- Lead
- 12,146
- Total
- 50,018
- vs nation
- R+22.8
Ohio 47th State House District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 11,188
- Total
- 51,176
- vs nation
- R+26.3
- Lead
- 11,238
- Total
- 51,132
- vs nation
- R+24.1
- Lead
- 9,631
- Total
- 49,749
- vs nation
- R+23.2
- Lead
- 8,476
- Total
- 50,787
- vs nation
- R+24.0
- Lead
- 12,695
- Total
- 48,193
- vs nation
- R+23.9
- Lead
- 9,423
- Total
- 39,697
- vs nation
- R+24.3
- Lead
- 4,872
- Total
- 35,608
- vs nation
- R+22.2
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- R+24.3MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 123,4732024 5-year
- Population density
- 868 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 142 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $64,5392024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 76.7%2024 5-year
- Black
- 8.0%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 6.9%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+36.2 in 1876MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+41.7 in 1984MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State House District 46, OH · twin score 87.2
presidential history
Party record book
Ohio 47th 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
Samuel J. Tilden1876
68.1%
1,918 votes · D+36.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Grover Cleveland, 1884 · 66.7%
Republican
Ronald Reagan1984
70.6%
21,073 votes · R+41.7 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · George H. W. Bush, 1988 · 66.1%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Barack Obama2008
20,710votes
40.8% of the vote · R+16.7 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Joe Biden, 2020 · 19,609 votes
Republican
Donald Trump2024
30,859votes
61.7% of the vote · R+24.3 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2020 · 30,797 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
+36.8pts D vs U.S.
Place D+10.7 · U.S. R+26.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · William J. Bryan, 1900 · +32.6 pts
Republican
Donald Trump2020
+26.3pts R vs U.S.
Place R+21.9 · U.S. D+4.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · George H. W. Bush, 1988 · +25.1 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 | 35.9%20,014 | 64.1%35,791 | 55,805 |
| 2020 | R | 35.7%20,233 | 64.3%36,377 | 56,610 |
Ohio 47th State House District sits in the Industrial Midwest. In 2024 it voted Republican.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 36.2 points in 1876 and a Republican high of 41.7 points in 1984. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 2.4 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 24.3 points.
A population of 123,473, a 77% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $64,539 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State House District 46 and State House District 160.
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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