Rhode Island's 2nd Congressional District election, 2024

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Rhode Island's 2nd Congressional District
	Democratic primary; Republican primary; General election
Election details
	Filing deadline: June 26, 2024
	Primary: September 10, 2024; General: November 5, 2024
How to vote
	Poll times: 7 a.m. to 8 p.m.; Voting in Rhode Island
Race ratings
	Cook Political Report: Solid Democratic; DDHQ and The Hill: Safe Democratic; Inside Elections: Solid Democratic; Sabato's Crystal Ball: Safe Democratic
Ballotpedia analysis
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Rhode Island 2024 elections

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All U.S. House districts, including the 2nd Congressional District of Rhode Island, held elections in 2024. The general election was November 5, 2024. The primary was September 10, 2024. The filing deadline was June 26, 2024. The outcome of this race affected the partisan balance of the U.S. House of Representatives in the 119th Congress. All 435 House districts were up for election.

At the time of the election, Republicans held a 220-212 majority with three vacancies.^[1] As a result of the election, Republicans retained control of the U.S. House, winning 220 seats to Democrats' 215.^[2] To read more about the 2024 U.S. House elections, click here.

In the 2022 election in this district, the Democratic candidate won 50.4%-46.7%. Daily Kos calculated what the results of the 2020 presidential election in this district would have been following redistricting. Joe Biden (D) would have defeated Donald Trump (R) 56.1%-42.4%.^[3]

Rhode Island's 2nd Congressional District was one of 37 congressional districts with a Democratic incumbent or an open seat that the National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC) targeted in 2024. To read about NRCC targeting initiatives, click here. For a complete list of NRCC targeted districts, click here.

For more information about the primaries in this election, click on the links below:

Candidates and election results

General election

General election for U.S. House Rhode Island District 2

Incumbent Seth Magaziner defeated Steven Corvi in the general election for U.S. House Rhode Island District 2 on November 5, 2024.

	Candidate	%	Votes
✔	Seth Magaziner (D)	58.2	153,439
	Steven Corvi (R)	41.5	109,381
	Other/Write-in votes	0.3	660

	Incumbents are bolded and underlined. The results have been certified. Source	Total votes: 263,480
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Democratic primary election

Democratic primary for U.S. House Rhode Island District 2

Incumbent Seth Magaziner advanced from the Democratic primary for U.S. House Rhode Island District 2 on September 10, 2024.

		Candidate	%	Votes
✔		Seth Magaziner	100.0	25,157

	Incumbents are bolded and underlined. The results have been certified. Source	Total votes: 25,157
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Republican primary election

Republican primary for U.S. House Rhode Island District 2

Steven Corvi advanced from the Republican primary for U.S. House Rhode Island District 2 on September 10, 2024.

		Candidate	%	Votes
✔		Steven Corvi	100.0	10,542

	There were no incumbents in this race. The results have been certified. Source	Total votes: 10,542
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Candidate profiles

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Steven Corvi

Party: Republican Party

Incumbent: No

Political Office: None

Submitted Biography: "Dr. Corvi is the son of an Italian immigrant father. He was raised in a working-class household in Malden, MA, where his mother achieved graduate degrees while raising him. His father served in the US Army and USAF. Dr. Corvi graduated in the top quarter of his class at Malden High School. He went on to earn a BA from Framingham State University, an MA from Salem State University, and ultimately a Ph.D. from Northeastern University, becoming a college lecturer at various universities in Rhode Island and Massachusetts. Throughout his career, he also worked blue-collar jobs in labor, auto maintenance, retail, and the wine trade. As a lecturer, Dr. Corvi has made ends meet with no benefits, health care, or retirement and on an annual salary of less than $75K. Having taught in Rhode Island for several years, Dr. Corvi was finally able to live his American dream by buying his first house in Warwick. There Dr. Corvi wishes to remain with his family for the rest of his life. He is engaged to Brazilian immigrant Christin Shoshanna Sarri. Dr. Corvi's interests include history, aviation, scuba diving, skiing, film, and cooking. As a congressional candidate, he aspires to be an advocate for working-class Americans."

Key Messages

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Dr. Corvi’s core agenda aims to establish Merit, Equality, and Transparency (MET) to further assist Rhode Islanders. Merit is the focus on the content of personal character and abilities rather than any political identity. Equality, not equity, where we are all judged by our ability rather than arbitrary identity politics. Transparency is further required in America’s core institutions. Washington lacks honesty, integrity, and transparency.

Creating a strong economy is the most important issue for Dr. Corvi. As an average American making less than $75k per year Dr. Corvi understands the needs of people in his district. Washington’s federal spending has been reckless, Dr. Corvi advocates for transparency within Washington to slow down government spending. He will restore fiscal stability and common-sense spending in Washington. Manufacturing and jobs are key to improving the economy within Rhode Island. Dr. Corvi supports Career and Technical Education funding to rebuild the blue-collar Rhode Island workforce. Expanding trade school pathways has direct economic benefits to the local RI community and brings high-paying, blue collar jobs right back to RHODE ISLAND.

Healthcare is another key issue facing average Americans. Dr. Corvi is a strong believer that patient’s treatments should be based on the doctors professional opinions, not the insurance companies. Transparency is the answer to many healthcare issues caused by big pharma lobbyists and Dr. Corvi will work for average Rhode Islanders because he is one.

This information was current as of the candidate's run for U.S. House Rhode Island District 2 in 2024.

Voting information

See also: Voting in Rhode Island

Election information in Rhode Island: Nov. 5, 2024, election.

What was the voter registration deadline?

In-person: Oct. 6, 2024
By mail: Postmarked by Oct. 6, 2024
Online: Oct. 6, 2024

Was absentee/mail-in voting available to all voters?

Yes

What was the absentee/mail-in ballot request deadline?

In-person: Oct. 15, 2024
By mail: Received by Oct. 15, 2024
Online: Oct. 15, 2024

What was the absentee/mail-in ballot return deadline?

In-person: Nov. 5, 2024
By mail: Received by Nov. 5, 2024

Was early voting available to all voters?

Yes

What were the early voting start and end dates?

Oct. 16, 2024 to Nov. 4, 2024

Were all voters required to present ID at the polls? If so, was a photo or non-photo ID required?

N/A

When were polls open on Election Day?

7:00 a.m. - 8:00 p.m. (EST)

Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey responses

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Survey responses from candidates in this race

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Steven Corvi (R)

Dr. Corvi’s core agenda aims to establish Merit, Equality, and Transparency (MET) to further assist Rhode Islanders. Merit is the focus on the content of personal character and abilities rather than any political identity. Equality, not equity, where we are all judged by our ability rather than arbitrary identity politics. Transparency is further required in America’s core institutions. Washington lacks honesty, integrity, and transparency.

Creating a strong economy is the most important issue for Dr. Corvi. As an average American making less than $75k per year Dr. Corvi understands the needs of people in his district. Washington’s federal spending has been reckless, Dr. Corvi advocates for transparency within Washington to slow down government spending. He will restore fiscal stability and common-sense spending in Washington. Manufacturing and jobs are key to improving the economy within Rhode Island. Dr. Corvi supports Career and Technical Education funding to rebuild the blue-collar Rhode Island workforce. Expanding trade school pathways has direct economic benefits to the local RI community and brings high-paying, blue collar jobs right back to RHODE ISLAND.

Healthcare is another key issue facing average Americans. Dr. Corvi is a strong believer that patient’s treatments should be based on the doctors professional opinions, not the insurance companies. Transparency is the answer to many healthcare issues caused by big pharma lobbyists and Dr. Corvi will work for average Rhode Islanders because he is one.

What areas of public policy are you personally passionate about?

Steven Corvi (R)

Dr. Corvi’s father was an Italian immigrant and his grandmother was a Canadian immigrant. He understands the struggle of legal immigrants, but he wants to restore order at the Southern Border. Dr. Corvi believes that we should make the path to legal immigration simpler and implement a merit-based immigration system, while also enforcing illegal immigration laws. Additionally, Dr. Corvi is a college professor who has seen first-hand the impact of rising tuition costs. The accessibility of federal government student loans allows universities to dramatically overspend at the cost of their own students. Dr. Corvi wants to ensure that federal spending going to universities is being used to encourage a merit-based system and to help decrease uni

What characteristics or principles are most important for an elected official?

Steven Corvi (R)

Listen, learn, act, inform, and show up. Congressmen should listen to voters, understand their needs and problems, create and support policies that deliver on their needs, be transparent and share with voters what is going on, and be present in the district and show up for every vote.

What legacy would you like to leave?

Steven Corvi (R)

My legacy would be MET: Merit, Equality, and Transparency in America’s core institutions. MET offers an alternative to the radical position of DEI. The MET vision provides a strong moderate alternative to the radical DEI position which has corrupted many institutions. I want to affect real change and work to restore bipartisan spirit and unity in our nation.

Campaign finance

Name

Party

Receipts*

Disbursements**

Cash on hand

Date

Seth Magaziner

Democratic Party

$2,040,391

$1,204,049

$876,965

As of December 31, 2024

Steven Corvi

Republican Party

$5,620

$3,227

$3,448

As of December 31, 2024

Source: Federal Elections Commission, "Campaign finance data," 2024. This product uses the openFEC API but is not endorsed or certified by the Federal Election Commission (FEC).

* According to the FEC, "Receipts are anything of value (money, goods, services or property) received by a political committee."
** According to the FEC, a disbursement "is a purchase, payment, distribution, loan, advance, deposit or gift of money or anything of value to influence a federal election," plus other kinds of payments not made to influence a federal election.

General election race ratings

See also: Race rating definitions and methods

Ballotpedia provides race ratings from four outlets: The Cook Political Report, Inside Elections, Sabato's Crystal Ball, and DDHQ/The Hill. Each race rating indicates if one party is perceived to have an advantage in the race and, if so, the degree of advantage:

Safe and Solid ratings indicate that one party has a clear edge and the race is not competitive.
Likely ratings indicate that one party has a clear edge, but an upset is possible.
Lean ratings indicate that one party has a small edge, but the race is competitive.^[4]
Toss-up ratings indicate that neither party has an advantage.

Race ratings are informed by a number of factors, including polling, candidate quality, and election result history in the race's district or state.^[5]^[6]^[7]

Race ratings: Rhode Island's 2nd Congressional District election, 2024
Race tracker	Race ratings
	November 5, 2024	October 29, 2024	October 22, 2024	October 15, 2024
The Cook Political Report with Amy Walter	Solid Democratic	Solid Democratic	Solid Democratic	Solid Democratic
Decision Desk HQ and The Hill	Safe Democratic	Safe Democratic	Safe Democratic	Safe Democratic
Inside Elections with Nathan L. Gonzales	Solid Democratic	Solid Democratic	Solid Democratic	Solid Democratic
Larry J. Sabato's Crystal Ball	Safe Democratic	Safe Democratic	Safe Democratic	Safe Democratic
Note: Ballotpedia reviews external race ratings every week throughout the election season and posts weekly updates even if the media outlets have not revised their ratings during that week.

Ballot access

The table below details filing requirements for U.S. House candidates in Rhode Island in the 2024 election cycle. For additional information on candidate ballot access requirements in Rhode Island, click here.

Filing requirements for U.S. House candidates, 2024
State	Office	Party	Signatures required	Filing fee	Filing deadline	Source
Rhode Island	U.S. House	All candidates	500	N/A	6/26/2024 (declaration of candidacy due)	Source

District analysis

Click the tabs below to view information about voter composition, past elections, and demographics in both the district and the state.

District map - A map of the district in place for the election.
Competitiveness - Information about the competitiveness of 2024 U.S. House elections in the state.
Presidential elections - Information about presidential elections in the district and the state.
State party control - The partisan makeup of the state's congressional delegation and state government.

District map

Competitiveness
Presidential elections

State party control

Below was the map in use at the time of the election. Click the map below to enlarge it.

See also: Primary election competitiveness in state and federal government, 2024

This section contains data on U.S. House primary election competitiveness in Rhode Island.

Rhode Island U.S. House competitiveness, 2014-2024
Office	Districts/ offices	Seats	Open seats	Candidates	Possible primaries	Contested Democratic primaries	Contested Republican primaries	% of contested primaries	Incumbents in contested primaries	% of incumbents in contested primaries
2024	2	2	0	4	4	0	0	0.0%	0	0.0%
2022	2	2	1	8	4	1	0	25.0%	0	0.0%
2020	2	2	0	5	4	1	1	50.0%	1	50.0%
2018	2	2	0	6	4	1	1	50.0%	1	50.0%
2016	2	2	0	7	4	2	0	50.0%	2	100.0%
2014	2	2	0	6	4	1	1	50.0%	1	50.0%

Post-filing deadline analysis

The following analysis covers all U.S. House 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.

Six candidates ran for Rhode Island’s two U.S. House districts, including three Democrats and three Republicans. That’s an average of 3.0 candidates per district. There was an average of 4.0 candidates per district in 2022, 2.5 candidates per district in 2020, and 3.0 in 2018.

The number of candidates who ran for the U.S. House in Rhode Island in 2024 was tied with 2018 and 2014 for the second-fewest in the last 10 years.

Both incumbents—Reps. Gabe Amo (D-01) and Seth Magaziner (D-02)—ran for re-election in 2024. One district was open in 2022, the only election cycle in the last 10 years in which a district was open.

Four candidates—two Democrats and two Republicans—ran for the 1st Congressional District, the most candidates who ran for a district in 2024.

Two primaries—one Democratic and one Republican—were contested in 2024. Between 2014 and 2022, an average of 1.8 primaries were contested per election cycle.

Amo was the only incumbent who ran in a contested primary in 2024.

Candidates filed to run in the Republican and Democratic primaries in both districts, meaning neither seat was guaranteed to either party.

Partisan Voter Index

See also: The Cook Political Report's Partisan Voter Index

Heading into the 2024 elections, based on results from the 2020 and 2016 presidential elections, the Cook Partisan Voter Index for this district was D+4. This meant that in those two presidential elections, this district's results were 4 percentage points more Democratic than the national average. This made Rhode Island's 2nd the 170th most Democratic district nationally.^[8]

2020 presidential election results

The table below shows what the vote in the 2020 presidential election would have been in this district. The presidential election data was compiled by Daily Kos.

2020 presidential results in Rhode Island's 2nd based on 2024 district lines
Joe Biden	Donald Trump
56.1%	42.4%

Inside Elections Baselines

See also: Inside Elections

Inside Elections' Baseline is a figure that analyzes all federal and statewide election results from the district over the past four election cycles. The results are combined in an index estimating the strength of a typical Democratic or Republican candidate in the congressional district.^[9] The table below displays the Baseline data for this district.

Inside Elections Baseline for 2024
Democratic Baseline	Republican Baseline	Difference
55.3	41.9	D+13.4

Presidential voting history

See also: Presidential election in Rhode Island, 2020

Rhode Island presidential election results (1900-2020)

21 Democratic wins
10 Republican wins

Year	1900	1904	1908	1912	1916	1920	1924	1928	1932	1936	1940	1944	1948	1952	1956	1960	1964	1968	1972	1976	1980	1984	1988	1992	1996	2000	2004	2008	2012	2016	2020
Winning Party	R	R	R	D	R	R	R	D	D	D	D	D	D	R	R	D	D	D	R	D	D	R	D	D	D	D	D	D	D	D	D

See also: Party control of Rhode Island state government

Congressional delegation

The table below displays the partisan composition of Rhode Island's congressional delegation as of May 2024.

Congressional Partisan Breakdown from Rhode Island
Party	U.S. Senate	U.S. House	Total
Democratic	2	2	4
Republican	0	0	0
Independent	0	0	0
Vacancies	0	0	0
Total	2	2	4

State executive

The table below displays the officeholders in Rhode Island's top four state executive offices as of May 2024.

State executive officials in Rhode Island, May 2024
Office	Officeholder
Governor	Daniel McKee
Lieutenant Governor	Sabina Matos
Secretary of State	Gregg Amore
Attorney General	Peter Neronha

State legislature

Rhode Island State Senate

Party		As of February 2024
	Democratic Party	32
	Republican Party	5
	Other	0
	Vacancies	1
Total		38

Rhode Island House of Representatives

Party		As of February 2024
	Democratic Party	65
	Republican Party	9
	Independent	0
	Other	1
	Vacancies	0
Total		75

Trifecta control

The table below shows the state's trifecta status from 1992 until the 2024 election.

Rhode Island Party Control: 1992-2024
Fifteen years of Democratic trifectas • No Republican trifectas
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Year	92	93	94	95	96	97	98	99	00	01	02	03	04	05	06	07	08	09	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24
Governor	D	D	D	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	I	I	D	D	D	D	D	D	D	D	D	D	D	D
Senate	D	D	D	D	D	D	D	D	D	D	D	D	D	D	D	D	D	D	D	D	D	D	D	D	D	D	D	D	D	D	D	D	D
House	D	D	D	D	D	D	D	D	D	D	D	D	D	D	D	D	D	D	D	D	D	D	D	D	D	D	D	D	D	D	D	D	D

District history

The section below details election results for this office in elections dating back to 2018.