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Rhode Island Senate race

John Reed holds this seat. Each party still has to pick its nominee in the primary on September 9, 2026 before the November ballot is set.

The primaries

Democratic primary3 filed
1 more on file with little or no money
Republican primary3 filed
2 more on file with little or no money

2 other candidates are on file outside the two major-party primaries.

Each party picks its nominee in the primary. Order is neutral; the bar is money filed with the FEC, not a prediction of who wins.

The seat

John Reed

Democrat · Holds the seat now

240
Trades disclosed
$2M
Estimated volume
4
Committee overlaps
Has not cosponsored a bill that would ban it

From the member's own disclosures and congress.gov. Not cosponsoring is not a vote against a ban.

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The money on this race

Raised by candidates
$4.4M
Outside money
$19

How to vote in Rhode Island

  • PrimarySeptember 9, 2026Next week
  • General electionNovember 3, 2026In 10 weeks

Register 30 days before the election.

All dates and rules

Who is spending on this race

The 2 groups spending independently here, ranked; open a row for whose race the money went into.

Independent expenditures reported to the FEC; direction is each group's own declared filing.

How this seat voted last time

D+33 in 2020

  • John F. ReedWon66.5%
  • Allen R. Waters33.4%

494,262 votes for candidates. A past result is a filed fact, not a prediction of November.

Certified returns via MIT Election Data and Science Lab, from the House Clerk's election statistics and state canvasses.

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Candidates and financing from the FEC, public domain; money figures carry their own coverage dates. Dataset built 2026-08-27. Nothing here is a forecast, a grade, or a ranking of candidates.