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Rhode Island state legislative election results, 2024
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The sections below contain analysis of election results in the state legislative elections for Rhode Island in 2024.
General election results
Senate
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Retiring incumbents
Senate
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 |  Democratic |
District 20 |
| Frank Lombardo III | Democratic |
District 25 |
| Frank Lombardi | Democratic |
District 26 |
| Joshua Miller | Democratic |
District 28 |
House
Five incumbents did not file for re-election in 2024.[2] The average number of retirements from 2010 to 2022 was 7.7. Those incumbents were:
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.
All of the state’s contested state legislative primaries were Democratic primaries—there were no contested Republican primaries. That was the lowest number of contested primaries for both parties since Ballotpedia started tracking.
Ballotpedia defines a contested primary as one where there are more candidates than the number of nominations available.
In an interview with The Boston Globe’s Edward Fitzpatrick, Common Cause Rhode Island’s John Marrion said multiple factors could contribute to the lower number of contested primaries, “There are systemic barriers to running for office that include access to money and access to the supporters you need to run a good campaign.”[3]
Marrion said he believes public financing for campaigns and an independent redistricting process—instead of the state’s legislative redistricting process—would foster more competition.[3]
All 113 seats of the General Assembly were up for election in 2024 and there were a total of 179 candidates running, the lowest since 2014. Among those running were 138 Democrats and 41 Republicans. This was below average for both parties. From 2010 to 2022, the average number of Democrats running was 147.6, and the average number of Republicans running was 54.7.
A total of 104 incumbents ran for re-election in the primaries, and among them, 13, or about 12.5%, faced primary challengers. That was the lowest number of contested incumbents since Ballotpedia started tracking.
Rhode Island has had a Democratic trifecta since 2013. Since 1992, the state has had 15 years of Democratic trifectas and no Republican trifectas.
Senate
The table below shows the number and percentage of open seats in the Rhode Island State Senate from 2010 to 2024.[4]
| Open Seats in Rhode Island State Senate elections: 2010 - 2024 | |||
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| Year | Total seats | Open seats | Seats with incumbents running for re-election |
| 2024 | 38 | 4 (11 percent) | 34 (89 percent) |
| 2022 | 38 | 7 (18 percent) | 31 (82 percent) |
| 2020 | 38 | 4 (11 percent) | 34 (89 percent) |
| 2018 | 38 | 5 (13 percent) | 33 (87 percent) |
| 2016 | 38 | 1 (3 percent) | 37 (97 percent) |
| 2014 | 38 | 2 (5 percent) | 36 (95 percent) |
| 2012 | 38 | 3 (8 percent) | 35 (92 percent) |
| 2010 | 38 | 5 (13 percent) | 33 (87 percent) |
House
The table below shows the number and percentage of open seats in the Rhode Island House of Representatives from 2010 to 2024.[5]
| Open Seats in Rhode Island House of Representatives elections: 2010 - 2024 | |||
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| Year | Total seats | Open seats | Seats with incumbents running for re-election |
| 2024 | 75 | 5 (7 percent) | 70 (93 percent) |
| 2022 | 75 | 7 (9 percent) | 68 (91 percent) |
| 2020 | 75 | 5 (7 percent) | 70 (93 percent) |
| 2018 | 75 | 10 (13 percent) | 65 (87 percent) |
| 2016 | 75 | 6 (8 percent) | 69 (92 percent) |
| 2014 | 75 | 6 (8 percent) | 69 (92 percent) |
| 2012 | 75 | 6 (8 percent) | 69 (92 percent) |
| 2010 | 75 | 10 (13 percent) | 65 (87 percent) |
See also
- Elections
- Elections calendar
- Elections by state and year
- State Poll Opening and Closing Times
- State legislative elections, 2024
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.
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 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.
- ↑ 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.
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