Ohio's 11th congressional district

Ohio's 11th congressional district
Ohio's 11th congressional district since January 3, 2013
Representative	Vacant
Distribution	100.00% urban 0.00% rural
Population (2019)	684,617[1]
Median household income	$42,207[1]
Ethnicity	53.5% Black 37.5% White 3.6% Hispanic 2.5% Two or more races 2.4% Asian 0.4% other
Cook PVI	D+30[2]

Ohio's 11th congressional district encompasses portions of Cuyahoga County and Summit County in the Northeast part of the state—including most of the majority-black precincts between Cleveland and Akron. The seat for the district in the United States House of Representatives is currently vacant, its most recent occupant, Marcia Fudge, having resigned in 2021 to join the Biden administration as Secretary of Housing and Urban Development.

Ohio has had at least 11 congressional districts since the 1820 Census. The district's current configuration dates from the 1990 Census, when most of the old 21st District was combined with portions of the old 20th District to form the new 11th District. Much of Akron was added to the district when the congressional map was redrawn after the 2010 Census, when Ohio lost two seats in the House of Representatives. With a Cook Partisan Voting Index of D+30, it is Ohio's most Democratic district and the 19th most Democratic district in the nation^{[citation needed]}.

It was one of several districts challenged in a 2018 lawsuit seeking to overturn Ohio's congressional map due to alleged unconstitutional gerrymandering.^[3] The lawsuit describes the 11th as "a detached shoulder blade with a robotic arm" extending from Cleveland to Akron.^[4]

Following Fudge's resignation on March 10, 2021, a special election will be held, with a primary on August 3 and a general election on November 2, as mandated by Ohio law. This is generally considered to be a safe Democratic seat, as in the last election on November 3, 2020, Fudge won with 80.1% of the vote.

Recent history[]

Representative Stephanie Tubbs Jones served from 1999 through August 20, 2008, when she died in office. Ohio Governor Ted Strickland ordered a special election on November 18, 2008, to fill the remaining month of Jones's term. In addition, the seat was up for election during the November 4, 2008 general election, with the winner of that election to serve a full term beginning on January 6, 2009. Marcia L. Fudge—the mayor of Warrensville Heights (a Cleveland suburb)—won both the general and special elections and was sworn in on November 19, 2008.

Fudge served eight terms (an abbreviated first term that was the end of Tubbs's last term, followed by six full terms, and the beginning of another) when she resigned on March 10, 2021, to join President Joe Biden's cabinet as HUD Secretary. A special election to fill the vacancy will take place later in 2021.

Election results from presidential races[]

List of members representing the district[]

Member	Party	Years	Cong ress	Electoral history
District created March 4, 1823
John C. Wright	Democratic-Republican	March 4, 1823 – March 3, 1825	18th 19th 20th	Elected in 1822. Reelected in 1824. Reelected in 1826. Lost reelection.
	Anti-Jacksonian	March 4, 1825 – March 3, 1829
John M. Goodenow	Jacksonian	March 4, 1829 – April 9, 1830	21st	Elected in 1828. Resigned to become Judge the Supreme Court of Ohio.
Vacant		April 9, 1830 – December 6, 1830
Humphrey H. Leavitt	Jacksonian	December 6, 1830 – March 3, 1833	21st 22nd	Elected to finish Goodenow's term. Reelected in 1830. Redistricted to the 19th district.
James M. Bell	Anti-Jacksonian	March 4, 1833 – March 3, 1835	23rd	Elected in 1832. [data unknown/missing]
William Kennon Sr.	Jacksonian	March 4, 1835 – March 3, 1837	24th	Elected in 1834. [data unknown/missing]
James Alexander Jr.	Whig	March 4, 1837 – March 3, 1839	25th	Elected in 1836. [data unknown/missing]
Isaac Parrish	Democratic	March 4, 1839 – March 3, 1841	26th	Elected in 1838. [data unknown/missing]
Benjamin S. Cowen	Whig	March 4, 1841 – March 3, 1843	27th	Elected in 1840. [data unknown/missing]
Jacob Brinkerhoff	Democratic	March 4, 1843 – March 3, 1847	28th 29th	Elected in 1843. Reelected in 1844. [data unknown/missing]
John K. Miller	Democratic	March 4, 1847 – March 3, 1851	30th 31st	Elected in 1846. Reelected in 1848. [data unknown/missing]
George H. Busby	Democratic	March 4, 1851 – March 3, 1853	32nd	Elected in 1850. [data unknown/missing]
Thomas Ritchey	Democratic	March 4, 1853 – March 3, 1855	33rd	Elected in 1852. [data unknown/missing]
Valentine B. Horton	Opposition	March 4, 1855 – March 3, 1857	34th	Elected in 1854. Reelected in 1856. [data unknown/missing]
	Republican	March 4, 1857 – March 3, 1859	35th
Charles D. Martin	Democratic	March 4, 1859 – March 3, 1861	36th	Elected in 1858. [data unknown/missing]
Valentine B. Horton	Republican	March 4, 1861 – March 3, 1863	37th	Elected in 1860. [data unknown/missing]
Wells A. Hutchins	Democratic	March 4, 1863 – March 3, 1865	38th	Elected in 1862. [data unknown/missing]
Hezekiah S. Bundy	Republican	March 4, 1865 – March 3, 1867	39th	Elected in 1864. [data unknown/missing]
John Thomas Wilson	Republican	March 4, 1867 – March 3, 1873	40th 41st 42nd	Elected in 1866. Reelected in 1868. Reelected in 1870. [data unknown/missing]
Hezekiah S. Bundy	Republican	March 4, 1873 – March 3, 1875	43rd	Elected in 1872. [data unknown/missing]
John L. Vance	Democratic	March 4, 1875 – March 3, 1877	44th	Elected in 1874. [data unknown/missing]
Henry S. Neal	Republican	March 4, 1877 – March 3, 1879	45th	Elected in 1876. Redistricted to the 12th district.
Henry L. Dickey	Democratic	March 4, 1879 – March 3, 1881	46th	Redistricted from the 7th district and reelected in 1878. [data unknown/missing]
Henry S. Neal	Republican	March 4, 1881 – March 3, 1883	47th	Redistricted from the 12th district and reelected in 1880. [data unknown/missing]
John W. McCormick	Republican	March 4, 1883 – March 3, 1885	48th	Elected in 1882. [data unknown/missing]
William W. Ellsberry	Democratic	March 4, 1885 – March 3, 1887	49th	Elected in 1884. [data unknown/missing]
Albert C. Thompson	Republican	March 4, 1887 – March 3, 1891	50th 51st	Redistricted from the 12th district and reelected in 1886. Reelected in 1888. [data unknown/missing]
John M. Pattison	Democratic	March 4, 1891 – March 3, 1893	52nd	Elected in 1890. Lost reelection.
Charles H. Grosvenor	Republican	March 4, 1893 – March 3, 1907	53rd 54th 55th 56th 57th 58th 59th	Elected in 1892. Reelected in 1894. Reelected in 1896. Reelected in 1898. Reelected in 1900. Reelected in 1902. Reelected in 1904. [data unknown/missing]
Albert Douglas	Republican	March 4, 1907 – March 3, 1911	60th 61st	Elected in 1906. Reelected in 1908. [data unknown/missing]
Horatio C. Claypool	Democratic	March 4, 1911 – March 3, 1915	62nd 63rd	Elected in 1910 Reelected in 1912. [data unknown/missing]
Edwin D. Ricketts	Republican	March 4, 1915 – March 3, 1917	64th	Elected in 1914. [data unknown/missing]
Horatio C. Claypool	Democratic	March 4, 1917 – March 3, 1919	65th	Elected in 1916. [data unknown/missing]
Edwin D. Ricketts	Republican	March 4, 1919 – March 3, 1923	66th 67th	Elected in 1918. Reelected in 1920. [data unknown/missing]
Mell G. Underwood	Democratic	March 4, 1923 – April 10, 1936	68th 69th 70th 71st 72nd 73rd 74th	Elected in 1922. Reelected in 1924. Reelected in 1926. Reelected in 1928. Reelected in 1930. Reelected in 1932. Reelected in 1934. Resigned to become Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio.
Vacant		April 10, 1936 – November 3, 1936	74th
Peter F. Hammond	Democratic	November 3, 1936 – January 3, 1937		Elected to finish Underwood's term. Retired.
Harold K. Claypool	Democratic	January 3, 1937 – January 3, 1943	75th 76th 77th	Elected in 1936. Reelected in 1938. Reelected in 1940. Lost reelection.
Walter E. Brehm	Republican	January 3, 1943 – January 3, 1953	78th 79th 80th 81st 82nd	Elected in 1942. Reelected in 1944. Reelected in 1946. Reelected in 1948. Reelected in 1950. Retired.
Oliver P. Bolton	Republican	January 3, 1953 – January 3, 1957	83rd 84th	Elected in 1952. Reelected in 1954. Retired.
David S. Dennison	Republican	January 3, 1957 – January 3, 1959	85th	Elected in 1956. Lost reelection.
Robert E. Cook	Democratic	January 3, 1959 – January 3, 1963	86th 87th	Elected in 1958. Reelected in 1960. Lost reelection.
Oliver P. Bolton	Republican	January 3, 1963 – January 3, 1965	88th	Elected in 1962. Redistricted to the at-large district and lost reelection.
J. William Stanton	Republican	January 3, 1965 – January 3, 1983	89th 90th 91st 92nd 93rd 94th 95th 96th 97th	Elected in 1964. Reelected in 1966. Reelected in 1968. Reelected in 1970. Reelected in 1972. Reelected in 1974. Reelected in 1976. Reelected in 1978. Reelected in 1980. Retired.
Dennis E. Eckart	Democratic	January 3, 1983 – January 3, 1993	98th 99th 100th 101st 102nd	Redistricted from the 22nd district and reelected in 1982. Reelected in 1984. Reelected in 1986. Reelected in 1988. Reelected in 1990. Retired.
Louis Stokes	Democratic	January 3, 1993 – January 3, 1999	103rd 104th 105th	Redistricted from the 21st district and reelected in 1992. Reelected in 1994. Reelected in 1996. Retired.
Stephanie Tubbs Jones	Democratic	January 3, 1999 – August 20, 2008	106th 107th 108th 109th 110th	Elected in 1998. Reelected in 2000. Reelected in 2002. Reelected in 2004. Reelected in 2006. Died.
Vacant		August 20, 2008 – November 18, 2008	110th
Marcia Fudge	Democratic	November 18, 2008 – March 10, 2021	110th 111th 112th 113th 114th 115th 116th 117th	Elected to finish Jones's term. Elected in 2008. Reelected in 2010. Reelected in 2012. Reelected in 2014. Reelected in 2016. Reelected in 2018. Reelected in 2020. Resigned to become HUD Secretary.
Vacant		March 10, 2021 – Present	117th	To be filled by special election November 2, 2021.

Election results[]

This is an incomplete list of historic election results. Bold type indicates victor. Italic type indicates incumbent.

Historical district boundaries[]

2003 - 2013

See also[]

• Ohio's congressional districts
• List of United States congressional districts

References[]

• Martis, Kenneth C. (1989). The Historical Atlas of Political Parties in the United States Congress. New York: Macmillan Publishing Company.
• Martis, Kenneth C. (1982). The Historical Atlas of United States Congressional Districts. New York: Macmillan Publishing Company.
• Congressional Biographical Directory of the United States 1774–present

Coordinates: 41°36′48″N 81°31′52″W / 41.61333°N 81.53111°W / 41.61333; -81.53111