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Rhode Island State Senate elections, 2024
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| Primary | September 10, 2024 |
| General | November 5, 2024 |
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Elections for the Rhode Island State Senate took place in 2024. The general election was on November 5, 2024. The primary was September 10, 2024. The filing deadline was June 26, 2024.
Following the election, Democrats maintained a 34-4 veto-proof majority.
The Rhode Island State Senate was one of 85 state legislative chambers with elections in 2024. There are 99 chambers throughout the country.
Party control
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| Party | As of November 5, 2024 | After November 6, 2024 | |
| Democratic Party | 31 | 34 | |
| Republican Party | 5 | 4 | |
| Vacancy | 2 | 0 | |
| Total | 38 | 38 | |
Candidates
General election
Primary
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The Republican primary was canceled. |
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The Republican primary was canceled. |
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The Republican primary was canceled. |
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The Republican primary was canceled. |
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The Republican primary was canceled. |
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The Republican primary was canceled. |
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The Republican primary was canceled. |
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The Republican primary was canceled. |
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The Republican primary was canceled. |
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The Republican primary was canceled. |
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The Republican primary was canceled. |
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The Republican primary was canceled. |
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The Republican primary was canceled. |
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| District 19 |
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The Republican primary was canceled. |
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| District 20 |
Denis Collins Did not make the ballot: |
The Republican primary was canceled. |
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| District 21 |
The Democratic primary was canceled. |
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The Republican primary was canceled. |
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| District 26 |
Did not make the ballot: |
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The Republican primary was canceled. |
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| District 28 |
Darrell Brown Did not make the ballot: |
The Republican primary was canceled. |
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The Republican primary was canceled. |
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The Republican primary was canceled. |
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The Republican primary was canceled. |
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The Republican primary was canceled. |
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Voting information
- See also: Voting in Rhode Island
General election race ratings
The table below displays race ratings for each race in this chamber from CNalysis.
Incumbents who were not re-elected
Incumbents defeated in general elections
One incumbent lost in general elections. This is the first time an incumbent was defeated in the general election since 2016.
| Name | Party | Office |
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| Anthony DeLuca | District 29 |
Incumbents defeated in primaries
No incumbents lost in primaries. This was the lowest number of incumbent defeats since 2014.
Retiring incumbents
Four incumbents did not file for re-election in 2024.[1] The average number of retirements from 2010 to 2022 was 4. Those incumbents were:
| Name | Party | Office |
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| Roger Picard | District 20 | |
| Frank Lombardo III | District 25 | |
| Frank Lombardi | District 26 | |
| Joshua Miller | District 28 |
Primary election competitiveness
This section contains data on state legislative primary election competitiveness in Rhode Island. These totals include data from all regularly-scheduled House and Senate elections. For more information about Ballotpedia's competitiveness analysis of state legislative elections, please click here.
Post-filing deadline analysis
The following analysis covers all state legislative districts up for election in Rhode Island in 2024. Information below was calculated on August 6, 2024, and may differ from information shown in the table above due to candidate replacements and withdrawals after that time.
Rhode Island had 20 contested state legislative primaries on September 10, 2024, the lowest since Ballotpedia started tracking in 2010. That amounted to 8.8% of all possible primaries for the state’s legislature being contested in 2024.
See also
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Footnotes
- ↑ Ballotpedia defines an incumbent as retiring if the incumbent did not file for office or filed for office but withdrew, was disqualified, or otherwise left a race in a manner other than losing the primary, primary runoff, or convention. If an incumbent runs as a write-in candidate, Ballotpedia does not consider them to be retiring. If an incumbent runs in the same chamber for a different seat, Ballotpedia does not consider them to be retiring.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 The Boston Globe,"More than half of R.I. Assembly seats will go uncontested this year," July 31, 2024
- ↑ Ballotpedia defines a seat as open if the incumbent did not file to run for re-election or filed but withdrew and did not appear on any ballot for his or her seat. If the incumbent withdrew from or did not participate in the primary but later chose to seek re-election to his or her seat as a third party or independent candidate, the seat would not be counted as open. If the incumbent retired or ran for a different seat in the same chamber, his or her original seat would be counted as open unless another incumbent from the same chamber filed to run for that seat, in which case it would not be counted as open due to the presence of an incumbent.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 Rhode Island Secretary of State, "Rhode Island: How to Run for Office 2024," accessed April 29, 2025
- ↑ Rhode Island General Laws, "Title 17, Section 17-14-1," accessed April 29, 2025
- ↑ Rhode Island General Laws, "Title 17, Section 17-14-1.1," accessed March 26, 2014
- ↑ Rhode Island General Laws, "Title 17, Section 17-12-4," accessed April 29, 2025
- ↑ Rhode Island General Laws, "Title 17, Section 17-12-11," accessed April 29, 2025
- ↑ Rhode Island General Laws, "Title 17, Section 17-14-7," accessed April 29, 2025
- ↑ Rhode Island General Laws, "Title 17, Section 17-14-4," accessed April 29, 2025
- ↑ Rhode Island General Laws, "Title 17, Section 17-14-11," accessed April 29, 2025
- ↑ Rhode Island General Laws, "Title 17, Section 17-19-31," accessed April 29, 2025
- ↑ Rhode Island Board of Elections, "Procedures for Tabulating and Reporting Write-In Votes," accessed April 29, 2025
- ↑ National Conference of State Legislatures, "2024 Legislator Compensation," August 21, 2024
- ↑ Rhode Island Constitution, "Article VI, Section 3," accessed February 17, 2021
