Democrats ended a 14-year Republican supermajority in the Ohio House on Nov. 3.

The shift matters for Sharonville, Springdale, Evendale and Woodlawn residents because Acton has pledged to use that power on issues that hit local wallets. Acton has criticized universal private-school vouchers. Ohio spends more than $1 billion annually across its private-school scholarship programs, the Columbus Dispatch reported.

Without a supermajority, Republicans in the House can no longer override the governor's vetoes on their own. They will need Democratic votes to do so.

What the numbers show

Republicans held a 65-34 majority in the Ohio House before Election Day. A supermajority requires 60 of the chamber's 99 seats, according to the Dispatch. Democrats declared victory in eight seats previously held by Republicans and were headed to recounts in four more, the Dispatch reported.

Among the flipped seats, Democrats unseated four sitting Republican lawmakers and won four open seats. The wins drop Republicans below the 60-seat threshold they had held since 2013.

Republicans in the Ohio Senate lost two seats but will keep their veto-proof majority there, the Dispatch reported. A supermajority in the Senate requires 20 seats, and Republicans hold 22.

Acton won Hamilton County by a wide margin

Acton carried 63.1% of the vote in Hamilton County, one of six counties where she won at least 60% of the vote, according to cleveland.com's analysis of unofficial returns. WLWT reported she received nearly double the votes of Republican Vivek Ramaswamy in the county.

Statewide, Acton won 52.3% of the vote, becoming the first woman elected governor in Ohio and the first Democrat elected since 2006, according to cleveland.com.

What Acton has said she wants to do

Acton listed lowering the cost of living as her top priority in the Dayton Daily News Voter Guide before the election. She said she plans to pursue targeted property tax cuts, lower healthcare costs by protecting Medicaid and reducing drug prices, and institute a conditional data center moratorium to lower energy bills, the Dayton Daily News reported.

She also wants to return to the bipartisan "fair school funding plan," which was designed to gradually make schools less reliant on property taxes by increasing the state's share. Republican lawmakers moved away from that plan, calling it unsustainable, the Dayton Daily News reported.

Acton has taken aim at Ohio's universal private school voucher program, which has sent $1 billion a year to private schools, according to the Dispatch.

A lame-duck fight looms

The broken supermajority does not take effect until the new legislature is seated in January. David Niven, a political scientist at the University of Cincinnati, told the Dispatch he expects Republican lawmakers to push bills through during the lame-duck session to limit the governor's powers before Acton takes office.

Ohio House Minority Leader Dani Isaacsohn, a Cincinnati Democrat, said on election night that Democrats invested more in statehouse races than the caucus had in 20 years.

Christopher Devine, a political scientist at the University of Dayton, told the Dispatch that Republican lawmakers may split between pragmatists who want to work with Acton and partisans who want to weaken her office.

Acton will also face Ohio House Speaker Matt Huffman, a Lima Republican whom Devine described as someone willing to challenge governors of either party, the Dispatch reported.

All results remain unofficial. Four additional House races were too close to call as of Nov. 4.