- Lead
- 1,195
- Total
- 15,230
- vs nation
- D+9.3
Rhode Island 29th State Senate District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 1,259
- Total
- 14,468
- vs nation
- D+4.2
- Lead
- 98
- Total
- 12,922
- vs nation
- R+2.8
- Lead
- 2,194
- Total
- 12,320
- vs nation
- D+14.0
- Lead
- 2,261
- Total
- 13,093
- vs nation
- D+10.0
- Lead
- 1,454
- Total
- 12,232
- vs nation
- D+14.3
- Lead
- 2,792
- Total
- 11,494
- vs nation
- D+23.8
- Lead
- 3,308
- Total
- 11,316
- vs nation
- D+20.7
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- D+7.8MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 27,5742024 5-year
- Population density
- 2,965 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 9.3 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $85,8642024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 83.7%2024 5-year
- Black
- 2.1%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 6.7%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+56.7 in 1964MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+67.3 in 1896MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State Senate District 30, RI · twin score 93.2
presidential history
Party record book
Rhode Island 29th 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
78.4%
6,942 votes · D+56.7 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Hubert Humphrey, 1968 · 59.2%
Republican
William McKinley1896
81.6%
440 votes · R+67.3 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Warren G. Harding, 1920 · 70.7%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Kamala Harris2024
8,040votes
52.8% of the vote · D+7.8 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Joe Biden, 2020 · 7,706 votes
Republican
Donald Trump2024
6,845votes
44.9% of the vote · D+7.8 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2020 · 6,447 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
+34.1pts D vs U.S.
Place D+56.7 · U.S. D+22.6 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Al Gore, 2000 · +23.8 pts
Republican
William McKinley1896
+61.3pts R vs U.S.
Place R+67.3 · U.S. R+6.1 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · William McKinley, 1900 · +34.5 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 | 56.6%8,126 | 43.4%6,222 | 14,348 |
Rhode Island 29th State Senate District sits in New England. In 2024 it voted Democratic.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 56.7 points in 1964 and a Republican high of 67.3 points in 1896. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 0.9 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 7.8 points.
A population of 27,574, a 84% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $85,864 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State Senate District 30 and State Senate District 9.
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 29th State Senate District. Akashic. https://akashic.app/sld-upper/44029/. Accessed May 20, 2026. License: CC BY 4.0.