Eisenhower ran with incumbent Vice President Richard Nixon of California, while Stevenson's running mate was Senator Estes Kefauver of Tennessee.

Eisenhower's 225,819 votes is the most received by a Republican presidential candidate in the state's history.

Eisenhower is also the last Republican to carry the state twice, as starting in 1960, Rhode Island would become reliably Democratic.

In fact, it has only voted for the party on two more occasions, both amidst 49-state Republican landslides nationally.

This is also the most recent presidential election when Rhode Island would vote more Republican than the nation as a whole, or more Republican than Florida, Kentucky, Louisiana, Michigan, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania or Texas.