Editing East Greenwich, Rhode Island (section)

==Government==
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! Year
![[Republican Party (United States)|GOP]]
![[Democratic Party (United States)|DEM]]
!Others
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|  style="text-align:center"; {{Party shading/Democratic}}|'''[[2024 United States presidential election in Rhode Island|2024]]'''
|  style="text-align:center"; {{Party shading/Republican}}|37.47% ''3,203''
|  style="text-align:center"; {{Party shading/Democratic}}|'''59.52%''' ''5,089''
|  style="text-align:center; background:honeyDew;"|3.01% ''257''
|-
|  style="text-align:center"; {{Party shading/Democratic}}|'''[[2020 United States presidential election in Rhode Island|2020]]'''
|  style="text-align:center"; {{Party shading/Republican}}|37.32% ''3,227''
|  style="text-align:center"; {{Party shading/Democratic}}|'''60.34%''' ''5,218''
|  style="text-align:center; background:honeyDew;"|2.34% ''202''
|-
|  style="text-align:center"; {{Party shading/Democratic}}|'''[[United States presidential election in Rhode Island, 2016|2016]]'''
|  style="text-align:center"; {{Party shading/Republican}}|40.60% ''3,122''
|  style="text-align:center"; {{Party shading/Democratic}}|'''52.27%''' ''4,019''
|  style="text-align:center; background:honeyDew;"|7.13% ''548''
|-
|  style="text-align:center"; {{Party shading/Republican}}|'''[[United States presidential election in Rhode Island, 2012|2012]]'''
|  style="text-align:center"; {{Party shading/Republican}}|'''49.93%''' ''3,649''
|  style="text-align:center"; {{Party shading/Democratic}}|48.37% ''3,535''
|  style="text-align:center; background:honeyDew;"|1.70% ''124''
|-
|  style="text-align:center"; {{Party shading/Democratic}}|'''[[United States presidential election in Rhode Island, 2008|2008]]'''
|  style="text-align:center"; {{Party shading/Republican}}|46.95% ''3,570''
|  style="text-align:center"; {{Party shading/Democratic}}|'''51.50%''' ''3,916''
|  style="text-align:center; background:honeyDew;"|1.55% ''118''
|-
|  style="text-align:center"; {{Party shading/Republican}}|'''[[United States presidential election in Rhode Island, 2004|2004]]'''
|  style="text-align:center"; {{Party shading/Republican}}|'''51.72%''' ''3,690''
|  style="text-align:center"; {{Party shading/Democratic}}|46.10% ''3,289''
|  style="text-align:center; background:honeyDew;"|2.19% ''156''
|-
|  style="text-align:center"; {{Party shading/Republican}}|'''[[United States presidential election in Rhode Island, 2000|2000]]'''
|  style="text-align:center"; {{Party shading/Republican}}|'''46.99%''' ''3,039''
|  style="text-align:center"; {{Party shading/Democratic}}|45.78% ''2,961''
|  style="text-align:center; background:honeyDew;"|7.24% ''468''
|-
|  style="text-align:center"; {{Party shading/Republican}}|'''[[United States presidential election in Rhode Island, 1996|1996]]'''
|  style="text-align:center"; {{Party shading/Republican}}|'''44.59%''' ''2,703''
|  style="text-align:center"; {{Party shading/Democratic}}|43.10% ''2,613''
|  style="text-align:center; background:honeyDew;"|12.31% ''746''
|-
|  style="text-align:center"; {{Party shading/Republican}}|'''[[United States presidential election in Rhode Island, 1992|1992]]'''
|  style="text-align:center"; {{Party shading/Republican}}|'''41.98%''' ''2,838''
|  style="text-align:center"; {{Party shading/Democratic}}|35.50% ''2,400''
|  style="text-align:center; background:honeyDew;"|22.52% ''1,522''
|-
|  style="text-align:center"; {{Party shading/Republican}}|'''[[United States presidential election in Rhode Island, 1988|1988]]'''
|  style="text-align:center"; {{Party shading/Republican}}|'''60.17%''' ''3,637''
|  style="text-align:center"; {{Party shading/Democratic}}|39.47% ''2,386''
|  style="text-align:center; background:honeyDew;"|0.36% ''22''
|}

In the [[Rhode Island Senate]], East Greenwich is split in terms of representation. Most of the town is in the 35th District, currently represented by [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democrat]] [[Bridget Valverde]], while a tiny sliver of the northwestern quadrant of the town is in the 33rd District, which is currently represented by [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democrat]] [[Leonidas Raptakis|Leonidas P. Raptakis]]. In the [[Rhode Island House of Representatives]], East Greenwich is in the 30th district represented by Democrat Justine Caldwell. At the federal level, all of East Greenwich is included in [[Rhode Island's 2nd congressional district]] and is represented by Democrat [[Seth Magaziner]].

In presidential elections, East Greenwich is one of the very few towns in deep [[Red states and blue states|blue]] Rhode Island that has a tendency to lean Republican. [[Barack Obama]] managed to carry the town by just over 4.5 points in the Democratic wave year of 2008 and in 2020, [[Joe Biden]] won East Greenwich by just over 23 points, marking the best performance for a Democratic presidential nominee in the town in over three decades. Biden also became the first major party candidate to win over sixty percent of the vote in the town since also then vice president [[George H. W. Bush]].