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Emilia Sykes, a Democrat and former minority leader of the Ohio House who has represented Ohio's 13th congressional district since 2023, seeks reelection in 2026 against Republican radio host Carey Coleman.
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The article profiles U.S. Representative Emilia Sykes (D-Akron), incumbent in Ohio’s 13th District, who is running for reelection against Republican Carey Coleman.
ClarkDulaneyEmilia Sykes, the Democratic representative for Ohio’s 13th Congressional District, says Democrats in the U.S. House are preparing to counter potential Republican efforts to meddle with election results.
Sykes emphasized her legislative work, citing roles like co-leader of the Housing Affordability Work Group and the HOMES Act, and claimed ongoing efforts to lower housing costs for renters and homeowners.
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Emilia Sykes was born on January 4, 1986, and raised in Akron, Ohio. She is the daughter of state senator Vernon Lee Sykes and former state representative Barbara Ann Sykes, who successively held the same legislative seat from 1982 to 2014.
As a child she pursued dance and competed in gymnastics, reaching the AAU Junior Olympics.
After graduating from Firestone High School, she earned a Bachelor of Arts in psychology, magna cum laude, from Kent State University, then a Juris Doctor from the University of Florida Levin College of Law and a Master of Public Health from the College of Public Health and Health Professions.
She worked as a law clerk for the chief judge of the U.S. Bankruptcy Court in the Northern District of Georgia and later as an administrative advisor in the Summit County fiscal office. Sykes married Democratic politician Kevin Boyce on September 10, 2022.
Emilia Sykes ran for the Ohio House of Representatives in 2013 to succeed her term-limited father, defeating Summit County councilman Frank Communale for the Democratic nomination and Republican Cynthia Blake in the general election, 72% to 28%. She represented the 34th district and served as minority leader of the chamber from 2019 to 2021.
In 2022 Sykes won Ohio's 13th congressional district, defeating Republican Madison Gesiotto Gilbert, and in 2024 she was reelected with 51.1% of the vote to Republican Kevin Coughlin's 48.9%. She is vice ranking member of the Transportation and Infrastructure Committee and ranking member of the Science Committee's Subcommittee on Investigations and Oversight.
Emilia Sykes is the Democratic incumbent in Ohio's 13th congressional district, which includes most of the Akron-Canton population corridor, taking in all of Summit County and parts of Portage and Stark counties. She ran unopposed in the 2026 Democratic primary, receiving 62,768 votes. In the general election on November 3, 2026, she faces Republican Carey Coleman, a radio host who won a five-candidate primary with 47.3% of the vote, and independent Sandeep Dixit.
