- Lead
- 4,625
- Total
- 9,191
- vs nation
- D+51.8
Rhode Island 5th State Senate District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 6,031
- Total
- 10,227
- vs nation
- D+54.5
- Lead
- 5,239
- Total
- 9,161
- vs nation
- D+55.1
- Lead
- 6,357
- Total
- 9,454
- vs nation
- D+63.4
- Lead
- 6,549
- Total
- 9,997
- vs nation
- D+58.2
- Lead
- 5,440
- Total
- 8,828
- vs nation
- D+64.1
- Lead
- 5,749
- Total
- 8,599
- vs nation
- D+66.3
- Lead
- 5,416
- Total
- 8,599
- vs nation
- D+56.4
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- D+50.3MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 30,0652024 5-year
- Population density
- 13,072 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 2.3 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $80,1542024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 38.3%2024 5-year
- Black
- 10.9%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 41.3%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+85.3 in 1964MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State Senate District 1, RI · twin score 97.1
presidential history
Party record book
Rhode Island 5th 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%
10,602 votes · D+85.3 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · John F. Kennedy, 1960 · 84.5%
Republican
William McKinley1896
42.0%
513 votes · D+4.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Warren G. Harding, 1920 · 36.4%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Lyndon B. Johnson1964
10,602votes
92.6% of the vote · D+85.3 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · John F. Kennedy, 1960 · 9,130 votes
Republican
Dwight D. Eisenhower1956
2,838votes
32.5% of the vote · D+35.1 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1952 · 2,690 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
+70.1pts D vs U.S.
Place D+69.4 · U.S. R+0.7 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · John F. Kennedy, 1960 · +68.9 pts
Republican
William McKinley1896
−10.6pts R vs U.S.
Place D+4.5 · U.S. R+6.1 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · William H. Taft, 1912 · −16.7 pts
Current officeholders
State legislative officeholder from OpenStates nightly current-legislator data.
Rhode Island 5th State Senate District sits in New England. In 2024 it voted Democratic.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 85.3 points in 1964. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 8.7 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 50.3 points.
A population of 30,065, a 38% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $80,154 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 8.
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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