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Voting in Rhode Island.

Three ways to vote, three deadlines. ID rules and vote-by-mail policy below — verify the specifics with the Rhode Island Secretary of State at the link.

1
Official source of record
Rhode Island Department of State — Elections
Verify →
3Federal candidate finance · 2026 cycle

Money in the Rhode Island federal races

Top-fundraising candidate per race, sourced live from the FEC OpenFEC API. Click through to fec.gov for full disclosures.

U.S. SENATE
John F. Reed (D)$3.7Mfec.gov →
Raymond Tyler Mr Mckay (R)$140Kfec.gov →
U.S. HOUSE
D1Gabriel F Amo (D)$1.2Mfec.gov →
D2Seth Magaziner (D)$1.0Mfec.gov →
1FEC OpenFEC API2026-05-03
2District map · TIGER/Line 2025 boundaries

Every district in Rhode Island, on one map

Click any congressional, state senate, or state house polygon for the sitting member and a brief description. Toggle layers below the map to see overlapping legislative geography. Source polygons: US Census TIGER/Line 2025.

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Layers
true polygons · 2025 vintage · click a district for details1US Census TIGER/Line 20252026-05-03
3Current officeholders

Who represents Rhode Island now

Sitting federal members and the governor. Names from Congress.gov (refreshed weekly) and hand-verified state data.

GOVERNOR
Dan McKee (Democratic)
U.S. SENATE
Whitehouse, Sheldon (Democratic)· since 2007
Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe
Environment and Public WorksChemical Safety, Waste Management, Environmental Justice, and RegulatoryClean Air, Climate, and Nuclear Innovation and Safety+1
FinanceHealth CareInternational Trade, Customs, and Global Competitiveness+1
CHAIRUnited States Senate Caucus on International Narcotics Control
the Budget
the JudiciaryBorder Security and ImmigrationFederal Courts, Oversight, Agency Action, and Federal Rights+2
Reed, Jack (Democratic)· since 1997
AppropriationsCommerce, Justice, Science, and Related AgenciesDepartment of Defense+4
Armed ServicesAirlandEmerging Threats and Capabilities+4
Banking, Housing, and Urban AffairsEconomic PolicyFinancial Institutions and Consumer Protection+1
Intelligence
Recent bills
+2 more on congress.gov
U.S. HOUSE
1Congress.gov API v32026-05-03
3State legislature

Rhode Island legislators

State senators and representatives by district. Names from OpenStates, refreshed weekly. Multi-member districts (e.g. WV, NH, MD, VT, NJ) list all sitting members under the same district.

STATE SENATE · 38 members · 38 districts
STATE HOUSE · 75 members · 75 districts
D11Grace Diaz (D)
D25Tom Noret (D)
D26Earl Read (D)
D27Pat Serpa (D)
D49Jon Brien (I)
D61Leo Felix (D)
Source: openstates.org
3At-a-glance rules
Photo ID requestedNo-excuse absenteeOnline voter registrationAutomatic voter registration
3NCSL voter ID requirements2026-05-03Verify with state SOS →
VOTER ID REQUIREMENTS
Rhode Island requires a photo ID. Accepted: RI driver's license, US passport, military ID, or other government-issued photo ID. Voters without ID may vote a provisional ballot.
VOTE BY MAIL
Any registered voter may request a mail ballot. No excuse required.
Register to vote →Find polling place →
3NCSL voter ID requirements2026-04-153NCSL absentee + VBM rules2026-04-15
Local elections in Rhode Island are administered by your Town Clerk. For ballot or registration help, contact your town clerk.
Official action — RI

The state’s own tools, with links to verify.

Each card below routes to the official Rhode Island system. Where the state delegates to county Supervisors of Elections, the card says so honestly.

Statewide→
Check my registration
Statewide→
Register / update online
RI DL or state ID required. 30-day pre-election deadline. (Old `/Home/RegistertoVote` slug retired in 2026 RI portal rebuild.)
Statewide→
Find my polling place
Polling-place + voter-resource hub. (Old `/Voter/PollingPlaces` deep link 404'd; portal collapsed to anchor links on the home page.)
Statewide→
Preview my ballot
RI Board of Elections voter resources hub. (vote.sos.ri.gov sample-ballot deep links retired in 2026; BOE site is the now-canonical voter-side reference.)
Statewide→
Request a mail ballot
RI moved to broader mail-ballot eligibility post-2022. Online request limited; primary path is paper application to local board of canvassers. (Old `/Home/MailBallots` slug retired; canonical lives at `/Voter/VotebyMail`.)
Statewide→
Track my mail ballot
Updates and Alerts opt-in (SMS/email). (Old `/Home/UpdatesAndAlerts` slug retired in 2026 RI portal rebuild; tracker collapsed to a `#track` anchor on the portal home.)
Statewide→
See who's on the ballot
Auto-updated candidate DB. (Old `/Candidates/CandidateSearch` slug retired in 2026 RI portal rebuild; per-cycle data now off the candidate-calendar page.)
Not available
Statewide ballot measures
**No citizen-initiative process.** Lege-referred only. (Old `/Forms/Elections/Guides/` index returned 500 in 2026; routing voters to BOE upcoming-elections page instead.)
Statewide→
Live + past results
Board of Elections + RI.gov hosts results. Live election-night at BOE site elections.ri.gov. (Old www.ri.gov/election/results redirector deprecated; pointing directly at BOE results.)
Statewide→
Election calendar
Primary 2026-09-09 (Labor-Day shift), general 2026-11-03. (Old per-cycle `2026_ElecCal.pdf` republished under a different filename each cycle and old URL 404'd; routing voters to BOE upcoming-elections page until they restore stable PDF.)
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