The 1950 Rhode Island Senate election took place on Tuesday, November 7, 1950, to elect 44 representatives to serve two-year terms in the Rhode Island Senate. The Democratic Party primaries were held on September 18, 1950, and the Republican Party primaries were held on September 27, 1950. Nearly every municipality elected one senator, save for Pawtucket and Providence, which elected two and five respectively due to their higher populations.

The election took place in tandem with elections for the governor, lieutenant governor, U.S. House, state house, and a U.S. Senate special election.

Until 2003, the presiding officer of the Senate was the lieutenant governor, when the office of the President of the Rhode Island Senate was established. The incumbent Democratic lieutenant governor, John S. McKiernan, was re-elected in the stimultaneous lieutenant gubernatorial election with 54.09% of the vote.

General election summary Source for general election results: Results by county

County Democrats Republicans Independents Votes Seats Votes % Seats Votes % Seats Vote % Seats # % # %Bristol 6,927 57.54 2 5,112 42.46 1 — — — 12,039 4.01 3 6.82Kent 15,877 51.32 2 15,056 48.66 3 6 0.02 0 30,939 10.31 5 11.36Newport 9,237 53.91 1 7,896 46.09 5 — — — 17,133 5.71 6 13.64Providence 137,771 61.60 15 85,896 38.40 6 — — — 223,667 74.52 21 47.73Washington 7,130 43.52 2 8,315 50.75 7 938 5.73 0 16,383 5.46 9 20.46 Total 176,942 58.95 22 122,275 40.74 22 944 0.31 0 300,161 100% 44 100%

Results by municipality

Municipality Democrats Republicans Independents Total Candidate Votes % Candidate Votes % Candidate Votes % Votes Barrington Migliaccio 1,636 42.53 Kingsley 2,211 57.47 — — — 3,847 −575 −14.95Bristol Coggeshall 3,109 65.22 McKenna 1,658 34.78 — — — 4,767 +1,451 +30.44Burrillville Griffin 1,546 40.69 McGuinness 2,253 59.31 — — — 3,799 −707 −18.61Central Falls Caouette 6,353 67.96 LaPierre 2,995 32.04 — — — 9,348 +3,358 +35.92Charlestown Cavanaugh Jr. 312 43.76 Wilson 401 56.24 — — — 713 −89 −12.48Coventry Roche 2,259 52.28 Anderson 2,062 47.72 — — — 4,321 +197 +4.56Cranston Kennedy 10,276 48.06 Brower 11,106 51.94 — — — 21,382 −830 −3.88Cumberland Brady 3,854 68.15 Shunney 1,801 31.85 — — — 5,655 +2,053 +36.30East Greenwich Reed 1,063 49.56 Proctor 1,082 50.44 — — — 2,145 −19 −0.89East Providence Coffey 7,463 52.45 Shippee 6,767 47.55 — — — 14,230 +696 +4.89Exeter Pratt 196 42.98 Kenyon 260 57.02 — — — 456 −64 −14.04Foster Harrington 266 37.62 Knight 441 62.38 — — — 707 −175 −24.75Glocester Mason 744 48.88 Greenhalgh 778 51.12 — — — 1,522 −34 −2.23Hopkinton Murphy 552 37.78 Maine 909 62.22 — — — 1,461 −357 −24.44Jamestown Lyons 542 46.13 Head Jr. 633 53.87 — — — 1,175 −91 −7.74Johnston Pezzullo 3,322 65.94 Constantino 1,716 34.06 — — — 5,038 +1,606 +31.88Lincoln Davies 2,623 52.85 Smart 2,340 47.15 — — — 4,963 +283 +5.70Little Compton Chaves 182 31.71 Sylvia 392 68.29 — — — 574 −210 −36.59Middletown Arruda 583 39.05 Plummer 910 60.95 — — — 1,493 −327 −21.90Narragansett Maine 426 39.37 Westlake 656 60.63 — — — 1,082 −230 −21.26Newport Murray 6,217 61.15 Andrews Jr. 3,949 38.85 — — — 10,166 +2,268 +22.31New Shoreham Sprague 209 43.00 Lewis 263 54.12 Sprague 14 2.88 486 −54 −11.11North Kingstown Orme 1,155 38.58 Donnelly 1,839 61.42 — — — 2,994 −684 −22.85North Providence Sgambato 4,118 66.56 Ponton 2,069 33.44 — — — 6,187 +2,049 +33.12North Smithfield Dyndur 855 37.97 Kilroy 1,397 62.03 — — — 2,252 −542 −24.07Pawtucket 1 Beaucage 10,169 60.23 Evans 6,714 39.77 — — — 16,883 +3,455 +20.46Pawtucket 2 McCaughey 10,501 65.01 Marchand 5,651 34.99 — — — 16,152 +4,850 +30.03Portsmouth Levesque 914 49.11 Sherman 947 50.89 — — — 1,861 −33 −1.77Providence 1 Lioht 10,391 58.16 Adler 7,475 41.84 — — — 17,866 +2,916 +16.32Providence 2 Iacobucci 16,006 78.46 Mallinson 4,395 21.54 — — — 20,401 +11,611 +56.91Providence 3 Luongo 12,427 57.16 DiLuglio 9,315 42.84 — — — 21,742 +3,112 +14.31Providence 4 McWeeney 10,954 72.74 Lyman 4,106 27.26 — — — 15,060 +6,848 +45.47Providence 5 McCabe 11,576 64.12 Mullaney 6,479 35.88 — — — 18,055 +5,097 +28.23Richmond Burdick 306 39.43 Perreault 470 60.57 — — — 776 −164 −21.13Scituate Moan Jr. 431 40.36 Hall 637 59.64 — — — 1,068 −206 −19.29Smithfield Harris 1,495 54.38 Gaisford 1,254 45.62 — — — 2,749 +241 +8.77South Kingstown Carr 1,744 53.27 Cirwein 1,530 46.73 — — — 3,274 +214 +6.54Tiverton Raftery 799 42.86 Douglas 1,065 57.14 — — — 1,864 −266 −14.27Warren Smith 2,182 63.71 Mondina 1,243 36.29 — — — 3,425 +939 +27.42Warwick Dunn 7,463 44.96 Sweeney 9,138 55.04 — — — 16,601 −1,675 −10.09West Greenwich Hoxsie 192 46.72 Brown 213 51.82 Hoxsie 6 1.46 411 −21 −5.11West Warwick Archambault 4,900 65.67 Smith 2,561 34.33 — — — 7,461 +2,339 +31.35Westerly Santoro 2,230 43.38 Lenihan 1,987 38.65 Macomber 924 17.97 5,141 +243 +4.73Woonsocket Smith 12,401 66.64 Leduc 6,207 33.36 — — — 18,608 +6,194 +33.29

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