United States Senate election in Rhode Island, 2000
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
‹ 1994  2006 › |
||||
| United States Senate election in Rhode Island, 2000 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| November 7, 2000 | ||||
 |
 |
|||
| Nominee | Lincoln Chafee | Robert Weygand | ||
| Party | Republican | Democratic | ||
| Popular vote | 222,588 | 161,023 | ||
| Percentage | 56.88% | 41.15% | ||
|
Previous Senator Senator-elect |
||||
| Elections in Rhode Island | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 |
|||||||||
|
|||||||||
|
The 2000 U.S. Senate election for the state of Rhode Island was held November 7, 2000. The incumbent Senator Lincoln Chafee was re-elected for the first time after being appointed in 1999 to fill the seat of his father John Chafee. He handily defeated Congressman Robert Weygand to win his first term.
Contents |
[edit] Candidates
[edit] Republican Party
- Lincoln Chafee, incumbent Senator appointed in November 1999; previously mayor of Warwick, Rhode Island.
[edit] Democratic Party
- Representative Robert Weygand from Rhode Island's 2nd congressional district since 1997.
[edit] Election results
| 2000 United States Senate election, Rhode Island[1] | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Republican | Lincoln Chafee (incumbent) | 222,588 | 56.88% | ||
| Democratic | Robert Weygand | 161,023 | 41.15% | ||
| Reform | Christopher Young | 4,107 | 1.05% | ||
| Independent | Kenneth Proulx | 3,635 | 0.93 | ||
| Majority | 61,565 | 15.73 | |||
| Turnout | 391,353 | ||||
| Republican hold | Swing | ||||
