- Lead
- 757
- Total
- 7,539
- vs nation
- R+8.6
Rhode Island 53rd State House District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 134
- Total
- 6,903
- vs nation
- R+6.4
- Lead
- 466
- Total
- 6,185
- vs nation
- R+9.6
- Lead
- 340
- Total
- 5,681
- vs nation
- D+2.1
- Lead
- 307
- Total
- 6,017
- vs nation
- R+2.2
- Lead
- 138
- Total
- 5,628
- vs nation
- Even
- Lead
- 536
- Total
- 5,162
- vs nation
- D+9.9
- Lead
- 806
- Total
- 4,997
- vs nation
- D+7.6
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- R+10.0MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 14,0042024 5-year
- Population density
- 667 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 21 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $107,1232024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 80.2%2024 5-year
- Black
- 1.2%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 3.6%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+46.5 in 1964MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+60.2 in 1896MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State House District 48, RI · twin score 97.0
presidential history
Party record book
Rhode Island 53rd 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
73.2%
4,092 votes · D+46.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Hubert Humphrey, 1968 · 53.6%
Republican
William McKinley1896
77.9%
923 votes · R+60.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · James A. Garfield, 1880 · 75.9%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Lyndon B. Johnson1964
4,092votes
73.2% of the vote · D+46.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · John F. Kennedy, 1960 · 3,508 votes
Republican
Dwight D. Eisenhower1956
5,291votes
70.0% of the vote · R+40.1 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1952 · 5,026 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
+23.9pts D vs U.S.
Place D+46.5 · U.S. D+22.6 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Hubert Humphrey, 1968 · +13.1 pts
Republican
William McKinley1896
+54.1pts R vs U.S.
Place R+60.2 · U.S. R+6.1 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · William H. Taft, 1908 · +39.7 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 | 63.1%3,245 | 36.9%1,894 | 5,139 |
Rhode Island 53rd State House District sits in New England. In 2024 it voted Republican.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 46.5 points in 1964 and a Republican high of 60.2 points in 1896. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 8.1 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 10.0 points.
A population of 14,004, a 80% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $107,123 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State House District 48 and State House District 40.
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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