- Lead
- 3,477
- Total
- 18,842
- vs nation
- D+19.9
Rhode Island 36th State Senate District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 4,637
- Total
- 19,108
- vs nation
- D+19.8
- Lead
- 2,496
- Total
- 16,989
- vs nation
- D+12.6
- Lead
- 3,488
- Total
- 16,192
- vs nation
- D+17.7
- Lead
- 4,291
- Total
- 17,078
- vs nation
- D+17.9
- Lead
- 2,836
- Total
- 16,065
- vs nation
- D+20.1
- Lead
- 2,846
- Total
- 14,360
- vs nation
- D+19.3
- Lead
- 2,968
- Total
- 12,792
- vs nation
- D+14.7
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- D+18.5MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 30,0732024 5-year
- Population density
- 664 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 45.3 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $103,9822024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 91.0%2024 5-year
- Black
- 0.7%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 2.7%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+46.2 in 1964MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+59.8 in 1896MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State Senate District 38, RI · twin score 96.4
presidential history
Party record book
Rhode Island 36th 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
73.1%
4,695 votes · D+46.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Barack Obama, 2008 · 61.6%
Republican
William McKinley1896
74.9%
750 votes · R+59.8 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Calvin Coolidge, 1924 · 73.4%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Joe Biden2020
11,680votes
61.1% of the vote · D+24.3 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Kamala Harris, 2024 · 10,874 votes
Republican
Donald Trump2024
7,397votes
39.3% of the vote · D+18.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2020 · 7,043 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
+23.6pts D vs U.S.
Place D+46.2 · U.S. D+22.6 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · John Kerry, 2004 · +20.1 pts
Republican
William McKinley1896
+53.7pts R vs U.S.
Place R+59.8 · U.S. R+6.1 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Alf Landon, 1936 · +44.9 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 | 60.1%10,059 | 39.9%6,675 | 16,734 |
Rhode Island 36th State Senate District sits in New England. In 2024 it voted Democratic.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 46.2 points in 1964 and a Republican high of 59.8 points in 1896. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 5.8 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 18.5 points.
A population of 30,073, a 91% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $103,982 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State Senate District 38 and State Senate District 11.
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 36th State Senate District. Akashic. https://akashic.app/sld-upper/44036/. Accessed May 20, 2026. License: CC BY 4.0.