1998 Rhode Island Attorney General election

1998 Rhode Island Attorney General election
November 3, 1998
 
Nominee Sheldon Whitehouse Nancy Mayer
Party Democratic Republican
Popular vote 200,411 100,635
Percentage 66.57% 33.43%
County results:
Whitehouse:      60–70%
Attorney General before election

Jeffrey B. Pine
Republican

Elected Attorney General

Sheldon Whitehouse
Democratic

The 1998 Rhode Island Attorney General election was held on November 3, 1998, to elect the Rhode Island Attorney General. Republican incumbent Jeffrey B. Pine was term-limited and ineligible to run for a third consecutive term. Primaries were held on September 15, 1998. Democratic attorney Sheldon Whitehouse won the election in a landslide, defeating Republican Rhode Island treasurer Nancy Mayer by a two-to-one margin.

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