Ramaswamy | Governor Running | Republican | Cuyahoga County Board of Elections |
4
Lieutenant Governor
| Name | Office | Party / slate | Seat | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jim Tressel Elected | Lieutenant Governor | Republican | Cuyahoga County Board of Elections | |
| David Pepper | Lieutenant Governor Running | Democratic | Cuyahoga County Board of Elections | |
| James L. Mills | Lieutenant Governor Running | Libertarian | Cuyahoga County Board of Elections | |
| Robert A. McColley | Lieutenant Governor Running | Republican | Cuyahoga County Board of Elections |
5
State Representative — HD-20
| Name | Office | Party / slate | Seat | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Terrence Upchurch Elected | State Representative | Democratic | Cuyahoga County Board of Elections | |
| Eugene Miller acclaimed | State Representative Running | Democratic | Cuyahoga County Board of Elections |
6
State Senator — SD-23
| Name | Office | Party / slate | Seat | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nickie J. Antonio Elected | State Senator | Democratic | Cuyahoga County Board of Elections | |
| Bride Rose Sweeney | State Senator Running | Democratic | Cuyahoga County Board of Elections | |
| Robert E. Dintaman | State Senator Running | Republican | Cuyahoga County Board of Elections |
7
U.S. Senator
| Name | Office | Party / slate | Seat | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bernie Moreno Elected | U.S. Senator | Republican | Cuyahoga County Board of Elections | |
| Jon Husted Elected | U.S. Senator → Running | Republican | Cuyahoga County Board of Elections | |
| Greg Levy | U.S. Senator Running | Independent | Cuyahoga County Board of Elections | |
| Sherrod Brown | U.S. Senator Running | Democratic | Cuyahoga County Board of Elections | |
| William B. Redpath | U.S. Senator Running | Libertarian | Cuyahoga County Board of Elections |
8
U.S. Representative — OH-11
| Name | Office | Party / slate | Seat | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Shontel Brown Elected | U.S. Representative → Running | Democratic | U.S. House of Representatives | |
| Mike Kirchner | U.S. Representative Running | Republican | Cuyahoga County Board of Elections |
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Notes on this record
How the lists were read, and what could not be.
- Municipal: Mayor from https://www.clevelandohio.gov/city-hall/office-mayor (no portrait on the page); the 15 ward councilmembers from https://www.clevelandcitycouncil.gov/council/council-members and each /ward-N page (photo and official @clevelandcitycouncil.gov email from that page), leadership (President Griffin, Majority Leader Santana, Majority Whip Slife) from /council/leadership; retrieved 2026-10-22. clevelandcitycouncil.org 301-redirects to clevelandcitycouncil.gov. Cross-checked against the Cuyahoga BOE 2026 Elected Officials List (Municipal sheet): all 16 names match (BOE prints 'Joe Jones' for Joseph T. Jones and 'Justin Bibb'). Cleveland's ballot is non-partisan: party null, partyShort 'None'. The charter creates no other city-wide elected office (the Clerk of Council is chosen by council); the elected Cleveland Municipal Court judges and Clerk of Courts are court offices and are not listed.
- Council is 15 wards (BOE list Ward 1-15). Mayor and all council seats were elected November 2025; the BOE list prints every term ending 2030-01-06. Next Cleveland municipal election: November 2029 (general; Mayor and all 15 wards), with the non-partisan primary earlier in 2029 — date not yet published; inferred from the term end, verify at boe.cuyahogacounty.gov.
- Congressional districts covering the city: Census geocoder (coordinates endpoint, no robots.txt rules — 404) sampled on a 14x10 grid over the city's bounding box (44 points inside Cleveland city, place 3916000, ~2.5 km spacing) plus a point at Hopkins airport: every point is OH-11 on both the 120th Congress map (vintage Current_Current) and the 119th (ACS2025_Current). The Cuyahoga BOE list carries OH-7 too, but OH-7 covers only suburbs on this sampling; Max Miller (OH-7) is not listed. A sliver under the grid spacing could be missed. State districts covering the city on the 2026 map (same grid): Ohio Senate 23, 24, 21, 18; Ohio House 20, 13, 15, 16, 22, 14, 21, 19, 18 (9 districts). Only the city-hall districts (SD-23, HD-20) are listed, as the brief directs. City hall coordinates 41.5054, -81.6927.
- Sitting U.S. Representative from https://www.house.gov/representatives (Ohio table, retrieved 2026-10-22; no photos listed). U.S. Senators, Governor, Lieutenant Governor, SD-23 and HD-20 from the Cuyahoga County Board of Elections '2026 Elected Officials List' (master-elected-officials-list.xlsx, cover 'Revised' 2026-09-22), an official county elections roster. senate.gov returned HTTP 403 to robots.txt itself; ohiosenate.gov and ohiohouse.gov refused connections (port 443 timeouts) — no legislature pages, photos or official websites read for state members. The BOE workbook prints officeholders' home street addresses: none copied.
- Candidates: Cuyahoga County Board of Elections 'November 3, 2026 General Election Candidate List' PDF (stamped 10/15/2026 3:57 pm), linked from https://boe.cuyahogacounty.gov/candidates, retrieved 2026-10-22. Names and parties as printed; joint Governor/Lt Governor tickets split into one row each. Excluded: write-ins ('Yes - Write-In': 3 Governor tickets, 3 U.S. Senate), withdrawn and Board-removed filers (Ron Ula & Michael C. Lehnerd withdrawn 10/15/2026; Elijah Knoll SD-23 removed; Donna Walker-Brown HD-20 withdrawn 6/2/2026; Teri Wang HD-20 removed), and offices outside this record's scope (other statewide offices, county offices, judges, other legislative districts). The list states candidates who withdraw less than 70 days before election day stay printed on the ballot. Greg Levy is printed 'Nonpartisan | No Partidista' (partyShort Independent). The Ohio SOS statewide list was not read: ohiosos.gov is behind a Cloudflare challenge per the Columbus run (not retried here).
- Open seats on the 2026 ballot: Governor (DeWine, term-limited), Lieutenant Governor (Tressel), Ohio Senate 23 (Antonio, term ending 2026-12-31), Ohio House 20 (Upchurch, term ending 2026-12-31). Incumbent-running: Husted (U.S. Senate special), Shontel Brown (OH-11, printed 'Shontel M. Brown'). Unopposed: Eugene Miller (D), HD-20 — the only valid candidate printed.
- Robots/terms: boe.cuyahogacounty.gov (robots.txt has only named-bot groups; no '*' rule; disclaimer: public service, no accuracy guarantee, not the official record; no reuse terms), clevelandcitycouncil.gov (robots allows '*' with Content-Signal search=yes, ai-train=no, use=reference; footer 'Copyright ©. All Rights Reserved.'), clevelandohio.gov (robots allows; 'Copyright © 2026. All Rights Reserved.'), house.gov (allows), geocoding.geo.census.gov (robots 404; public Census service). tigerweb.geo.census.gov returned 'Request Rejected' to robots.txt, so it was not used. No home addresses, phones or personal emails recorded; emails kept are official @clevelandcitycouncil.gov / @clevelandohio.gov addresses. standsFor left null for everyone: council ward bios are third-person office text, not the members' own statements, and no candidate statements were read.
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Sources
Prepared 2026-10-22. Nomination papers are never opened: they carry home addresses. After voting day a candidate list becomes a result; these rows are reconciled, not deleted.
- Cuyahoga County Board of Elections — November 3, 2026 General Election Candidate List (dated 10/15/2026 3:57 pm) 13
- Cuyahoga County Board of Elections — 2026 Elected Officials List (master-elected-officials-list.xlsx, revised 2026-09-22) 6
- Cleveland City Council — Ward 7 1
- Cleveland City Council — Ward 6 1
- Cleveland City Council — Ward 13 1
- Cleveland City Council — Ward 15 1
- Cleveland City Council — Ward 3 1
- Cleveland City Council — Ward 14 1
- Cleveland City Council — Ward 1 1
- City of Cleveland — Office of the Mayor 1
- Cleveland City Council — Ward 9 1
- Cleveland City Council — Ward 2 1
- Cleveland City Council — Ward 4 1
- Cleveland City Council — Ward 10 1
- Cleveland City Council — Ward 11 1
- Cleveland City Council — Ward 5 1
- Cleveland City Council — Ward 8 1
- Cleveland City Council — Ward 12 1
- U.S. House of Representatives — Directory of Representatives (Ohio) 1