Rhode Island's 2nd Congressional District election, 2024 (September 10 Democratic primary)

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Rhode Island's 2nd Congressional District
Democratic primary Republican primary General election
Election details
Filing deadline: June 26, 2024
Primary: September 10, 2024 General: November 5, 2024
How to vote
Poll times: 7 a.m. to 8 p.m. Voting in Rhode Island
Race ratings
Cook Political Report: Solid Democratic DDHQ and The Hill: Safe Democratic Inside Elections: Solid Democratic Sabato's Crystal Ball: Safe Democratic
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A Democratic Party primary took place on September 10, 2024, in Rhode Island's 2nd Congressional District to determine which Democratic candidate would run in the district's general election on November 5, 2024.

Incumbent Seth Magaziner advanced from the Democratic primary for U.S. House Rhode Island District 2.

All 435 seats were up for election. At the time of the election, Republicans had a 220 to 212 majority with three vacancies. As of June 2024, 45 members of the U.S. House had announced they were not running for re-election. To read more about the U.S. House elections taking place this year, click here.

In the 2022 election in this district, the Democratic candidate won 50.4%-46.7%. Daily Kos calculated what the results of the 2020 presidential election in this district would have been following redistricting. Joe Biden (D) would have defeated Donald Trump (R) 56.1%-42.4%.

Candidate filing deadline	Primary election	General election
June 26, 2024	September 10, 2024	November 5, 2024

A primary election is an election in which registered voters select a candidate that they believe should be a political party's candidate for elected office to run in the general election. They are also used to choose convention delegates and party leaders. Primaries are state-level and local-level elections that take place prior to a general election.

Rhode Island utilizes a semi-closed primary system. Unaffiliated voters may vote in a party's primary without affiliating with that party. Voters that are affiliated with a party at the time of the primary election may only vote in that party's primary.

For information about which offices are nominated via primary election, see this article.

This page focuses on Rhode Island's 2nd Congressional District Democratic primary. For more in-depth information on the district's Republican primary and the general election, see the following pages:

• Rhode Island's 2nd Congressional District election, 2024 (September 10 Republican primary)
• Rhode Island's 2nd Congressional District election, 2024

Candidates and election results

Democratic primary election

Democratic primary for U.S. House Rhode Island District 2

Incumbent Seth Magaziner advanced from the Democratic primary for U.S. House Rhode Island District 2 on September 10, 2024.

		Candidate	%	Votes
✔		Seth Magaziner	100.0	25,157

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Candidate profiles

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Voting information

See also: Voting in Rhode Island

Election information in Rhode Island: April 2, 2024, election.

What was the voter registration deadline?

• In-person: March 3, 2024
• By mail: Received by March 3, 2024
• Online: March 3, 2024

Was absentee/mail-in voting available to all voters?

N/A

What was the absentee/mail-in ballot request deadline?

• In-person: March 12, 2024
• By mail: Received by March 12, 2024
• Online: March 12, 2024

What was the absentee/mail-in ballot return deadline?

• In-person: April 2, 2024
• By mail: Received by April 2, 2024

Was early voting available to all voters?

Yes

What were the early voting start and end dates?

March 13, 2024 to April 1, 2024

Were all voters required to present ID at the polls? If so, was a photo or non-photo ID required?

N/A

When were polls open on Election Day?

7:00 a.m. - 8:00 p.m. (EST)

Campaign finance

Name	Party	Receipts*	Disbursements**	Cash on hand	Date
Seth Magaziner	Democratic Party	$2,040,391	$1,204,049	$876,965	As of December 31, 2024
Source: Federal Elections Commission, "Campaign finance data," 2024. 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.

District analysis

Click the tabs below to view information about voter composition, past elections, and demographics in both the district and the state.

• District map - A map of the district in place for the election.
• Competitiveness - Information about the competitiveness of 2024 U.S. House elections in the state.
• Presidential elections - Information about presidential elections in the district and the state.
• State party control - The partisan makeup of the state's congressional delegation and state government.

• District map
• Competitiveness
• Presidential elections
• State party control

Below was the map in use at the time of the election. Click the map below to enlarge it.

See also: Primary election competitiveness in state and federal government, 2024

This section contains data on U.S. House primary election competitiveness in Rhode Island.

Rhode Island U.S. House competitiveness, 2014-2024
Office	Districts/ offices	Seats	Open seats	Candidates	Possible primaries	Contested Democratic primaries	Contested Republican primaries	% of contested primaries	Incumbents in contested primaries	% of incumbents in contested primaries
2024	2	2	0	4	4	0	0	0.0%	0	0.0%
2022	2	2	1	8	4	1	0	25.0%	0	0.0%
2020	2	2	0	5	4	1	1	50.0%	1	50.0%
2018	2	2	0	6	4	1	1	50.0%	1	50.0%
2016	2	2	0	7	4	2	0	50.0%	2	100.0%
2014	2	2	0	6	4	1	1	50.0%	1	50.0%

Post-filing deadline analysis

The following analysis covers all U.S. House districts up for election in Rhode Island in 2024. Information below was calculated on August 6, 2024, and may differ from information shown in the table above due to candidate replacements and withdrawals after that time.

Six candidates ran for Rhode Island’s two U.S. House districts, including three Democrats and three Republicans. That’s an average of 3.0 candidates per district. There was an average of 4.0 candidates per district in 2022, 2.5 candidates per district in 2020, and 3.0 in 2018.

The number of candidates who ran for the U.S. House in Rhode Island in 2024 was tied with 2018 and 2014 for the second-fewest in the last 10 years.

Both incumbents—Reps. Gabe Amo (D-01) and Seth Magaziner (D-02)—ran for re-election in 2024. One district was open in 2022, the only election cycle in the last 10 years in which a district was open.

Four candidates—two Democrats and two Republicans—ran for the 1st Congressional District, the most candidates who ran for a district in 2024.

Two primaries—one Democratic and one Republican—were contested in 2024. Between 2014 and 2022, an average of 1.8 primaries were contested per election cycle.

Amo was the only incumbent who ran in a contested primary in 2024.

Candidates filed to run in the Republican and Democratic primaries in both districts, meaning neither seat was guaranteed to either party.

Partisan Voter Index

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

Heading into the 2024 elections, based on results from the 2020 and 2016 presidential elections, the Cook Partisan Voter Index for this district was D+4. This meant that in those two presidential elections, this district's results were 4 percentage points more Democratic than the national average. This made Rhode Island's 2nd the 170th most Democratic district nationally.

2020 presidential election results

The table below shows what the vote in the 2020 presidential election would have been in this district. The presidential election data was compiled by Daily Kos.

2020 presidential results in Rhode Island's 2nd based on 2024 district lines
Joe Biden	Donald Trump
56.1%	42.4%

Inside Elections Baselines

See also: Inside Elections

Inside Elections' Baseline is a figure that analyzes all federal and statewide election results from the district over the past four election cycles. The results are combined in an index estimating the strength of a typical Democratic or Republican candidate in the congressional district. The table below displays the Baseline data for this district.

Inside Elections Baseline for 2024
Democratic Baseline	Republican Baseline	Difference
55.3	41.9	D+13.4

Presidential voting history

See also: Presidential election in Rhode Island, 2020

Rhode Island presidential election results (1900-2020)

• 21 Democratic wins
• 10 Republican wins

Year	1900	1904	1908	1912	1916	1920	1924	1928	1932	1936	1940	1944	1948	1952	1956	1960	1964	1968	1972	1976	1980	1984	1988	1992	1996	2000	2004	2008	2012	2016	2020
Winning Party	R	R	R	D	R	R	R	D	D	D	D	D	D	R	R	D	D	D	R	D	D	R	D	D	D	D	D	D	D	D	D

See also: Party control of Rhode Island state government

Congressional delegation

The table below displays the partisan composition of Rhode Island's congressional delegation as of May 2024.

Congressional Partisan Breakdown from Rhode Island
Party	U.S. Senate	U.S. House	Total
Democratic	2	2	4
Republican	0	0	0
Independent	0	0	0
Vacancies	0	0	0
Total	2	2	4

State executive

The table below displays the officeholders in Rhode Island's top four state executive offices as of May 2024.

State executive officials in Rhode Island, May 2024
Office	Officeholder
Governor	Daniel McKee
Lieutenant Governor	Sabina Matos
Secretary of State	Gregg Amore
Attorney General	Peter Neronha

State legislature

Rhode Island State Senate

Party		As of February 2024
	Democratic Party	32
	Republican Party	5
	Other	0
	Vacancies	1
Total		38

Rhode Island House of Representatives

Party		As of February 2024
	Democratic Party	65
	Republican Party	9
	Independent	0
	Other	1
	Vacancies	0
Total		75

Trifecta control

The table below shows the state's trifecta status from 1992 until the 2024 election.

Rhode Island Party Control: 1992-2024
Fifteen 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
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
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
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

Ballot access

The table below details filing requirements for U.S. House candidates in Rhode Island in the 2024 election cycle. For additional information on candidate ballot access requirements in Rhode Island, click here.

Filing requirements for U.S. House candidates, 2024
State	Office	Party	Signatures required	Filing fee	Filing deadline	Source
Rhode Island	U.S. House	All candidates	500	N/A	6/26/2024 (declaration of candidacy due)	Source

See also

• Rhode Island's 2nd Congressional District election, 2024 (September 10 Republican primary)
• Rhode Island's 2nd Congressional District election, 2024
• United States House elections in Rhode Island, 2024 (September 10 Democratic primaries)
• United States House elections in Rhode Island, 2024 (September 10 Republican primaries)
• United States House Democratic Party primaries, 2024
• United States House Republican Party primaries, 2024
• United States House of Representatives elections, 2024
• U.S. House battlegrounds, 2024

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Footnotes

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Rhode Island's current delegation to the United States Congress

Senators

Jack Reed (D)

Sheldon Whitehouse (D)

Representatives

District 1

Gabe Amo (D)

District 2

Seth Magaziner (D)

Democratic Party (4)

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