- Lead
- 13,146
- Total
- 72,174
- vs nation
- D+19.7
Ohio 4th State House District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 12,950
- Total
- 72,182
- vs nation
- D+13.5
- Lead
- 3,944
- Total
- 63,972
- vs nation
- D+4.1
- Lead
- 1,194
- Total
- 61,879
- vs nation
- R+1.9
- Lead
- 183
- Total
- 61,059
- vs nation
- R+7.6
- Lead
- 7,128
- Total
- 58,599
- vs nation
- R+9.7
- Lead
- 9,131
- Total
- 46,765
- vs nation
- R+20.0
- Lead
- 7,293
- Total
- 45,134
- vs nation
- R+24.7
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- D+18.2MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 121,9382024 5-year
- Population density
- 1,896 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 64.3 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $109,3392024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 73.4%2024 5-year
- Black
- 12.3%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 3.6%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+18.2 in 2024MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+49.9 in 1928MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State House District 11, OH · twin score 93.7
presidential history
Party record book
Ohio 4th 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
Kamala Harris2024
58.6%
42,284 votes · D+18.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Joe Biden, 2020 · 58.2%
Republican
Herbert Hoover1928
74.7%
12,728 votes · R+49.9 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1956 · 74.7%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Kamala Harris2024
42,284votes
58.6% of the vote · D+18.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Joe Biden, 2020 · 42,044 votes
Republican
Ronald Reagan1984
34,482votes
73.0% of the vote · R+48.1 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · George W. Bush, 2004 · 32,697 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
Kamala Harris2024
+19.7pts D vs U.S.
Place D+18.2 · U.S. R+1.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Joe Biden, 2020 · +13.5 pts
Republican
Herbert Hoover1932
+45.5pts R vs U.S.
Place R+27.7 · U.S. D+17.8 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Richard Nixon, 1960 · +38.5 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%33,284 | 36.0%18,747 | 52,031 |
| 2020 | D | 62.5%34,838 | 37.5%20,920 | 55,758 |
With a 2024 presidential margin of D+18.2, this Franklin County district ranks among Ohio's most reliably Democratic state house seats, driven by dense urban population centers and a highly educated electorate near the state capital.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 18.2 points in 2024 and a Republican high of 49.9 points in 1928. The 2024 margin was 18.2 points.
A population of 121,938, a 73% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $109,339 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State House District 11 and State House District 8.
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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