Rhode Island voted for the Democratic candidate, Franklin Pierce, over the Whig Party candidate, Winfield Scott. Pierce won the state by a margin of 6.52%. This was the first of three times that the state voted differently than Massachusetts (along with 1972 and 1980).
This would be the final time until 1912 that a Democratic presidential candidate was able to win Rhode Island and the final time until 1928 that a Democratic candidate won a majority of the popular vote.
Results
1852 United States presidential election in Rhode Island[1]
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