# Electoral history of Dennis Kucinich

Electoral history of Dennis Kucinich, United States Representative from Ohio's 10th district (1997–2013), 53rd Mayor of Cleveland (1977–1979) and a candidate for Democratic presidential nomination in 2004 and 2008

## U.S. House of Representatives (1972–1974)
### Ohio's 23rd congressional district, 1972

    William Edwin Minshall, Jr., Republican (incumbent) – 98,594 (49.39%)
    Dennis Kucinich, Democrat – 94,366 (47.27%)
    John O'Neill, Socialist Labor Party of America – 3,615 (1.81%)
    Frederick D. Lyon, American Independent Party – 2,976 (1.49%)
    Write-in candidates – 82 (0.04%)

### Ohio's 23rd congressional district, 1974

    Ronald M. Mottl, Democrat – 53,338 (34.76%)
    George Mastics, Republican – 46,810 (30.50%)
    Dennis Kucinich, independent – 45,186 (29.45%)
    Hugh J. Gallagher, independent – 3,461 (2.26%)
    Bohdan Futey, independent – 2,655 (1.73%)
    Arthur Cain, independent – 2,005 (1.31%)

## Mayor of Cleveland (1976–1979)
### Cleveland mayoral election, 1977

    Dennis Kucinich – 93,047 (50.81%)
    Ed Feighan – 90,074 (49.19%)

### Cleveland mayoral recall election, 1978

    Against recall – 60,250 (50.10%)
    For recall – 60,014 (49.90%)

### Cleveland mayoral election, 1979

    George Voinovich – 94,541 (56.18%)
    Dennis Kucinich (incumbent) – 73,755 (43.83%)

## Ohio Secretary of State (1982)
### Ohio Secretary of State, 1982 (Democratic primary)

    Sherrod Brown – 304,952 (33.77%)
    Dennis Kucinich – 246,618 (27.31%)
    Anthony O. Calabrese, Jr. – 214,901 (23.80%)
    Francis E. Gaul – 136,568 (15.12%)

## U.S. House of Representatives (1988–2002)
### Ohio's 20th congressional district, 1988 (Democratic primary)

    Mary Rose Oakar (incumbent) – 64,417 (76.74%)
    Dennis Kucinich – 19,530 (23.27%)

### Ohio's 19th congressional district, 1992 (Democratic primary)

    Eric D. Fingerhut – 20,929 (24.25%)
    Tim McCormack – 16,053 (18.60%)
    Dennis Kucinich – 15,453 (17.91%)
    Frank J. Valenta – 14,254 (16.52%)
    Thomas J. Coyne Jr. – 11,258 (13.05%)
    Kathleen Cotter – 4,407 (5.11%)
    Tom Milkovich – 1,974 (2.29%)
    Jackie Hrnyak – 1,011 (1.17%)
    Joan C. Durbak – 957 (1.11%)

### Ohio's 10th congressional district, 1996 (Democratic primary)

    Dennis Kucinich – 37,895 (77.22%)
    Edward Boyle – 9,221 (18.79%)
    Donald B. Slusher – 1,253 (2.55%)
    C. River Smith – 703 (1.43%)

### Ohio's 10th congressional district, 1996

    Dennis Kucinich, Democrat – 110,723 (49.06%)
    Martin Hoke, Republican (incumbent) – 104,546 (46.32%)
    Robert B. Iverson, Natural Law Party – 10,415 (4.62%)
    Write-in candidates – 12 (0.01%)

### Ohio's 10th congressional district, 1998

    Dennis Kucinich, Democrat (incumbent) – 110,552 (66.77%)
    Joe Slovenec, Republican – 55,015 (33.23%)

### Ohio's 10th congressional district, 2000

    Dennis Kucinich, Democrat (incumbent) – 167,093 (75.00%)
    Bill Smith, Republican – 48,940 (21.97%)
    Ron Petrie, Libertarian Party – 6,761 (3.04%)

### Ohio's 10th congressional district, 2002

    Dennis Kucinich, Democrat (incumbent) – 129,997 (74.06%)
    Jon Heben, Republican – 41,778 (23.80%)
    Judy Locy, independent – 3,761 (2.14%)

## U.S. presidential election, 2004
### Minnesota Independence Party presidential caucus, 2004

    John Edwards – 335 (41.10%)
    John Kerry – 149 (18.28%)
    George W. Bush (incumbent) – 94 (11.53%)
    Ralph Nader – 78 (9.57%)
    None of the above – 66 (8.10%)
    Dennis Kucinich – 40 (4.91%)
    Lorna Salzman – 9 (1.10%)
    John McCain – 9 (1.10%)
    Al Sharpton – 5 (0.61%)
    David Cobb – 4 (0.49%)
    Wesley Clark – 4 (0.49%)
    Joe Lieberman – 4 (0.49%)
    Howard Dean – 3 (0.37%)
    Jesse Ventura – 3 (0.37%)
    Gary Nolan – 2 (0.25%)
    Tim Penny – 2 (0.25%)
    Kent Mesplay – 1 (0.12%)
    John Bayard Anderson – 1 (0.12%)
    Charles Barkley – 1 (0.12%)
    Dean Barkley – 1 (0.12%)
    Bill Bradley – 1 (0.12%)
    Rudy Giuliani – 1 (0.12%)
    Mickey Mouse – 1 (0.12%)
    Theodore Roosevelt – 1 (0.12%)

### 2004 Democratic presidential primaries

    John Kerry – 9,930,497 (60.98%)
    John Edwards – 3,162,337 (19.42%)
    Howard Dean – 903,460 (5.55%)
    Dennis Kucinich – 620,242 (3.81%)
    Wesley Clark – 547,369 (3.36%)
    Al Sharpton – 380,865 (2.34%)
    Joe Lieberman – 280,940 (1.73%)
    Uncommitted delegates – 157,953 (0.97%)
    Lyndon LaRouche – 103,731 (0.64%)
    Carol Moseley Braun – 98,469 (0.61%)
    Dick Gephardt – 63,902 (0.39%)
    Scattering – 12,525 (0.08%)

### 2004 Green National Convention (presidential tally)

    David Cobb – 408 (36.20%)
    No nominee – 308 (27.33%)
    Peter Camejo – 119 (10.56%)
    Ralph Nader – 118 (10.47%)
    Kent Mesplay – 43 (3.82%)
    Lorna Salzman – 40 (3.55%)
    None of the above – 36 (3.19%)
    JoAnne Bier Beeman – 14 (1.24%)
    Carol A. Miller – 10 (0.89%)
    Dennis Kucinich – 9 (0.80%)
    Uncommitted – 7 (0.62%)
    Paul Glover – 6 (0.53%)
    Abstaining – 3 (0.27%)
    Jonathan Farley – 3 (0.27%)
    Sheila Bilyeu – 2 (0.18%)
    Eugene Victor Debs – 1 (0.09%)

### 2004 Democratic National Convention (presidential tally)

    John Kerry – 4,255 (99.14%)
    Dennis Kucinich – 37 (0.86%)

## U.S. House of Representatives (2004–2006)
### Ohio's 10th congressional district, 2004

    Dennis Kucinich, Democrat (incumbent) – 172,406 (60.03%)
    Edward Fitzpatrick Herman, Republican – 96,463 (33.59%)
    Barbara Anne Ferris, independent – 18,343 (6.39%)

### Ohio's 10th congressional district, 2006 (Democratic primary)

    Dennis Kucinich (incumbent) – 51,485 (76.42%)
    Barbara Anne Ferris – 15,890 (23.58%)

### Ohio's 10th congressional district, 2006

    Dennis Kucinich, Democrat (incumbent) – 138,393 (66.41%)
    Mike Dovilla, Republican – 69,996 (33.59%)

## U.S. presidential election, 2008
### 2008 New Hampshire Democratic vice presidential primary

    Raymond Stebbins – 50,485 (46.93%)
    William Bryk – 22,965 (21.35%)
    John Edwards – 10,553 (9.81%)
    Barack Obama 6,402 (5.95%)
    Bill Richardson (write-in) – 5,525 (5.14%)
    Hillary Clinton (write-in) – 3,419 (3.18%)
    Joe Biden – 1,512 (1.41%)
    Al Gore – 966 (0.90%)
    Dennis Kucinich – 762 (0.71%)
    Bill Clinton – 388 (0.36%)
    John McCain – 293 (0.27%)
    Chris Dodd – 224 (0.21%)
    Ron Paul – 176 (0.16%)
    Jack Barnes, Jr. – 95 (0.09%)
    Mike Gravel – 91 (0.09%)
    Joe Lieberman – 67 (0.06%)
    Mitt Romney – 66 (0.06%)
    Mike Huckabee – 63 (0.06%)
    Rudy Giuliani – 46 (0.04%)
    Darrel Hunter – 20 (0.02%)

### 2008 Democratic presidential primaries, excluding the Florida and Michigan contests, only primary and caucuses votes

    Barack Obama – 16,706,853
    Hillary Rodham Clinton – 16,239,821
    John Edwards – 742,010
    Bill Richardson – 89,054
    Uncommitted delegates – 82,660
    Dennis Kucinich – 68,482
    Joe Biden – 64,041
    Mike Gravel – 27,662
    Chris Dodd – 25,300
    Others – 22,556

### 2008 Democratic presidential primaries, including the Florida and Michigan contests

    Hillary Rodham Clinton – 18,225,175 (48.03%)
    Barack Obama – 17,988,182 (47.41%)
    John Edwards – 1,006,275 (2.65%)
    Uncommitted delegates – 299,610 (0.79%)
    Bill Richardson – 106,073 (0.28%)
    Dennis Kucinich – 103,994 (0.27%)
    Joe Biden – 81,641 (0.22%)
    Scattering – 44,348 (0.12%)
    Mike Gravel – 40,251 (0.11%)
    Chris Dodd – 35,281 (0.09%)

## U.S. House of Representatives (2008–2012; 2024)
### Ohio's 10th congressional district, 2008 (Democratic primary)

    Dennis Kucinich (incumbent) – 72,646 (50.32%)
    Joe Cimperman – 50,760 (35.16%)
    Barbara Anne Ferris – 9,362 (6.48%)
    Thomas E. O'Grady – 7,264 (5.03%)
    Rosemary A. Palmer – 4,339 (3.01%)

### Ohio's 10th congressional district, 2008

    Dennis Kucinich, Democrat (incumbent) – 157,268 (57.02%)
    Jim Trakas, Republican – 107,918 (39.13%)
    Paul Conroy, Libertarian Party – 10,623 (3.85%)

### Ohio's 10th congressional district, 2010

    Dennis Kucinich, Democrat (incumbent) – 101,343 (53.05%)
    Peter J. Corrigan, Republican – 83,809 (43.87%)
    Jeff Goggins, Libertarian – 5,874 (3.07%)

### Ohio's 9th congressional district, 2012 (Democratic primary)

    Marcy Kaptur (incumbent) – 42,902 (56.18%)
    Dennis Kucinich (incumbent) – 30,564 (40.02%)
    Graham Veysey – 2,900 (3.80%)

### Ohio's 7th congressional district, 2024

    Max Miller, Republican (incumbent) – 200,962 (51.13%)
    Matthew Diemer, Democrat – 141,741 (36.06%)
    Dennis Kucinich, Independent – 50,321 (12.80%)

## Governor of Ohio (2018)
### Ohio gubernatorial election, 2018 (Democratic primary, unofficial results)

    Richard Cordray and Betty Sutton – 423,264 (62.27%)
    Dennis Kucinich and Tara L. Samples – 155,694 (22.91%)
    Joe Schiavoni and Stephanie Dodd – 62,315 (9.17%)
    Bill O'Neill and Chantelle C. Lewis – 22,196 (3.27%)
    Paul E. Ray and Jerry M. Schroeder – 9,373 (1.38%)
    Larry E. Ealy and Jeffrey Lynn – 6,896 (1.01%)