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United States Senate election in Rhode Island, 1994

United States Senate election in Rhode Island, 1994
Rhode Island
← 1988 November 3, 1994 2000 →
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Nominee John Chafee Linda Kushner
Party Republican Democratic
Popular vote 222,856 122,532
Percentage 65% 35%

Rhode Island Election Results by County, all Republican.svg
County results

U.S. Senator before election

John Chafee
Republican

Elected U.S. Senator

John Chafee
Republican


John Chafee
Republican

John Chafee
Republican

The 1994 United States Senate election in Rhode Island was held on November 3, 1994. Incumbent Republican U.S. Senator John Chafee won re-election to a fourth term & It would be Chafee's final term. In March 15th 1999 he announced he would not seek a fifth term meaning that 2000 would be his last year in office. On October 24th 1999 Chafee died of heart-failure at Walter Reed Army Medical Center at the age of 77

Kusher faced no opposition in the Democratic primary.


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