- Lead
- 63,226
- Total
- 153,680
- vs nation
- D+42.6
Ohio 23rd State Senate District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 73,700
- Total
- 168,656
- vs nation
- D+39.2
- Lead
- 75,412
- Total
- 168,027
- vs nation
- D+42.8
- Lead
- 88,365
- Total
- 176,073
- vs nation
- D+46.3
- Lead
- 89,614
- Total
- 181,809
- vs nation
- D+42.0
- Lead
- 81,884
- Total
- 181,969
- vs nation
- D+47.5
- Lead
- 62,495
- Total
- 155,044
- vs nation
- D+39.8
- Lead
- 63,212
- Total
- 153,337
- vs nation
- D+32.7
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- D+41.1MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 375,4022024 5-year
- Population density
- 4,422 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 84.9 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $54,6662024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 53.9%2024 5-year
- Black
- 28.7%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 9.8%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+53.4 in 1964MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+32.5 in 1924MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State Senate District 43, PA · twin score 91.7
presidential history
Party record book
Ohio 23rd 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
76.7%
144,313 votes · D+53.4 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Barack Obama, 2012 · 74.4%
Republican
Warren G. Harding1920
58.0%
33,453 votes · R+22.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Theodore Roosevelt, 1904 · 56.0%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Lyndon B. Johnson1964
144,313votes
76.7% of the vote · D+53.4 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Barack Obama, 2008 · 134,255 votes
Republican
Dwight D. Eisenhower1956
79,235votes
47.0% of the vote · D+5.9 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Richard Nixon, 1972 · 73,905 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
John Kerry2004
+47.5pts D vs U.S.
Place D+45.0 · U.S. R+2.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Barack Obama, 2012 · +46.3 pts
Republican
Calvin Coolidge1924
+7.3pts R vs U.S.
Place R+32.5 · U.S. R+25.2 · a third-party candidate carried the Place · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Theodore Roosevelt, 1904 · +5.5 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 | 66.9%101,351 | 33.1%50,239 | 151,590 |
| 2020 | D | 64.7%112,638 | 35.3%61,494 | 174,132 |
Ohio 23rd State Senate District sits in the Industrial Midwest. In 2024 it voted Democratic.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 53.4 points in 1964 and a Republican high of 32.5 points in 1924. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 2.6 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 41.1 points.
A population of 375,402, a 54% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $54,666 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State Senate District 43 and State Senate District 21.
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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