The vote in the Ohio House on Thursday was 56-36 in favor of the Republican-drawn congressional map, but in a different contest the map lost out big time to one drawn by a citizen.

The outcome of that contest, which awarded points for qualities such as compactness and competition, was Ohio GOP 38.5, Citizen Mike Fortner 222.6.

The Ohio Campaign for Accountable Redistricting held the contest to provide an alternative to Ohio’s party-dominated process of redrawing political boundaries.

The group consists of 25 organizations, including the Ohio League of Women Voters, NARAL Pro-Choice Ohio, the ACLU and Ohio Citizen Action.

Fortner, a Republican Illinois state representative, won among 53 citizen-drawn maps.

Points were awarded for maps that preserved county boundaries, kept districts compact, promoted competition between the parties in as many districts as possible, and resulted in a congressional delegation that mirrored the voting of the state as a whole.

The Republican map scored lower than all 53 maps submitted by citizens.

The Republicans who drew up the map weren’t concerned about the same criteria, said Jim Slagle, chairman of the Ohio Campaign for Accountable Redistricting.

“Politicians always have a tendency on both sides of the aisle to create districts where they’ll be safe,’’ Slagle said.

But State Rep. Matt Huffman, R-Lima, chairman of the Ohio House State Government and Elections Committee, criticized the contest’s political index used to calculate competitiveness and the fact that the winning map “packed” Republicans into four heavily GOP districts.

He also said the rules, which required districts to be within 0.5 percent population of each other, were too lax. “I think there’s a clear attempt to create rules and an index to achieve a particular result,” Huffman said.

“And that’s not surprising if you look at the members of the coalition and who they represent.”

The Republican map will result in 10 congressional districts heavily favoring Republicans, four favoring Democrats and only two that are even remotely competitive, according to an analysis by Slagle’s group.

That gives congressional Republicans a 2-1 advantage in a state where voters slightly favor the GOP in statewide votes.