- Lead
- 26,945
- Total
- 59,628
- vs nation
- R+43.7
Ohio 83rd State House District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 26,699
- Total
- 60,789
- vs nation
- R+48.4
- Lead
- 24,996
- Total
- 57,345
- vs nation
- R+45.7
- Lead
- 15,641
- Total
- 56,183
- vs nation
- R+31.7
- Lead
- 13,998
- Total
- 58,450
- vs nation
- R+31.2
- Lead
- 21,515
- Total
- 57,058
- vs nation
- R+35.2
- Lead
- 17,410
- Total
- 49,524
- vs nation
- R+35.7
- Lead
- 9,611
- Total
- 48,019
- vs nation
- R+28.5
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- R+45.2MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 122,0582024 5-year
- Population density
- 100 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 1,219 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $68,6782024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 89.2%2024 5-year
- Black
- 1.4%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 4.2%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+17.1 in 1912MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+52.7 in 1984MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State House District 80, OH · twin score 97.1
presidential history
Party record book
Ohio 83rd 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
52.2%
21,740 votes · D+4.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Woodrow Wilson, 1916 · 50.9%
Republican
Ronald Reagan1984
75.8%
35,652 votes · R+52.7 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2024 · 72.1%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Lyndon B. Johnson1964
21,740votes
52.2% of the vote · D+4.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Barack Obama, 2008 · 21,519 votes
Republican
Donald Trump2020
43,217votes
71.1% of the vote · R+43.9 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2024 · 42,982 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
William J. Bryan1908
+7.0pts D vs U.S.
Place R+2.5 · U.S. R+9.6 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · James M. Cox, 1920 · +5.5 pts
Republican
Donald Trump2020
+48.4pts R vs U.S.
Place R+43.9 · U.S. D+4.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2016 · +45.7 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 | 24.5%14,215 | 75.5%43,865 | 58,080 |
| 2020 | R | 24.4%14,371 | 75.6%44,447 | 58,818 |
With a 2024 presidential margin of R+45.2, this district ranks among the most lopsided in Ohio's lower chamber, reflecting a heavily rural electorate where statewide and local contests alike produce outsized Republican margins.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 17.1 points in 1912 and a Republican high of 52.7 points in 1984. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 1.3 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 45.2 points.
A population of 122,058, a 89% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $68,678 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State House District 80 and State House District 68.
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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