- Lead
- 1,599
- Total
- 13,180
- vs nation
- D+13.6
Rhode Island 28th State Senate District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 5,476
- Total
- 12,480
- vs nation
- D+39.4
- Lead
- 4,826
- Total
- 11,321
- vs nation
- D+40.5
- Lead
- 6,229
- Total
- 11,248
- vs nation
- D+51.5
- Lead
- 6,506
- Total
- 11,879
- vs nation
- D+47.5
- Lead
- 5,251
- Total
- 10,653
- vs nation
- D+51.7
- Lead
- 5,757
- Total
- 10,327
- vs nation
- D+55.2
- Lead
- 5,682
- Total
- 10,125
- vs nation
- D+47.6
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- D+12.1MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 29,2072024 5-year
- Population density
- 5,841 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 5 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $81,2992024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 49.0%2024 5-year
- Black
- 8.0%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 29.6%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+79.4 in 1964MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+14.6 in 1896MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State Senate District 15, RI · twin score 95.5
presidential history
Party record book
Rhode Island 28th 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
89.7%
11,854 votes · D+79.4 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · John F. Kennedy, 1960 · 77.9%
Republican
William McKinley1896
55.0%
849 votes · R+14.6 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · James A. Garfield, 1880 · 48.7%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Lyndon B. Johnson1964
11,854votes
89.7% of the vote · D+79.4 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · John F. Kennedy, 1960 · 10,213 votes
Republican
Donald Trump2024
5,611votes
42.6% of the vote · D+12.1 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1956 · 4,884 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
+58.7pts D vs U.S.
Place D+58.0 · U.S. R+0.7 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Lyndon B. Johnson, 1964 · +56.8 pts
Republican
William McKinley1896
+8.5pts R vs U.S.
Place R+14.6 · U.S. R+6.1 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · William H. Taft, 1912 · −4.0 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.
| Year | Vote lead | Democratic | Republican | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | D | 63.2%6,769 | 36.8%3,949 | 10,718 |
Rhode Island 28th State Senate District sits in New England. In 2024 it voted Democratic.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 79.4 points in 1964 and a Republican high of 14.6 points in 1896. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 31.7 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 12.1 points.
A population of 29,207, a 49% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $81,299 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State Senate District 15 and State Senate District 24.
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 28th State Senate District. Akashic. https://akashic.app/sld-upper/44028/. Accessed May 20, 2026. License: CC BY 4.0.