- Lead
- 17,173
- Total
- 170,399
- vs nation
- D+11.6
Ohio 28th State Senate District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 23,364
- Total
- 175,960
- vs nation
- D+8.8
- Lead
- 22,301
- Total
- 168,908
- vs nation
- D+11.1
- Lead
- 35,597
- Total
- 173,214
- vs nation
- D+16.7
- Lead
- 39,434
- Total
- 179,924
- vs nation
- D+14.6
- Lead
- 33,473
- Total
- 177,674
- vs nation
- D+21.3
- Lead
- 21,839
- Total
- 144,446
- vs nation
- D+14.6
- Lead
- 30,683
- Total
- 138,593
- vs nation
- D+13.6
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- D+10.1MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 355,4252024 5-year
- Population density
- 1,662 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 214 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $64,7342024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 69.7%2024 5-year
- Black
- 18.0%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 2.6%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+43.8 in 1936MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+40.6 in 1924MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State Senate District 11, OH · twin score 79.3
presidential history
Party record book
Ohio 28th 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
Franklin D. Roosevelt1936
70.9%
61,778 votes · D+43.8 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Lyndon B. Johnson, 1964 · 69.9%
Republican
Herbert Hoover1928
68.7%
47,596 votes · R+38.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Theodore Roosevelt, 1904 · 63.8%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Barack Obama2008
108,052votes
60.1% of the vote · D+21.9 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · John Kerry, 2004 · 105,189 votes
Republican
Donald Trump2024
75,784votes
44.5% of the vote · D+10.1 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2020 · 75,044 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
George McGovern1972
+26.5pts D vs U.S.
Place D+3.4 · U.S. R+23.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Woodrow Wilson, 1916 · +25.7 pts
Republican
Herbert Hoover1928
+20.7pts R vs U.S.
Place R+38.2 · U.S. R+17.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Theodore Roosevelt, 1904 · +17.2 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 | 54.6%96,495 | 45.4%80,114 | 176,609 |
| 2020 | D | 53.1%93,785 | 46.9%82,854 | 176,639 |
In 2024 it voted Democratic by D+10.1, against D+21.9 in 2008. The district had about 281,000 residents, 74% White alone in the 2024 ACS 5-year.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 43.8 points in 1936 and a Republican high of 40.6 points in 1924. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 3.2 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 10.1 points.
A population of 355,425, a 70% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $64,734 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State Senate District 11 and State Senate District 48.
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 28th State Senate District. Akashic. https://akashic.app/sld-upper/39028/. Accessed May 20, 2026. License: CC BY 4.0.