2026 GENERAL ELECTION

Election Season Dates:  October 6 through November 3, 2026

• The deadline to register to vote in the General Election is October 5, 2026, at 9:00 p.m.  CLICK HERE to check your personal voter registration status.  CLICK HERE to register to vote or to update your current registration.
• Early IN-PERSON voting  begins on October 6th, 2026, at the Lorain County Board of Elections.  CLICK HERE for address and hours.
• Mail-in absentee voting begins October 6th when the BOE started mailing out ballots.  The deadline to request an absentee ballot to be mailed is October 27th, 2026, at 8:30 p.m.
• The FINAL IN-PERSON Voting Election Day at your local polling location is Tuesday, November 3rd, 2026.  CLICK HERE to check for your LOCAL POLLING LOCATION.  Polls will be open from 6:30 a.m. to 7:30 p.m.

IMPORTANT:  The completed absentee ballots are required to be RECEIVED BY November 3rd, 2026, at 7:30 p.m. at the Lorain County Board of Elections office, 1985 N. Ridge Rd. E., Lorain, OH. 44055 in order to be counted in the election results. 

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2025 General Election

• The 2025 General Election results are now official and can be found HERE. 

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Plug into the Lorain County Republican Party in your neighborhood.

Please click on the "Event List" tab above to get the date, time and place of your next Area Committee meeting.  The party is broken down into seven distinct Areas and most of them meet monthly. The Areas are

1. Amherst (includes Vermilion) 
2. Avon and Avon Lake
3. Columbia (includes Grafton and LaGrange villages and townships)
4. Elyria (includes Elyria and Carlisle Townships)
5. Lorain (includes Sheffield Township, Village and Sheffield Lake)
6. North Ridgeville
7. Wellington (includes Oberlin and all the southern townships in Lorain County)

JOIN your neighbors and get involved in picking your local public officials.

Check out our upcoming events by CLICKING HERE.

Hope to see you soon!