1862 Rhode Island gubernatorial election

A gubernatorial election was held in Rhode Island on April 3, 1861. The incumbent Constitutional Union governor William Sprague IV was re-elected without opposition.
Sprague won the 1860 election leading a coalition of Conservative Republicans, former Whigs, and Democrats that formed to oppose the Radical Republican gubernatorial candidate, Seth Padelford. Following the election, his supporters coalesced in the Constitutional Union Party. So great was Sprague's popularity that the Republican Party did not attempt to contest the election.