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United States House of Representatives elections in Rhode Island, 2024
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The U.S. House of Representatives elections in Rhode Island were on November 5, 2024. Voters elected two candidates to serve in the U.S. House from each of the state's two U.S. House districts. The primary was September 10, 2024. The filing deadline was June 26, 2024.
Partisan breakdown
| Members of the U.S. House from Rhode Island -- Partisan Breakdown | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Party | As of November 2024 | After the 2024 Election | |
| Democratic Party | 2 | 2 | |
| Republican Party | 0 | 0 | |
| Total | 2 | 2 | |
Candidates
District 1
General election candidates
- Gabe Amo (Incumbent) (Democratic Party) ✔
- Allen Waters (Republican Party)
- Christopher Reynolds (Independent)
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Democratic primary candidates
- Gabe Amo (Incumbent) ✔
Did not make the ballot:
Republican primary candidates
Did not make the ballot:
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District 2
General election candidates
- Seth Magaziner (Incumbent) (Democratic Party) ✔
- Steven Corvi (Republican Party)
= candidate completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey Democratic primary candidates
- Seth Magaziner (Incumbent) ✔
Republican primary candidates
= candidate completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey
Voting information
- See also: Voting in Rhode Island
General election race ratings
- See also: Race rating definitions and methods
Ballotpedia provides race ratings from four outlets: The Cook Political Report, Inside Elections, Sabato's Crystal Ball, and DDHQ/The Hill. Each race rating indicates if one party is perceived to have an advantage in the race and, if so, the degree of advantage:
- Safe and Solid ratings indicate that one party has a clear edge and the race is not competitive.
- Likely ratings indicate that one party has a clear edge, but an upset is possible.
- Lean ratings indicate that one party has a small edge, but the race is competitive.[1]
- Toss-up ratings indicate that neither party has an advantage.
Race ratings are informed by a number of factors, including polling, candidate quality, and election result history in the race's district or state.[2][3][4]
Click the following links to see the race ratings in each of the state's U.S. House districts:
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 |
Election analysis
Click the tabs below to view information about competitiveness, presidential election history, and party control in the state.
- Competitiveness - Information about the competitiveness of 2024 U.S. House elections in the state.
- Presidential elections - Information about presidential elections in the state's U.S. House districts.
- State party control - The partisan makeup of the state's congressional delegation and state government.
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.| Cook Political Report's Partisan Voter Index for Rhode Island, 2024 | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| District | Incumbent | Party | PVI |
| Rhode Island's 1st | Gabe Amo |  Democratic |
D+12 |
| Rhode Island's 2nd | Seth Magaziner | Democratic |
D+4 |
| 2020 presidential results in congressional districts based on 2024 district lines, Rhode Island[5] | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| District | Joe Biden
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Donald Trump
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| Rhode Island's 1st | 63.8% | 34.7% | ||
| Rhode Island's 2nd | 56.1% | 42.4% | ||
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
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| Lieutenant Governor | Sabina Matos
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| Secretary of State | Gregg Amore
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| Attorney General | Peter Neronha
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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 |
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| 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 |
See also
External links
Footnotes
- ↑ Inside Elections also uses Tilt ratings to indicate an even smaller advantage and greater competitiveness.
- ↑ Amee LaTour, "Email correspondence with Nathan Gonzalez," April 19, 2018
- ↑ Amee LaTour, "Email correspondence with Kyle Kondik," April 19, 2018
- ↑ Amee LaTour, "Email correspondence with Charlie Cook," April 22, 2018
- ↑ Daily Kos, "Daily Kos Elections' presidential results by congressional district for 2020, 2016, and 2012," accessed December 15, 2023
