- Lead
- 3,284
- Total
- 56,605
- vs nation
- R+4.3
Ohio 39th State House District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 3,084
- Total
- 59,659
- vs nation
- R+9.6
- Lead
- 4,789
- Total
- 57,323
- vs nation
- R+10.4
- Lead
- 1,994
- Total
- 58,342
- vs nation
- R+7.3
- Lead
- 1,079
- Total
- 61,012
- vs nation
- R+9.0
- Lead
- 3,971
- Total
- 62,165
- vs nation
- R+3.9
- Lead
- 2,899
- Total
- 50,321
- vs nation
- R+6.3
- Lead
- 709
- Total
- 50,006
- vs nation
- R+7.1
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- R+5.8MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 114,2262024 5-year
- Population density
- 1,410 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 81 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $69,6482024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 68.6%2024 5-year
- Black
- 20.8%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 2.8%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+20.1 in 1964MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+42.4 in 1924MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State House District 43, NC · twin score 85.7
presidential history
Party record book
Ohio 39th 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
60.1%
25,683 votes · D+20.1 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1936 · 57.0%
Republican
Herbert Hoover1928
68.1%
16,930 votes · R+36.7 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Calvin Coolidge, 1924 · 66.7%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Barack Obama2008
29,580votes
48.5% of the vote · R+1.8 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · John Kerry, 2004 · 28,967 votes
Republican
George W. Bush2004
32,938votes
53.0% of the vote · R+6.4 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Ronald Reagan, 1984 · 32,675 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
+9.2pts D vs U.S.
Place R+17.0 · U.S. R+26.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1944 · +4.1 pts
Republican
Herbert Hoover1932
+23.8pts R vs U.S.
Place R+6.1 · U.S. D+17.8 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Herbert Hoover, 1928 · +19.3 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 | R | 43.2%22,189 | 56.8%29,162 | 51,351 |
| 2020 | R | 44.9%25,520 | 55.1%31,335 | 56,855 |
Ohio 39th State House District sits in the Industrial Midwest. In 2024 it voted Republican.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 20.1 points in 1964 and a Republican high of 42.4 points in 1924. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 0.6 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 5.8 points.
A population of 114,226, a 69% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $69,648 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State House District 43 and State House District 29.
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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