- Lead
- 14,547
- Total
- 74,458
- vs nation
- R+18.1
Ohio 61st State House District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 13,913
- Total
- 70,008
- vs nation
- R+24.3
- Lead
- 15,971
- Total
- 60,901
- vs nation
- R+28.3
- Lead
- 17,468
- Total
- 56,371
- vs nation
- R+34.8
- Lead
- 14,684
- Total
- 53,148
- vs nation
- R+34.9
- Lead
- 18,473
- Total
- 47,309
- vs nation
- R+36.6
- Lead
- 13,929
- Total
- 33,733
- vs nation
- R+41.8
- Lead
- 8,000
- Total
- 26,429
- vs nation
- R+38.8
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- R+19.5MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 120,9272024 5-year
- Population density
- 240 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 503 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $109,9392024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 86.6%2024 5-year
- Black
- 2.8%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 3.0%2024 5-year
- Peak Republican margin
- R+56.8 in 1984MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State Legislative District 31, MD · twin score 85.6
presidential history
Party record book
Ohio 61st 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
48.4%
6,489 votes · R+3.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Woodrow Wilson, 1916 · 46.8%
Republican
Ronald Reagan1984
78.1%
14,753 votes · R+56.8 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1956 · 76.8%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Kamala Harris2024
29,572votes
39.7% of the vote · R+19.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Joe Biden, 2020 · 27,456 votes
Republican
Donald Trump2024
44,119votes
59.3% of the vote · R+19.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2020 · 41,369 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
−0.7pts D vs U.S.
Place R+26.9 · U.S. R+26.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · William J. Bryan, 1896 · −5.7 pts
Republican
Richard Nixon1960
+44.4pts R vs U.S.
Place R+44.2 · U.S. D+0.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Wendell Willkie, 1940 · +43.2 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 | 41.8%28,490 | 58.2%39,601 | 68,091 |
| 2020 | R | 39.2%24,598 | 60.8%38,102 | 62,700 |
Anchored in the Columbus metro, this district's double-digit Democratic presidential margin reflects the urbanizing trend reshaping central Ohio's legislative map. Population density and a growing younger, college-educated electorate drive its leftward lean.
Across the recorded series it reached a Republican high of 56.8 points in 1984. The 2024 margin was 19.5 points.
A population of 120,927, a 87% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $109,939 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State Legislative District 31 and State House District 45.
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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