Huffman had 53.3 percent to Bradley’s 46.7 percent of the vote.
Republican Sen. Steve Wilson, R-Maineville, defeated Democrat Sara Bitter in the 7th District, 62.1 percent to 37.9 percent.
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The Ohio Senate 5th District encompasses Miami, Preble, southern Darke and west-central Montgomery County.
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Huffman, a Republican physician from Miami County, will replace term-limited State Sen. Bill Beagle, R-Tipp City.
Beagle had taken the seat from Democrats in 2010 and then won re-election in 2014 after an expensive and controversial advertising campaign.
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Huffman argues that state taxes are too high and need to be reduced, and said he wants to “free the private sector of burdensome regulations.”
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Bradley, an administrator for Antioch University, focused on the other side of the economic equation, calling for “economic climate that provides good-paying jobs,” and said the state is due for a minimum wage increase.
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Wilson, is former president and chairman of the board of Lebanon Citizens National Bank, who was appointed in 2017 to replace Shannon Jones after she resigned to run for Warren County commission.
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Bitter, is a lawyer and former assistant to former President Bill Clinton’s special counsel. She also served as national field director for the ReelAbilities Film Festival North America and co-chair of the 2015 Cincinnati event.
The Ohio Senate 7th district includes all of Warren and part of Hamilton counties.
Staff writer Lawrence Budd contributed to this report.
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