- Lead
- 8,742
- Total
- 46,136
- vs nation
- D+20.4
Ohio 43rd State House District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 11,152
- Total
- 49,530
- vs nation
- D+18.1
- Lead
- 10,730
- Total
- 50,738
- vs nation
- D+19.1
- Lead
- 18,896
- Total
- 53,053
- vs nation
- D+31.8
- Lead
- 19,417
- Total
- 55,554
- vs nation
- D+27.7
- Lead
- 13,655
- Total
- 55,167
- vs nation
- D+27.2
- Lead
- 10,627
- Total
- 47,133
- vs nation
- D+22.0
- Lead
- 13,321
- Total
- 46,107
- vs nation
- D+20.4
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- D+18.9MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 114,8832024 5-year
- Population density
- 3,389 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 33.9 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $61,3542024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 67.5%2024 5-year
- Black
- 17.5%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 7.2%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+41.7 in 1964MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+38.7 in 1924MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State House District 42, OH · twin score 89.2
presidential history
Party record book
Ohio 43rd 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
70.8%
33,199 votes · D+41.7 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Barack Obama, 2012 · 66.7%
Republican
Theodore Roosevelt1904
64.0%
5,451 votes · R+38.4 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Herbert Hoover, 1928 · 61.1%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Barack Obama2008
36,909votes
66.4% of the vote · D+35.0 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Barack Obama, 2012 · 35,393 votes
Republican
Dwight D. Eisenhower1956
23,845votes
51.0% of the vote · R+2.0 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Ronald Reagan, 1984 · 23,806 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
Barack Obama2012
+31.8pts D vs U.S.
Place D+35.6 · U.S. D+3.9 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · George McGovern, 1972 · +28.3 pts
Republican
Theodore Roosevelt1904
+18.7pts R vs U.S.
Place R+38.4 · U.S. R+19.7 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Calvin Coolidge, 1924 · +13.5 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 | 60.2%29,442 | 39.8%19,484 | 48,926 |
| 2020 | D | 57.2%30,318 | 42.8%22,682 | 53,000 |
In 2024 it voted Democratic by D+19.0, against D+35.0 in 2008. About 42,800 residents lived here, with White alone at 68.2% in the 2024 ACS 5-year.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 41.7 points in 1964 and a Republican high of 38.7 points in 1924. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 3.6 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 18.9 points.
A population of 114,883, a 68% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $61,354 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State House District 42 and State House District 41.
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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