- Lead
- 12,067
- Total
- 65,646
- vs nation
- R+16.9
Ohio 56th State House District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 11,505
- Total
- 65,218
- vs nation
- R+22.1
- Lead
- 15,090
- Total
- 57,471
- vs nation
- R+28.3
- Lead
- 15,099
- Total
- 53,186
- vs nation
- R+32.2
- Lead
- 12,702
- Total
- 51,185
- vs nation
- R+32.1
- Lead
- 15,214
- Total
- 44,906
- vs nation
- R+31.4
- Lead
- 10,444
- Total
- 32,955
- vs nation
- R+32.2
- Lead
- 4,965
- Total
- 26,871
- vs nation
- R+27.0
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- R+18.4MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 121,7042024 5-year
- Population density
- 989 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 123 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $114,8592024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 74.3%2024 5-year
- Black
- 4.7%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 3.9%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+18.4 in 1964MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+46.3 in 1928MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State House District 68, NC · twin score 91.4
presidential history
Party record book
Ohio 56th 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
59.2%
7,014 votes · D+18.4 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1936 · 55.2%
Republican
Herbert Hoover1928
72.8%
3,836 votes · R+46.3 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Ronald Reagan, 1984 · 71.5%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Kamala Harris2024
26,409votes
40.2% of the vote · R+18.4 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Joe Biden, 2020 · 26,336 votes
Republican
Donald Trump2024
38,476votes
58.6% of the vote · R+18.4 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2020 · 37,841 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
+7.7pts D vs U.S.
Place R+18.5 · U.S. R+26.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Jimmy Carter, 1976 · +1.2 pts
Republican
Mitt Romney2012
+32.2pts R vs U.S.
Place R+28.4 · U.S. D+3.9 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · George W. Bush, 2000 · +32.2 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 | 35.6%23,666 | 64.4%42,834 | 66,500 |
| 2020 | R | 32.4%20,280 | 67.6%42,386 | 62,666 |
Ohio 56th State House District sits in the Industrial Midwest. In 2024 it voted Republican.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 18.4 points in 1964 and a Republican high of 46.3 points in 1928. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 0.7 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 18.4 points.
A population of 121,704, a 74% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $114,859 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State House District 68 and State House District 26.
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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