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1980 general · November 4, 1980

1980 Rhode Island State Senate election results, district by district

Every Rhode Island State Senate district in the 1980 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 43 · R 7
Races50
Changed party4
Unopposed22%11 races
Incumbents defeated0

Every district

D 43 · R 7

RaceWinnerWon byNotes
SD-1Donald R. Hickey (D)Unopposed
SD-2Lila M. Sapinsley (R)34.0
SD-3Richard A. Licht (D)Unopposed
SD-4Rocco A. Quattrocchi (D)41.4
SD-5James S. Dambra (D)Unopposed
SD-6William B. Zuccarelli (D)83.8
SD-7John J. Bevilacqua (D)Unopposed
SD-8John Orabona (D)54.3
SD-9John R. Oleary (D)67.1
SD-10Richard R. Patterson (D)52.5
SD-11David Sholes (D)31.4
SD-12Richard McAllister (D)21.7
SD-13John C. Damico (D)47.1
SD-14Eleanor C. Sasso (D)0.4
SD-15Gloria Kennedy Fleck (D)27.5
SD-16Joseph W. Inglesby (D)42.7
SD-17Thomas A. Lynch (D)49.7
SD-18John C. Revens Jr. (D)Unopposed
SD-19Bruce Morin (D)12.1Flipped
SD-20Walter J. Mruk (D)50.8
SD-21Jonathan K. Farnum (R)2.1Flipped
SD-22John A. Romano (R)7.2
SD-23Robert T. Motherway (R)17.5Flipped
SD-24William C. Oneill (D)Unopposed
SD-25Edward C. Marth (D)5.8
SD-26James J. Federico Jr. (D)24.8
SD-27Irene P. Smith (D)42.7
SD-28Thomas A. Diluglio (D)29.0
SD-29Michael J. Flynn (R)6.0
SD-30James G. Hagan (D)Unopposed
SD-31Jerome Smith (D)Unopposed
SD-32Alphonse F. Auclair (D)12.2
SD-33Paul E. Hanaway (D)48.2
SD-34John W. Lyle Jr. (R)15.9Flipped
SD-35John J. Gilgun (D)Unopposed
SD-36Anthony R. Marciano (D)Unopposed
SD-37Leo J. Gannon (D)59.8
SD-38John F. McBurney III (D)37.1
SD-39John A. Sabatini (D)66.1
SD-40Lowell W. Kinch (D)46.0
SD-41Marilyn Shannon (D)44.2
SD-42William A. Castro (D)Unopposed
SD-43William A. Bowen (D)33.9
SD-44Robert J. Janes (R)14.3
SD-45George C. Lima (D)0.9
SD-46Gardner F. Seveney (D)29.6
SD-47Guido J. Canulla (D)19.1
SD-48Joseph J. Chaves (D)35.1
SD-49David R. Carlin Jr. (D)21.7
SD-50Robert J. McKenna (D)26.1

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