- Lead
- 4,559
- Total
- 9,155
- vs nation
- D+51.3
Rhode Island 2nd State Senate District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 4,111
- Total
- 7,090
- vs nation
- D+53.5
- Lead
- 5,826
- Total
- 7,500
- vs nation
- D+75.6
- Lead
- 6,740
- Total
- 8,101
- vs nation
- D+79.3
- Lead
- 7,004
- Total
- 8,558
- vs nation
- D+74.6
- Lead
- 6,000
- Total
- 7,585
- vs nation
- D+81.6
- Lead
- 6,008
- Total
- 7,230
- vs nation
- D+82.6
- Lead
- 5,611
- Total
- 7,150
- vs nation
- D+71.8
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- D+49.8MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 29,9512024 5-year
- Population density
- 14,262 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 2.1 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $52,3512024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 9.4%2024 5-year
- Black
- 12.1%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 68.8%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+92.3 in 1964MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State Senate District 1, RI · twin score 94.0
presidential history
Party record book
Rhode Island 2nd 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
96.1%
10,030 votes · D+92.3 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · John F. Kennedy, 1960 · 92.6%
Republican
William McKinley1896
27.3%
224 votes · D+39.1 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2024 · 22.5%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Lyndon B. Johnson1964
10,030votes
96.1% of the vote · D+92.3 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · John F. Kennedy, 1960 · 8,656 votes
Republican
Donald Trump2024
2,057votes
22.5% of the vote · D+49.8 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2020 · 1,414 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
+95.2pts D vs U.S.
Place D+72.0 · U.S. R+23.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Walter Mondale, 1984 · +90.7 pts
Republican
William H. Taft1912
−43.4pts R vs U.S.
Place D+63.0 · U.S. D+19.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · William McKinley, 1896 · −45.1 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%1,451 | 31.5%668 | 2,119 |
Rhode Island 2nd State Senate District sits in New England. In 2024 it voted Democratic.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 92.3 points in 1964. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 8.2 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 49.8 points.
A population of 29,951, a 9% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $52,351 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State Senate District 1 and State Senate District 16.
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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