Mehmet Oz moved to Pa. to run for Senate. He won the state but lost his new home county.

Mehmet Oz got a lot of criticism for moving to Pennsylvania to run for Senate. And in the end, he won the primary without much of the hometown love candidates usually enjoy.

Oz won last month’s Republican Senate primary in a race so close it triggered an automatic recount.

But the results showed almost no regional advantage for Oz at all, according to an Inquirer analysis of election data.

The celebrity surgeon known as “Dr. Oz” grew up in Delaware, attended medical school at the University of Pennsylvania, lived for...