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• 1 Federal officials
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• 3 Ballot measures
• 4 Local recalls
• 5 See also
• 6 Footnotes

Galion is a city in Crawford County, Ohio. The city had 10,453 residents as of 2020, according to the United States Census Bureau.[1]

Federal officials

The current members of the U.S. Senate from Ohio are:

Office title	Officeholder name	Date assumed office	Party affiliation
U.S. Senate Ohio	Jon Husted	January 21, 2025	Republican Party
U.S. Senate Ohio	Bernie Moreno	January 3, 2025	Republican Party

To view a map of U.S. House districts in Ohio and find your representative, click here.

State officials

The following is a list of the current state executive officials from Ohio:

Office	Name	Party	Date assumed office
Attorney General of Ohio	Dave Yost	Republican	January 14, 2019
Governor of Ohio	Richard Michael DeWine	Republican	January 14, 2019
Lieutenant Governor of Ohio	Jim Tressel	Republican	February 14, 2025
Ohio Auditor of State	Keith Faber	Republican	January 11, 2019
Ohio Director of Natural Resources	Mary Mertz	Nonpartisan	December 5, 2018
Ohio Secretary of State	Frank LaRose	Republican	January 12, 2019
Ohio Superintendent of Industrial Compliance and Labor	Robb Coventry	Nonpartisan	September 12, 2022
Ohio Superintendent of Public Instruction	Paul Craft	Nonpartisan	January 1, 2024
Ohio Treasurer	Robert Sprague	Republican	January 14, 2019

To view a list of state legislators from Ohio, click here.

Ballot measures

See also: List of Ohio ballot measures and Crawford County, Ohio ballot measures

To view a list of statewide measures in Ohio, click here.

To view a list of local ballot measures in Crawford County, Ohio, click here.

Local recalls

See also: Laws governing recall in Ohio

No specific grounds are required for recall in Ohio. To get the recall on the ballot, supporters must collect signatures from qualified electors equal to 15% of the votes cast at the most recent regular municipal election. Supporters of the recall have 90 days to circulate petitions from the day the first signature is collected.[2]

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Footnotes

1. ↑ United States Census Bureau, "2020 Census," accessed February 1, 2022
2. ↑ Ohio Revised Code, "Section 705.92: Procedure for removal of elective officer by recall." accessed October 17, 2023

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