- Lead
- 235
- Total
- 10,695
- vs nation
- D+3.7
Rhode Island 20th State Senate District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 697
- Total
- 11,613
- vs nation
- D+1.5
- Lead
- 211
- Total
- 10,332
- vs nation
- Even
- Lead
- 1,565
- Total
- 9,591
- vs nation
- D+12.5
- Lead
- 1,591
- Total
- 10,115
- vs nation
- D+8.5
- Lead
- 732
- Total
- 9,390
- vs nation
- D+10.3
- Lead
- 1,728
- Total
- 8,775
- vs nation
- D+19.2
- Lead
- 2,083
- Total
- 8,509
- vs nation
- D+16.0
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- D+2.2MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 27,8042024 5-year
- Population density
- 2,075 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 13.4 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $89,7012024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 69.4%2024 5-year
- Black
- 3.9%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 14.5%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+54.3 in 1964MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+53.5 in 1896MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State Senate District 27, RI · twin score 94.9
presidential history
Party record book
Rhode Island 20th 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
77.2%
7,554 votes · D+54.3 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Hubert Humphrey, 1968 · 59.2%
Republican
William McKinley1896
74.6%
1,375 votes · R+53.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · James A. Garfield, 1880 · 71.3%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Lyndon B. Johnson1964
7,554votes
77.2% of the vote · D+54.3 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · John F. Kennedy, 1960 · 6,496 votes
Republican
Dwight D. Eisenhower1956
7,979votes
65.6% of the vote · R+31.1 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1952 · 7,562 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
+31.8pts D vs U.S.
Place D+54.3 · U.S. D+22.6 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Hubert Humphrey, 1968 · +23.2 pts
Republican
William McKinley1896
+47.4pts R vs U.S.
Place R+53.5 · U.S. R+6.1 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · William H. Taft, 1908 · +31.9 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 | 63.1%6,443 | 36.9%3,760 | 10,203 |
Rhode Island 20th State Senate District sits in New England. In 2024 it voted Democratic.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 54.3 points in 1964 and a Republican high of 53.5 points in 1896. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 3.8 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 2.2 points.
A population of 27,804, a 69% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $89,701 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State Senate District 27 and State Senate District 4.
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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