- Lead
- 1,706
- Total
- 5,755
- vs nation
- D+31.1
Rhode Island 16th State Senate District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 2,862
- Total
- 5,762
- vs nation
- D+45.2
- Lead
- 3,760
- Total
- 5,674
- vs nation
- D+64.2
- Lead
- 4,442
- Total
- 5,892
- vs nation
- D+71.5
- Lead
- 4,630
- Total
- 6,227
- vs nation
- D+67.1
- Lead
- 3,914
- Total
- 5,524
- vs nation
- D+73.3
- Lead
- 4,012
- Total
- 5,371
- vs nation
- D+74.2
- Lead
- 3,879
- Total
- 5,262
- vs nation
- D+65.2
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- D+29.6MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 29,0422024 5-year
- Population density
- 17,084 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 1.7 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $47,2222024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 20.2%2024 5-year
- Black
- 7.7%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 58.3%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+89.1 in 1964MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State Senate District 6, RI · twin score 96.8
presidential history
Party record book
Rhode Island 16th 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
94.5%
7,072 votes · D+89.1 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · John F. Kennedy, 1960 · 87.9%
Republican
William McKinley1896
36.7%
246 votes · D+20.0 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2024 · 33.9%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Lyndon B. Johnson1964
7,072votes
94.5% of the vote · D+89.1 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · John F. Kennedy, 1960 · 6,094 votes
Republican
Donald Trump2024
1,953votes
33.9% of the vote · D+29.6 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1956 · 1,418 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
+78.9pts D vs U.S.
Place D+55.8 · U.S. R+23.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Hubert Humphrey, 1968 · +76.5 pts
Republican
William McKinley1896
−26.0pts R vs U.S.
Place D+20.0 · U.S. R+6.1 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2024 · −31.1 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | D | 68.5%1,407 | 31.5%648 | 2,055 |
Rhode Island 16th State Senate District sits in New England. In 2024 it voted Democratic.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 89.1 points in 1964. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 20.0 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 29.6 points.
A population of 29,042, a 20% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $47,222 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State Senate District 6 and Hampden District.
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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