Rhode Island's 1st Congressional District election, 2018

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General election
General election for U.S. House Rhode Island District 1

Candidate
%
Votes
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David N. Cicilline (D)
 
66.7
 
116,099
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Patrick Donovan (R)
 
33.1
 
57,567
 Other/Write-in votes
 
0.2
 
417

Incumbents are bolded and underlined. The results have been certified. Source

Total votes: 174,083
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Rhode Island's 1st Congressional District
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Democratic primary
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Election details
Filing deadline: June 27, 2018
Primary: September 12, 2018
General: November 6, 2018
Pre-election incumbent:
David Cicilline (Democrat)
How to vote
Poll times: 7 a.m. to 8 p.m.
Voting in Rhode Island
Race ratings
Cook Partisan Voter Index (2018): D+14
Cook Political Report: Solid Democratic
Inside Elections: Solid Democratic
Sabato's Crystal Ball: Safe Democratic
Ballotpedia analysis
U.S. Senate battlegrounds
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Federal and state primary competitiveness
Ballotpedia's Election Analysis Hub, 2018
See also
Rhode Island's 1st Congressional District
U.S. Senate • 1st • 2nd
Rhode Island elections, 2018
U.S. Congress elections, 2018
U.S. Senate elections, 2018
U.S. House elections, 2018

All U.S. congressional districts, including the 1st Congressional District of Rhode Island, held elections in 2018.

Heading into the election the incumbent was David Cicilline (D), who was first elected in 2010.

Rhode Island's 1st Congressional District is located in the northern and eastern portions of the state. The district includes all of Bristol and Newport counties and a portion of Providence County.[1]





Candidates and election results

General election

General election for U.S. House Rhode Island District 1

Incumbent David N. Cicilline defeated Patrick Donovan in the general election for U.S. House Rhode Island District 1 on November 6, 2018.

Candidate
%
Votes
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David N. Cicilline (D)
 
66.7
 
116,099
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Patrick Donovan (R)
 
33.1
 
57,567
 Other/Write-in votes
 
0.2
 
417

Incumbents are bolded and underlined. The results have been certified. Source

Total votes: 174,083
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Democratic primary election

Democratic primary for U.S. House Rhode Island District 1

Incumbent David N. Cicilline defeated Christopher Young in the Democratic primary for U.S. House Rhode Island District 1 on September 12, 2018.

Candidate
%
Votes
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Image of David N. Cicilline
David N. Cicilline
 
78.0
 
47,762
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Christopher Young
 
22.0
 
13,474

Incumbents are bolded and underlined. The results have been certified. Source

Total votes: 61,236
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Republican primary election

Republican primary for U.S. House Rhode Island District 1

Patrick Donovan defeated Frederick Wysocki in the Republican primary for U.S. House Rhode Island District 1 on September 12, 2018.

Candidate
%
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Patrick Donovan
 
78.3
 
7,574
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Frederick Wysocki
 
21.7
 
2,093

There were no incumbents in this race. The results have been certified. Source

Total votes: 9,667
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District analysis

See also: The Cook Political Report's Partisan Voter Index
See also: FiveThirtyEight's elasticity scores

The 2017 Cook Partisan Voter Index for this district was D+14, meaning that in the previous two presidential elections, this district's results were 14 percentage points more Democratic than the national average. This made Rhode Island's 1st Congressional District the 98th most Democratic nationally.[2]

FiveThirtyEight's September 2018 elasticity score for states and congressional districts measured "how sensitive it is to changes in the national political environment." This district's elasticity score was 1.17. This means that for every 1 point the national political mood moved toward a party, the district was expected to move 1.17 points toward that party.[3]

Campaign finance

The chart below contains data from financial reports submitted to the Federal Election Commission.

Name Party Receipts* Disbursements** Cash on hand Date
David N. Cicilline Democratic Party $1,595,161 $1,630,964 $697,367 As of December 31, 2018
Patrick Donovan Republican Party $0 $0 $0 Data not available***

Source: Federal Elections Commission, "Campaign finance data," 2018. This product uses the openFEC API but is not endorsed or certified by the Federal Election Commission (FEC).

* According to the FEC, "Receipts are anything of value (money, goods, services or property) received by a political committee."
** According to the FEC, a disbursement "is a purchase, payment, distribution, loan, advance, deposit or gift of money or anything of value to influence a federal election," plus other kinds of payments not made to influence a federal election.
*** Candidate either did not report any receipts or disbursements to the FEC, or Ballotpedia did not find an FEC candidate ID.


District history

2016

See also: Rhode Island's 1st Congressional District election, 2016

Heading into the election, Ballotpedia rated this race as safely Democratic. Incumbent David Cicilline (D) defeated Russell Taub (R), Rufus Bailey Jr. (I), and Jeff Lemire (I) in the general election on November 8, 2016. Cicilline defeated Christopher Young in the Democratic primary on September 13, 2016.[4][5][6]

U.S. House, Rhode Island District 1 General Election, 2016
Party Candidate Vote % Votes
     Democratic Green check mark transparent.pngDavid Cicilline Incumbent 64.5% 130,534
     Republican Russell Taub 35.1% 71,023
     N/A Write-in 0.4% 814
Total Votes 202,371
Source: Rhode Island Board of Elections


U.S. House, Rhode Island District 1 Democratic Primary, 2016
Candidate Vote % Votes
Green check mark transparent.pngDavid Cicilline Incumbent 67.6% 24,136
Christopher Young 32.4% 11,594
Total Votes 35,730
Source: Rhode Island Board of Elections

2014

See also: Rhode Island's 1st Congressional District elections, 2014

David N. Cicilline won re-election to the U.S. House of Representatives on November 4, 2014. He defeated Cormick Lynch in the general election.

U.S. House, Rhode Island District 1 General Election, 2014
Party Candidate Vote % Votes
     Democratic Green check mark transparent.pngDavid Cicilline Incumbent 59.5% 87,060
     Republican Cormick Lynch 40.2% 58,877
     N/A Write-in 0.3% 416
Total Votes 146,353
Source: Rhode Island Board of Elections

Pivot Counties

See also: Pivot Counties by state

One of five Rhode Island counties—20 percent—is a Pivot County. Pivot Counties are counties that voted for Barack Obama (D) in 2008 and 2012 and for Donald Trump (R) in 2016. Altogether, the nation had 206 Pivot Counties, with most being concentrated in upper midwestern and northeastern states.

Counties won by Trump in 2016 and Obama in 2012 and 2008
County Trump margin of victory in 2016 Obama margin of victory in 2012 Obama margin of victory in 2008
Kent County, Rhode Island 0.67% 17.74% 17.40%

In the 2016 presidential election, Hillary Clinton (D) won Rhode Island with 54.4 percent of the vote. Donald Trump (R) received 38.9 percent. In presidential elections between 1900 and 2016, Rhode Island cast votes for the winning presidential candidate 73.3 percent of the time. In that same time frame, Rhode Island supported Democratic candidates for president more often than Republican candidates, 66.7 to 33.3 percent. The state favored Democrats in every election between between 2000 and 2016.

Presidential results by legislative district

The following table details results of the 2012 and 2016 presidential elections by state House districts in Rhode Island. Click [show] to expand the table. The "Obama," "Romney," "Clinton," and "Trump" columns describe the percent of the vote each presidential candidate received in the district. The "2012 Margin" and "2016 Margin" columns describe the margin of victory between the two presidential candidates in those years. The "Party Control" column notes which party held that seat heading into the 2018 general election. Data on the results of the 2012 and 2016 presidential elections broken down by state legislative districts was compiled by Daily Kos.[7][8]

In 2012, Barack Obama (D) won 73 out of 75 state House districts in Rhode Island with an average margin of victory of 33.4 points. In 2016, Hillary Clinton (D) won 57 out of 75 state House districts in Rhode Island with an average margin of victory of 30.4 points. Clinton won three districts controlled by Republicans heading into the 2018 elections.
In 2012, Mitt Romney (R) won two out of 75 state House districts in Rhode Island with an average margin of victory of 5.5 points. In 2016, Donald Trump (R) won 18 out of 75 state House districts in Rhode Island with an average margin of victory of 11.1 points. Trump won 11 districts controlled by Democrats heading into the 2018 elections.

State overview

Partisan control

This section details the partisan control of federal and state positions in Rhode Island heading into the 2018 elections.

Congressional delegation

State executives

State legislature

  • Democrats controlled both chambers of the Rhode Island General Assembly. They had a 64-11 majority in the state House and a 33-4 majority in the state Senate.

Trifecta status

  • Rhode Island was under a Democratic state government trifecta, meaning Democrats held the governorship, a majority in the state senate, and a majority in the state house.

2018 elections

See also: Rhode Island elections, 2018

Rhode Island held elections for the following positions in 2018:

Demographics

Demographic data for Rhode Island
 Rhode IslandU.S.
Total population:1,055,607316,515,021
Land area (sq mi):1,0343,531,905
Race and ethnicity**
White:81.1%73.6%
Black/African American:6.5%12.6%
Asian:3.2%5.1%
Native American:0.5%0.8%
Pacific Islander:0%0.2%
Two or more:2.8%3%
Hispanic/Latino:13.6%17.1%
Education
High school graduation rate:86.2%86.7%
College graduation rate:31.9%29.8%
Income
Median household income:$56,852$53,889
Persons below poverty level:17.3%11.3%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, "American Community Survey" (5-year estimates 2010-2015)
Click here for more information on the 2020 census and here for more on its impact on the redistricting process in Rhode Island.
**Note: Percentages for race and ethnicity may add up to more than 100 percent because respondents may report more than one race and the Hispanic/Latino ethnicity may be selected in conjunction with any race. Read more about race and ethnicity in the census here.

As of July 2016, Rhode Island's three largest cities were Providence (pop. est. 180,000), Cranston (pop. est. 81,000), and Warwick (pop. est. 81,000).[9]

State election history

This section provides an overview of federal and state elections in Rhode Island from 2000 to 2016. All data comes from the Rhode Island State Board of Elections.

Historical elections

Presidential elections, 2000-2016

This chart shows the results of the presidential election in Rhode Island every year from 2000 to 2016.

Election results (President of the United States), Rhode Island 2000-2016
Year First-place candidate First-place candidate votes (%) Second-place candidate Second-place candidate votes (%) Margin of victory (%)
2016 Democratic Party Hillary Clinton 54.4% Republican Party Donald Trump 38.9% 15.5%
2012 Democratic Party Barack Obama 62.7% Republican Party Mitt Romney 35.2% 27.5%
2008 Democratic Party Barack Obama 62.9% Republican Party John McCain 35.1% 27.8%
2004 Democratic Party John Kerry 59.4% Republican Party George W. Bush 38.7% 20.7%
2000 Democratic Party Al Gore 61.0% Republican Party George W. Bush 31.9% 29.1%

U.S. Senate elections, 2000-2016

This chart shows the results of U.S. Senate races in Rhode Island from 2000 to 2016. Every state has two Senate seats, and each seat goes up for election every six years. The terms of the seats are staggered so that roughly one-third of the seats are up every two years.

Election results (U.S. Senator), Rhode Island 2000-2016
Year First-place candidate First-place candidate votes (%) Second-place candidate Second-place candidate votes (%) Margin of victory (%)
2014 Democratic Party John Reed 70.6% Republican Party Mark Zaccaria 29.3% 41.3%
2012 Democratic Party Sheldon Whitehouse 64.8% Republican Party Barry Hinckley 35.0% 29.8%
2008 Democratic Party John Reed 73.1% Republican Party Bob Tingle 26.5% 46.6%
2006 Democratic Party Sheldon Whitehouse 53.4% Republican Party Lincoln Chafee 46.3% 7.1%
2002 Democratic Party John Reed 78.4% Republican Party Bob Tingle 21.6% 56.8%
2000 Republican Party Lincoln Chafee 56.9% Democratic Party Robert Weygand 41.2% 15.7%

Gubernatorial elections, 2000-2016

This chart shows the results of the four gubernatorial elections held between 2000 and 2016. Gubernatorial elections are held every four years in Rhode Island.

Election results (Governor), Rhode Island 2000-2016
Year First-place candidate First-place candidate votes (%) Second-place candidate Second-place candidate votes (%) Margin of victory (%)
2014 Democratic Party Gina Raimondo 40.7% Republican Party Allan Fung 36.2% 4.5%
2010 Grey.png Lincoln Chafee 36.1% Republican Party John Robitaille 33.6% 2.5%
2006 Republican Party Don Carcieri 51.0% Democratic Party Charles Forgerty 48.9% 2.1%
2002 Republican Party Don Carcieri 54.8% Democratic Party Myrth York 45.2% 9.6%

Congressional delegation, 2000-2016

This chart shows the number of Democrats and Republicans who were elected to represent Rhode Island in the U.S. House from 2000 to 2016. Elections for U.S. House seats are held every two years.

Congressional delegation, Rhode Island 2000-2016
Year Republicans Republicans (%) Democrats Democrats (%) Balance of power
2016 Democratic Party 2 100.0% Democratic Party 0 0.0% D+2
2014 Democratic Party 2 100.0% Democratic Party 0 0.0% D+2
2012 Democratic Party 2 100.0% Democratic Party 0 0.0% D+2
2010 Democratic Party 2 100.0% Democratic Party 0 0.0% D+2
2008 Democratic Party 2 100.0% Democratic Party 0 0.0% D+2
2006 Democratic Party 2 100.0% Democratic Party 0 0.0% D+2
2004 Democratic Party 2 100.0% Democratic Party 0 0.0% D+2
2002 Democratic Party 2 100.0% Democratic Party 0 0.0% D+2
2000 Democratic Party 2 100.0% Democratic Party 0 0.0% D+2

Trifectas, 1992-2017

A state government trifecta occurs when one party controls both chambers of the state legislature and the governor's office.

Rhode Island Party Control: 1992-2025
Sixteen years of Democratic trifectas  •  No Republican trifectas
Scroll left and right on the table below to view more years.

Year 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 00 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25
Governor D D D R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R I I D D D D D D D D D D D D D
Senate D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D
House D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D


See also

Footnotes

  1. ↑ United States Census Bureau, "Counties by Congressional Districts," accessed June 8, 2016
  2. ↑ Cook Political Report, "Introducing the 2017 Cook Political Report Partisan Voter Index," April 7, 2017
  3. ↑ FiveThirtyEight, "Election Update: The Most (And Least) Elastic States And Districts," September 6, 2018
  4. ↑ Rhode Island Secretary of State, "Candidates for Representative," accessed June 30, 2016
  5. ↑ Politico, "Rhode Island House Primary Results," September 13, 2016
  6. ↑ CNN, "Election Results," accessed November 8, 2016
  7. ↑ Daily Kos, "Daily Kos Elections' statewide election results by congressional and legislative districts," July 9, 2013
  8. ↑ Daily Kos, "Daily Kos Elections' 2016 presidential results for congressional and legislative districts," February 6, 2017
  9. ↑ Rhode Island Demographics, "Rhode Island Cities by Population," accessed September 8, 2018
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