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Electors of President and Vice-President

Rhode Island general election, 1988 · Rhode Island, November 8, 1988

Release · 2026-09-26T000000Z-69d52412 · Vintage: 2026-09-26

Coverage

Coverage for this dimension is not counted.

Not yet acquired: boundaries are unavailable for these units.

Reported at Rhode Island, which is a roll-up rather than the finest unit this source publishes.

Result

This release records no declared outcome for this contest. Everything below is computed from the counts.

Michael S Dukakis leads George H.W. Bush by 11.7 points of the 404,622 votes counted in this contest.

Computed from the counts in this release, not a declaration by an election authority. Margin definition: leading candidacy − runner-up candidacy, each summed across every ballot line it appeared on, over every vote counted in the contest, including lines below the runner-up.

404,622 votes counted.

Candidacies

Ordered by votes, descending; candidacies the source has not reported follow the counted ones. A candidacy nominated by more than one party expands to the votes cast on each of its ballot lines.

The leading candidacies of Electors of President and Vice-President, ordered by votes
CandidacyVotesShareObservation
Michael S Dukakis225,12355.6%observed
George H.W. Bush177,76143.9%observed
Ronald "Ron" Paul8250.2%observed
7 more candidacies · 0.2% combined · 913 votes (some reported nothing)
The remaining candidacies of Electors of President and Vice-President, each named individually
CandidacyVotesShareObservation
Lenora Fulani2800.1%observed
Lewin Herberg G.1950.0%observed
David Duke1590.0%observed
James "Mac" Warren1300.0%observed
Willa Kenoyer960.0%observed
Write-In530.0%observed
Othernot yet reported—not reported
not yet reported
Not yet reported by the source. A blank is not a zero.

This release carries 10 candidacies for this contest, on 9 separately reported ballot lines. 3 are shown and 7 are behind the control above. No candidacy is combined into an unnamed remainder.

Rules

Stage
general
Voting system
plurality
Seats
1
Certification
certified
Special election
no

Sources

Source: Akashic (legacy build) (certified) · Release 2026-09-26T000000Z-69d52412

This contest is recorded as contest:legacy-spine:ri/1988-11-08/general/presidential-electors and is certified. Cite this page as https://akashic.app/contests/contest:legacy-spine:ri/1988-11-08/general/presidential-electors.

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