- Lead
- 9,384
- Total
- 66,018
- vs nation
- D+15.7
Ohio 28th State House District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 9,191
- Total
- 68,858
- vs nation
- D+8.9
- Lead
- 3,126
- Total
- 65,867
- vs nation
- D+2.7
- Lead
- 426
- Total
- 66,216
- vs nation
- R+3.2
- Lead
- 865
- Total
- 67,194
- vs nation
- R+6.0
- Lead
- 7,496
- Total
- 67,435
- vs nation
- R+8.7
- Lead
- 10,137
- Total
- 60,384
- vs nation
- R+17.3
- Lead
- 7,335
- Total
- 59,335
- vs nation
- R+20.9
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- D+14.2MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 124,2822024 5-year
- Population density
- 2,173 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 57.2 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $89,5712024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 62.3%2024 5-year
- Black
- 17.5%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 7.4%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+14.2 in 2024MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+45.4 in 1924MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State House District 27, OH · twin score 98.0
presidential history
Party record book
Ohio 28th 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
56.5%
37,333 votes · D+14.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Joe Biden, 2020 · 55.9%
Republican
Theodore Roosevelt1904
68.9%
10,927 votes · R+45.3 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1956 · 68.7%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Joe Biden2020
38,506votes
55.9% of the vote · D+13.3 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Kamala Harris, 2024 · 37,333 votes
Republican
Ronald Reagan1984
41,291votes
66.0% of the vote · R+32.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Richard Nixon, 1972 · 40,105 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
+15.7pts D vs U.S.
Place D+14.2 · U.S. R+1.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Joe Biden, 2020 · +8.9 pts
Republican
Gerald Ford1976
+28.8pts R vs U.S.
Place R+26.7 · U.S. D+2.1 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Theodore Roosevelt, 1904 · +25.7 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%34,653 | 41.8%24,885 | 59,538 |
| 2020 | D | 53.9%33,497 | 46.1%28,694 | 62,191 |
Ohio House District 28 sits within the Columbus metro, where dense urban settlement and a highly educated workforce have pushed presidential margins well into double digits for Democrats in recent cycles.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 14.2 points in 2024 and a Republican high of 45.4 points in 1924. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 0.9 points toward the Democratic candidate; the 2024 margin was 14.2 points.
A population of 124,282, a 62% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $89,571 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State House District 27 and State House District 4.
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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