Ohio's 8th congressional district

Ohio's 8th congressional district sits on the west side of Ohio, bordering Indiana. The cities of Hamilton, Fairfield, Middletown, Springfield, Eaton, Greenville, Piqua, and Troy are part of the district. The district was represented by Republican John Boehner, the 53rd Speaker of the United States House of Representatives. On September 25, 2015, Boehner announced his resignation from the speakership and retirement from Congress, which became effective on October 31, 2015.[4]

Ohio's 8th congressional district
Ohio's 8th congressional district – since January 3, 2013.
Representative
  Warren Davidson
RTroy
Distribution
  • 77.95% urban
  • 22.05% rural
Population (2019)733,811[1]
Median household
income
$62,845[2]
Ethnicity
Cook PVIR+17[3]

The current representative for this district is Republican Warren Davidson, who defeated Democrat Corey Foister and Green Party candidate James J. Condit Jr. in the 2016 special election to fill Boehner's seat.[5][6]

Election results from presidential races

Year Office Result
2000 President George W. Bush 61% - Al Gore 36%
2004 President George W. Bush 64% - John Kerry 35%
2008 President John McCain 60.3% - Barack Obama 38.1%
2012 President Mitt Romney 61.9% - Barack Obama 36.4%
2016 President Donald Trump 65.1% - Hillary Clinton 30.6%
2020 President Donald Trump 66% - Joe Biden 33%

List of members representing the district

Member Party Years Cong
ress
Electoral history
District created March 4, 1823
William Wilson   Democratic-Republican March 4, 1823 –
March 3, 1825
18th
19th
20th
Elected in 1822.
Re-elected in 1824.
Re-elected in 1826.
Died.
  Anti-Jacksonian March 4, 1825 –
June 6, 1827
Vacant June 6, 1827 –
October 9, 1827
20th

William Stanbery
  Jacksonian October 9, 1827 –
March 3, 1831
20th
21st
22nd
Elected to finish Wilson's term.
Re-elected in 1828.
Lost renomination.
  Anti-Jacksonian March 4, 1831 –
March 3, 1833
Jeremiah McLene   Jacksonian March 4, 1833 –
March 3, 1837
23rd
24th
[data unknown/missing]
Lost re-election.
Joseph Ridgway   Whig March 4, 1837 –
March 3, 1843
25th
26th
27th
Elected in 1836.
[data unknown/missing]

John I. Vanmeter
  Whig March 4, 1843 –
March 3, 1845
28th Elected in 1843.
[data unknown/missing]

Allen G. Thurman
  Democratic March 4, 1845 –
March 3, 1847
29th Elected in 1844.
[data unknown/missing]
John L. Taylor   Whig March 4, 1847 –
March 3, 1853
30th
31st
32nd
[data unknown/missing]
Redistricted to the 10th district.
Moses Bledso Corwin   Whig March 4, 1853 –
March 3, 1855
33rd Elected in 1852.
[data unknown/missing]

Benjamin Stanton
  Opposition March 4, 1855 –
March 3, 1857
34th
35th
36th
Elected in 1854.
[data unknown/missing]
  Republican March 4, 1857 –
March 3, 1861

Samuel Shellabarger
  Republican March 4, 1861 –
March 3, 1863
37th Elected in 1860.
[data unknown/missing]

William Johnston
  Democratic March 4, 1863 –
March 3, 1865
38th Elected in 1862.
[data unknown/missing]

James Randolph Hubbell
  Republican March 4, 1865 –
March 3, 1867
39th Elected in 1864.
[data unknown/missing]

Cornelius S. Hamilton
  Republican March 4, 1867 –
December 22, 1867
40th [data unknown/missing]
Died.
Vacant December 22, 1867 –
February 5, 1868

John Beatty
  Republican February 5, 1868 –
March 3, 1873
40th
41st
42nd
Elected to finish Hamilton's term.
[data unknown/missing]

William Lawrence
  Republican March 4, 1873 –
March 3, 1877
43rd
44th
Elected in 1872.
[data unknown/missing]

J. Warren Keifer
  Republican March 4, 1877 –
March 3, 1879
45th [data unknown/missing]
Redistricted to the 4th district.

Ebenezer B. Finley
  Democratic March 4, 1879 –
March 3, 1881
46th Redistricted from the 14th district.
[data unknown/missing]

J. Warren Keifer
  Republican March 4, 1881 –
March 3, 1885
47th
48th
Redistricting from the 4th district.
[data unknown/missing]

John Little
  Republican March 4, 1885 –
March 3, 1887
49th [data unknown/missing]
Redistricted to the 7th district.
Lost re-election.

Robert P. Kennedy
  Republican March 4, 1887 –
March 3, 1891
50th
51st
Elected in 1886.
[data unknown/missing]

Darius D. Hare
  Democratic March 4, 1891 –
March 3, 1893
52nd [data unknown/missing]
Redistricted to the 13th district.

Luther M. Strong
  Republican March 4, 1893 –
March 3, 1897
53rd
54th
Elected in 1892.
[data unknown/missing]

Archibald Lybrand
  Republican March 4, 1897 –
March 3, 1901
55th
56th
Elected in 1896.
Lost re-election

William R. Warnock
  Republican March 4, 1901 –
March 3, 1905
57th
58th
Elected in 1900.
Retired

Ralph D. Cole
  Republican March 4, 1905 –
March 3, 1911
59th
60th
61st
Elected in 1904.
Lost re-election

Frank B. Willis
  Republican March 4, 1911 –
January 9, 1915
62nd
63rd
Elected in 1910
Retired then resigned early when elected Governor of Ohio
Vacant January 9, 1915 –
March 3, 1915
63rd

John A. Key
  Democratic March 4, 1915 –
March 3, 1919
64th
65th
Elected in 1914.
Lost re-election.

R. Clint Cole
  Republican March 4, 1919 –
March 3, 1925
66th
67th
68th
Elected in 1918.
Lost re-election.

Thomas B. Fletcher
  Democratic March 4, 1925 –
March 3, 1929
69th
70th
Elected in 1924.
Lost re-election.

Grant E. Mouser Jr.
  Republican March 4, 1929 –
March 3, 1933
71st
72nd
Elected in 1928.
Lost re-election.

Thomas B. Fletcher
  Democratic March 4, 1933 –
January 3, 1939
73rd
74th
75th
Elected in 1932.
Lost re-election.

Frederick Cleveland Smith
  Republican January 3, 1939 –
January 3, 1951
76th
77th
78th
79th
80th
81st
Elected in 1938.
Retired.

Jackson Edward Betts
  Republican January 3, 1951 –
January 3, 1973
82nd
83rd
84th
85th
86th
87th
88th
89th
90th
91st
Elected in 1950.
Retired.

Walter E. Powell
  Republican January 3, 1973 –
January 3, 1975
93rd Redistricted from the 24th district.
Retired.

Tom Kindness
  Republican January 3, 1975 –
January 3, 1987
94th
95th
96th
97th
98th
99th
Elected in 1974.
Retired to run for U.S. Senator.

Buz Lukens
  Republican January 3, 1987 –
October 24, 1990
100th
101st
Elected in 1986.
Lost re-election and resigned.
Vacant October 24, 1990 –
January 3, 1991
101st

John Boehner
  Republican January 3, 1991 –
October 31, 2015
102nd
103rd
104th
105th
106th
107th
108th
109th
110th
111th
112th
113th
114th
Elected in 1990.
Resigned.
Vacant October 31, 2015 –
June 7, 2016
114th

Warren Davidson
  Republican June 7, 2016 –
present
114th
115th
116th
117th
Elected to finish Boehner's term.

Recent election results

Year Democratic Republican Other
1920 Fred H. Guthery: 36,665 Clint Cole (incumbent): 43,473  
1922 H. H. Hartmann: 34,105 Clint Cole (incumbent): 37,065  
1924 Thomas B. Fletcher: 38,439 Clint Cole (incumbent): 33,258 Charles E. Lukens: 555
1926 Thomas B. Fletcher (incumbent): 30,167 James R. Hopley: 23,247  
1928 Thomas B. Fletcher (incumbent): 38,651 Grant E. Mouser Jr.: 42,199  
1930 Carl W. Smith: 33,906 Grant E. Mouser Jr. (incumbent): 35,663  
1932 Thomas B. Fletcher: 45,930 Grant E. Mouser Jr.: 41,234  
1934 Thomas B. Fletcher (incumbent): 39,466 Gertrude Jones: 36,112  
1936 Thomas B. Fletcher (incumbent): 49,668 Grant E. Mouser Jr.: 42,565  
1938 Thomas B. Fletcher (incumbent): 33,972 Frederick C. Smith: 40,772  
1940 Kenneth M. Petri: 44,605 Frederick C. Smith (incumbent): 49,218  
1942 Thomas B. Fletcher: 22,753 Frederick C. Smith (incumbent): 33,797  
1944 Roy Warren Roof: 34,494 Frederick C. Smith (incumbent): 51,253  
1946 John T. Siemon: 22,945 Frederick C. Smith (incumbent): 40,755  
1948 Andrew T. Durbin: 36,685 Frederick C. Smith (incumbent): 43,929  
1950 W. Dexter Hazen: 28,379 Jackson E. Betts: 47,761  
1952 Henry P. Drake: 34,474 Jackson E. Betts (incumbent): 75,768  
1954 Thomas M. Dowd: 30,592 Jackson E. Betts (incumbent): 52,196  
1956 Robert M. Corry: 40,716 Jackson E. Betts (incumbent): 70,690  
1958 Virgil M. Gase: 39,343 Jackson E. Betts (incumbent): 62,232  
1960 Virgil M. Gase: 38,871 Jackson E. Betts (incumbent): 81,373  
1962 Morris Laderman: 28,400 Jackson E. Betts (incumbent): 66,458  
1964 Frank B. Bennett: 45,445 Jackson E. Betts (incumbent): 73,395  
1966 Frank B. Bennett: 38,787 Jackson E. Betts (incumbent): 78,933  
1968 Marie Baker: 40,898 Jackson E. Betts (incumbent): 101,974  
1970   Jackson E. Betts (incumbent): 90,916  
1972 James D. Ruppert: 73,344 Walter E. Powell*: 80,050  
1974 T. Edward Strinko: 45,701 Tom Kindness: 51,097 Don Gingerich: 23,616
1976 John W. Griffin: 46,424 Tom Kindness (incumbent): 110,775 Joseph F. Payton: 4,158
1978 Luella R. Schroeder: 32,493 Tom Kindness (incumbent): 81,156 George Hahn: 3
1980 John W. Griffin: 44,162 Tom Kindness (incumbent): 139,590  
1982 John W. Griffin: 49,877 Tom Kindness (incumbent): 98,527  
1984 John T. Francis: 46,673 Tom Kindness (incumbent): 155,200  
1986 John W. Griffin: 46,195 Donald "Buz" Lukens: 98,475  
1988 John W. Griffin: 49,084 Donald "Buz" Lukens (incumbent): 154,164  
1990 Gregory V. Jolivette: 63,584 John Boehner*: 99,955  
1992 Fred Sennet: 62,033 John Boehner (incumbent): 176,362  
1994   John Boehner (incumbent): 148,338  
1996 Jeffrey D. Kitchen: 61,515 John Boehner (incumbent): 165,815 William Baker (N): 8,613
1998 John W. Griffin: 52,912 John Boehner (incumbent): 127,979  
2000 John G. Parks: 66,293 John Boehner (incumbent): 179,756 David R. Shock (L): 3,802
2002 Jeff Hardenbrook: 49,444 John Boehner (incumbent): 119,947  
2004 Jeff Hardenbrook: 87,769 John Boehner (incumbent): 195,923  
2006 Mort Meier: 74,641 John Boehner (incumbent): 132,743  
2008 Nicholas von Stein: 74,848 John Boehner (incumbent): 163,586  
2010 Justin Coussoule: 65,883 John Boehner (incumbent): 142,731 David Harlow (L): 5,121
James Condit (C): 3,701
2012[7] John Boehner (incumbent): 246,380 James Condit (C) : 1,938
2014 Tom Poetter: 51,534 John Boehner (incumbent): 126,539 James Condit (C): 10,257
2016 (special)[8] Corey Foister: 5,937 Warren Davidson: 21,618 James Condit (G): 607
2016 Steve Fought: 87,794 Warren Davidson (incumbent): 223,833 Derrick Hendricks (G): 13,879
2018 Vanessa Enoch: 89,451 Warren Davidson (incumbent): 177,892
2020 Vanessa Enoch: 110,766 Warren Davidson (incumbent): 246,276

See also

District boundaries, 2003–2013

References

Specific
  1. US Census Bureau. "My Congressional District". www.census.gov.
  2. US Census Bureau. "My Congressional District". www.census.gov.
  3. "Partisan Voting Index – Districts of the 115th Congress" (PDF). The Cook Political Report. April 7, 2017. Retrieved April 7, 2017.
  4. Steinhauer, Jennifer (September 25, 2015). "John Boehner, House Speaker, Will Resign From Congress (Published 2015)" via NYTimes.com.
  5. "2016 Official Election Results". Ohio Secretary of State.
  6. "Statement on the US House OH-8 District race | Ohio Green Party". ohiogreens.org.
  7. "2012 Election Results". Ohio Secretary of State.
  8. "June 7, 2016 Special Congressional General Election Official Canvass". Ohio Secretary of State. Retrieved July 28, 2019.
General

U.S. House of Representatives
Preceded by
Pennsylvania's 3rd congressional district
Home district of the Speaker
December 5, 1881 – March 4, 1883
Succeeded by
Kentucky's 6th congressional district
Preceded by
California's 8th congressional district
Home district of the Speaker
January 5, 2011 – October 29, 2015
Succeeded by
Wisconsin's 1st congressional district
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