- Lead
- 23,730
- Total
- 40,325
- vs nation
- D+60.3
Ohio 3rd State House District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 30,208
- Total
- 46,095
- vs nation
- D+61.1
- Lead
- 29,204
- Total
- 47,388
- vs nation
- D+59.5
- Lead
- 28,100
- Total
- 45,308
- vs nation
- D+58.2
- Lead
- 26,739
- Total
- 44,118
- vs nation
- D+53.3
- Lead
- 20,906
- Total
- 39,227
- vs nation
- D+55.8
- Lead
- 13,585
- Total
- 29,790
- vs nation
- D+45.1
- Lead
- 13,371
- Total
- 29,123
- vs nation
- D+37.4
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- D+58.8MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 115,3832024 5-year
- Population density
- 5,017 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 23 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $54,4792024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 42.3%2024 5-year
- Black
- 40.5%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 7.6%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+65.7 in 1876MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State House District 1, OH · twin score 98.5
presidential history
Party record book
Ohio 3rd 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
Samuel J. Tilden1876
82.8%
1,037 votes · D+65.7 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Joe Biden, 2020 · 82.0%
Republican
Herbert Hoover1928
41.3%
3,515 votes · D+16.8 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1956 · 41.3%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Joe Biden2020
37,802votes
82.0% of the vote · D+65.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Hillary Clinton, 2016 · 36,804 votes
Republican
Ronald Reagan1984
9,542votes
39.6% of the vote · D+17.6 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · George W. Bush, 2004 · 9,050 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
James M. Cox1920
+63.2pts D vs U.S.
Place D+37.0 · U.S. R+26.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Joe Biden, 2020 · +61.1 pts
Republican
Herbert Hoover1932
−22.4pts R vs U.S.
Place D+40.2 · U.S. D+17.8 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · William H. Taft, 1912 · −24.2 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | D | 62.5%32,965 | 37.5%19,796 | 52,761 |
Ohio 3rd State House District sits in the Industrial Midwest. In 2024 it voted Democratic.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 65.7 points in 1876. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 6.7 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 58.8 points.
A population of 115,383, a 42% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $54,479 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State House District 1 and State House District 96.
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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