- Lead
- 771
- Total
- 15,576
- vs nation
- R+3.5
Rhode Island 22nd State Senate District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 299
- Total
- 15,466
- vs nation
- R+2.5
- Lead
- 750
- Total
- 13,959
- vs nation
- R+7.5
- Lead
- 1,091
- Total
- 12,891
- vs nation
- D+4.6
- Lead
- 1,056
- Total
- 13,615
- vs nation
- D+0.5
- Lead
- 11
- Total
- 12,692
- vs nation
- D+2.5
- Lead
- 1,474
- Total
- 11,683
- vs nation
- D+12.1
- Lead
- 2,036
- Total
- 11,353
- vs nation
- D+9.4
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- R+4.9MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 30,1852024 5-year
- Population density
- 1,070 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 28.2 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $101,4722024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 80.5%2024 5-year
- Black
- 2.1%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 6.7%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+48.4 in 1964MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+57.8 in 1896MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State Senate District 17, RI · twin score 96.0
presidential history
Party record book
Rhode Island 22nd 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
74.2%
9,457 votes · D+48.4 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Hubert Humphrey, 1968 · 54.8%
Republican
William McKinley1896
76.8%
2,021 votes · R+57.8 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · James A. Garfield, 1880 · 74.7%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Lyndon B. Johnson1964
9,457votes
74.2% of the vote · D+48.4 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · John F. Kennedy, 1960 · 8,123 votes
Republican
Dwight D. Eisenhower1956
11,686votes
69.1% of the vote · R+38.1 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1952 · 11,085 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
+25.8pts D vs U.S.
Place D+48.4 · U.S. D+22.6 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Hubert Humphrey, 1968 · +15.5 pts
Republican
William McKinley1896
+51.7pts R vs U.S.
Place R+57.8 · U.S. R+6.1 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · William H. Taft, 1908 · +37.7 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%6,995 | 36.9%4,082 | 11,077 |
Rhode Island 22nd State Senate District sits in New England. In 2024 it voted Republican.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 48.4 points in 1964 and a Republican high of 57.8 points in 1896. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 6.9 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 4.9 points.
A population of 30,185, a 81% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $101,472 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State Senate District 17 and State Senate District 19.
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 22nd State Senate District. Akashic. https://akashic.app/sld-upper/44022/. Accessed May 20, 2026. License: CC BY 4.0.