- Lead
- 26,303
- Total
- 63,977
- vs nation
- D+42.6
Ohio 26th State House District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 28,212
- Total
- 66,601
- vs nation
- D+37.9
- Lead
- 22,739
- Total
- 63,016
- vs nation
- D+34.0
- Lead
- 21,498
- Total
- 62,107
- vs nation
- D+30.8
- Lead
- 22,311
- Total
- 63,142
- vs nation
- D+28.1
- Lead
- 14,671
- Total
- 60,615
- vs nation
- D+26.7
- Lead
- 9,421
- Total
- 53,266
- vs nation
- D+17.2
- Lead
- 11,036
- Total
- 53,596
- vs nation
- D+12.1
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- D+41.1MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 116,5502024 5-year
- Population density
- 3,688 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 31.6 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $77,0412024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 65.8%2024 5-year
- Black
- 23.6%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 3.8%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+42.4 in 2020MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+21.2 in 1924MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State House District 102, NC · twin score 89.9
presidential history
Party record book
Ohio 26th 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
70.4%
46,874 votes · D+42.4 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Kamala Harris, 2024 · 70.0%
Republican
Theodore Roosevelt1904
52.3%
6,688 votes · R+15.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1956 · 51.6%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Joe Biden2020
46,874votes
70.4% of the vote · D+42.4 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Kamala Harris, 2024 · 44,778 votes
Republican
Ronald Reagan1984
25,232votes
48.6% of the vote · D+2.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Richard Nixon, 1972 · 24,522 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
+42.6pts D vs U.S.
Place D+41.1 · U.S. R+1.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Joe Biden, 2020 · +37.9 pts
Republican
William H. Taft1912
−3.1pts R vs U.S.
Place D+22.6 · U.S. D+19.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Calvin Coolidge, 1924 · −4.0 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 | 58.2%32,497 | 41.8%23,337 | 55,834 |
| 2020 | D | 53.9%31,413 | 46.1%26,909 | 58,322 |
Ohio 26th State House District sits in the Industrial Midwest. In 2024 it voted Democratic.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 42.4 points in 2020 and a Republican high of 21.2 points in 1924. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 1.2 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 41.1 points.
A population of 116,550, a 66% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $77,041 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State House District 102 and State House District 77.
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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