- Lead
- 608
- Total
- 7,737
- vs nation
- D+9.3
Rhode Island 23rd State House District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 710
- Total
- 7,833
- vs nation
- D+4.6
- Lead
- 55
- Total
- 7,138
- vs nation
- R+2.9
- Lead
- 1,217
- Total
- 6,810
- vs nation
- D+14.0
- Lead
- 1,248
- Total
- 7,251
- vs nation
- D+9.9
- Lead
- 781
- Total
- 6,758
- vs nation
- D+14.0
- Lead
- 1,549
- Total
- 6,342
- vs nation
- D+23.9
- Lead
- 1,828
- Total
- 6,211
- vs nation
- D+20.9
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- D+7.9MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 13,9882024 5-year
- Population density
- 3,330 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 4.2 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $92,5552024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 85.6%2024 5-year
- Black
- 1.7%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 5.4%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+56.7 in 1964MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+63.2 in 1896MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State House District 20, RI · twin score 94.2
presidential history
Party record book
Rhode Island 23rd 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
78.4%
3,827 votes · D+56.7 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Hubert Humphrey, 1968 · 59.4%
Republican
William McKinley1896
79.6%
242 votes · R+63.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Warren G. Harding, 1920 · 71.0%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Joe Biden2020
4,182votes
53.4% of the vote · D+9.1 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Barack Obama, 2008 · 4,175 votes
Republican
Richard Nixon1972
3,520votes
58.4% of the vote · R+16.9 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Ronald Reagan, 1984 · 3,495 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
+34.1pts D vs U.S.
Place D+56.7 · U.S. D+22.6 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Al Gore, 2000 · +23.9 pts
Republican
William McKinley1896
+57.1pts R vs U.S.
Place R+63.2 · U.S. R+6.1 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · William McKinley, 1900 · +31.2 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 | 56.6%4,122 | 43.4%3,156 | 7,278 |
In 2024 it voted Democratic by D+7.9, against D+17.2 in 2008, having changed party at least once across the five cycles. About 4,500 residents lived here as of the 2024 ACS 5-year.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 56.7 points in 1964 and a Republican high of 63.2 points in 1896. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 1.2 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 7.9 points.
A population of 13,988, a 86% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $92,555 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State House District 20 and State House District 21.
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 23rd State House District. Akashic. https://akashic.app/sld-lower/44023/. Accessed May 20, 2026. License: CC BY 4.0.