- Lead
- 406
- Total
- 6,935
- vs nation
- D+7.3
Rhode Island 18th State House District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 2,477
- Total
- 5,989
- vs nation
- D+36.9
- Lead
- 2,016
- Total
- 5,332
- vs nation
- D+35.7
- Lead
- 2,671
- Total
- 5,211
- vs nation
- D+47.4
- Lead
- 2,787
- Total
- 5,514
- vs nation
- D+43.3
- Lead
- 2,220
- Total
- 4,941
- vs nation
- D+47.4
- Lead
- 2,499
- Total
- 4,829
- vs nation
- D+51.2
- Lead
- 2,475
- Total
- 4,714
- vs nation
- D+44.0
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- D+5.9MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 14,1682024 5-year
- Population density
- 6,747 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 2.1 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $81,4772024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 52.1%2024 5-year
- Black
- 7.2%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 25.8%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+77.3 in 1964MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+21.0 in 1896MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State House District 59, RI · twin score 94.6
presidential history
Party record book
Rhode Island 18th 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
88.6%
5,350 votes · D+77.3 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · John F. Kennedy, 1960 · 75.8%
Republican
William McKinley1896
58.7%
428 votes · R+21.0 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · James A. Garfield, 1880 · 52.2%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Lyndon B. Johnson1964
5,350votes
88.6% of the vote · D+77.3 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · John F. Kennedy, 1960 · 4,615 votes
Republican
Donald Trump2024
3,181votes
45.9% of the vote · D+5.9 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1956 · 2,489 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
+54.7pts D vs U.S.
Place D+54.0 · U.S. R+0.7 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Lyndon B. Johnson, 1964 · +54.7 pts
Republican
William McKinley1896
+14.9pts R vs U.S.
Place R+21.0 · U.S. R+6.1 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · William H. Taft, 1912 · +1.1 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 | 63.1%3,283 | 36.9%1,916 | 5,199 |
Rhode Island 18th State House District sits in New England. In 2024 it voted Democratic.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 77.3 points in 1964 and a Republican high of 21.0 points in 1896. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 35.5 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 5.9 points.
A population of 14,168, a 52% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $81,477 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State House District 59 and State House District 16.
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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