- Lead
- 520
- Total
- 7,965
- vs nation
- D+8.0
Rhode Island 52nd State House District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 1,057
- Total
- 9,124
- vs nation
- D+7.1
- Lead
- 266
- Total
- 7,987
- vs nation
- D+1.2
- Lead
- 1,306
- Total
- 7,456
- vs nation
- D+13.7
- Lead
- 1,320
- Total
- 7,838
- vs nation
- D+9.6
- Lead
- 675
- Total
- 7,249
- vs nation
- D+11.8
- Lead
- 1,423
- Total
- 6,801
- vs nation
- D+20.4
- Lead
- 1,667
- Total
- 6,631
- vs nation
- D+16.6
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- D+6.5MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 15,1022024 5-year
- Population density
- 987 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 15.3 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $127,4462024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 88.0%2024 5-year
- Black
- 0.8%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 3.9%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+55.1 in 1964MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+50.9 in 1896MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State House District 45, RI · twin score 94.6
presidential history
Party record book
Rhode Island 52nd 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
77.6%
5,921 votes · D+55.1 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Hubert Humphrey, 1968 · 58.9%
Republican
William McKinley1896
73.5%
1,056 votes · R+50.9 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · James A. Garfield, 1880 · 69.8%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Lyndon B. Johnson1964
5,921votes
77.6% of the vote · D+55.1 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · John F. Kennedy, 1960 · 5,088 votes
Republican
Dwight D. Eisenhower1956
6,080votes
64.9% of the vote · R+29.8 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1952 · 5,776 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
+32.5pts D vs U.S.
Place D+55.1 · U.S. D+22.6 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Hubert Humphrey, 1968 · +23.8 pts
Republican
William McKinley1896
+44.9pts R vs U.S.
Place R+50.9 · U.S. R+6.1 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · William H. Taft, 1908 · +30.7 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%3,500 | 36.8%2,042 | 5,542 |
Rhode Island 52nd State House District sits in New England. In 2024 it voted Democratic.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 55.1 points in 1964 and a Republican high of 50.9 points in 1896. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 5.1 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 6.5 points.
A population of 15,102, a 88% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $127,446 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State House District 45 and State House District 44.
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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