1862 Rhode Island gubernatorial election

1862 Rhode Island gubernatorial election
April 2, 1862
 
Nominee William Sprague IV
Party Constitutional Union
Popular vote 11,199
Percentage 100.0%
County results
Sprague:      >90%
Governor before election

William Sprague IV
Constitutional Union

Elected Governor

William Sprague IV
Constitutional Union

A gubernatorial election was held in Rhode Island on April 3, 1861. The incumbent Constitutional Union governor William Sprague IV was re-elected without opposition.

Sprague won the 1860 election leading a coalition of Conservative Republicans, former Whigs, and Democrats that formed to oppose the Radical Republican gubernatorial candidate, Seth Padelford. Following the election, his supporters coalesced in the Constitutional Union Party. So great was Sprague's popularity that the Republican Party did not attempt to contest the election.

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