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1983 general · June 21, 1983

1983 Rhode Island State Senate election results, district by district

Every Rhode Island State Senate district in the 1983 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 29 · R 21
Races50
Changed party0
Unopposed6%3 races
Incumbents defeated11

Every district

D 29 · R 21

RaceWinnerWon byNotes
SD-1Donald R. Hickey (D)Unopposed
SD-2Lila M. Sapinsley (R)53.1
SD-3Richard A. Licht (D)33.6
SD-4Rocco A. Quattrocchi (D)Unopposed
SD-5James S. Dambra (D)Unopposed
SD-6Robert D. Goldberg (R)5.9
SD-7John J. Bevilacqua (D)53.0
SD-8John Orabona (D)63.3
SD-9Charles D. Walton (D)71.1
SD-10Richard R. Patterson (D)43.1
SD-11Dennis Quinn (R)12.6Incumbent lost
SD-12Robert P. Moretti (R)18.2Incumbent lost
SD-13John C. Damico (D)19.7
SD-14Herbert L. Bloom (R)1.5Incumbent lost
SD-15James C. Hovey (R)17.3Incumbent lost
SD-16Charles J. Donovan (D)7.7
SD-17William Pearson (R)15.0Incumbent lost
SD-18John C. Revens Jr. (D)21.9
SD-19Bonnie Stewart (R)9.1Incumbent lost
SD-20Walter J. Mruk (D)2.4
SD-21Jonathan K. Farnum (R)33.2
SD-22Stephen R. Deutsch (R)22.8
SD-23Robert T. Motherway (R)13.9
SD-24William C. Oneill (D)15.9
SD-25Albert J. Russo (R)31.6Incumbent lost
SD-26Jane B. Gencarelli (R)0.4Incumbent lost
SD-27Joan R. Wiesner (R)1.0
SD-28Vilma Zanni (R)23.9Incumbent lost
SD-29Michael J. Flynn (R)36.3
SD-30Elizabeth M. Cesario (R)10.5
SD-31Jerome Smith (D)38.2
SD-32Alphonse F. Auclair (D)18.3
SD-33Rita K. Misek (R)6.9Incumbent lost
SD-34John W. Lyle Jr. (R)59.3
SD-35John J. Gilgun (D)36.0
SD-36Anthony R. Marciano (D)53.3
SD-37Leo J. Gannon (D)43.2
SD-38John F. McBurney III (D)23.1
SD-39John A. Sabatini (D)16.9
SD-40Harold J. Miller (D)39.0
SD-41William V. Irons (D)38.6
SD-42John F. Correia (D)22.2
SD-43Theodore S. Edington (R)11.3Incumbent lost
SD-44Ann Hanson (R)38.3
SD-45Richard M. Alegria (D)7.5
SD-46Gardner F. Seveney (D)16.5
SD-47Michael B. Forte (D)5.9
SD-48Kathleen N. Connell (D)0.5
SD-49David R. Carlin Jr. (D)1.5
SD-50Robert J. McKenna (D)2.6

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