- Lead
- 4,656
- Total
- 9,089
- vs nation
- D+52.7
Rhode Island 1st State Senate District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 4,649
- Total
- 8,192
- vs nation
- D+52.3
- Lead
- 4,490
- Total
- 8,030
- vs nation
- D+53.8
- Lead
- 5,475
- Total
- 8,240
- vs nation
- D+62.6
- Lead
- 5,664
- Total
- 8,806
- vs nation
- D+57.0
- Lead
- 4,687
- Total
- 7,667
- vs nation
- D+63.6
- Lead
- 4,968
- Total
- 7,506
- vs nation
- D+65.7
- Lead
- 4,813
- Total
- 7,451
- vs nation
- D+56.1
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- D+51.2MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 30,2382024 5-year
- Population density
- 10,799 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 2.8 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $54,4772024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 36.1%2024 5-year
- Black
- 15.1%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 36.6%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+85.2 in 1964MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State Senate District 5, RI · twin score 97.1
presidential history
Party record book
Rhode Island 1st State Senate 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
92.6%
9,255 votes · D+85.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · John F. Kennedy, 1960 · 83.8%
Republican
William McKinley1896
45.1%
483 votes · D+2.3 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Warren G. Harding, 1920 · 39.8%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Lyndon B. Johnson1964
9,255votes
92.6% of the vote · D+85.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · John F. Kennedy, 1960 · 7,985 votes
Republican
Dwight D. Eisenhower1956
2,596votes
33.5% of the vote · D+33.0 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1952 · 2,487 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
Hubert Humphrey1968
+68.7pts D vs U.S.
Place D+68.0 · U.S. R+0.7 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · John F. Kennedy, 1960 · +67.4 pts
Republican
William McKinley1896
−8.4pts R vs U.S.
Place D+2.3 · U.S. R+6.1 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · William H. Taft, 1912 · −17.5 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | D | 68.5%1,465 | 31.5%675 | 2,140 |
Rhode Island 1st State Senate District sits in New England. In 2024 it voted Democratic.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 85.2 points in 1964. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 5.5 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 51.2 points.
A population of 30,238, a 36% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $54,477 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State Senate District 5 and State Senate District 2.
The state-senate 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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