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The 2006 United States Senate election in Rhode Island was held on November 7 2006. The election was won by Sheldon Whitehouse whose term in the United States Senate will run from January 3 2007 to January 3 2013. Republican Lincoln Chafee was seeking re-election to the seat he had held since 1999 when he was appointed to fill the vacancy created by the death of his father John Chafee. Lincoln Chaffee won election to the seat in 2000.
