- Lead
- 4,259
- Total
- 8,263
- vs nation
- D+53.0
Rhode Island 3rd State Senate District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 8,056
- Total
- 10,381
- vs nation
- D+73.1
- Lead
- 7,279
- Total
- 10,149
- vs nation
- D+69.6
- Lead
- 8,472
- Total
- 10,518
- vs nation
- D+76.7
- Lead
- 8,815
- Total
- 11,313
- vs nation
- D+70.6
- Lead
- 7,487
- Total
- 9,832
- vs nation
- D+78.6
- Lead
- 7,607
- Total
- 9,726
- vs nation
- D+77.7
- Lead
- 6,795
- Total
- 9,788
- vs nation
- D+65.8
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- D+51.5MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 27,5792024 5-year
- Population density
- 9,193 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 3 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $101,6862024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 67.8%2024 5-year
- Black
- 3.5%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 7.6%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+91.8 in 1964MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State Senate District 15, RI · twin score 88.9
presidential history
Party record book
Rhode Island 3rd 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
95.9%
12,933 votes · D+91.8 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · John F. Kennedy, 1960 · 90.8%
Republican
William McKinley1896
30.6%
367 votes · D+26.7 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Warren G. Harding, 1920 · 26.3%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Lyndon B. Johnson1964
12,933votes
95.9% of the vote · D+91.8 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · John F. Kennedy, 1960 · 11,138 votes
Republican
Dwight D. Eisenhower1956
1,894votes
20.8% of the vote · D+58.3 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2024 · 1,887 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
+88.6pts D vs U.S.
Place D+65.5 · U.S. R+23.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Al Smith, 1928 · +84.7 pts
Republican
William H. Taft1912
−32.3pts R vs U.S.
Place D+51.8 · U.S. D+19.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · William McKinley, 1896 · −32.7 pts
Current officeholders
State legislative officeholder from OpenStates nightly current-legislator data.
Rhode Island 3rd State Senate District sits in New England. In 2024 it voted Democratic.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 91.8 points in 1964. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 26.1 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 51.5 points.
A population of 27,579, a 68% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $101,686 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State Senate District 15 and State Senate District 28.
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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