- Lead
- 2,197
- Total
- 4,270
- vs nation
- D+52.9
Rhode Island 4th State House District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 6,112
- Total
- 8,027
- vs nation
- D+71.7
- Lead
- 5,233
- Total
- 7,389
- vs nation
- D+68.7
- Lead
- 6,140
- Total
- 7,664
- vs nation
- D+76.3
- Lead
- 6,362
- Total
- 8,237
- vs nation
- D+70.0
- Lead
- 5,404
- Total
- 7,197
- vs nation
- D+77.5
- Lead
- 5,475
- Total
- 7,058
- vs nation
- D+77.1
- Lead
- 4,980
- Total
- 7,071
- vs nation
- D+65.9
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- D+51.5MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 14,2312024 5-year
- Population density
- 6,187 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 2.3 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $106,8822024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 68.2%2024 5-year
- Black
- 6.7%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 9.8%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+91.7 in 1964MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State House District 2, RI · twin score 95.3
presidential history
Party record book
Rhode Island 4th State House District · the strongest Democratic and Republican presidential performances recorded here, measured three ways.
1892–2024 (partial returns from 1876) · 38 presidential cycles · 38 with a vote-share denominator · 34 with a national benchmark
Highest vote share
Largest share of the presidential candidate vote cast here.
Democratic
Lyndon B. Johnson1964
95.9%
9,385 votes · D+91.7 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · John F. Kennedy, 1960 · 90.3%
Republican
William McKinley1896
31.2%
281 votes · D+25.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Warren G. Harding, 1920 · 27.1%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Lyndon B. Johnson1964
9,385votes
95.9% of the vote · D+91.7 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · John F. Kennedy, 1960 · 8,091 votes
Republican
Dwight D. Eisenhower1956
1,458votes
21.8% of the vote · D+56.4 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1952 · 1,404 votes
Best relative to the U.S.
This Place’s margin against the national margin in the same election — positive when it leaned toward the party more than the country did.
Democratic
George McGovern1972
+86.8pts D vs U.S.
Place D+63.6 · U.S. R+23.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Al Smith, 1928 · +83.2 pts
Republican
William H. Taft1912
−30.2pts R vs U.S.
Place D+49.8 · U.S. D+19.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · William McKinley, 1896 · −31.3 pts
Current officeholders
State legislative officeholder from OpenStates nightly current-legislator data.
With a 2024 presidential margin exceeding 50 points, this Providence-area district ranks among the most heavily Democratic-leaning state house seats in New England, reflecting dense urban settlement patterns typical of the region's core city precincts.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 91.7 points in 1964. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 24.7 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 51.5 points.
A population of 14,231, a 68% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $106,882 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State House District 2 and State House District 1.
The state-house districts whose fingerprint — 2000–2024 trajectory, demographics, ancestry, religion — sits closest to this one, and why.
Twin score (0–100) = weighted cosine between tier-standardized fingerprints: presidential margins 2000–2024 with 12-yr trend and elasticity, ACS income, age, education, population and race, top reported ancestries, and religious adherence — chips name the closest-shared dimensions and the widest gap. Re-weight the groups in the twins explorer.
District research tools
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