HarrisDemocratic55.5%285,156TrumpRepublican41.8%214,406KennedyKennedy1.0%5,045
D+13.8- Lead
- 70,750
- Total
- 513,386
- vs nation
- D+15.3
- Turnout
- 63.2%
presidential primaries
Nominating contests
Rhode Island · which candidate this place backed in each party’s presidential nominating contest, cycle by cycle. A primary is a contest inside one party, so it has no Democratic–Republican margin and is not part of the general-election record above.
Akashic reports votes cast, not delegates awarded. The two can disagree: Clinton led the 2008 national primary popular vote by less than half a point and did not win the nomination.
| Party | 2008 | 2012 | 2016 | 2020 | 2024 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Democratic | Clinton+18.0182,222 votesprimary | no contest record | Sanders+12.4117,408 votesprimary | Biden+31.014,183 votesprimary | no contest record |
| Republicannot ingested | no contest record | no contest record | no contest record | no contest record | no contest record |
no contest record — Akashic holds no result for that party and cycle here. It is not a claim that no contest was held. Telling apart a contest that was cancelled, one that went uncontested, and one simply not yet ingested needs a nominating-contest calendar, which is a separate ingest from results and does not exist yet.
Republican presidential primaries are not yet ingested — the Republican series runs from 1856 and is in scope. The row is kept so its absence is visible: a Democratic-only panel would otherwise read as though no one else held a contest.
Akashic carries 10 states for 2012 and 3 states for 2024. Cycles in which an incumbent president seeks renomination are thin by nature — few states run a contested primary — so a sparse column is politics, not a hole in the record.
2020 field
14,183 votes cast across 5 counties reporting. The universe is the party's primary electorate, not everyone who lives here, so this is not comparable to a general-election turnout without that in mind.
- Biden✓8,64861.0%
- Sanders4,24729.9%
- Warren5934.2%
- All others3492.5%
- Yang1821.3%
- Gabbard1641.2%
“All others” is a residual bucket, not a candidate: it holds every name past the ones listed, including candidates who had already withdrawn but still drew votes. Shares are of the 5 counties reporting, and describe the contest as a whole — not any one county inside it.
Earlier cycles — 2016, 2008
2016 field
117,408 votes cast across 5 counties reporting. The universe is the party's primary electorate, not everyone who lives here, so this is not comparable to a general-election turnout without that in mind.
- Sanders✓64,71855.1%
- Clinton50,16142.7%
- All others2,5292.1%
“All others” is a residual bucket, not a candidate: it holds every name past the ones listed, including candidates who had already withdrawn but still drew votes. Shares are of the 5 counties reporting, and describe the contest as a whole — not any one county inside it.
2008 field
182,222 votes cast across 5 counties reporting. The universe is the party's primary electorate, not everyone who lives here, so this is not comparable to a general-election turnout without that in mind.
- Clinton✓106,36658.4%
- Obama73,59040.4%
- All others2,2661.2%
“All others” is a residual bucket, not a candidate: it holds every name past the ones listed, including candidates who had already withdrawn but still drew votes. Shares are of the 5 counties reporting, and describe the contest as a whole — not any one county inside it.
2020Democratic primary leaderBidencolor = leader · depth = size of the lead
Every county with reported returns, filled by the candidate who led it — the most recent cycle Akashic carries here. Depth is the size of the lead, not a party margin; the surrounding faint geography is context, not coverage.
A county's fill says who led it and by how much. It does not say how the rest of the field did there — those shares are published statewide only.