2016
Reading the 2016 result in Rhode Island
Rhode Island backed Clinton (Democratic) in the 2016 presidential election, casting 4 electoral votes for the ticket. Nationally the result broke the other way — Donald Trump (Republican) won the presidency, leaving Rhode Island among the states he did not carry.
It marked the 8th consecutive election in which Rhode Island backed the Democratic party, a streak reaching back to 1988. Rhode Island did not move alone — neighboring Connecticut and Massachusetts broke the same way in 2016. Across the 59 presidential elections Rhode Island has taken part in, it has most often sided with the Democratic party (25 times). The vote fell within the Modern Polarization — Close elections in a divided country.
In the national count, Donald Trump took 304 of the 538 electoral votes, against Hillary Clinton's 227. Though Donald Trump won the Electoral College, Hillary Clinton drew more of the national popular vote — 48.18% to 46.09%.
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