- Lead
- 6,875
- Total
- 68,084
- vs nation
- R+8.6
Ohio 44th State House District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 5,159
- Total
- 67,736
- vs nation
- R+12.1
- Lead
- 6,560
- Total
- 62,854
- vs nation
- R+12.5
- Lead
- 2,373
- Total
- 62,847
- vs nation
- R+0.1
- Lead
- 2,656
- Total
- 65,484
- vs nation
- R+3.2
- Lead
- 5,622
- Total
- 67,303
- vs nation
- R+5.9
- Lead
- 5,304
- Total
- 56,757
- vs nation
- R+9.9
- Lead
- 767
- Total
- 53,929
- vs nation
- R+7.1
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- R+10.1MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 115,6722024 5-year
- Population density
- 476 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 243 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $99,3242024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 85.9%2024 5-year
- Black
- 3.0%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 4.5%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+12.2 in 1912MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+54.3 in 1924MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State House District 13, MI · twin score 67.6
presidential history
Party record book
Ohio 44th 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
55.5%
27,541 votes · D+10.9 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Barack Obama, 2008 · 51.2%
Republican
Herbert Hoover1928
75.2%
29,596 votes · R+50.9 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Theodore Roosevelt, 1904 · 72.5%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Barack Obama2008
33,499votes
51.2% of the vote · D+4.1 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Barack Obama, 2012 · 32,008 votes
Republican
Ronald Reagan1984
39,876votes
64.6% of the vote · R+29.9 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1956 · 37,719 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
Woodrow Wilson1916
+0.2pts D vs U.S.
Place D+3.3 · U.S. D+3.1 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Barack Obama, 2012 · −0.1 pts
Republican
Wendell Willkie1940
+37.3pts R vs U.S.
Place R+27.4 · U.S. D+9.9 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Thomas E. Dewey, 1944 · +34.9 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 | 55.4%28,665 | 44.6%23,100 | 51,765 |
| 2020 | D | 52.4%28,944 | 47.6%26,284 | 55,228 |
Ohio House District 44 delivered a 23-point Democratic margin in 2024, placing it among the state's most reliably blue constituencies. Its urban core anchors a dense, diverse electorate that has trended consistently leftward across recent cycles.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 12.2 points in 1912 and a Republican high of 54.3 points in 1924. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 2.5 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 10.1 points.
A population of 115,672, a 86% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $99,324 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State House District 13 and State House District 19.
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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