Elections in Rhode Island |
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Rhode Island elected its two members at-large on separate tickets.
District | Incumbent | Party | First elected | Result | Candidates |
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Rhode Island at-large 2 seats elected at-large on separate tickets | Benjamin Bourne | Pro-Administration | 1790 | Incumbent re-elected. |
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Francis Malbone | Pro-Administration | 1792 | Incumbent re-elected. |
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Rhode Island is a state in the New England region of the Northeastern United States. It borders Connecticut to its west; Massachusetts to its north and east; and the Atlantic Ocean to its south via Rhode Island Sound and Block Island Sound; and shares a small maritime border with New York, east of Long Island. Rhode Island is the smallest U.S. state by area and the seventh-least populous, with slightly fewer than 1.1 million residents as of 2020; but it has grown at every decennial count since 1790 and is the second-most densely populated state, after New Jersey. The state takes its name from the eponymous island, though nearly all its land area is on the mainland. Providence is its capital and most populous city.
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