- Lead
- 42,060
- Total
- 198,735
- vs nation
- D+22.6
Ohio 16th State Senate District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 44,585
- Total
- 203,861
- vs nation
- D+17.4
- Lead
- 19,678
- Total
- 182,376
- vs nation
- D+8.7
- Lead
- 12,058
- Total
- 175,743
- vs nation
- D+3.0
- Lead
- 8,116
- Total
- 173,184
- vs nation
- R+2.6
- Lead
- 11,799
- Total
- 165,222
- vs nation
- R+4.7
- Lead
- 19,378
- Total
- 131,878
- vs nation
- R+15.2
- Lead
- 14,667
- Total
- 127,473
- vs nation
- R+20.0
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- D+21.2MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 359,3732024 5-year
- Population density
- 2,266 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 159 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $101,9662024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 73.1%2024 5-year
- Black
- 7.8%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 4.7%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+21.9 in 2020MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+46.1 in 1928MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State Senate District 26, KY · twin score 88.6
presidential history
Party record book
Ohio 16th 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
Joe Biden2020
60.1%
122,601 votes · D+21.9 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Kamala Harris, 2024 · 59.9%
Republican
Herbert Hoover1928
72.8%
34,242 votes · R+46.1 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1956 · 72.8%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Joe Biden2020
122,601votes
60.1% of the vote · D+21.9 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Kamala Harris, 2024 · 119,062 votes
Republican
Ronald Reagan1984
92,776votes
71.0% of the vote · R+44.1 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · George W. Bush, 2004 · 87,949 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
Kamala Harris2024
+22.6pts D vs U.S.
Place D+21.2 · U.S. R+1.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Joe Biden, 2020 · +17.4 pts
Republican
Herbert Hoover1932
+40.7pts R vs U.S.
Place R+22.9 · U.S. D+17.8 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Richard Nixon, 1960 · +34.2 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 | D | 64.0%98,095 | 36.0%55,250 | 153,345 |
| 2020 | D | 62.5%102,673 | 37.5%61,655 | 164,328 |
Ohio 16th State Senate District sits in the Industrial Midwest. In 2024 it voted Democratic.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 21.9 points in 2020 and a Republican high of 46.1 points in 1928. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 0.7 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 21.2 points.
A population of 359,373, a 73% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $101,966 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State Senate District 26 and State Senate District 16.
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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