COLUMBUS — Ohio Gov.-elect Amy Acton paused her election-night remarks Tuesday after someone in the crowd called for a medic, FOX 8 Cleveland reported, citing NewsNation video of the celebration¹.

A person in the audience yelled for a medic, according to the station, and Acton told the crowd someone had passed out and that the program would hold for a minute¹. She then left the stage and moved toward a person thought to have fainted; FOX 8 said no further information about that person was available¹.

NBC4 Columbus reported that Acton, a Democrat and former state health director, defeated Republican Vivek Ramaswamy in unofficial results and that Ramaswamy conceded Tuesday night². FOX 8 said the win would make Acton Ohio's first elected female governor and the first Democrat in the office in two decades¹.

NBC4 said the inauguration is scheduled for Jan. 11 and that Acton has pledged three first-day executive orders aimed at conflicts of interest between state agencies and private businesses, plus an anti-corruption task force with recommendations in her first 100 days². She also described public disclosure rules for contractors, advocates and lobbyists, and a three-year restriction on political appointees taking jobs in industries they had regulated².

After her first day, Acton has pledged a tax cut for working families earning $85,000 a year or less, including an earned-income credit she said would reach up to 775,000 families and a child tax credit of up to $1,000 a year for children 6 and under and $500 for ages 7 to 18, NBC4 reported².

Republicans still hold majorities in the Ohio House and Senate, NBC4 said, but preliminary results indicated they lost the supermajority needed to override a gubernatorial veto². Lawmakers from both parties told the station they expect Republicans to try to limit the next governor's power during the lame-duck session². Acton said she would appoint at least one Republican to her cabinet².

FOX 8 said the campaign had drawn national attention in its final weeks after an advertisement featuring Acton's estranged mother and over clashes about the state's pandemic response¹. The condition of the person in the crowd was not independently confirmed in either report¹.