- Lead
- 22,743
- Total
- 45,435
- vs nation
- D+51.5
Ohio 2nd State House District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 28,195
- Total
- 50,290
- vs nation
- D+51.6
- Lead
- 27,146
- Total
- 49,066
- vs nation
- D+53.2
- Lead
- 25,798
- Total
- 47,489
- vs nation
- D+50.5
- Lead
- 24,446
- Total
- 46,380
- vs nation
- D+45.4
- Lead
- 18,368
- Total
- 41,899
- vs nation
- D+46.3
- Lead
- 11,455
- Total
- 31,687
- vs nation
- D+35.6
- Lead
- 11,448
- Total
- 30,747
- vs nation
- D+28.7
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- D+50.1MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 121,5202024 5-year
- Population density
- 3,433 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 35.4 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $57,4132024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 29.7%2024 5-year
- Black
- 52.6%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 8.3%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+56.1 in 2020MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+3.5 in 1924MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State Legislative District 40, MD · twin score 98.2
presidential history
Party record book
Ohio 2nd State House District · the strongest Democratic and Republican presidential performances recorded here, measured three ways.
1892–2024 (partial returns from 1876) · 38 presidential cycles · 38 with a vote-share denominator · 34 with a national benchmark
Highest vote share
Largest share of the presidential candidate vote cast here.
Democratic
Joe Biden2020
77.3%
38,869 votes · D+56.1 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Barack Obama, 2012 · 76.7%
Republican
Herbert Hoover1928
47.3%
4,471 votes · D+5.3 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1956 · 47.2%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Joe Biden2020
38,869votes
77.3% of the vote · D+56.1 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Hillary Clinton, 2016 · 36,990 votes
Republican
Ronald Reagan1984
12,314votes
46.4% of the vote · D+5.7 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · George W. Bush, 2004 · 11,721 votes
Best relative to the U.S.
This Place’s margin against the national margin in the same election — positive when it leaned toward the party more than the country did.
Democratic
Hillary Clinton2016
+53.2pts D vs U.S.
Place D+55.3 · U.S. D+2.1 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · James M. Cox, 1920 · +53.0 pts
Republican
Herbert Hoover1932
−11.8pts R vs U.S.
Place D+29.5 · U.S. D+17.8 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Richard Nixon, 1968 · −17.1 pts
Current officeholders
State legislative officeholder from OpenStates nightly current-legislator data.
Senate and governor results are in the Office selector at the top of this page.
U.S. House
Each row is a county-allocated estimate of U.S. House votes for this district — county returns apportioned onto its boundary, not precinct-counted. “Vote lead” is the estimated local lead here, not necessarily the winner of the full contest.
| Year | Vote lead | Democratic | Republican | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | D | 64.0%33,170 | 36.0%18,683 | 51,853 |
| 2020 | D | 62.5%34,718 | 37.5%20,848 | 55,566 |
Ohio 2nd State House District sits in the Industrial Midwest. In 2024 it voted Democratic.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 56.1 points in 2020 and a Republican high of 3.5 points in 1924. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 6.0 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 50.1 points.
A population of 121,520, a 30% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $57,413 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State Legislative District 40 and State House District 93.
The state-house districts whose fingerprint — 2000–2024 trajectory, demographics, ancestry, religion — sits closest to this one, and why.
Twin score (0–100) = weighted cosine between tier-standardized fingerprints: presidential margins 2000–2024 with 12-yr trend and elasticity, ACS income, age, education, population and race, top reported ancestries, and religious adherence — chips name the closest-shared dimensions and the widest gap. Re-weight the groups in the twins explorer.
District research tools
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