271,034 146,222 Start date November 6, 2012 | 64.8% 35.0% | |
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Turnout 58.0% (voting eligible) Winner Sheldon Whitehouse | ||
The 2012 United States Senate election in Rhode Island was on November 6, 2012, alongside a presidential election, other elections to the United States Senate in other states, as well as elections to the United States House of Representatives and various state and local elections.
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Incumbent Democratic Senator Sheldon Whitehouse was reelected to a second term in a landslide by a 30% margin of 65% - 35%.
Background
In the 2006 Senate election, former Attorney General of Rhode Island Sheldon Whitehouse defeated one-term Republican incumbent Lincoln Chafee. Chafee had been appointed to the Senate in 1999 when his father, the incumbent Senator John Chafee died. He then won election to a first term in 2000. Whitehouse won 53.52% of the vote in 2006.
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References
United States Senate election in Rhode Island, 2012 Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA