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Chafee began his political career as a Republican when in 1986 he was elected to Warwick's city council and reelected in 1988.<ref>{{cite web|title=Children of famous win vote support|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/36004037/the_desert_sun/|access-date=1986-11-05|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190915225945/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/36004037/the_desert_sun/|archive-date=2019-09-15|dead-url=no|df=}}</ref> In 1990 Chafee attempted to become mayor of Warwick, but was defeated by Charles Donovan. In 1992 Chafee defeated Donovan and was reelected three more times until the death of his father in 1999 when Governor Lincoln Almond appointed him to serve out the rest of his father's term.<ref>{{cite web|title=Warwick, RI - Mayor 1998|url=https://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=457598|access-date=2008-06-29|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160314002251/https://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=457598|archive-date=2016-03-14|dead-url=no|df=}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Chafee's son named to fill father's Senate seat|url=https://www.cnn.com/ALLPOLITICS/stories/1999/11/02/chafee.appointed/index.html|access-date=1999-11-02|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071006225252/http://www.cnn.com/ALLPOLITICS/stories/1999/11/02/chafee.appointed/index.html|archive-date=2007-10-06|dead-url=no|df=}}</ref>
Chafee began his political career as a Republican when in 1986 he was elected to Warwick's city council and reelected in 1988.<ref>{{cite web|title=Children of famous win vote support|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/36004037/the_desert_sun/|access-date=1986-11-05|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190915225945/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/36004037/the_desert_sun/|archive-date=2019-09-15|dead-url=no|df=}}</ref> In 1990 Chafee attempted to become mayor of Warwick, but was defeated by Charles Donovan. In 1992 Chafee defeated Donovan and was reelected three more times until the death of his father in 1999 when Governor Lincoln Almond appointed him to serve out the rest of his father's term.<ref>{{cite web|title=Warwick, RI - Mayor 1998|url=https://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=457598|access-date=2008-06-29|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160314002251/https://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=457598|archive-date=2016-03-14|dead-url=no|df=}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Chafee's son named to fill father's Senate seat|url=https://www.cnn.com/ALLPOLITICS/stories/1999/11/02/chafee.appointed/index.html|access-date=1999-11-02|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071006225252/http://www.cnn.com/ALLPOLITICS/stories/1999/11/02/chafee.appointed/index.html|archive-date=2007-10-06|dead-url=no|df=}}</ref>
==Electoral history==
{| class="wikitable"
|+ 1990 Warwick, Rhode Island Mayoral Election<ref>{{cite web|title=1990 Warwick, Rhode Island Mayoral Election|url=https://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=457598}}</ref>
|-
! Party !! Candidate !! Percent !! Votes
|-
| style="border: padding: 5px; background: #00BFFF;" | Democratic || '''Charles Donovan''' || '''47.39%''' || '''17,197'''
|-
| style="border: padding: 5px; background: #F08080;" | Republican || Lincoln Chafee || 40.76% || 14,819
|-
| Independent || Alfred Gemma || 11.95% || 4,346
|}
{| class="wikitable"
|+ 1998 Warwick, Rhode Island Mayoral Election<ref>{{cite web|title=1998 Warwick, Rhode Island Mayoral Election|url=https://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=457598}}</ref>
|-
! Party !! Candidate !! Percent !! Votes
|-
| style="border: padding: 5px; background: #F08080;" | Republican || '''Lincoln Chafee (incumbent)''' || '''57.56%''' || '''17,808'''
|-
| style="border: padding: 5px; background: #00BFFF;" | Democratic || George Zainyeh || 39.83% || 12,323
|-
| style="border: padding: 5px; background: #FFFF99;" | Cool Moose || Timothy Rossano || 2.54% || 786
|-
| Independent || Write-in || 0.07% || 22
|}
{| class="wikitable"
|+ 2000 Rhode Island U.S. Senate Election – Republican Primary<ref>{{cite web|title=2000 Rhode Island U.S. Senate Election – Republican Primary|url=https://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=208045}}</ref>
|-
! Party !! Candidate !! Percent !! Votes
|-
| style="border: padding: 5px; background: #F08080;" | Republican || '''Lincoln Chafee (incumbent)''' || '''100.00%''' || '''2,221'''
|}
{| class="wikitable"
|+ 2000 Rhode Island U.S. Senate Election<ref>{{cite web|title=2000 Rhode Island U.S. Senate Election|url=https://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=113}}</ref>
|-
! Party !! Candidate !! Percent !! Votes
|-
| style="border: padding: 5px; background: #F08080;" | Republican || '''Lincoln Chafee (incumbent)''' || '''56.88%''' || '''222,588'''
|-
| style="border: padding: 5px; background: #00BFFF;" | Democratic || Robert Weygand || 41.15% || 161,023
|-
| style="border: padding: 5px; background: #800080;" | Reform || Christopher F. Young || 1.05% || 4,107
|-
| Independent || Kenneth P. Proulx || 0.93% || 3,635
|}
{| class="wikitable"
|+ 2006 Rhode Island U.S. Senate Election – Republican Primary<ref>{{cite web|title=2006 Rhode Island U.S. Senate Election – Republican Primary|url=https://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=114319}}</ref>
|-
! Party !! Candidate !! Percent !! Votes
|-
| style="border: padding: 5px; background: #F08080;" | Republican || '''Lincoln Chafee (incumbent)''' || '''54.17%''' || '''34,934'''
|-
| style="border: padding: 5px; background: #F08080;" | Republican || Stephen Laffey || 45.83 || 29,556
|}
{| class="wikitable"
|+ 2006 Rhode Island U.S. Senate Election<ref>{{cite web|title=2006 Rhode Island U.S. Senate Election|url=https://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=83037}}</ref>
|-
! Party !! Candidate !! Percent !! Votes
|-
| style="border: padding: 5px; background: #00BFFF;" | Democratic || '''Sheldon Whitehouse''' || '''53.47%''' || '''206,110'''
|-
| style="border: padding: 5px; background: #F08080;" | Republican || Lincoln Chafee (incumbent) || 46.44% || 179,001
|-
| style="border: padding: 5px; background: #F08080;" | Republican (write-in) || Stephen Laffey || 0.05% || 185
|-
| Independent || Write-in || 0.04% || 155
|}
{| class="wikitable"
|+ 2010 Rhode Island Gubernatorial Election<ref>{{cite web|title=2010 Rhode Island Gubernatorial Election|url=https://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=409679}}</ref>
|-
! Party !! Candidate !! Percent !! Votes
|-
| Independent || '''Lincoln Chafee''' || '''36.10%''' || '''123,571'''
|-
| style="border: padding: 5px; background: #F08080;" | Republican || John Robitaille || 33.57% || 114,911
|-
| style="border: padding: 5px; background: #00BFFF;" | Democratic || Frank Caprio || 23.05% || 78,896
|-
| style="border: padding: 5px; background: #af79f2;" | Moderate || Ken Block || 6.47% || 22,146
|-
| Independent || Joeseph Lusi || 0.32% || 1,091
|-
| Independent || Todd Giroux || 0.26% || 882
|-
| Independent || Ronald Algieri || 0.23% || 793
|}


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