- Lead
- 298
- Total
- 8,122
- vs nation
- D+5.1
Rhode Island 46th State House District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 1,053
- Total
- 8,214
- vs nation
- D+8.4
- Lead
- 348
- Total
- 7,479
- vs nation
- D+2.6
- Lead
- 1,334
- Total
- 7,020
- vs nation
- D+15.1
- Lead
- 1,355
- Total
- 7,416
- vs nation
- D+11.0
- Lead
- 735
- Total
- 6,854
- vs nation
- D+13.2
- Lead
- 1,415
- Total
- 6,385
- vs nation
- D+21.6
- Lead
- 1,654
- Total
- 6,166
- vs nation
- D+18.3
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- D+3.7MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 15,3442024 5-year
- Population density
- 1,334 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 11.5 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $93,3482024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 76.6%2024 5-year
- Black
- 3.2%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 9.3%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+56.1 in 1964MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+50.3 in 1896MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State House District 54, RI · twin score 92.7
presidential history
Party record book
Rhode Island 46th 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
78.1%
5,652 votes · D+56.1 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Hubert Humphrey, 1968 · 60.0%
Republican
William McKinley1896
73.2%
993 votes · R+50.3 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Warren G. Harding, 1920 · 69.1%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Lyndon B. Johnson1964
5,652votes
78.1% of the vote · D+56.1 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · John F. Kennedy, 1960 · 4,875 votes
Republican
Dwight D. Eisenhower1956
5,644votes
64.3% of the vote · R+28.7 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1952 · 5,368 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
+33.5pts D vs U.S.
Place D+56.1 · U.S. D+22.6 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Hubert Humphrey, 1968 · +25.3 pts
Republican
William McKinley1896
+44.2pts R vs U.S.
Place R+50.3 · U.S. R+6.1 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · William H. Taft, 1908 · +29.3 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | D | 63.2%3,556 | 36.8%2,075 | 5,631 |
The 2024 presidential margin was D+3.9, one of the narrower results among Rhode Island's state house districts, compared with D+18.3 in 2008. Catholic adherents were the largest religious group at 40.8% in the 2020 US Religion Census.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 56.1 points in 1964 and a Republican high of 50.3 points in 1896. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 9.2 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 3.7 points.
A population of 15,344, a 77% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $93,348 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 63.
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 46th State House District. Akashic. https://akashic.app/sld-lower/44046/. Accessed May 20, 2026. License: CC BY 4.0.