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Rhode Island Governor polls

Democrat (D) vs Aaron Guckian (R). The polls in the forecast's poll average, each with its weight and source, then every public poll on file. The forecast itself lives on the race page.

The polls this forecast is built from

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FieldworkPollsterEach candidate’s shareSample
from 2026-09-23Opinion Diagnostics ↗800LV
from 2026-09-17University of New Hampshire Survey Center ↗596LV
from 2026-08-20University of New Hampshire Survey Center ↗739LV
from 2026-04-13Opinion Diagnostics ↗802LV
Plain average, as the forecast took it4 polls
Democrat-versus-Republican poll averageD+23.5Democratic against Republican support · not this race’s headline
Polls44 recorded polls · 4 in the poll average
Latest field dateSep 25Eligible polls: latest poll: 2026-09-25 (13 days old)
EditionOct 8the poll average and its weights as of this edition

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  • poll average of the Democrat against the Republican, day by day · each day from the polls fielded by then, ending on today's figure
  • 30 days before this edition

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Every poll on file · 7

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4 in the poll average · 3 shown, not counted · 15 primary polls on file, not listed here

PollsterFieldedSampleResultAddedWeightSource
●Opinion DiagnosticsGeneral · IND sponsor · IND partisan800 LVHelena Foulkes 41Ken Block 24Aaron Guckian 19Don't know 16+1 other release0.66Poll release
●University of New Hampshire Survey CenterGeneral596 LVHelena Foulkes 44Ken Block 25Aaron Guckian 17Don't know 10Someone else 2Christopher Reynolds 2Jasjit Gotra 00.55Poll release
●University of New Hampshire Survey CenterGeneral739 LVHelena Foulkes 40Don't know 19Ken Block 19Aaron Guckian 15Someone else 3Jasjit Gotra 3Christopher Reynolds 0+4 other releases0.44Poll release
Emerson CollegeGeneral1,000 LVDaniel McKee 35.87Ken Block 25.51Don't know 18.48Generic Republican 17.36Christopher Reynolds 1.8Jasjit Gotra 0.98+1 other releasetests a different matchupPoll release
University of New Hampshire Survey CenterGeneral · Governor664 LVDan McKee 27Ken Block 27Republican 23+3 other releasestests a different matchupPoll release
Emerson CollegeGeneral1,000 LVDaniel McKee 32.6Generic Republican 22.5Ken Block 22.1Don't know 16.7Someone else 6.1+1 other releasetests a different matchupPoll release
●Opinion DiagnosticsGeneral · IND sponsor · IND partisan802 LVDaniel McKee 28Ken Block 20Aaron Guckian 15+1 other release0.10Poll release

Archive source date 2026-10-08. Archive records may be newer than the sealed forecast; inclusion here does not mean the forecast uses them.

Model rows carry what the source record provides: pollster, field dates, sample size and D/R shares where published. Archive rows come from the broad public harvest. Poll data via VoteHub, used under CC BY 4.0. Poll data from The New York Times, used under CC BY 4.0.