Which presidential candidate won in Greater Cincinnati?
While former president Donald Trump won by a greater margin statewide, the presidential race in the Cincinnati region looked very similar to four years earlier.
Vice President Kamala Harris vs. Trump mirrored Joe Biden vs. Trump in 2020 in Cincinnati, Hamilton County and the surrounding counties. Here's how southwestern Ohio voted in the presidential race.
One difference is that turnout lagged by a few percentage points across the Greater Cincinnati region.
Hamilton County
Turnout in Hamilton County was a little lower than four years earlier, 67% compared to 72% in 2020. The results were the same. Both Harris in 2024 and Biden in 2020 won the county won the county with 57% of the vote. Harris also won Cincinnati with 77% of the vote, the same as Biden four years earlier. Trump received 42% of the vote in Hamilton County this year, compared to 41% in 2020.
Due to higher turnout, Biden received about 20,000 more votes than Harris did in the county.
Butler County
Trump easily won this Republican stronghold just north of Cincinnati, as he did in 2020. The fact that his running mate's hometown of Middletown is in Butler County didn't give him much more of a boost, though he didn't need it here. Trump won the county this year with 62% of the vote, one percentage point more than he did in 2020.
Warren County
Another Republican-dominated county north of Cincinnati, Trump won Warren County with 64% of the vote, the same as he did in 2020.
Clermont County
Trump won Clermont County with 67% of the vote, the same as he did in 2020. Clermont County is just east of Cincinnati.