- Lead
- 1,589
- Total
- 4,957
- vs nation
- D+33.5
Rhode Island 61st State House District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 1,735
- Total
- 6,235
- vs nation
- D+23.4
- Lead
- 1,233
- Total
- 5,417
- vs nation
- D+20.7
- Lead
- 1,906
- Total
- 5,209
- vs nation
- D+32.7
- Lead
- 2,016
- Total
- 5,479
- vs nation
- D+29.5
- Lead
- 1,462
- Total
- 4,979
- vs nation
- D+31.8
- Lead
- 1,866
- Total
- 4,774
- vs nation
- D+38.6
- Lead
- 1,890
- Total
- 4,577
- vs nation
- D+32.8
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- D+32.1MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 15,3072024 5-year
- Population density
- 9,004 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 1.7 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $90,7212024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 64.6%2024 5-year
- Black
- 5.8%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 18.5%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+68.5 in 1964MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+36.5 in 1896MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State House District 62, RI · twin score 91.2
presidential history
Party record book
Rhode Island 61st 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
84.3%
4,818 votes · D+68.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Hubert Humphrey, 1968 · 68.6%
Republican
William McKinley1896
67.4%
557 votes · R+36.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · William H. Taft, 1908 · 61.3%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Lyndon B. Johnson1964
4,818votes
84.3% of the vote · D+68.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · John F. Kennedy, 1960 · 4,152 votes
Republican
Dwight D. Eisenhower1956
3,244votes
54.8% of the vote · R+9.6 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1952 · 3,083 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
+46.0pts D vs U.S.
Place D+68.5 · U.S. D+22.6 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Hubert Humphrey, 1968 · +42.1 pts
Republican
William McKinley1896
+30.4pts R vs U.S.
Place R+36.5 · U.S. R+6.1 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · William H. Taft, 1908 · +14.4 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%3,547 | 36.9%2,070 | 5,617 |
With a 2024 presidential margin of D+32.1 in a district of roughly 15,000 residents, this Providence-area seat ranks among the most reliably blue constituencies in the state, offering little competitive tension in most cycles.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 68.5 points in 1964 and a Republican high of 36.5 points in 1896. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 4.2 points toward the Democratic candidate; the 2024 margin was 32.1 points.
A population of 15,307, a 65% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $90,721 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State House District 62 and State House District 5.
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 61st State House District. Akashic. https://akashic.app/sld-lower/44061/. Accessed May 20, 2026. License: CC BY 4.0.