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1978 general · November 7, 1978

1978 Rhode Island State Senate election results, district by district

Every Rhode Island State Senate district in the 1978 general election: winners, margins, unopposed seats and seats that changed party.

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Seats after the election

Democrats controlled the chamber · 50 seats

After the electionD 45 · R 5
Races50
Changed party1
Unopposed48%24 races
Incumbents defeated0

Every district

D 46 · R 4

RaceWinnerWon byNotes
SD-1Donald R. Hickey (D)Unopposed
SD-2Lila M. Sapinsley (R)31.7
SD-3Richard A. Licht (D)Unopposed
SD-4Rocco A. Quattrocchi (D)Unopposed
SD-5James S. Dambra (D)70.3
SD-6William B. Zuccarelli (D)Unopposed
SD-7John J. Bevilacqua (D)Unopposed
SD-8Stephen J. Fortunato Jr. (D)64.8
SD-9Peter J. Gallogly (D)Unopposed
SD-10Richard R. Patterson (D)59.2
SD-11David Sholes (D)46.7
SD-12Richard McAllister (D)31.7
SD-13John C. Damico (D)55.1
SD-14Eleanor C. Sasso (D)10.9Flipped
SD-15Gloria Kennedy Fleck (D)40.0
SD-16Joseph W. Inglesby (D)42.0
SD-17Thomas A. Lynch (D)47.9
SD-18John C. Revens Jr. (D)Unopposed
SD-19Donald E. Roch (R)22.5
SD-20Walter J. Mruk (D)Unopposed
SD-21Walter R. Hazard (D)17.9
SD-22John A. Romano (R)Unopposed
SD-23James P. Flynn (D)19.7
SD-24William C. Oneill (D)Unopposed
SD-25Rob Roy Rawlings (D)7.9
SD-26James J. Federico Jr. (D)Unopposed
SD-27Irene P. Smith (D)35.8
SD-28Thomas A. Diluglio (D)Unopposed
SD-29F. Daniel Russell (D)0.0
SD-30James G. Hagan (D)Unopposed
SD-31Jerome Smith (D)Unopposed
SD-32Alphonse F. Auclair (D)Unopposed
SD-33Paul E. Hanaway (D)Unopposed
SD-34James Costello (D)1.6
SD-35John J. Gilgun (D)56.5
SD-36Joseph R. Distefano (D)Unopposed
SD-37Michael F. Horan (D)54.0
SD-38John F. McBurney III (D)35.5
SD-39Ambrose L. Campbell (D)38.2
SD-40Lowell W. Kinch (D)Unopposed
SD-41Joseph S. Gendron (D)Unopposed
SD-42William A. Castro (D)Unopposed
SD-43William A. Bowen (D)Unopposed
SD-44Robert J. Janes (R)19.3
SD-45George C. Lima (D)0.3
SD-46Gardner F. Seveney (D)8.8
SD-47Guido J. Canulla (D)Unopposed
SD-48Joseph J. Chaves (D)Unopposed
SD-49Charles G. Thomas (D)Unopposed
SD-50Robert J. McKenna (D)50.3

Rhode Island State Senate

Results are each source's final count; margins are the winner's lead over the runner-up in points of the vote. Source: Harvard Dataverse / Carl Klarner