A campaign sign urges voters to vote no on Question 1, which asked voters if Rhode Island should hold a constitutional convention. A sign supporting Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris and her running mate Tim Walz is in the background. The Rhode Island Democratic Party opposed Question 1. (Janine L. Weisman/Rhode Island Current)
Rhode Island voters are likely to reject a ballot question asking if the state should hold a constitutional convention for a fourth straight decade, a pre-Election Day poll from the University of New Hampshire (UNH) suggests.
The survey of 753 likely Rhode Island voters last week found 47% planned to vote against the ballot measure — 19 percentage points higher than what the UNH Survey Center found in its previous poll in September when 28% of respondents said they would vote no.
A little over a third — 34% — of those surveyed between Oct. 29 and Nov. 2 said they would vote in favor of holding a convention, which is down four percentage points from September. The remaining 18% were undecided, down 15 percentage points from the prior survey.