- Lead
- 17,768
- Total
- 56,558
- vs nation
- R+29.9
Ohio 86th State House District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 16,821
- Total
- 53,206
- vs nation
- R+36.1
- Lead
- 15,597
- Total
- 47,269
- vs nation
- R+35.1
- Lead
- 7,317
- Total
- 45,672
- vs nation
- R+19.9
- Lead
- 7,308
- Total
- 46,175
- vs nation
- R+23.1
- Lead
- 11,349
- Total
- 43,920
- vs nation
- R+23.4
- Lead
- 7,479
- Total
- 35,066
- vs nation
- R+21.8
- Lead
- 2,514
- Total
- 33,110
- vs nation
- R+16.1
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- R+31.4MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 113,5662024 5-year
- Population density
- 218 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 521 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $81,4612024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 84.4%2024 5-year
- Black
- 4.5%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 2.8%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+13.9 in 1964MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+38.4 in 1972MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State House District 71, OH · twin score 92.9
presidential history
Party record book
Ohio 86th 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
57.0%
16,304 votes · D+13.9 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1936 · 53.9%
Republican
Herbert Hoover1928
68.3%
14,948 votes · R+37.7 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Ronald Reagan, 1984 · 68.1%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Kamala Harris2024
19,122votes
33.8% of the vote · R+31.4 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Barack Obama, 2008 · 18,880 votes
Republican
Donald Trump2024
36,890votes
65.2% of the vote · R+31.4 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2020 · 34,489 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
+8.1pts D vs U.S.
Place R+1.5 · U.S. R+9.6 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · James M. Cox, 1920 · +7.4 pts
Republican
Donald Trump2020
+36.1pts R vs U.S.
Place R+31.6 · U.S. D+4.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2016 · +35.1 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 | 32.7%17,889 | 67.3%36,773 | 54,662 |
| 2020 | R | 30.5%15,362 | 69.5%35,080 | 50,442 |
With a 2024 presidential margin exceeding 31 points, this district sits firmly in Ohio's heavily Republican column, reflecting a rural or exurban electorate that has moved steadily away from statewide competitiveness over the past decade.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 13.9 points in 1964 and a Republican high of 38.4 points in 1972. The 2024 margin was 31.4 points.
A population of 113,566, a 84% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $81,461 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State House District 71 and State House District 12.
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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Ohio 86th State House District. Akashic. https://akashic.app/sld-lower/39086/. Accessed May 20, 2026. License: CC BY 4.0.