- Lead
- 4,615
- Total
- 9,200
- vs nation
- D+51.6
Rhode Island 6th State Senate District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 5,894
- Total
- 8,641
- vs nation
- D+63.8
- Lead
- 6,756
- Total
- 8,444
- vs nation
- D+77.9
- Lead
- 7,731
- Total
- 9,099
- vs nation
- D+81.1
- Lead
- 8,077
- Total
- 9,588
- vs nation
- D+77.0
- Lead
- 6,943
- Total
- 8,444
- vs nation
- D+84.7
- Lead
- 6,897
- Total
- 8,216
- vs nation
- D+83.4
- Lead
- 6,291
- Total
- 8,157
- vs nation
- D+72.2
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- D+50.2MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 30,1932024 5-year
- Population density
- 10,064 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 3 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $53,4412024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 23.1%2024 5-year
- Black
- 16.7%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 47.9%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+93.2 in 1964MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State Senate District 16, RI · twin score 96.8
presidential history
Party record book
Rhode Island 6th 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
96.6%
11,400 votes · D+93.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · John F. Kennedy, 1960 · 93.8%
Republican
Donald Trump2024
22.5%
2,071 votes · D+50.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · William McKinley, 1896 · 20.7%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Lyndon B. Johnson1964
11,400votes
96.6% of the vote · D+93.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · John F. Kennedy, 1960 · 9,826 votes
Republican
Donald Trump2024
2,071votes
22.5% of the vote · D+50.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2020 · 1,286 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
+100.0pts D vs U.S.
Place D+76.8 · U.S. R+23.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Walter Mondale, 1984 · +95.1 pts
Republican
William H. Taft1912
−44.9pts R vs U.S.
Place D+64.5 · U.S. D+19.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2024 · −51.6 pts
Current officeholders
State legislative officeholder from OpenStates nightly current-legislator data.
Rhode Island 6th State Senate District sits in New England. In 2024 it voted Democratic.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 93.2 points in 1964. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 18.0 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 50.2 points.
A population of 30,193, a 23% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $53,441 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State Senate District 16 and State Senate District 29.
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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Rhode Island 6th State Senate District. Akashic. https://akashic.app/sld-upper/44006/. Accessed May 20, 2026. License: CC BY 4.0.