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State record · RI

Rhode Island

4 electoral votes in 20245 counties on record

The Margin, Cycle by Cycle

Two-party margin from county-summed returns · split EV counts annotated from 1976
D+20R+20D+40R+40D+60R+601868: R+33.4 two-party · 19,511 votes18681872: R+43.9 two-party · 18,994 votes1876: R+19.2 two-party · 26,499 votes1880: R+25.6 two-party · 29,235 votes1884: R+21.1 two-party · 32,771 votes1888: R+2.9 two-party · 8,495 votes18881892: R+5.1 two-party · 53,196 votes1896: R+44.3 two-party · 54,785 votes1900: R+26.1 two-party · 56,548 votes1904: R+25.2 two-party · 68,656 votes1908: R+28.0 two-party · 72,317 votes19081912: D+4.7 two-party · 77,894 votes1916: R+5.2 two-party · 87,816 votes1920: R+32.2 two-party · 167,981 votes1924: R+24.1 two-party · 210,115 votes1928: D+0.6 two-party · 237,194 votes19281932: D+12.0 two-party · 266,170 votes1936: D+13.6 two-party · 310,278 votes1940: D+13.6 two-party · 321,148 votes1944: D+17.4 two-party · 299,276 votes1948: D+16.3 two-party · 327,702 votes19481952: R+1.8 two-party · 414,498 votes1956: R+16.5 two-party · 387,609 votes1960: D+27.3 two-party · 405,534 votes1964: D+61.7 two-party · 390,078 votes1968: D+33.7 two-party · 384,938 votes19681972: R+6.2 two-party · 415,808 votes1976: D+11.3 two-party · 410,584 votes · 4 EV1980: D+12.3 two-party · 415,967 votes · 4 EV1984: R+3.7 two-party · 410,489 votes · 4 EV1988: D+11.8 two-party · 404,622 votes · 4 EV19881992: D+23.7 two-party · 453,365 votes · 4 EV1996: D+38.0 two-party · 390,247 votes · 4 EV2000: D+31.3 two-party · 409,112 votes · 4 EV2004: D+21.2 two-party · 437,134 votes · 4 EV2008: D+28.4 two-party · 471,766 votes · 4 EV20082012: D+28.0 two-party · 446,049 votes · 4 EV2016: D+16.6 two-party · 464,144 votes · 4 EV2020: D+21.2 two-party · 516,990 votes · 4 EV2024: D+14.2 two-party · 513,086 votes · 4 EV2024

Bars clip at ±70 two-party points. Click a bar to open that election. Per-state electoral-vote detail is staged from 1976; the dot rows mark cycles with no returns (e.g. unreconstructed Southern states, 1868–72).

Every County, the Long Way

Two-party Democratic share, 1868–2024 · dashed line = 50%