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2008 general · November 4, 2008

2008 Rhode Island State Senate election results, district by district

Every Rhode Island State Senate district in the 2008 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 33 · R 4 · 1 other
Races38
Changed party2
Unopposed39%15 races
Incumbents defeated2

Every district

D 33 · R 4 · Other 1

RaceWinnerWon byNotes
SD-1Mary Ellen Goodwin (D)69.8
SD-2Juan M. Pichardo (D)80.5
SD-3Rhoda E. Perry (D)Unopposed
SD-4Dominick J. Ruggerio (D)40.1
SD-5Paul V. Jabour (D)Unopposed
SD-6Harold M. Metts (D)81.2
SD-7Frank Ciccone (D)54.5
SD-8James E. Doyle II (D)Unopposed
SD-9Michael J. Pinga (D)Unopposed
SD-10Walter Felag (D)Unopposed
SD-11Charles J. Levesque (D)0.9
SD-12Lou DiPalma (D)4.8FlippedIncumbent lost
SD-13M. Teresa Paiva-Weed (D)28.5
SD-14Daniel Da Ponte (D)Unopposed
SD-15John F. McBurney III (D)Unopposed
SD-16Elizabeth A. Crowley (D)73.5
SD-17Edward J. Oneill (IND)6.2FlippedIncumbent lost
SD-18Frank A. Devall Jr. (D)20.5
SD-19Daniel P. Connors (D)6.4
SD-20Roger A. Picard (D)Unopposed
SD-21Leo R. Blais (R)7.8
SD-22John J. Tassoni Jr. (D)23.2
SD-23Paul W. Fogarty (D)17.3
SD-24Marc A. Cote (D)Unopposed
SD-25Christopher B. Maselli (D)Unopposed
SD-26Beatrice A. Lanzi (D)18.6
SD-27Hanna Gallo (D)Unopposed
SD-28Joshua Miller (D)29.7
SD-29Michael J. McCaffrey (D)Unopposed
SD-30William A. Walaska (D)Unopposed
SD-31Erin Lynch Prata (D)20.1
SD-32David E. Bates (R)2.5
SD-33Lou Raptakis (D)Unopposed
SD-34Francis T. Maher Jr. (R)56.8
SD-35J. Michael Lenihan (D)4.7
SD-36James C. Sheehan (D)25.6
SD-37Sue Sosnowski (D)43.0
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