2020 Rhode Island Senate election


The 2020 Rhode Island Senate elections took place as part of the biennial United States elections. Rhode Island voters elected all 38 state senators. State senators serve two-year terms in the Rhode Island Senate. A primary election on September 8, 2020, determined which candidates appear on the November 3 general election ballot. All the members elected will serve in the Rhode Island General Assembly.

Summary

By district

Sources

Retiring incumbents

Four incumbent senators are not seeking reelection in 2020:
  1. Donna Nesselbush, [|District 15]
  2. Erin Lynch Prata, [|District 31]
  3. Adam Satchell, [|District 9]
  4. James Sheehan, [|District 36]

Defeated incumbents

In primary

Four incumbent senators sought reelection but were defeated in the September 8 primary. The defeated were all beaten by progressive challengers who saw the incumbents as too conservative for the Democratic party.
  1. William Conley Jr., [|District 18]
  2. Betty Crowley, [|District 16]
  3. Mark McKenney, [|District 30]
  4. Harold Metts, [|District 6]

Detailed results


[|District 1] • [|District 2] • [|District 3] • [|District 4] • [|District 5] • District 6 • [|District 7] • [|District 8] • District 9 • [|District 10] • [|District 11] • [|District 12] • [|District 13] • [|District 14] • District 15 • District 16 • [|District 17] • District 18 • [|District 19] • [|District 20] • [|District 21] • [|District 22] • [|District 23] • [|District 24] • [|District 25] • [|District 26] • [|District 27] • [|District 28] • [|District 29] • District 30 • District 31 • [|District 32] • [|District 33] • [|District 34] • [|District 35] • District 36 • [|District 37] • [|District 38]

District 1

Democratic primary

General election

District 2

  • No other candidate filed for District 2.

District 3

  • No other candidate filed for District 3

District 4

Democratic primary

General election
  • No other candidate filed for District 4.

District 5

Democratic primary

General election
  • No other candidate filed for District 5.

District 6

Democratic primary

General election

District 7

  • No other candidate filed for District 7.

District 9

Democratic primary

General election

District 11

  • No other candidate filed for District 11.

District 12

  • No other candidate filed for District 12.

District 13

  • No other candidate filed for District 13.

District 15

Democratic primary

Herbert Weiss
General election
  • No other candidate filed for District 15.

District 16

Democratic primary

General election
  • No other candidate filed for District 16.

District 18

Democratic primary

General election
  • No other candidate filed for District 18.

District 19

  • No other candidate filed for District 19.

District 20

  • No other candidate filed for District 20.

District 21

  • No other candidate filed for District 21.

District 22

Democratic primary

General election

District 24

  • No other candidate filed for District 24.

District 25

  • No other candidate filed for District 25.

District 29

Democratic primary

General election

District 30

Democratic primary

General election
  • No other candidate filed for District 30.

District 31

Democratic primary

Republican primary

General election

District 32

  • No other candidate filed for District 32.
General election

District 33

  • No other candidate filed for District 33.

District 36

Democratic primary

General election

District 38

  • No other candidate filed for District 38.