- Lead
- 16,941
- Total
- 169,335
- vs nation
- D+11.5
Ohio 6th State Senate District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 21,624
- Total
- 179,962
- vs nation
- D+7.6
- Lead
- 15,414
- Total
- 177,041
- vs nation
- D+6.6
- Lead
- 26,132
- Total
- 180,852
- vs nation
- D+10.6
- Lead
- 30,334
- Total
- 189,435
- vs nation
- D+8.7
- Lead
- 22,291
- Total
- 190,750
- vs nation
- D+14.1
- Lead
- 18,289
- Total
- 156,607
- vs nation
- D+11.2
- Lead
- 27,677
- Total
- 157,551
- vs nation
- D+9.0
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- D+10.0MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 371,0592024 5-year
- Population density
- 1,808 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 205 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $63,1702024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 63.3%2024 5-year
- Black
- 23.8%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 4.6%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+36.5 in 1964MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+27.4 in 1924MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State Senate District 32, NC · twin score 82.2
presidential history
Party record book
Ohio 6th State Senate 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
68.2%
93,934 votes · D+36.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1944 · 64.6%
Republican
Herbert Hoover1928
59.9%
43,260 votes · R+20.4 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Calvin Coolidge, 1924 · 58.0%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Barack Obama2008
108,246votes
57.1% of the vote · D+16.0 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · John Kerry, 2004 · 106,090 votes
Republican
George W. Bush2004
83,799votes
43.9% of the vote · D+11.7 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Ronald Reagan, 1984 · 82,920 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
+26.9pts D vs U.S.
Place D+0.7 · U.S. R+26.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1944 · +21.7 pts
Republican
Herbert Hoover1932
+6.3pts R vs U.S.
Place D+11.5 · U.S. D+17.8 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Herbert Hoover, 1928 · +2.9 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 | 43.2%72,081 | 56.8%94,733 | 166,814 |
| 2020 | R | 44.9%82,902 | 55.1%101,790 | 184,692 |
With a population of roughly 371,000, this district delivered an 11-point Democratic margin in the 2024 presidential race, making it one of the more reliably left-leaning state senate seats in Ohio's competitive map.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 36.5 points in 1964 and a Republican high of 27.4 points in 1924. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 2.0 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 10.0 points.
A population of 371,059, a 63% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $63,170 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State Senate District 32 and State Senate District 5.
The state-senate 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 6th State Senate District. Akashic. https://akashic.app/sld-upper/39006/. Accessed May 20, 2026. License: CC BY 4.0.