- Lead
- 1,436
- Total
- 13,404
- vs nation
- D+12.2
Rhode Island 4th State Senate District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 2,445
- Total
- 14,138
- vs nation
- D+12.8
- Lead
- 1,286
- Total
- 13,186
- vs nation
- D+7.7
- Lead
- 3,012
- Total
- 12,558
- vs nation
- D+20.1
- Lead
- 3,118
- Total
- 13,293
- vs nation
- D+16.2
- Lead
- 1,930
- Total
- 12,168
- vs nation
- D+18.3
- Lead
- 3,101
- Total
- 11,330
- vs nation
- D+26.9
- Lead
- 3,412
- Total
- 10,866
- vs nation
- D+22.9
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- D+10.7MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 29,8122024 5-year
- Population density
- 6,343 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 4.7 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $77,2852024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 63.4%2024 5-year
- Black
- 9.3%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 17.0%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+59.9 in 1964MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+46.4 in 1896MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State Senate District 20, RI · twin score 94.1
presidential history
Party record book
Rhode Island 4th 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
79.9%
10,593 votes · D+59.9 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Hubert Humphrey, 1968 · 62.7%
Republican
William McKinley1896
72.0%
1,655 votes · R+46.4 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Warren G. Harding, 1920 · 67.5%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Lyndon B. Johnson1964
10,593votes
79.9% of the vote · D+59.9 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · John F. Kennedy, 1960 · 9,125 votes
Republican
Dwight D. Eisenhower1956
9,502votes
61.8% of the vote · R+23.7 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1952 · 9,018 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
+37.3pts D vs U.S.
Place D+59.9 · U.S. D+22.6 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Hubert Humphrey, 1968 · +30.2 pts
Republican
William McKinley1896
+40.4pts R vs U.S.
Place R+46.4 · U.S. R+6.1 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · William H. Taft, 1908 · +26.7 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%6,909 | 36.8%4,031 | 10,940 |
Rhode Island 4th State Senate District sits in New England. In 2024 it voted Democratic.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 59.9 points in 1964 and a Republican high of 46.4 points in 1896. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 6.6 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 10.7 points.
A population of 29,812, a 63% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $77,285 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State Senate District 20 and State Senate District 18.
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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