- Lead
- 415
- Total
- 6,983
- vs nation
- D+7.4
Rhode Island 16th State House District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 1,564
- Total
- 7,074
- vs nation
- D+17.7
- Lead
- 1,017
- Total
- 6,390
- vs nation
- D+13.8
- Lead
- 1,846
- Total
- 6,084
- vs nation
- D+26.5
- Lead
- 1,913
- Total
- 6,433
- vs nation
- D+22.5
- Lead
- 1,305
- Total
- 5,851
- vs nation
- D+24.8
- Lead
- 1,823
- Total
- 5,575
- vs nation
- D+32.2
- Lead
- 1,938
- Total
- 5,307
- vs nation
- D+28.0
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- D+5.9MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 14,2742024 5-year
- Population density
- 5,948 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 2.4 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $90,5912024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 63.8%2024 5-year
- Black
- 4.6%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 17.7%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+63.8 in 1964MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+43.8 in 1896MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State House District 54, RI · twin score 95.0
presidential history
Party record book
Rhode Island 16th 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
81.9%
5,365 votes · D+63.8 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Hubert Humphrey, 1968 · 65.2%
Republican
William McKinley1896
71.1%
738 votes · R+43.8 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Warren G. Harding, 1920 · 64.3%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Lyndon B. Johnson1964
5,365votes
81.9% of the vote · D+63.8 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · John F. Kennedy, 1960 · 4,622 votes
Republican
Dwight D. Eisenhower1956
4,218votes
58.6% of the vote · R+17.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1952 · 4,005 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
Lyndon B. Johnson1964
+41.2pts D vs U.S.
Place D+63.8 · U.S. D+22.6 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Hubert Humphrey, 1968 · +35.7 pts
Republican
William McKinley1896
+37.8pts R vs U.S.
Place R+43.8 · U.S. R+6.1 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · William H. Taft, 1908 · +20.4 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | D | 63.2%3,308 | 36.8%1,930 | 5,238 |
Its 2024 presidential margin of D+6.1 ranked among Rhode Island's closest, against D+29.6 in 2008. About 3,760 residents lived here as of the 2024 ACS 5-year.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 63.8 points in 1964 and a Republican high of 43.8 points in 1896. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 16.2 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 5.9 points.
A population of 14,274, a 64% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $90,591 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State House District 54 and State House District 51.
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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Rhode Island 16th State House District. Akashic. https://akashic.app/sld-lower/44016/. Accessed May 20, 2026. License: CC BY 4.0.