The 2016 Rhode Island Democratic presidential primary were held on April 26 in the U.S. state of
Rhode Island as one of the
Democratic Party's primaries ahead of the
2016 presidential election
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's primaries in
Connecticut,
Delaware,
Maryland and
Pennsylvania were held the same day, as were
Republican primaries in the same five states, including their own
Rhode Island primary.
Opinion polling
Results
Results by county
Analysis
With its socially
liberal coalition of mostly
white Irish Catholic/
Portuguese Catholic/
Italian Catholic voters, Rhode Island was seen as Bernie Sanders's best chance at victory in the so-called "
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Primaries" on April 26. He pulled out a commanding, 11-point win in the Ocean State on election day. He carried all municipalities but four, winning in the major cities of
Providence
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and
Warwick.
Sanders' Rhode Island win limited Clinton's success in
New England to slimmer victories in
Massachusetts and
Connecticut.
References
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2016
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