Rhode Island voted for the Federalist candidate, DeWitt Clinton, over the Democratic-Republican candidate, James Madison. Clinton won Rhode Island by a margin of 65.93%. With Madison's second loss (the first one was 1808), this marked the first time that a candidate or an incumbent president lost two presidential elections in Rhode Island.
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