- Lead
- 4,072
- Total
- 9,709
- vs nation
- D+43.4
Rhode Island 7th State Senate District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 3,003
- Total
- 7,670
- vs nation
- D+34.7
- Lead
- 3,829
- Total
- 7,406
- vs nation
- D+49.6
- Lead
- 4,752
- Total
- 7,672
- vs nation
- D+58.1
- Lead
- 4,918
- Total
- 8,109
- vs nation
- D+53.4
- Lead
- 4,021
- Total
- 7,272
- vs nation
- D+57.8
- Lead
- 4,337
- Total
- 6,860
- vs nation
- D+62.7
- Lead
- 4,243
- Total
- 6,731
- vs nation
- D+54.5
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- D+41.9MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 30,2342024 5-year
- Population density
- 9,448 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 3.2 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $65,4172024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 21.3%2024 5-year
- Black
- 10.2%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 60.7%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+81.9 in 1964MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+4.4 in 1896MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State Senate District 2, RI · twin score 91.1
presidential history
Party record book
Rhode Island 7th 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
91.0%
8,359 votes · D+81.9 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · John F. Kennedy, 1960 · 81.7%
Republican
William McKinley1896
49.7%
500 votes · R+4.4 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · William H. Taft, 1908 · 41.7%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Lyndon B. Johnson1964
8,359votes
91.0% of the vote · D+81.9 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · John F. Kennedy, 1960 · 7,220 votes
Republican
Dwight D. Eisenhower1956
2,758votes
37.2% of the vote · D+25.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1952 · 2,611 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
+65.4pts D vs U.S.
Place D+64.7 · U.S. R+0.7 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · John F. Kennedy, 1960 · +63.1 pts
Republican
William McKinley1896
−1.7pts R vs U.S.
Place R+4.4 · U.S. R+6.1 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · William H. Taft, 1912 · −15.0 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.
Rhode Island Senate District 7 has delivered Democratic presidential margins in the mid-teens, reflecting the urban and inner-suburban character typical of Providence County's denser neighborhoods.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 81.9 points in 1964 and a Republican high of 4.4 points in 1896. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 2.8 points toward the Democratic candidate; the 2024 margin was 41.9 points.
A population of 30,234, a 21% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $65,417 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State Senate District 2 and State Senate District 1.
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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