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2002 general · November 5, 2002

2002 Rhode Island State Senate election results, district by district

Every Rhode Island State Senate district in the 2002 general election: winners, margins, unopposed seats and seats that changed party.

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Seats after the election

Democrats controlled the chamber · 38 seats

After the electionD 32 · R 6
Races38
Changed party0
Unopposed34%13 races
Incumbents defeated1

Every district

D 32 · R 6

RaceWinnerWon byNotes
SD-1Rhoda E. Perry (D)64.0
SD-2Juan M. Pichardo (D)57.0
SD-3Frank Ciccone (D)71.4
SD-4Mary Ellen Goodwin (D)Unopposed
SD-5Frank T. Caprio (D)50.3
SD-6Dominick J. Ruggerio (D)57.2
SD-7John A. Celona (D)60.1
SD-8William V. Irons (D)Unopposed
SD-9David E. Bates (R)Unopposed
SD-10Walter Felag (D)Unopposed
SD-11Mary A. Parella (R)3.9
SD-12June N. Gibbs (R)15.7
SD-13M. Teresa Paiva-Weed (D)48.6
SD-14Daniel Da Ponte (D)Unopposed
SD-15John F. McBurney III (D)Unopposed
SD-16Daniel J. Issa (D)64.9
SD-17Joseph A. Montalbano (D)Unopposed
SD-18Michael J. Damiani (D)Unopposed
SD-19Daniel P. Connors (D)18.3
SD-20Roger Badeau (D)49.5
SD-21Marc A. Cote (D)Unopposed
SD-22John J. Tassoni Jr. (D)36.8
SD-23Paul W. Fogarty (D)35.8
SD-24Leo R. Blais (R)27.9
SD-25Joseph M. Polisena (D)Unopposed
SD-26Beatrice A. Lanzi (D)24.7
SD-27Hanna Gallo (D)33.6
SD-28Elizabeth Roberts (D)42.0
SD-29Michael J. McCaffrey (D)Unopposed
SD-30William A. Walaska (D)Unopposed
SD-31John C. Revens Jr. (D)22.8
SD-32Stephen D. Alves (D)27.0
SD-33Lou Raptakis (D)18.0
SD-34Kevin A. Breene (R)11.5Incumbent lost
SD-35J. Michael Lenihan (D)26.9
SD-36James C. Sheehan (D)4.2
SD-37Sue Sosnowski (D)25.3
SD-38Dennis L. Algiere (R)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