The Ohio Apportionment Board is an administrative body which draws the single-member legislative districts for the Ohio

Ohio

Ohio is a Midwestern state in the United States. The 34th largest state by area in the U.S.,it is the 7th‑most populous with over 11.5 million residents, containing several major American cities and seven metropolitan areas with populations of 500,000 or more.The state's capital is Columbus...

 General Assembly

Ohio General Assembly

The Ohio General Assembly is the state legislature of the U.S. state of Ohio. It consists of the 99-member Ohio House of Representatives and the 33-member Ohio Senate...

 every ten years following the census

Census

A census is the procedure of systematically acquiring and recording information about the members of a given population. It is a regularly occurring and official count of a particular population. The term is used mostly in connection with national population and housing censuses; other common...

. Each of the 33 senate districts is composed of three contiguous of the 99 house of representatives

Ohio House of Representatives

The Ohio House of Representatives is the lower house of the Ohio General Assembly, the state legislature of the U.S. state of Ohio; the other house of the bicameral legislature being the Ohio Senate....

 district.

The board has five members:

• the Governor of Ohio,
• the Ohio Secretary of State
  Ohio Secretary of State
  The Secretary of State is responsible for overseeing elections in the State of Ohio. The Secretary of State also is responsible for registering business entities and granting them the authority to do business within the state, registering secured transactions, and granting access to public...
  
  ,
• the Ohio State Auditor
  Ohio State Auditor
  The Ohio State Auditor is responsible for auditing all the public offices of the state of Ohio. The auditor is elected to a four-year term. The current Auditor is Dave Yost....
  
  ,
• a member selected by the Speaker of the Ohio House of Representatives and the senate leader of the same party
• a member selected by the house and senate leaders of other party.

This format ensures that no party can hold all five seats. At least one seat will belong to the minority party.

In 2011, the board's members are:

• Gov. John Kasich
  John Kasich
  John Richard Kasich is the 69th and current Governor of Ohio. A member of the Republican Party, he previously served as a member of the United States House of Representatives, representing from 1983 to 2001...
  
   (R)
• State Auditor Dave Yost (R)
• Secretary of State Jon A. Husted (R)
• Assembly Republican Member: ?, and
• Assembly Democratic Member: ?

Democrats controlled the apportionment

Apportionment (politics)

Apportionment is the process of allocating political power among a set of principles . In most representative governments, political power has most recently been apportioned among constituencies based on population, but there is a long history of different approaches.The United States Constitution,...

board in 1971 and 1981. Republicans controlled the apportionment board in 1991, 2001, and will in 2011.