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2026 Ohio House race, District 7

Max Miller (Republican) and Brian Poindexter (Democrat) are on the November 3, 2026 ballot for U.S. House in Ohio District 7, with two certified write-ins, as recorded September 22, 2026.

The November ballot

Miller
$2.1M
Poindexter
$603K

Raised so far, filed with the FEC

Also certified, by write-in: Thahbia Asad (Independent) and Andrey Joseph Martinichin.

Faces and bars are the campaigns that hold the seat or have $25,000 raised or outside spending on file; being outside that group is a filing fact, not a mark. A candidate marked write-in is certified to run and their votes count; their name is not printed on the ballot. Not a prediction.

The seat

Max Miller

Republican · Holds the seat now

First took office 2023 · Age 37

56
Trades disclosed
$671K
Estimated volume
1
Committee overlap
Cosponsored H.R. 7008, the Stop Insider Trading Act

From the member's own disclosures and congress.gov. Not cosponsoring is not a vote against a ban.

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How to vote in Ohio

  • General electionNovember 3, 2026 

Register 30 days before the election.

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How they won the primary

The primary · 62,616 votes

  • Brian Poindexter Won: 37.0% 23,167
  • Ed FitzGerald: 21.6% 13,505
  • Laura Rodriguez-Carbone: 12.3% 7,719
  • Michael Eisner: 11.8% 7,361
  • Ann Marie Donegan: 10.5% 6,562

3 more candidates in the full results at the source named below.

Primary source: Ohio Secretary of State certified Democratic primary results.

Primary results as recorded October 12, 2026, ordered by votes. A primary result is a recorded fact about a past contest, not a prediction of November.

The money on this race

Raised by candidates
$3.2M
Outside money
$7M

Outside money, for and against

Supporting Miller$269K
Opposing Miller$5M
Supporting Poindexter$967K
Opposing Poindexter$653K

Independent expenditures; direction is each filer's own declared filing. The other $75K of the race's $7M was spent on candidates not listed here. No outside money is on file for or against the other 2 names on this ballot.

Where each candidate's money comes from

8%$166KSmall donors$149K25%
35%$759KLarge donors$291K48%
31%$657KPACs$162K27%
--Self-funding$1.4K<1%
26%$561KOther$3<1%

Small donors give $200 or less; PACs are political action committees. Shares of each candidate's own receipts on file with the FEC. Outside money is not part of these figures.

Other includes money transferred in from committees the candidate authorized, such as a joint fundraising committee, which reports its own donors to the FEC: Max Miller $559K.

Who is spending on this race

The largest groups spending independently here, ranked; open a row for whose race the money went into.

1 to 5 of 21 groups

Independent expenditures reported to the FEC; direction is each group's own declared filing.

Not on the November ballot

6 filed

Primary candidates who did not advance, committees still on file, and candidacies that ended. Being here is a filing fact, not a mark against anyone.

The district

Census context
People
782K
Median household income
$87K
Unemployment
3.5%
Living below the poverty line
7.3%
Without health insurance
6.1%

U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 2024 5-year estimates. Context about the district, not a statement about any candidate. These figures describe the district as drawn before its lines changed for 2026; estimates for the new lines are not yet published.

How this seat voted last time

R+15 in 2024

  • Max Miller Won: 51.1%
  • Matt Diemer: 36.1%

400,371 votes for candidates. Other candidates and write-ins took the remaining 12.8%. The district's lines have changed since this result. A past result is a filed fact, not a prediction of November.

Certified returns via MIT Election Data and Science Lab, from the House Clerk's election statistics and state canvasses.

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Candidates and financing from the FEC, public domain. Candidate totals are each campaign's latest FEC report, ending between October 28, 2025 and June 30, 2026. Outside money is the FEC's processed total of independent expenditures plus the 24- and 48-hour reports filed since each group's latest regular report. It covers this two-year cycle, the same as the candidate totals. Dataset built 2026-10-12. Nothing here is a forecast, a grade, or a ranking of candidates.