Ohio's 9th congressional district has been represented by Representative

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( D) since 1983. This district is located in the northwestern part of the state, bordering

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, Indiana, and

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), and includes all of Defiance, Williams, Fulton,

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, Sandusky, and Erie counties, and a portion of northern

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County. The previous iteration of the 9th district stretched along Lake Erie from Toledo to

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, and was called "The Snake by the Lake" due to its long and skinny appearance on the map."Kill the Snake by the Lake"
''Toledo Blade'', Jan. 16, 2018. Retrieved August 7, 2018. The two parts of the district were connected only via the Thomas Edison Memorial Bridge between Erie and Ottawa counties, as well as Crane Creek State Park. Some Ohio Democrats argued that when the beach floods, the district was not contiguous. It was one of several districts challenged in a 2018 lawsuit seeking to overturn Ohio's congressional map as unconstitutional

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''Roll Call,'' May 23, 2018. Retrieved 7 August 2018. According to the lawsuit, the 9th "eats its way across the southern border of Lake Erie" while fragmenting Cleveland and Toledo. In 2019, the

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refused to hear the case, meaning that Ohio's congressional districts, including District 9, would not need to be redrawn. The district was one of 13 congressional districts that voted for

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in the 2024 presidential election while simultaneously electing a Democrat in the 2024 House of Representatives elections.

Recent election results from statewide races

Composition

For the 118th and successive Congresses (based on redistricting following the 2020 census), the district contains all or portions of the following counties, townships, and municipalities:https://www2.census.gov/geo/maps/cong_dist/cd118/cd_based/ST39/CD118_OH09.pdf
/ref> Defiance County (16) : All 16 townships and municipalities Erie County (18) : All 18 townships and municipalities Fulton County (10) : All 10 townships and municipalities Lucas County (22) : All 22 townships and municipalities Ottawa County (20) : All 20 townships and municipalities Sandusky County (22) : All 22 townships and municipalities Williams County (21) : All 21 townships and municipalities Wood County (8) : Lake Township, Middleton Township (part; also 5th), Millbury, Northwood, Perrysburg, Perrysburg Township, Rossford, Walbridge

List of members representing the district

Election results

The following chart shows historic election results. Bold type indicates victor. ''Italic type'' indicates incumbent.

Historical district boundaries

References

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Congressional Biographical Directory of the United States 1774–present
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