Rhode Island held a special election on March 5, to fill the vacancy in the 68th Representative district. There were four candidates on the ballot, a Democrat, a Libertarian, and two independents. The Libertarian, William Hunt Jr., placed second with 28.4%. The Democratic nominee won the seat with 39.8%. The State Board of Elections still doesn’t have these election returns on its web page, but this story has the votes, if one reads all the way down and looks at the picture of the vote totals on the blackboard. Also see this Ballotpedia page.
When this same seat was up in November 2018, Hunt had polled 35.6%, but that was a two-person race. Thanks to Bob Johnston for this news.
Frankly I am more surprised that there are 68 districts in Rhode Island.
Actually they have 75 state rep districts. Rhode Island’s population in 2010 was 1,052,567 so just over 14,000 per.
You think that’s something? The New Hampshire House has 400 seats for some ungodly reason.
Local cats/dogs doing totals of votes on blackboards ???
RI = one more SMALL pop State to be abolished ASAP.
Allowed into the 1787 regime only to avoid having it become a rotted Brit naval base — ie more war to conquer it.
Last of the 13 States to have a written Const in 1844 —
after Dorr’s War in 1842 — part of the setup for Civil WAR I in 1860-1861.
@James … And they have multi-member districts where each voter gets as many votes as there are seats… even more ridiculous. If they switched to districts that all had the same number of seats, used single-transferable, and dropped to maybe 300 seats, it would make far more sense. Their Senate needs to be expanded though.