- Lead
- 4,438
- Total
- 68,997
- vs nation
- R+5.0
Ohio 17th State House District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 4,057
- Total
- 71,706
- vs nation
- R+10.1
- Lead
- 6,102
- Total
- 67,286
- vs nation
- R+11.2
- Lead
- 3,879
- Total
- 68,474
- vs nation
- R+9.5
- Lead
- 4,779
- Total
- 71,193
- vs nation
- R+14.0
- Lead
- 9,591
- Total
- 73,915
- vs nation
- R+10.5
- Lead
- 10,336
- Total
- 64,610
- vs nation
- R+16.5
- Lead
- 6,328
- Total
- 62,218
- vs nation
- R+18.7
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- R+6.4MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 125,0022024 5-year
- Population density
- 1,809 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 69.1 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $93,9192024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 85.3%2024 5-year
- Black
- 3.0%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 3.3%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+3.6 in 1912MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+66.3 in 1920MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State House District 23, OH · twin score 87.9
presidential history
Party record book
Ohio 17th 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
Lyndon B. Johnson1964
48.8%
35,070 votes · R+2.3 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Joe Biden, 2020 · 46.7%
Republican
Warren G. Harding1920
81.0%
27,793 votes · R+66.3 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Theodore Roosevelt, 1904 · 78.8%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Lyndon B. Johnson1964
35,070votes
48.8% of the vote · R+2.3 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Joe Biden, 2020 · 33,467 votes
Republican
Dwight D. Eisenhower1956
66,079votes
75.3% of the vote · R+50.6 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Richard Nixon, 1972 · 61,561 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
−5.0pts D vs U.S.
Place R+6.4 · U.S. R+1.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Barack Obama, 2012 · −9.5 pts
Republican
Herbert Hoover1932
+56.0pts R vs U.S.
Place R+38.2 · U.S. D+17.8 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Theodore Roosevelt, 1904 · +46.5 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 | 66.9%33,748 | 33.1%16,729 | 50,477 |
| 2020 | D | 64.7%37,506 | 35.3%20,476 | 57,982 |
Ohio 17th State House District sits in the Industrial Midwest. In 2024 it voted Republican.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 3.6 points in 1912 and a Republican high of 66.3 points in 1920. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 0.8 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 6.4 points.
A population of 125,002, a 85% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $93,919 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State House District 23 and State House District 46.
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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