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2021 Ohio's 15th congressional district special election

On May 16, 2021, Representative Steve Stivers resigned from his seat in the United States House of Representatives to become president and CEO of the Ohio Chamber of Commerce. Following Stivers' official communication of his intent to resign, Ohio Governor Mike DeWine announced that the special election to fill the remainder of his term would be held on November 2, 2021, with the primary election held on August 3, concurrent with the special election in Ohio's 11th congressional district. In the general election on November 2, Republican nominee Mike Carey defeated Democratic nominee Allison Russo by 26,913 votes.

Mike Carey, vice president of government affairs at American Consolidated Natural Resources
John Adams, owner of Green Valley Chemicals
Eric M. Clark, LPN at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base
Thad Cooperrider, former Perry County commissioner
Ruth Edmonds, advisory board member at Ohio's Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives
Ron Hood, former state representative
Thomas Hwang, owner of the Virtues Golf Club
Stephanie Kunze, state senator
Jeff LaRe, state representative
Bob Peterson, state senator
Omar Tarazi, attorney and Hilliard city councilmember
Brian Stewart, state representative
Jeff Fix, Fairfield County commissioner

Results by county .mw-parser-output .legend{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .legend-color{display:inline-block;min-width:1.25em;height:1.25em;line-height:1.25;margin:1px 0;text-align:center;border:1px solid black;background-color:transparent;color:black}.mw-parser-output .legend-text{} Carey 30–40% 40–50% 50–60% Peterson 50–60%

Party	Candidate	Votes	%
	Republican	18,805	36.3
	Republican	6,776	13.1
	Republican	6,676	12.9
	Republican	6,407	12.4
	Republican	5,090	9.8
	Republican	2,499	4.8
	Republican	2,363	4.6
	Republican	1,076	2.1
	Republican	907	1.7
	Republican	173	0.3
	Republican	83	0.2
51,855	100.0

Allison Russo, state representative
Greg Betts
Tina Maharath, state senator
Joel Newby, attorney and nominee for Ohio's 15th congressional district in 2020
Steve Patterson, mayor of Athens (endorsed Russo)
Michael Stinziano, Franklin County auditor

Results by county Russo Russo—70–80% Russo—80–90%

Party	Candidate	Votes	%
	Democratic	13,704	84.2
	Democratic	2,576	15.8
16,280	100.0

Source	Ranking	As of
The Cook Political Report	Likely R	August 4, 2021
Inside Elections	Solid R	October 27, 2021
Sabato's Crystal Ball	Likely R	August 4, 2021

Poll source	Date(s)administered	Samplesize	Marginof error	MikeCarey (R)	AllisonRusso (D)	Undecided
Emerson College	October 14–16, 2021	445 (LV)	± 4.6%	50%	39%	11%

Party	Candidate	Votes	%	.mw-parser-output .tooltip-dotted{border-bottom:1px dotted;cursor:help}±%
	Republican	94,501	58.30%	–5.11
	Democratic	67,588	41.70%	+5.13
162,089	100.0%
165,026	32.25%
511,773

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Mike Carey (R) for Congress
Allison Russo (D) for Congress

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