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Ohio's 6th congressional district is represented by Representative Bill Johnson (R-OH). This district runs along the eastern side of the state, bordering West Virginia, and Pennsylvania. It stretches from Marietta through several Ohio River industrial towns all the way to the city of
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History

When Robert McEwen was first elected in 1980, the Sixth District of Ohio consisted of Adams, Brown,
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, Scioto, and
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Counties plus
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outside the city of Loveland, Harrison Township in Vinton County and the Warren County townships of Clearcreek, Deerfield,
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, and Wayne.Ohio. Secretary of State. ''Official Roster of Federal, State, and County Officers and Departmental Information for 1991-1992.'' Columbus, Ohio: The Secretary, 1991. 330-335. At that time, '' The Washington Post'' described the Sixth as "a fail-safe Republican district.""Election 80: New Faces in the House". '' The Washington Post''. November 23, 1980. A15. The
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redrew the Sixth District following the results of the
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. The boundaries from 1983 to 1987 included all of Adams,
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, Fayette,
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, Jackson,
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, Scioto, Vinton and
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and York Townships in
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; Wayne Township in
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; Concord, Jasper, Marion, Perry, Union, and Wayne Townships in Fayette County; and Washington Township and the Cities of Miamisburg and
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in Montgomery County.Ohio. Secretary of State. ''Official Roster of Federal, State, and County Officers and Departmental Information for 1991-1992.'' Columbus, Ohio: The Secretary, 1991. 330-335; United States. Congress. Joint Committee on Printing. ''1987-1988 Official Congressional Directory,
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Beginning with the
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in 1987, adjustments were made by the legislature to the boundaries; reapportionment between
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is unusual in American politics. A small part of the Montgomery County territory was detached, as were parts of Fayette County in
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in Union Township and the townships of Jasper and Marion. Part of Brown County was added, Jackson and
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Townships. These were the boundaries for the rest of McEwen's service in Congress.Ohio. Secretary of State. ''Official Roster of Federal, State, and County Officers and Departmental Information for 1991-1992.'' Columbus, Ohio: The Secretary, 1991. 330-335; United States. Congress. Joint Committee on Printing. ''1991-1992 Official Congressional Directory, 102d Congress''. Duncan Nystrom, editor. S. Pub. 102-4. Washington, D.C.: United States Government Printing Office, 1991. The district was largely rural and agricultural with no large cities. One of the major industries was the United States Department of Energy's Portsmouth Gaseous Diffusion Plant at Piketon, which manufactured uranium for
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. The district was 97 per cent white with a median household income of $21,761.Michael Barone and Grant Ujifusa. ''The Almanac of American Politics, 1994''. Washington, D.C.: National Journal, 1993. . In 1992, the district was altered significantly to accommodate Ohio's loss of two House seats in redistricting. The state legislature anticipated that Clarence Miller of the neighboring Tenth District would retire, and thus combined the southern end of his district (which included Athens, Gallipolis, and Ironton) with most of the area previously represented by McEwen. Although the district did not include Miller's hometown of Lancaster, Miller decided not to retire and instead challenged McEwen in the Sixth District primary in 1992. The campaign was bitter, and McEwen eked out only a narrow victory. In November, McEwen was upset by Democrat Ted Strickland, a prison psychologist. Strickland himself was defeated in 1994 by Republican Frank Cremeans, but won the seat back in 1996. For 2002 the district was shifted dramatically eastward. At the same time, it effectively ended the career of James Traficant in the neighboring 17th District by placing his hometown of Poland into the 6th. Traficant opted to run in his old district and lost. The district currently includes all of
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, Lawrence, Meigs, Monroe, Noble and Washington counties, and portions of Athens, Mahoning, Muskingum, Scioto and Tuscarawas counties. In 2010, Republican Bill Johnson defeated incumbent Democrat Charles Wilson, returning the seat Republican for the first time since 1997. Following the
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, the bounds of the sixth district were changed again as Ohio lost two seats in Congress. In recent years and like much of coal country, the district has swung decidedly toward the
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at local, state and national levels. After being a dead heat in presidential elections in
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and
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, it swung hard to Donald Trump in
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; Trump carried it with 69 percent of the vote over Hillary Clinton, his best showing in the state; the district swung to the right by 30 percent, more than any other in the nation. Trump won it almost as easily over Joe Biden in
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, with 72 percent of the vote, again his best showing in Ohio.


List of members representing the district


Recent election results

The following chart shows historic election results.


Competitiveness

Election results from presidential races:


Historical district boundaries


See also

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* List of United States congressional districts


Notes


References


Sources

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Congressional Biographical Directory of the United States 1774–present
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