- Lead
- 1,577
- Total
- 4,928
- vs nation
- D+33.5
Rhode Island 59th State House District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 3,047
- Total
- 4,786
- vs nation
- D+59.2
- Lead
- 2,913
- Total
- 4,460
- vs nation
- D+63.2
- Lead
- 3,434
- Total
- 4,608
- vs nation
- D+70.7
- Lead
- 3,606
- Total
- 4,858
- vs nation
- D+67.0
- Lead
- 3,012
- Total
- 4,316
- vs nation
- D+72.2
- Lead
- 3,129
- Total
- 4,216
- vs nation
- D+73.7
- Lead
- 3,022
- Total
- 4,072
- vs nation
- D+65.7
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- D+32.0MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 15,2822024 5-year
- Population density
- 11,755 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 1.3 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $64,3202024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 35.2%2024 5-year
- Black
- 14.7%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 23.4%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+88.8 in 1964MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State House District 18, RI · twin score 94.6
presidential history
Party record book
Rhode Island 59th 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
94.4%
5,507 votes · D+88.8 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · John F. Kennedy, 1960 · 87.5%
Republican
William McKinley1896
41.5%
211 votes · D+16.1 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Warren G. Harding, 1920 · 34.2%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Lyndon B. Johnson1964
5,507votes
94.4% of the vote · D+88.8 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · John F. Kennedy, 1960 · 4,734 votes
Republican
Donald Trump2024
1,613votes
32.7% of the vote · D+32.0 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1956 · 1,130 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
George McGovern1972
+77.5pts D vs U.S.
Place D+54.4 · U.S. R+23.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Hubert Humphrey, 1968 · +76.3 pts
Republican
William McKinley1896
−22.2pts R vs U.S.
Place D+16.1 · U.S. R+6.1 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · William H. Taft, 1912 · −31.3 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%3,542 | 36.8%2,066 | 5,608 |
With a 2024 presidential margin of D+32.0 in a district of roughly 15,000 residents, Rhode Island House District 59 ranks among the state's most consistently Democratic-aligned constituencies, likely anchored by dense urban or university-adjacent precincts.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 88.8 points in 1964. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 31.7 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 32.0 points.
A population of 15,282, a 35% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $64,320 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State House District 18 and State House District 58.
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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