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Ohio is divided into 15 congressional districts, each represented by a member of the United States House of Representatives.After the 2010 census, Ohio, which up until then had 18 districts, lost two House seats due to slow population growth compared to the national average, [1] and a new map was signed into law on September 26, 2011.
The United States Military District was a land tract in central Ohio that was established by the Congress to compensate veterans of the American Revolutionary War for their service. The tract contains 2,539,110 acres (10,275.4 km 2 ) in Noble , Guernsey , Tuscarawas , Muskingum , Coshocton , Holmes , Licking , Knox , Franklin , Delaware ...
As part of the 2010 redistricting process, it was redrawn from the previous district to stretch from Lima, to include the northwestern suburbs of Columbus, up to Tiffin and Elyria. [5] In May 2019, a panel of three federal judges ruled that Ohio's congressional district map was unconstitutional and based on gerrymandering.
Redistricted to the 7th district. Benjamin Le Fevre : Democratic: March 4, 1885 – March 3, 1887 49th: Redistricted from the 4th district and re-elected in 1884. [data missing] George E. Seney : Democratic: March 4, 1887 – March 3, 1891 50th 51st: Redistricted from the 7th district and re-elected in 1886. Re-elected in 1888. [data missing]
Map of Ohio showing the Virginia Military District in green. The Virginia Military District was an approximately 4.2 million acre (17,000 km 2) area of land in what is now the state of Ohio that was reserved by Virginia to use as payment in lieu of cash for its veterans of the American Revolutionary War.
The district is somewhat more Democratic than its predecessor even though it includes heavily Republican Warren County. Previous iterations of the district (before 2013) did not include Warren County. [4] However, Hamilton County has double Warren County's population, creating a marginally Democratic seat.
Ohio's 9th congressional district has been represented by Representative Marcy Kaptur since 1983.. This district is located in the northwestern part of the state, bordering Michigan, Indiana, and Ontario, Canada (via Lake Erie), and includes all of Defiance, Williams, Fulton, Lucas, Ottawa, Sandusky, and Erie counties, and a portion of northern Wood County.
The 14th congressional district of Ohio is in the far northeast corner of the state, bordering Lake Erie and Pennsylvania. It is currently represented in the United States House of Representatives by Republican Dave Joyce. As defined in January 2023, it contains all of Ashtabula, Lake, Trumbull and Geauga counties, and nearly all of Portage county.