- Lead
- 2,365
- Total
- 4,603
- vs nation
- D+52.9
Rhode Island 5th State House District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 2,155
- Total
- 4,288
- vs nation
- D+45.8
- Lead
- 1,933
- Total
- 4,329
- vs nation
- D+42.6
- Lead
- 2,480
- Total
- 4,359
- vs nation
- D+53.0
- Lead
- 2,546
- Total
- 4,659
- vs nation
- D+47.4
- Lead
- 2,052
- Total
- 4,086
- vs nation
- D+52.7
- Lead
- 2,267
- Total
- 3,971
- vs nation
- D+56.6
- Lead
- 2,232
- Total
- 3,940
- vs nation
- D+48.1
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- D+51.4MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 15,3092024 5-year
- Population density
- 11,776 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 1.3 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $61,8662024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 47.7%2024 5-year
- Black
- 13.8%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 28.2%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+80.6 in 1964MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+12.4 in 1896MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State House District 6, RI · twin score 94.8
presidential history
Party record book
Rhode Island 5th 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
90.3%
4,600 votes · D+80.6 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · John F. Kennedy, 1960 · 78.8%
Republican
William McKinley1896
52.5%
331 votes · R+12.4 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Warren G. Harding, 1920 · 47.4%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Lyndon B. Johnson1964
4,600votes
90.3% of the vote · D+80.6 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · John F. Kennedy, 1960 · 3,967 votes
Republican
Dwight D. Eisenhower1956
1,798votes
41.2% of the vote · D+17.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1952 · 1,719 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
Hubert Humphrey1968
+60.3pts D vs U.S.
Place D+59.6 · U.S. R+0.7 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Lyndon B. Johnson, 1964 · +58.0 pts
Republican
William McKinley1896
+6.3pts R vs U.S.
Place R+12.4 · U.S. R+6.1 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · William H. Taft, 1912 · −5.3 pts
Current officeholders
State legislative officeholder from OpenStates nightly current-legislator data.
Senate and governor results are in the Office selector at the top of this page.
U.S. House
Each row is a county-allocated estimate of U.S. House votes for this district — county returns apportioned onto its boundary, not precinct-counted. “Vote lead” is the estimated local lead here, not necessarily the winner of the full contest.
| Year | Vote lead | Democratic | Republican | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | D | 68.5%742 | 31.5%342 | 1,084 |
Rhode Island 5th State House District sits in New England. In 2024 it voted Democratic.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 80.6 points in 1964 and a Republican high of 12.4 points in 1896. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 1.1 points toward the Democratic candidate; the 2024 margin was 51.4 points.
A population of 15,309, a 48% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $61,866 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State House District 6 and State House District 7.
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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