# OH-Gov-2026 Ohio's 2026 gubernatorial election. **Republican nominee: [[Vivek Ramaswamy]]. Democratic nominee: [[Amy Acton]].** This page currently records only the outside money, which is where the vault's work on this race began. ## Money ### Outside-money log — the pro-Ramaswamy super PAC **[[V PAC Victors Not Victims]]** (FEC **C00892919**, PO Box 72100, Newport, Kentucky; treasurer **Brittaney King**) is the principal outside vehicle in the race. It is funded almost entirely by a handful of individuals. | Contributor | Date | Amount | Disclosing file | |---|---|---|---| | [[Jeff Yass]] | 2025-03-06 | $10,000,000.00 | 1907313 | | [[Jeff Yass]] | 2026-01-12 | $5,000,000.00 | 1967045 | | [[Jeff Yass]] | 2026-03-27 | $5,000,000.00 | 1967045 | | [[Ratmir Timashev]] | 2026-05-12 | $5,000,000.00 | 1993682 | | [[Jeff Yass]] | **2026-08-10** | **$10,000,000.00** | **2023557** | | [[Ratmir Timashev]] | **2026-09-14** | **$5,000,000.00** | **2023557** | **Yass cycle total: $30,000,000.00. Timashev cycle total: $10,000,000.00.** Those two individuals account for **$40,000,000.00** of disclosed money into one state race. Press reporting (*Ohio Capital Journal*, 2026-07-22) additionally names [[Elon Musk]] at $5 million in May 2026, [[Bill Ackman]] at $1 million in June, and [[Ross Stevens]] at $5 million in early 2025 plus $1 million in May — figures **not yet traced to file numbers** on this site. The same report put five named donors at roughly $37 million, **more than 88% of the committee's funding**, and recorded over **$8.1 million** spent in June on a single advertisement against [[Amy Acton]]. **Cash position.** File 2023557 reports cash on hand at the opening of Q3 2026 of **$25,852,229.95**, which reconciles against the *Ohio Capital Journal*'s "$25.8 million in cash on hand at the end of the second quarter." ### The disclosure pattern V-PAC is a **quarterly filer**. The two largest tranches of 2026 — Yass's $10,000,000.00 on **August 10** and Timashev's $5,000,000.00 on **September 14** — were not public until **October 15**, eighteen days before the election, while the money was already being spent. Nothing about that is irregular; it is what the filing calendar permits, and it is the clearest illustration in the vault of the gap applied to a **state** race. ## Deals on this race - [[Yass 10M to V PAC August 2026]] - [[Timashev 5M to V PAC September 2026]] - [[Yass 20M to V PAC Ramaswamy Ohio]] ## See Also - [[Vivek Ramaswamy]] · [[Amy Acton]] - [[V PAC Victors Not Victims]] · [[Jeff Yass]] · [[Ratmir Timashev]] - [[2026 Governor Races Hub]]