Boundary by 2024 margin · Precinct returns · VEST · MIT Election Lab
People and households
Who lives here
Exact values for this place, its state, and the United States.
Race · ethnicity · ancestry
Communities and origins
GroupBristol CountyRhode IslandUnited States
Irish18.3%16.1%9.4%
Portuguese16.4%7.0%—
Italian15.4%14.7%4.8%
English12.6%10.8%9.5%
German6.9%5.0%12.5%
American6.9%3.1%5.3%
French6.0%7.3%1.6%
Polish3.7%—2.2%
Mexican0.8%1.1%11.3%
Puerto Rican0.8%3.9%1.8%
Colombian0.5%1.1%0.4%
Venezuelan0.4%——
Cuban0.2%—0.7%
Bolivian0.2%0.2%—
Spaniard0.2%——
Spanish0.2%——
Chinese1.0%0.8%1.3%
Asian Indian0.6%0.8%1.4%
Filipino0.4%0.4%0.9%
African American†0.5%1.1%9.9%
Cape Verdean0.3%1.6%—
Ethiopian0.1%——
Jamaican0.1%0.2%0.4%
Hispanic or Latino counts residents of any race; the race groups count only their non-Hispanic residents, so the groups are mutually exclusive and sum to 100%. Expand a row to see ancestries reported within that group.
Age and life stage
Measure
Bristol County
Rhode Island
United States
Median age
44.2
40.8
39.1
Age 18–24
11.2%
10.0%
9.2%
Age 65 and older
21.2%
18.8%
17.2%
Household economy
Measure
Bristol County
Rhode Island
United States
Median household income
$114,490
$87,796
$84,427
Poverty rate
6.5%
11.2%
12.5%
Bachelor's degree or higher (25+)
53.0%
37.7%
35.6%
Languages at home
Measure
Bristol County
Rhode Island
United States
Speaks a non-English language at home
12.8%
23.2%
22.3%
Spanish
2.8%
13.6%
13.6%
Other Indo-European
7.1%
4.1%
2.0%
Religious landscape
Measure
Bristol County
Rhode Island
United States
Catholic
41.9%
40.6%
18.6%
Evangelical Protestant
0.7%
3.9%
16.5%
Unclaimed / not counted
50.7%
48.5%
51.5%
Mainline Protestant
5.0%
3.8%
5.2%
American Community Survey 2024 5-year (CVAP, income, age, poverty, education, language, race, ancestry) · presidential returns from MIT Election Lab through 2024 · 2020 U.S. Religion Census (ASARB) — congregational adherents; unclaimed is the residual not counted by congregations.
Bristol County, Rhode Island
Precinct data
Results by precinct
3 precincts · 28,335 votes
Precinct boundaries and identifiers are cycle-specific. This table does not join rows across years without a validated crosswalk.
Bristol County precinct-level presidential election results for 2024
Precinct -001-Bristol001-Bristol
6,556
4,711
305
11,572
56.7%
40.7%
D+15.9
Precinct -001-Barrington001-Barrington
7,418
2,886
353
10,657
69.6%
27.1%
D+42.5
Precinct -001-Warren001-Warren
3,484
2,451
171
6,106
57.1%
40.1%
D+16.9
presidential history
Presidential margin, 1892–2024
Democratic minus Republican, by election
Presidential margin over time
Year
Margin (D minus R)
1892
−9.7%
1896
−49.0%
1900
−26.3%
1904
−20.0%
1908
−27.2%
1912
−1.8%
1916
−9.6%
1920
−39.4%
1924
−23.4%
1928
+3.8%
1932
+10.8%
1936
+4.3%
1940
+5.8%
1944
+12.2%
1948
+17.1%
1952
−0.9%
1956
−19.8%
1960
+19.1%
1964
+52.4%
1968
+21.4%
1972
−9.5%
1976
+5.1%
1980
+6.1%
1984
−10.7%
1988
+2.5%
1992
+12.9%
1996
+24.3%
2000
+21.7%
2004
+18.6%
2008
+26.7%
2012
+23.3%
2016
+22.2%
2020
+29.2%
2024
+26.4%
DemocraticRepublican
38 presidential elections
Third column names the leading third-party or independent finisher. Source · MIT Election Lab · ICPSR · VEST (precinct-level 2024). Swing · margin change from the prior cycle. vs U.S. · margin relative to the national result that year.
Year
Won
Democratic
Republican
Other
Margin
Swing
vs U.S.
Total
D
62.1%Harris17,458
35.7%Trump10,048
1.0%Kennedy276 +4
D+26.4
R+2.9
D+27.8
28,117
All 7 candidates in 2024 · 5 minor / independent
Kamala D HarrisDemocratic62.1%17,458
Donald J TrumpRepublican35.7%10,048
Robert F Kennedy Jr.Independent1.0%276
Jill SteinIndependent0.6%158
Chase OliverLibertarian0.4%108
Claudia De La CruzIndependent0.2%47
Robert "robby" WellsIndependent0.1%22
D
63.5%Biden18,050
34.3%Trump9,745
1.1%Jorgensen326
D+29.2
D+7.1
D+24.8
28,415
D
57.3%Clinton14,609
35.2%Trump8,965
3.7%Johnson949
D+22.2
R+1.1
D+20.1
25,475
D
60.7%Obama14,974
37.4%Romney9,231
0.4%JOHNSON105
D+23.3
R+3.5
D+19.4
24,676
D
62.6%Obama16,162
35.9%McCain9,260
1.5%
D+26.7
D+8.2
D+19.5
25,807
D
58.4%Kerry14,448
39.8%Bush9,855
1.7%
D+18.6
R+3.1
D+21.0
24,732
D
57.7%Gore13,424
36.0%Bush8,375
5.5%Nader1,283
D+21.7
R+2.6
D+21.2
23,272
D
56.6%Clinton12,257
32.2%Dole6,988
9.2%Perot1,990
D+24.3
D+11.4
D+15.8
21,671
D
45.8%Clinton11,414
32.9%Bush8,208
20.6%Perot5,132
D+12.9
D+10.4
D+7.3
24,911
D
51.0%Dukakis11,168
48.6%Bush10,626
0.4%
D+2.5
D+13.1
D+10.2
21,883
R
44.5%Mondale9,386
55.2%Reagan11,635
0.3%
R+10.7
R+16.8
D+7.6
21,084
D
45.1%Carter9,851
38.9%Reagan8,508
16.0%
D+6.1
D+1.0
D+15.9
21,852
D
52.4%Carter11,228
47.3%Ford10,131
0.3%
D+5.1
D+14.6
D+3.1
21,425
R
45.2%McGovern9,928
54.6%Nixon12,009
0.2%
R+9.5
R+30.8
D+13.7
21,985
D
59.4%Humphrey11,561
38.0%Nixon7,403
2.6%
D+21.4
R+31.1
D+22.0
19,475
D
76.2%Johnson14,306
23.8%Goldwater4,466
0.0%
D+52.4
D+33.3
D+29.8
18,772
D
59.6%Kennedy11,099
40.4%Nixon7,537
0.0%
D+19.1
D+38.9
D+19.0
18,636
R
40.1%Stevenson6,748
59.9%Eisenhower10,070
0.0%
R+19.8
R+18.8
R+4.4
16,818
R
49.5%Stevenson8,313
50.4%Eisenhower8,468
0.0%
R+0.9
R+18.0
D+9.8
16,789
D
58.2%Truman7,562
41.2%Dewey5,343
0.6%
D+17.1
D+4.9
D+12.6
12,982
D
56.0%Roosevelt6,287
43.8%Dewey4,919
0.1%
D+12.2
D+6.4
D+4.7
11,222
D
52.9%Roosevelt5,967
47.1%Willkie5,314
0.0%
D+5.8
D+1.5
R+4.2
11,284
D
50.0%Roosevelt5,327
45.6%Landon4,867
4.4%
D+4.3
R+6.5
R+19.9
10,662
D
54.9%Roosevelt4,775
44.0%Hoover3,833
1.1%
D+10.8
D+7.0
R+7.0
8,703
D
51.8%Smith4,080
48.0%Hoover3,780
0.2%
D+3.8
D+27.2
D+21.3
7,873
R
37.2%Davis2,500
60.6%Coolidge4,076
2.3%
R+23.4
D+16.0
D+1.8
6,729
R
29.2%Cox1,569
68.6%Harding3,682
2.1%
R+39.4
R+29.8
R+13.2
5,366
R
43.9%Wilson1,292
53.5%Hughes1,574
2.5%
R+9.6
R+7.8
R+12.7
2,940
R
40.0%Wilson1,077
41.8%Taft1,126
18.3%
R+1.8
D+25.4
R+21.4
2,695
R
34.6%Bryan899
61.8%Taft1,606
3.6%
R+27.2
R+7.2
R+17.6
2,599
R
39.1%Parker963
59.1%Roosevelt1,457
1.9%
R+20.0
D+6.2
R+0.4
2,466
R
35.0%Bryan727
61.2%McKinley1,273
3.8%
R+26.3
D+22.7
R+18.7
2,080
R
23.1%Bryan424
72.1%McKinley1,321
4.7%
R+49.0
R+39.3
R+42.9
1,832
R
43.4%Cleveland905
53.1%Harrison1,107
3.5%
R+9.7
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R+11.3
2,085
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Congressional elections · 3 Senate races
U.S. Senate
Source · MIT Election Lab (MEDSL), Senate. CC-BY 4.0.
Year
Won
Democratic
Republican
Total
2024
D
64.0%17,552
36.0%9,888
27,440
2020
D
69.9%19,106
30.1%8,213
27,319
2018
D
63.4%13,441
36.6%7,757
21,198
voter registration
Registered voters
By party of registration, over time
Party registration · 2026D+20.5
vs
Presidential vote · 2024D+26.4
Registration leans Democratic; the presidential vote runs 5.9 points more Republican.
35,122 registered voters · 2026
Democratic33.5%Republican13.1%Unaffiliated53.4%
domestic migration
Who moves in and out
Net migration over time, and who arrivals are — where they came from and what those places vote
+21 net domestic migration · 2025
20112025
Net −124 over 2011–2025 · gain loss
Arrivals reported $110,863 in average income, against $147,559 for residents who stayed — 25% lower. (IRS SOI, 2022–23)
The places arrivals came from lean D+19.8 on average — 6.6 points more Republican-leaning than Bristol County, RI itself (D+26.4).
Where arrivals came from lean of each source
Newport County, RI186D+25.5
Bristol County, MA152D+1.3
Norfolk County, MA37D+28.5
Middlesex County, MA36D+39.2
Suffolk County, MA32D+52.1
Plymouth County, MA28D+8.8
Where departures went households, 2022–23
Bristol County, MA152
Newport County, RI135
Suffolk County, MA42
New York County, NY41
Middlesex County, MA40
Norfolk County, MA23
Migration is one input to a place’s political change, not its cause — a shift can also come from residents changing their minds, generational turnover, or turnout. These figures describe the places people moved between; they do not measure how any mover voted.
Domestic migration in Bristol County, RI in Bristol County, RI: net domestic migration by year
Year
Net domestic migration
2011
−516
2012
+47
2013
+59
2014
−74
2015
+152
2016
−88
2017
+128
2018
+34
2019
+6
2021
+223
2022
−232
2023
+158
2024
−42
2025
+21
Bristol County covers just three towns on a narrow peninsula between Narragansett Bay and Mount Hope Bay, yet its dense concentration of college-educated coastal residents has made it one of Rhode Island's most reliably Democratic jurisdictions.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 52.4 points in 1964 and a Republican high of 49.0 points in 1896. Between 2020 and 2024 the county moved 2.9 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 26.4 points.
A population of 50,490, a 88% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $114,490 describe the county. The county's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Washington County and Newport County.
Akashic
Political twins — counties
The counties 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.
How did Bristol County, Rhode Island vote in 2024?
In 2024, Bristol County, Rhode Island voted Democratic by 26.4 points (D+26.4), carried by the Democratic candidate. Out of 28,117 votes cast, 17,458 went Democratic and 10,048 went Republican.
When did Bristol County, Rhode Island last vote Republican?
The most recent presidential election in which Bristol County, Rhode Island voted Republican was 1984.
How many people live in Bristol County, Rhode Island?
Bristol County, Rhode Island has a population of 50,490 according to the 2024 American Community Survey 5-year estimates from the US Census Bureau.
What is the median household income in Bristol County, Rhode Island?
Median household income in Bristol County, Rhode Island is $114,490 — above the national median of $80,734. The Rhode Island state median is $87,796.
What is the political history of Bristol County, Rhode Island?
Akashic tracks 38 presidential elections in Bristol County, Rhode Island from 1876 to 2024. Of those, 21 went Democratic and 13 went Republican.
