- Lead
- 34,620
- Total
- 205,637
- vs nation
- R+15.4
Ohio 7th State Senate District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 32,728
- Total
- 204,958
- vs nation
- R+20.4
- Lead
- 40,787
- Total
- 185,317
- vs nation
- R+24.1
- Lead
- 43,229
- Total
- 177,413
- vs nation
- R+28.2
- Lead
- 37,428
- Total
- 173,620
- vs nation
- R+28.8
- Lead
- 49,489
- Total
- 161,857
- vs nation
- R+28.1
- Lead
- 39,313
- Total
- 129,462
- vs nation
- R+30.9
- Lead
- 23,456
- Total
- 114,744
- vs nation
- R+29.0
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- R+16.8MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 366,6192024 5-year
- Population density
- 799 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 459 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $103,9342024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 75.2%2024 5-year
- Black
- 8.2%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 4.6%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+7.7 in 1936MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+45.1 in 1924MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State Senate District 8, OH · twin score 91.1
presidential history
Party record book
Ohio 7th 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
52.6%
42,162 votes · D+5.3 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1936 · 51.1%
Republican
Ronald Reagan1984
70.0%
71,139 votes · R+40.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Richard Nixon, 1972 · 69.5%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Joe Biden2020
84,575votes
41.3% of the vote · R+16.0 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Kamala Harris, 2024 · 84,461 votes
Republican
Donald Trump2024
119,081votes
57.9% of the vote · R+16.8 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2020 · 117,303 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
+1.2pts D vs U.S.
Place R+25.0 · U.S. R+26.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Al Smith, 1928 · −10.2 pts
Republican
George W. Bush2000
+30.9pts R vs U.S.
Place R+30.4 · U.S. D+0.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Bob Dole, 1996 · +29.0 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 | 42.6%81,777 | 57.4%110,175 | 191,952 |
| 2020 | R | 39.5%73,879 | 60.5%113,093 | 186,972 |
Ohio 7th State Senate District sits in the Industrial Midwest. In 2024 it voted Republican.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 7.7 points in 1936 and a Republican high of 45.1 points in 1924. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 0.9 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 16.8 points.
A population of 366,619, a 75% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $103,934 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State Senate District 8 and State Senate District 19.
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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