Lima: 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, unexpired term ending 1/3/29); U.S. Representative OH-4; Governor and Lieutenant Governor (open) and the other statewide executive offices and Ohio Supreme Court seats; Ohio House HD-78; Allen County offices. Ohio Senate SD-12 (even-numbered) is not on the 2026 ballot (as in us-dayton for SD-6). No City of Lima office is on the 2026 ballot..

Holding office15

the sitting council

On the ballot7

1 sitting members running again

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

Congressional district (city hall): Ohio's 4th congressional district (City Hall and all 17 sampled city points, on both the 119th and the 2026 maps) — Jim Jordan (Republican)

Mayor

Name	Office	Party / slate	Seat	Source
Sharetta Smith ✉️ Elected	Mayor	Independent		City of Lima

City Auditor

Name	Office	Party / slate	Seat	Source
Randall S. Bartels Elected	City Auditor	Independent	citywide	City of Lima

Council President

Name	Office	Party / slate	Seat	Source
Jamie Dixon ✉️ Elected	Council President	Independent	citywide	City of Lima

Councilor

Name	Office	Party / slate	Seat	Source
Anthony Wilkerson ✉️ Elected	Councilor	Independent	2nd Ward	City of Lima
Derry Glenn ✉️ Elected	Councilor	Independent	6th Ward	City of Lima
Jeannine Jordan ✉️ Elected	Councilor	Independent	4th Ward	City of Lima
Jesse J. Lowe II ✉️ Elected	Councilor	Independent	3rd Ward	City of Lima
Jon Neeper ✉️ Elected	Councilor	Independent	7th Ward	City of Lima
Thomas M.W. Jones ✉️ Elected	Councilor	Independent	5th Ward	City of Lima
Todd Gordon ✉️ Elected	Councilor	Independent	1st Ward	City of Lima

Law Director

Name	Office	Party / slate	Seat	Source
Anthony Geiger ✉️ Elected	Law Director	Independent	citywide	City of Lima

Governor

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

U.S. Senator

Name	Office	Party / slate	Source
Bernie Moreno Elected	U.S. Senator	Republican	@unitedstates congress-legislators
Jon Husted Elected	U.S. Senator → Running	Republican	@unitedstates congress-legislators
Greg Levy	U.S. Senator Running	Independent	Butler County Board of Elections
Sherrod Brown	U.S. Senator Running	Democratic	Butler County Board of Elections
William B. Redpath	U.S. Senator Running	Libertarian	Butler 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

Notes on this record

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

Candidates (statewide only): U.S. Senate and Governor rows carried from us-dayton, which read the Butler County Board of Elections' official FWAB Election Notice (Form 120, prescribed by the Secretary of State; printed 10/02/2026) — statewide contests are identical in every county. The Allen County Board of Elections (boe.ohio.gov/allen) and the Ohio Secretary of State (ohiosos.gov) answer HTTP 403 (Cloudflare) even for robots.txt — not bypassed.
NOT CAPTURED — OH-4 and Ohio House HD-78 candidates, and the sitting SD-12 and HD-78 members. No official list was reachable: Allen County BOE and Ohio SOS behind Cloudflare; ohiohouse.gov and ohiosenate.gov did not answer (connection failure, 2026-11-01, as in earlier runs); vote.delawarecountyohio.gov also did not answer. A web search found only a prediction-market page naming Jim Jordan (R), Joshua Kolasinski (D) and Tracey Tackett (Ind.) for OH-4 — not an official list, not recorded. Fill from the Allen County BOE candidate list when reachable.
Districts: Census geocoder at City Hall (50 Town Square) gave OH-4 (120th), SD-12, HD-78. A 7x7 grid (17 points inside 'Lima city'): OH-4 on all (2026 and 119th maps), SD-12 on all, HD-78 on all.
Federal members: Senators Moreno and Husted from the CC0 @unitedstates legislators-current.json (Husted's term to 2026-11-03, on the special-election ballot); Rep. Jim Jordan from house.gov/representatives and the CC0 file (term to 2027-01-03). Governor DeWine row carried from us-dayton/us-cleveland (Cuyahoga BOE elected-officials list).
Municipal: Mayor, Council President, seven ward Councilors, City Auditor and Law Director from www.limaohio.gov (City Council page 98, ward pages 434-442, Mayor 117, Auditor 89, Law Director 94), retrieved 2026-11-01. limaohio.gov robots.txt has a named group including ClaudeBot that disallows only admin/search/calendar/RSS-type paths; Crawl-delay 10 honoured. Official emails as printed (the Mayor's at cityhall.lima.oh.us); council phones and office addresses not copied. The City pages print no party. Council Clerk Dana Addis (appointed) not recorded. Ohio cities elect in odd years: the Mayor (first elected 2021, in her second term) was last on the 2025 ballot; no City of Lima office is on the 2026 ballot. Next municipal election: November 2027 (inferred; which seats not confirmed).
Hosts: geocoding.geo.census.gov, unitedstates.github.io (no robots.txt); house.gov, www.limaohio.gov (robots read, pages allowed). Blocked: boe.ohio.gov, ohiosos.gov (Cloudflare). Unreachable: ohiohouse.gov, ohiosenate.gov. standsFor null for everyone (City biographies are not campaign statements). No home addresses, phones or personal emails. One web search used for Lima.

Sources

Prepared 2026-11-01. Nomination papers are never opened: they carry home addresses. After voting day a candidate list becomes a result; these rows are reconciled, not deleted.