- Lead
- 10,019
- Total
- 60,076
- vs nation
- R+15.2
Ohio 72nd State House District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 7,891
- Total
- 59,877
- vs nation
- R+17.6
- Lead
- 4,869
- Total
- 57,581
- vs nation
- R+10.5
- Lead
- 3,889
- Total
- 56,683
- vs nation
- D+3.0
- Lead
- 5,998
- Total
- 58,220
- vs nation
- D+3.0
- Lead
- 4,556
- Total
- 56,902
- vs nation
- D+10.5
- Lead
- 2,992
- Total
- 46,798
- vs nation
- D+5.9
- Lead
- 8,303
- Total
- 43,627
- vs nation
- D+10.5
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- R+16.7MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 122,6972024 5-year
- Population density
- 296 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 415 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $66,9502024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 86.2%2024 5-year
- Black
- 4.7%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 2.1%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+37.7 in 1964MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+42.3 in 1928MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State House District 95, OH · twin score 85.4
presidential history
Party record book
Ohio 72nd 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
68.8%
17,515 votes · D+37.7 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1936 · 62.2%
Republican
Herbert Hoover1928
70.8%
8,838 votes · R+42.3 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Theodore Roosevelt, 1904 · 61.9%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Barack Obama2008
31,475votes
54.1% of the vote · D+10.3 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · John Kerry, 2004 · 30,588 votes
Republican
Donald Trump2024
34,777votes
57.9% of the vote · R+16.7 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2020 · 33,428 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
George McGovern1972
+18.9pts D vs U.S.
Place R+4.2 · U.S. R+23.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Lyndon B. Johnson, 1964 · +15.1 pts
Republican
Herbert Hoover1928
+24.9pts R vs U.S.
Place R+42.3 · U.S. R+17.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2020 · +17.6 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 | 39.6%23,623 | 60.4%35,963 | 59,586 |
| 2020 | R | 42.9%25,555 | 57.1%33,982 | 59,537 |
Ohio 72nd State House District sits in the Industrial Midwest. In 2024 it voted Republican.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 37.7 points in 1964 and a Republican high of 42.3 points in 1928. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 3.5 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 16.7 points.
A population of 122,697, a 86% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $66,950 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State House District 95 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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