- Lead
- 12,298
- Total
- 62,178
- vs nation
- R+18.3
Ohio 68th State House District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 11,121
- Total
- 62,054
- vs nation
- R+22.4
- Lead
- 11,123
- Total
- 55,654
- vs nation
- R+22.1
- Lead
- 2,579
- Total
- 54,324
- vs nation
- R+8.6
- Lead
- 3,604
- Total
- 55,023
- vs nation
- R+13.8
- Lead
- 7,719
- Total
- 52,536
- vs nation
- R+12.2
- Lead
- 5,601
- Total
- 41,320
- vs nation
- R+14.1
- Lead
- 603
- Total
- 38,799
- vs nation
- R+10.1
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- R+19.8MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 120,7972024 5-year
- Population density
- 533 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 227 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $82,3992024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 82.4%2024 5-year
- Black
- 5.5%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 2.6%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+30.2 in 1964MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+37.4 in 1984MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State House District 86, OH · twin score 91.9
presidential history
Party record book
Ohio 68th 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
65.1%
17,227 votes · D+30.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1936 · 62.7%
Republican
Ronald Reagan1984
68.2%
23,002 votes · R+37.4 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Herbert Hoover, 1928 · 68.1%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Barack Obama2012
25,253votes
46.5% of the vote · R+4.7 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Barack Obama, 2008 · 25,099 votes
Republican
Donald Trump2024
36,942votes
59.4% of the vote · R+19.8 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2020 · 36,019 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
+30.1pts D vs U.S.
Place D+3.9 · U.S. R+26.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · William J. Bryan, 1908 · +24.6 pts
Republican
Donald Trump2020
+22.4pts R vs U.S.
Place R+17.9 · U.S. D+4.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2016 · +22.1 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 | 32.6%20,153 | 67.4%41,705 | 61,858 |
| 2020 | R | 32.8%19,518 | 67.2%39,917 | 59,435 |
District 68 recorded a 19.8-point Republican presidential margin in 2024, placing it well outside competitive range. At roughly 120,000 residents, it reflects the heavily rural or exurban character common to similarly skewed Ohio house seats.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 30.2 points in 1964 and a Republican high of 37.4 points in 1984. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 1.9 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 19.8 points.
A population of 120,797, a 82% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $82,399 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State House District 86 and State House District 71.
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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