Toledo: 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 01/03/2029); U.S. Representative OH-9; Governor and Lieutenant Governor (joint ticket, open seat) and other statewide offices; Ohio Senate SD-11 and Ohio House HD-42 (city hall); Lucas County offices and judges. No City of Toledo office is on the 2026 ballot..

Holding office17

the sitting council

On the ballot12

2 sitting members running again

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

Congressional district (city hall): Ohio's 9th congressional district (city hall, and every sampled point in the city, on the 120th Congress map; city hall also OH-9 on the 119th) — Marcy Kaptur (Democratic)

Mayor

Name	Office	Party / slate	Seat	Source
Wade Kapszukiewicz Elected	Mayor	Independent		City of Toledo

Councilmember

Name	Office	Party / slate	Seat	Source
Adam Martinez ✉️ Elected	Councilmember	Independent	District 2	City of Toledo
Brittany D. Jones ✉️ Elected	Councilmember	Independent	At-Large	City of Toledo
Cerssandra McPherson ✉️ Elected	Councilmember	Independent	At-Large	City of Toledo
Erin Kramer ✉️ Elected	Councilmember	Independent	At-Large	City of Toledo
George Sarantou ✉️ Elected	Councilmember	Independent	At-Large	City of Toledo
John Hobbs III ✉️ Elected	Councilmember	Independent	District 1	City of Toledo
Mac Driscoll ✉️ Elected	Councilmember	Independent	At-Large	City of Toledo
Nick Komives ✉️ Elected	Councilmember	Independent	At-Large	City of Toledo
Sam Melden ✉️ Elected	Councilmember	Independent	District 5	City of Toledo
Theresa Gadus ✉️ Elected	Councilmember	Independent	District 3	City of Toledo
Theresa Morris ✉️ Elected	Councilmember	Independent	District 6	City of Toledo
Vanice S. Williams ✉️ Elected	Councilmember	Independent	District 4	City of Toledo

Governor

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

Lieutenant Governor

Name	Office	Party / slate	Source
David Pepper	Lieutenant Governor Running	Democratic	Wood County Board of Elections
James L. Mills	Lieutenant Governor Running	Libertarian	Wood County Board of Elections
Robert A. McColley	Lieutenant Governor Running	Republican	Wood 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	Wood County Board of Elections
Sherrod Brown	U.S. Senator Running	Democratic	Wood County Board of Elections
William B. Redpath	U.S. Senator Running	Libertarian	Wood County Board of Elections

U.S. Representative — OH-9

Name	Office	Party / slate	Seat	Source
Marcy Kaptur Elected	U.S. Representative → Running	Democratic		U.S. House of Representatives
Derek Merrin	U.S. Representative Running	Republican		Wood County Board of Elections

Notes on this record

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

Municipal: Mayor from https://toledo.oh.gov/government/mayor; the 12 council members (six districts, six at-large, per the council page: 'a twelve-member City Council. Six members are elected at-large, six members elected from districts') from https://toledo.oh.gov/government/city-council/council-members, each member's own page (portrait and term history) and the City Council Directory (official @toledo.oh.gov emails); retrieved 2026-10-22. Council President: Vanice S. Williams (District 4). The City Auditor (John Rivalsky) is listed in the directory as council staff, not an elected office; no other city-wide elected office was found. Party: no city page prints a party, so party null / partyShort 'None' — the Toledo charter (codelibrary.amlegal.com) answered a Cloudflare challenge and could not be read to confirm the ballot is non-partisan.
Election cycle (from the members' pages): Mayor and the six at-large seats were elected November 2025 (four-year terms); District 1-6 seats were elected November 2023. Next Toledo municipal election: November 2027 (District Council 1-6), then November 2029 (Mayor and at-large) — inferred from those terms, date not published on any page read; verify with the Lucas County BOE. No City of Toledo office is on the 2026-11-03 ballot.
Districts: Census geocoder (coordinates endpoint; robots.txt 404 = no rules) at city hall (41.6539, -83.5369, inside 'Toledo city', place 3977000): OH-9, Ohio Senate 11, Ohio House 42 on both current and 2024 layers. A 12x16 grid (~1.6 km spacing) over the city's bounding box gave 86 points inside Toledo: OH-9 86/86; Ohio Senate 11 86/86; Ohio House 42 (31), 43 (31), 41 (24) — three House districts cover the city; only city hall's (HD-42) is in scope. Slivers under the grid spacing could be missed.
NOT CAPTURED — Ohio Senate SD-11 and Ohio House HD-42 (sitting members and candidates). No official source was reachable: the Lucas County Board of Elections site (www.lucascountyohiovotes.gov; co.lucas.oh.us/74/Board-of-Elections 302-redirects there) answers a Cloudflare 'Just a moment...' challenge even to robots.txt; ohiosos.gov answers a JavaScript 'security check' page (HTTP 403) to robots.txt; ohiosenate.gov, ohiohouse.gov, legislature.ohio.gov and lsc.ohio.gov refused connections (port 443 timeouts); SD-11 and HD-42 lie wholly in Lucas County so no other county's list carries them. Third-party sites (The Ballot Brief, citing the SOS list as of 2026-09-11) name SD-11 nominees Paula Hicks-Hudson (D), James Nowak (R), Kenneth W Sharp (L) — not recorded, as the brief bars third-party-only status. Fill from the Lucas BOE or ohiosenate.gov/ohiohouse.gov when reachable.
Candidates: Wood County Board of Elections 'Candidate List for November 3, 2026 General Election', 'certified ... as of 08/26/2026' (printed 2026-09-01), https://boe.woodcountyohio.gov/DocumentCenter/View/1006/Candidate-List — an official county list that carries every statewide contest and OH-9 (Wood County is partly in OH-9). It stands in for the Lucas County list, which could not be read; it predates later withdrawals (the Cleveland record notes Ron Ula & Michael C. Lehnerd withdrew 10/15/2026 — a write-in ticket, excluded anyway). Write-ins excluded (4 Governor tickets; Stephen Faris, Anthony Holliman, Timothy Telymonde for U.S. Senate; Kathy McKinstry OH-9). Matthew Althaus (Libertarian, OH-9) is on Wood's earlier primary-winners list (DocumentCenter/View/370) but NOT on the 08/26/2026 certified general list, so he is not recorded as running. The lists print candidates' home addresses: none copied.
Open seats: Governor (DeWine, term expires 1/10/2027) and Lieutenant Governor. Incumbent-running: Husted (U.S. Senate special), Kaptur (OH-9). Unopposed: none among the seats captured. Lieutenant Governor Jim Tressel (sitting) is not recorded: the Wood State Officials roster has no Lieutenant Governor entry, and the Cuyahoga BOE (used by the Cleveland record) now has 'User-agent: ClaudeBot / Disallow: /' in robots.txt, so it was not fetched.
Robots/terms: toledo.oh.gov (robots.txt served with HTTP 404 status but content allows '*' except /cpresources/, /vendor/, /cache/; no terms of use found; schema names the City as copyright holder), boe.woodcountyohio.gov (robots allows DocumentCenter and content pages for '*', Crawl-delay 10 honoured; ClaudeBot and other AI agents are listed only against the admin/search paths; no reuse terms), house.gov (allows /representatives), unitedstates.github.io (CC0; robots 404), geocoding.geo.census.gov (robots 404). Blocked: lucascountyohiovotes.gov (Cloudflare), ohiosos.gov (JS security check 403), codelibrary.amlegal.com (Cloudflare), Ohio legislature hosts (unreachable). No home addresses, phones or personal emails recorded. standsFor: one (Theresa Gadus, quoting her own first-person statement on her City page); null for everyone else.

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.