Maria Jukic, a Euclid City Council member and Democrat, is her party's nominee for Ohio's 14th congressional district in 2026, challenging Republican incumbent David Joyce in Northeast Ohio.
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2026 race
Maria Jukic, a member of the Euclid City Council, is the Democratic nominee for Ohio's 14th congressional district, which takes in the eastern suburbs and exurbs of Cleveland. The seat is held by Republican incumbent David Joyce, who was re-elected with 63.4% of the vote in 2024.
In the three-candidate Democratic primary, Jukic won 50.8% of the vote, defeating Bill O'Neill, a former justice of the Ohio Supreme Court and the party's nominee for the district in 2008 and 2010, who took 35.8%, and restaurateur Carl Setzer, who took 13.4%.
She faces Joyce in the general election on November 3, 2026.