- Lead
- 1,486
- Total
- 55,714
- vs nation
- D+4.1
Ohio 53rd State House District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 3,744
- Total
- 56,704
- vs nation
- D+2.1
- Lead
- 5,275
- Total
- 52,444
- vs nation
- D+8.0
- Lead
- 13,539
- Total
- 53,408
- vs nation
- D+21.5
- Lead
- 15,170
- Total
- 54,897
- vs nation
- D+20.4
- Lead
- 11,994
- Total
- 52,112
- vs nation
- D+25.5
- Lead
- 8,520
- Total
- 41,291
- vs nation
- D+20.1
- Lead
- 11,054
- Total
- 39,691
- vs nation
- D+19.3
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- D+2.7MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 119,1352024 5-year
- Population density
- 2,105 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 56.6 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $65,6782024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 65.9%2024 5-year
- Black
- 10.0%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 18.9%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+44.2 in 1964MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+40.8 in 1924MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State House District 52, OH · twin score 81.6
presidential history
Party record book
Ohio 53rd 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
72.1%
22,489 votes · D+44.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Barack Obama, 2008 · 62.8%
Republican
Theodore Roosevelt1904
65.0%
2,950 votes · R+39.7 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Warren G. Harding, 1920 · 61.0%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Barack Obama2008
34,471votes
62.8% of the vote · D+27.6 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Barack Obama, 2012 · 32,968 votes
Republican
Donald Trump2024
26,852votes
48.2% of the vote · D+2.7 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2020 · 26,090 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
John Kerry2004
+25.5pts D vs U.S.
Place D+23.0 · U.S. R+2.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Walter Mondale, 1984 · +24.6 pts
Republican
Theodore Roosevelt1904
+20.1pts R vs U.S.
Place R+39.7 · U.S. R+19.7 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Calvin Coolidge, 1924 · +15.6 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 | 46.8%25,914 | 53.2%29,500 | 55,414 |
| 2020 | R | 48.0%26,957 | 52.0%29,180 | 56,137 |
The 2024 presidential margin was D+2.7, one of the narrower results among Ohio's state house districts, compared with D+27.6 in 2008. About 36,600 residents lived here, with White alone at 78% in the 2024 ACS 5-year.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 44.2 points in 1964 and a Republican high of 40.8 points in 1924. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 3.9 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 2.7 points.
A population of 119,135, a 66% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $65,678 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State House District 52 and State House District 14.
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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