Washington — Longtime Democratic Rep. Marcy Kaptur won a rematch against Republican Derek Merrin successful Ohio's 9th Congressional District, CBS News projected.
The northwestern Ohio territory was redrawn successful October 2025, creating a much Republican-leaning seat. Merrin mislaid the 2024 matchup by astir 2,400 votes — conscionable supra the threshold needed to trigger an automatic recount. The contention wasn't called until 2 weeks aft the election.
Kaptur, the longest-serving pistillate successful Congress, has held the spot since 1983.
Campaigning with Merrin successful aboriginal October, House Speaker Mike Johnson, who represents Louisiana, called the rematch a "top-five race" amid the conflict for power of the House for the remainder of President Trump's 2nd term.
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