App Detail » 2016 Ohio Elections

What's New

Minor bug fix.

App Description

Download the 2016 Ohio Elections app for your one-stop source for information on state and federal elections in Ohio. Powered by Gongwer News Service, Ohio’s most trusted independent news source on state government and politics, the app allows users to easily access information about candidates for the General Assembly, Congress and statewide offices.

There is no other source on the 2016 elections in Ohio that combines so much detail with the portability of an app.

The app will update regularly throughout the year.

Key features:

• Biographical information about candidates, including education, age, family, employment, community involvement and track record in running for elected office. Gongwer’s unmatched database provides that history for any candidates running this year who ran for state and/or federal office going back to 2004.
• New for 2016: a search function enabling users to more easily find a specific candidate
• New for 2016: a push-messaging alert system to let users know when Gongwer has uploaded new information to the app as well as provide some breaking news;
• Contact tools enabling users to reach the candidates’ campaigns via email, phone and U.S. mail.
• Links to maps for all 16 U.S. House districts, the Ohio Senate districts up for election and 99 Ohio House districts.
• Links to candidates’ campaign finance information.
• Links to candidates’ Facebook and Twitter pages.
• Candidate photos.
• A button that allows users to view only those races for the March primary and November general election that Gongwer considers legitimately competitive.
• A chart sorting all U.S. House, Ohio Senate and Ohio House races by competitiveness, labeling them as safe Republican, lean Republican, toss-up, lean Democrat or safe Democrat as determined by Gongwer’s staff. New for 2016 is our overall analysis of the race for partisan control of the Ohio House and Ohio Senate.
• A snapshot analysis of what to expect in each state and federal race in Ohio from Gongwer’s staff.

Gongwer welcomes your questions and feedback. Reach us at [email protected].

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App Changes

• November 10, 2015 Initial release
• November 19, 2015 New version 1.1
• December 02, 2015 New version 1.2
• December 06, 2015 New version 1.3
• January 07, 2016 New version 1.4
• January 29, 2016 New version 1.5
• February 10, 2016 New version 1.6
• February 20, 2016 New version 1.7
• February 20, 2016 New version 1.7
• March 22, 2016 New version 1.8
• July 11, 2016 New version 1.91
• August 09, 2016 New version 1.92
• November 09, 2016 Price decrease: $6.99 -> $2.99