- Lead
- 93
- Total
- 4,674
- vs nation
- R+0.5
Rhode Island 50th State House District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 176
- Total
- 5,192
- vs nation
- R+1.1
- Lead
- 40
- Total
- 4,673
- vs nation
- R+1.2
- Lead
- 640
- Total
- 4,307
- vs nation
- D+11.0
- Lead
- 668
- Total
- 4,538
- vs nation
- D+7.4
- Lead
- 269
- Total
- 4,210
- vs nation
- D+8.8
- Lead
- 734
- Total
- 3,971
- vs nation
- D+18.0
- Lead
- 880
- Total
- 3,817
- vs nation
- D+14.5
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- R+2.0MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 15,1942024 5-year
- Population density
- 5,426 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 2.8 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $64,5192024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 64.4%2024 5-year
- Black
- 7.3%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 16.8%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+53.2 in 1964MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+55.0 in 1896MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State House District 55, RI · twin score 95.2
presidential history
Party record book
Rhode Island 50th 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
76.6%
3,332 votes · D+53.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Hubert Humphrey, 1968 · 59.1%
Republican
William McKinley1896
75.7%
629 votes · R+55.0 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · James A. Garfield, 1880 · 74.0%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Lyndon B. Johnson1964
3,332votes
76.6% of the vote · D+53.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · John F. Kennedy, 1960 · 2,876 votes
Republican
Dwight D. Eisenhower1956
3,625votes
66.3% of the vote · R+32.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1952 · 3,437 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
+30.6pts D vs U.S.
Place D+53.2 · U.S. D+22.6 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Hubert Humphrey, 1968 · +22.1 pts
Republican
William McKinley1896
+48.9pts R vs U.S.
Place R+55.0 · U.S. R+6.1 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · William McKinley, 1900 · +32.7 pts
Current officeholders
State legislative officeholder from OpenStates nightly current-legislator data.
With a 2024 presidential margin of R+2.0, District 50 sits well to the right of Rhode Island's statewide baseline, making it one of the more competitive slivers in a legislature that Democrats dominate by wide margins.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 53.2 points in 1964 and a Republican high of 55.0 points in 1896. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 5.4 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 2.0 points.
A population of 15,194, a 64% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $64,519 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State House District 55 and State House District 49.
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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