Columbus: 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 Vance term ending 2029-01-03); U.S. Representatives OH-3 and OH-15 (Franklin County part) and OH-12 (Delaware/Fairfield parts); Governor and Lieutenant Governor (joint ticket, open seat) and other statewide offices; Ohio Senate SD-15 and Ohio House HD-1 (city hall); Franklin County offices and judges. No City of Columbus offices, but two competing Columbus charter amendments on council voting (see notes)..

Holding office22

the sitting council

On the ballot20

4 sitting members running again

The official candidate list ↗ · What Columbus is like — the /local page

Congressional district (city hall): Ohio's 15th congressional district (city hall, 90 W Broad St — on the OH-3/OH-15 line); the city spans OH-3, OH-15 and OH-12 on the 2026 (120th Congress) map, plus OH-4 on the current (119th) map — Joyce Beatty (Democratic)

Mayor

Name	Office	Party / slate	Seat	Source
Andrew J. Ginther Elected	Mayor	Independent		City of Columbus

City Attorney

Name	Office	Party / slate	Seat	Source
Zach Klein Elected	City Attorney	Independent	city-wide	City of Columbus

City Auditor

Name	Office	Party / slate	Seat	Source
Jacquelin R. Lewis ✉️ Elected	City Auditor	Independent	city-wide	City of Columbus

Councilmember

Name	Office	Party / slate	Seat	Source
Christopher L. Wyche Elected	Councilmember	Independent	District 1	Columbus City Council
Emmanuel V. Remy Elected	Councilmember	Independent	District 4	Columbus City Council
Lourdes Barroso de Padilla Elected	Councilmember	Independent	District 8	Columbus City Council
Melissa Green Elected	Councilmember	Independent	District 6	Columbus City Council
Nancy Day-Achauer Elected	Councilmember	Independent	District 2	Columbus City Council
Nicholas J. Bankston Elected	Councilmember	Independent	District 5	Columbus City Council
Rob Dorans ✉️ Elected	Councilmember	Independent	District 3	Columbus City Council
Shannon G. Hardin Elected	Councilmember	Independent	District 9	Columbus City Council
Tiara N. Ross Elected	Councilmember	Independent	District 7	Columbus City Council

Governor

Name	Office	Party / slate	Source
Mike DeWine Elected	Governor	Republican	Franklin County Board of Elections
Amy Acton	Governor Running	Democratic	Franklin County Board of Elections
Don Kissick	Governor Running	Libertarian	Franklin County Board of Elections
Vivek Ramaswamy	Governor Running	Republican	Franklin County Board of Elections

Lieutenant Governor

Name	Office	Party / slate	Source
Jim Tressel Elected	Lieutenant Governor	Republican	Franklin County Board of Elections
David Pepper	Lieutenant Governor Running	Democratic	Franklin County Board of Elections
James L. Mills	Lieutenant Governor Running	Libertarian	Franklin County Board of Elections
Robert A. McColley	Lieutenant Governor Running	Republican	Franklin County Board of Elections

State Representative — HD-1

Name	Office	Party / slate	Seat	Source
Dontavius Jarrells Elected	State Representative → Running	Democratic		Franklin County Board of Elections
Joel A. Greff	State Representative Running	Republican		Franklin County Board of Elections

State Senator — SD-15

Name	Office	Party / slate	Source
Hearcel F. Craig Elected	State Senator	Democratic	Franklin County Board of Elections
Joseph Healy	State Senator Running	Republican	Franklin County Board of Elections
Latyna M. Humphrey	State Senator Running	Democratic	Franklin County Board of Elections

U.S. Senator

Name	Office	Party / slate	Source
Bernie Moreno Elected	U.S. Senator	Republican	@unitedstates congress-legislators (legislators-current.json); senate.gov returned HTTP 403
Jon Husted Elected	U.S. Senator → Running	Republican	@unitedstates congress-legislators (legislators-current.json); senate.gov returned HTTP 403
Greg Levy	U.S. Senator Running	Other	Franklin County Board of Elections
Sherrod Brown	U.S. Senator Running	Democratic	Franklin County Board of Elections
William B. Redpath	U.S. Senator Running	Libertarian	Franklin County Board of Elections

U.S. Representative — OH-3

Name	Office	Party / slate	Seat	Source
Joyce Beatty Elected	U.S. Representative → Running	Democratic		U.S. House of Representatives
Cleophus Dulaney	U.S. Representative Running	Republican		Franklin County Board of Elections

U.S. Representative — OH-4

Name	Office	Party / slate	Seat	Source
Jim Jordan Elected	U.S. Representative	Republican		U.S. House of Representatives

U.S. Representative — OH-12

Name	Office	Party / slate	Seat	Source
Troy Balderson Elected	U.S. Representative	Republican		U.S. House of Representatives

U.S. Representative — OH-15

Name	Office	Party / slate	Source
Mike Carey Elected	U.S. Representative → Running	Republican	U.S. House of Representatives
Brennan Barrington	U.S. Representative Running	Libertarian	Franklin County Board of Elections
Don Leonard	U.S. Representative Running	Democratic	Franklin County Board of Elections
Gary Josephson	U.S. Representative Running	—	Franklin County Board of Elections

Notes on this record

How the lists were read, and what could not be.

Municipal: Mayor, City Attorney and City Auditor from their columbus.gov 'About' pages; nine Councilmembers (Districts 1-9) from https://www.columbus.gov/Government/City-Council/Directory (the Councilmembers link resolves there), retrieved 2026-10-15; photos linked from each member's columbus.gov page. columbuscitycouncil.org 301-redirects to columbus.gov. Columbus municipal ballots are non-partisan: party null, partyShort 'None'. columbus.gov returned 403 (Akamai) to a custom browser-like user agent but served robots.txt and pages to plain curl; robots.txt allows the government pages used.
Council system (verified on columbus.gov 'Council Residential Districts'): hybrid at-large since the 2018 charter change — nine seats, each member must live in their residential district but the whole city votes on every seat; first used in 2023. Staggering: at the first 2024 meeting lots split districts into Lot A (five districts, four-year terms to 2028) and Lot B (four, two-year terms to 2026, re-elected November 2025). The Franklin County BOE roster (revised 8/17/2026) shows Districts 2, 5, 6, 8, 9 and the Mayor next on the ballot in 2027, and Districts 1, 3, 4, 7, City Attorney and City Auditor in 2029.
Next Columbus municipal election: Tuesday, November 2, 2027 (general; Mayor and Council Districts 2, 5, 6, 8, 9), with the primary in May 2027. No City of Columbus office is on the 2026-11-03 ballot. On that ballot Columbus voters do decide two competing charter amendments (Franklin County BOE Notices of Election): one by petition and one by council ordinance (passed 2026-08-24), both limiting council voting to electors living in each district; the council version also adds two at-large seats.
City Auditor: columbus.gov names Jacquelin R. Lewis and refers to 'her appointment as City Auditor' (no date). The Franklin County BOE roster (revised 8/17/2026) still prints Megan N. Kilgore — the city page is newer and is used; re-check after the next roster revision.
Congressional districts covering the city: Census TIGERweb polygon for Columbus city (place 3918000) sampled on a 160x160 grid (10,480 points inside the city, ~0.23 km spacing) against the 120th Congress districts (the October 2025 Ohio map used on the 2026 ballot) and the 119th (current members). 120th: OH-3 5,486, OH-15 4,762, OH-12 232. 119th: OH-3 5,486, OH-15 4,762, OH-4 154 (the Delaware County part), OH-12 78 (Fairfield County part). The union of four districts is listed. Slivers under the grid spacing could be missed. City hall (90 W Broad St) geocodes to OH-15, Ohio Senate 15, Ohio House 1 (2026 layers). By the same grid the city is covered by 6 Ohio Senate districts (3, 15, 16, 19, 20, 25) and 14 Ohio House districts (1-12, 60, 73); only city hall's are recorded as people.
Sitting U.S. Representatives from https://www.house.gov/representatives (Ohio table, retrieved 2026-10-15); house.gov lists no photos, so none linked. U.S. Senators (Bernie Moreno, Jon Husted): senate.gov is known to return HTTP 403 (Akamai) to this client — taken from the CC0 @unitedstates legislators-current.json (Husted: appointed 2025-01-21 to JD Vance's seat, end-type special-election 2026-11-03) and matched against the Franklin County BOE roster.
State officeholders (Governor Mike DeWine, Lt. Governor Jim Tressel, SD-15 Hearcel F. Craig, HD-1 Dontavius Jarrells) from the Franklin County Board of Elections 'Roster of Elected Officials in Franklin County' (revision date 8/17/2026), an official county elections roster. ohiosenate.gov, ohiohouse.gov and legislature.ohio.gov refused connections (timeouts) and governor.ohio.gov returned 404 for every path from this client, so no legislature or governor pages, photos or websites were read. Re-verify from the legislature when reachable.
Candidates: Franklin County Board of Elections '2026 General Election Candidates' PDF (2026-General-Candidate-List-5, linked from https://vote.franklincountyohio.gov/election-info/2026, retrieved 2026-10-15). Names and parties as printed; joint Governor/Lt Governor tickets split into one row each. Excluded: write-ins (marked 'Yes' in the list's Write-In column: 4 Governor tickets, 3 U.S. Senate, Samuel Ronan OH-15) and offices outside this record's scope (other statewide offices, judges, county offices, other legislative districts). The list prints campaign emails and phone numbers: not copied (several are personal-domain addresses).
Ohio Secretary of State (ohiosos.gov) robots.txt and every page returned a Cloudflare challenge (HTTP 403, cf-mitigated: challenge) — not bypassed; the SOS certified statewide list was therefore not read and the Franklin County BOE list stands in for it (it covers every statewide contest and OH-3, OH-15, SD-15, HD-1). OH-12 candidates (the Delaware/Fairfield County parts of Columbus) are NOT captured: the Delaware and Fairfield County boards (boe.ohio.gov 403; delawarecountyohio.gov unreachable) could not be read, and search-engine copies did not show the certified general field. Troy Balderson and Jim Jordan are therefore recorded as 'elected' only.
Open seats on the 2026 ballot (sitting member not on the general list): Governor (DeWine, term-limited), Lieutenant Governor (Tressel), Ohio Senate 15 (Craig). Husted (U.S. Senate special), Beatty (OH-3), Carey (OH-15) and Jarrells (HD-1) are incumbent-running. Unopposed: none among the seats captured.
Robots/terms: columbus.gov (robots allows the pages used; '© 2026 City of Columbus, Ohio', disclaimer, no reuse grant), vote.franklincountyohio.gov (robots.txt 404 — no rules; no reuse terms stated), house.gov (allows), unitedstates.github.io (CC0), geocoding/tigerweb.geo.census.gov (public Census services), senate.gov (403), ohiosos.gov (Cloudflare challenge), Ohio legislature hosts (unreachable), governor.ohio.gov (404). No home addresses, phones or personal emails recorded; the one email kept per officeholder is an official columbus.gov address (radorans@columbus.gov from the Council Directory; cityauditor@columbus.gov). standsFor null for everyone (no candidate statements read). No rows are 'unofficial'.

Sources

Prepared 2026-10-15. Nomination papers are never opened: they carry home addresses. After voting day a candidate list becomes a result; these rows are reconciled, not deleted.