These 18 General Assembly races will be over tomorrow night

September 10th, 2012 at 12:51 pm by under Nesi's Notes, On the Main Site

There are 113 seats in Rhode Island’s General Assembly, and more than half of those House and Senate seats are being contested this year – just not necessarily in November.

That’s because there are 18 state legislative districts with a primary contest but no general-election race. These are all places where more than one Democrat filed to run in the primary, but no Republican or third-party candidate filed to run against the winning Dem in November.

Put another way, voters in these 18 districts have a choice on Sept. 11 but not on Nov. 6; barring a highly improbable victorious write-in campaign, the winner of tomorrow’s primary will be these districts’ next lawmaker.

Between the 18 primary-only districts and the 30 districts with no competition at all, nearly half of the General Assembly’s membership for the 2013-14 term will be known on Wednesday morning – 48 of 113 seats.

After the jump, a look at which districts have contested primary elections but uncontested general elections. Incumbents are in bold. If the current lawmaker isn’t in the primary, I put the name in brackets.

House

  • District 2 (D): Chris Blazejewski vs. Dirk Hennessey
  • District 6 (D): Raymond Hull vs. Peter Wasylyk
  • District 8 (D): Michael Tarro vs. Libby Kimzey vs. John Lombardi
  • District 12 (D): Leo Medina vs. Joseph Almeida
  • District 16 (D): Peter Palumbo vs. Michelle Bergin
  • District 45 (D): Rene Menard vs. Mia Ackerman
  • District 50 (D): Jon Brien vs. Stephen Casey
  • District 52 (D): Karen MacBeth vs. Augustus Uht
  • District 56 (D): Agostinho Silva vs. Joseph Faria
  • District 58 (D): William San Bento Jr. vs. Carlos Tobon
  • District 59 (D): J. Patrick O’Neill vs. John Arcaro
  • District 73 (D): Marvin Abney vs. David Carlin [Jackson]

Senate

  • District 3 (D): Maryellen Butke vs. Gayle Goldin [Perry]
  • District 5 (D): Paul Jabour vs. Maura Kelly
  • District 14 (D): Daniel DaPonte vs. Roberto DaSilva
  • District 24 (D): Marc Cote vs. Lewis Pryeor
  • District 25 (D): Frank Lombardo vs. Nicole Amelia Acciardo
  • District 29 (D): Michael McCaffrey vs. Laura Pisaturo

Don’t forget: polls close at 8 p.m. Tuesday and you need ID. Find your new polling place here.

• Related: 35 Dem, 5 Republican primaries for General Assembly this year (July 26)

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