1998 general · November 3, 1998

1998 Rhode Island State Senate election results, district by district

Every Rhode Island State Senate district in the 1998 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 42 · R 8
Races50
Changed party1
Unopposed56%28 races
Incumbents defeated1

Every district

D 42 · R 8

RaceWinnerWon byNotes
SD-1Mary Ellen Goodwin (D)51.3
SD-2John M. Roney (D)55.1
SD-3Rhoda E. Perry (D)Unopposed
SD-4Dominick J. Ruggerio (D)Unopposed
SD-5Catherine Graziano (D)Unopposed
SD-6Sue Sosnowski (D)45.9Flipped
SD-7David V. Igliozzi (D)38.5Incumbent lost
SD-8Frank T. Caprio (D)Unopposed
SD-9Charles D. Walton (D)75.2
SD-10Robert T. Kells (D)Unopposed
SD-11Elizabeth Roberts (D)Unopposed
SD-12Hanna Gallo (D)28.4
SD-13Thomas J. Izzo (D)Unopposed
SD-14Eleanor C. Sasso (D)Unopposed
SD-15James M. Donelan (D)Unopposed
SD-16Michael J. McCaffrey (D)Unopposed
SD-17William A. Walaska (D)46.9
SD-18John C. Revens Jr. (D)Unopposed
SD-19Stephen D. Alves (D)49.1
SD-20Lou Raptakis (D)Unopposed
SD-21Leo R. Blais (R)Unopposed
SD-22J. Michael Lenihan (D)52.6
SD-23John A. Patterson (R)0.6
SD-24Patrick T. McDonald (D)17.1
SD-25Donna M. Walsh (D)33.5
SD-26Dennis L. Algiere (R)Unopposed
SD-27Paul W. Fogarty (D)23.6
SD-28William P. Tocco Jr. (D)31.0
SD-29Michael J. Flynn (R)26.4
SD-30Paul S. Kelly (D)Unopposed
SD-31Marc A. Cote (D)Unopposed
SD-32Roger Badeau (D)Unopposed
SD-33Daniel P. Connors (D)70.5
SD-34Jonathan Oster (D)24.7
SD-35Daniel J. Issa (D)63.0
SD-36John A. Celona (D)82.2
SD-37Joseph A. Montalbano (D)Unopposed
SD-38John F. McBurney III (D)Unopposed
SD-39William V. Irons (D)55.4
SD-40Thomas R. Coderre (D)Unopposed
SD-41Kevin A. Breene (R)Unopposed
SD-42Daniel Da Ponte (D)37.4
SD-43Michael J. Damiani (D)Unopposed
SD-44David E. Bates (R)Unopposed
SD-45Mary A. Parella (R)Unopposed
SD-46Walter Felag (D)Unopposed
SD-47William Enos (D)Unopposed
SD-48June N. Gibbs (R)46.3
SD-49M. Teresa Paiva-Weed (D)Unopposed
SD-50J. Clement Cicilline (D)Unopposed

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