Warwick Leans Harris in 2024 Election Turnout

WARWICK, RI — A majority of Rhode Island and Warwick voters backed Vice President Kamala Harris in the 2024 Election turnout Tuesday, within margins reflecting the tight national race, if not its outcome re-electing Donald Trump President.

In Warwick,  by 10 p.m.,  Trump held a slim lead over Vice President Kamala Harris, but the final unofficial votes in the city favored Harris at 23,700 to 20,308 votes, or 52.5 percent and 45 percent, respectively. Statewide, the votes were 55.3 percent to 42 percent favoring Harris with 278,234 votes to Trump’s 211,632.

The Rhode Island Board of Elections reported  early and mail-in and early ballot numbers Monday at noon at 187,412 total, and reported about 27 percent of registered voters in the state had turned out for early voting.

Outside Pilgrim Senior Center Tuesday afternoon, candidate volunteers reported a steady stream of voters had been arriving throughout the day.

Warwick 2024 Election Turnout

Andrew Ober was holding a sign for Ward 2 City Councilman Jeremy Rix, who won his reelection bid. Ober said he’d seen voters arriving throughout the day. He said he personally identifies along conservative lines, but knows Rix personally and trusts him to be an honorable representative for his Ward, he said.

“I trust his intentions are in the right place,” Ober said, who figures trust is more important than ideology

Nearby, Jacob Scott and Alex Hopkins were holding signs for Alex’s mom, Republican Dist. 21 candidate Marie Hopkins. Scott and Hopkins reported steady voting traffic throughout the day.

Inside, a poll worker checked voters in, asking each if they’d voted before. There were a lot of first-time voters, three of them at about 3 p.m.

“We have a first-timer!” she called, inspiring a cheer among a line of polling volunteers helping to sign in voters.

“She’s going to 903, which is a pretty good turnout,” the volunteer said of the 2024 election turnout.

Moderator Phil Page said the morning had brought in more that 100 voters, and that the mood had been neighborly.

One of the first-time voters, Kyle Allesandro, 25, said he had never taken voting seriously before this election. Now, he said, he feels border security is an issue he should weigh in on with a vote for Trump.

“It’s important that we come together and secure our nation,” Allesandro said.