Thomas Paolino

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Thomas Paolino
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Republican Party

Rhode Island State Senate District 17
Tenure

2017 - Present

Term ends

2025

Years in position

7

Compensation

Base salary

$19,037/year

Per diem

$No per diem is paid

Elections and appointments
Last elected

November 5, 2024

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Thomas Paolino (Republican Party) is a member of the Rhode Island State Senate, representing District 17. He assumed office in 2017. His current term ends on January 7, 2025.

Paolino (Republican Party) ran for re-election to the Rhode Island State Senate to represent District 17. He won in the general election on November 5, 2024.

Committee assignments

2023-2024

Paolino was assigned to the following committees:

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2021-2022

Paolino was assigned to the following committees:

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2019-2020

Paolino was assigned to the following committees:

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2017 legislative session

At the beginning of the 2017 legislative session, this legislator served on the following committees:

Rhode Island committee assignments, 2017
• Education
• Health and Human Services
• Housing and Municipal Government

The following table lists bills this person sponsored as a legislator, according to BillTrack50 and sorted by action history. Bills are sorted by the date of their last action. The following list may not be comprehensive. To see all bills this legislator sponsored, click on the legislator's name in the title of the table.


Elections

2024

See also: Rhode Island State Senate elections, 2024

General election

General election for Rhode Island State Senate District 17

Incumbent Thomas Paolino defeated Cameron Deutsch in the general election for Rhode Island State Senate District 17 on November 5, 2024.

Candidate
%
Votes
✔
Image of Thomas Paolino
Thomas Paolino (R)
 
59.8
 
8,226
Silhouette Placeholder Image.png
Cameron Deutsch (D)
 
39.9
 
5,486
 Other/Write-in votes
 
0.3
 
41

Incumbents are bolded and underlined. Source

Total votes: 13,753
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Democratic primary election

Democratic primary for Rhode Island State Senate District 17

Cameron Deutsch defeated Alexander Azar in the Democratic primary for Rhode Island State Senate District 17 on September 10, 2024.

Candidate
%
Votes
✔
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Cameron Deutsch
 
52.8
 
634
Image of Alexander Azar
Alexander Azar
 
47.2
 
566

There were no incumbents in this race. Source

Total votes: 1,200
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Republican primary election

Republican primary for Rhode Island State Senate District 17

Incumbent Thomas Paolino advanced from the Republican primary for Rhode Island State Senate District 17 on September 10, 2024.

Candidate
%
Votes
✔
Image of Thomas Paolino
Thomas Paolino
 
100.0
 
449

Incumbents are bolded and underlined. Source

Total votes: 449
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2022

See also: Rhode Island State Senate elections, 2022

General election

General election for Rhode Island State Senate District 17

Incumbent Thomas Paolino defeated John Lyle Jr. and Cameron Deutsch in the general election for Rhode Island State Senate District 17 on November 8, 2022.

Candidate
%
Votes
✔
Image of Thomas Paolino
Thomas Paolino (R)
 
46.8
 
5,314
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John Lyle Jr. (Independent)
 
28.0
 
3,178
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Cameron Deutsch (D)
 
25.1
 
2,852
 Other/Write-in votes
 
0.1
 
11

Incumbents are bolded and underlined. The results have been certified. Source

Total votes: 11,355
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Democratic primary election

Democratic primary for Rhode Island State Senate District 17

Cameron Deutsch advanced from the Democratic primary for Rhode Island State Senate District 17 on September 13, 2022.

Candidate
%
Votes
✔
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Cameron Deutsch
 
100.0
 
1,995

There were no incumbents in this race. The results have been certified. Source

Total votes: 1,995
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Republican primary election

Republican primary for Rhode Island State Senate District 17

Incumbent Thomas Paolino advanced from the Republican primary for Rhode Island State Senate District 17 on September 13, 2022.

Candidate
%
Votes
✔
Image of Thomas Paolino
Thomas Paolino
 
100.0
 
667

Incumbents are bolded and underlined. The results have been certified. Source

Total votes: 667
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2020

See also: Rhode Island State Senate elections, 2020

General election

General election for Rhode Island State Senate District 17

Incumbent Thomas Paolino defeated John Douglas Barr II in the general election for Rhode Island State Senate District 17 on November 3, 2020.

Candidate
%
Votes
✔
Image of Thomas Paolino
Thomas Paolino (R)
 
59.1
 
9,460
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John Douglas Barr II (D)
 
40.7
 
6,512
 Other/Write-in votes
 
0.2
 
26

Incumbents are bolded and underlined. The results have been certified. Source

Total votes: 15,998
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Democratic primary election

Democratic primary for Rhode Island State Senate District 17

John Douglas Barr II advanced from the Democratic primary for Rhode Island State Senate District 17 on September 8, 2020.

Candidate
%
Votes
✔
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John Douglas Barr II
 
100.0
 
293

There were no incumbents in this race. The results have been certified. Source

Total votes: 293
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Republican primary election

The Republican primary election was canceled. Incumbent Thomas Paolino advanced from the Republican primary for Rhode Island State Senate District 17.

2018

See also: Rhode Island State Senate elections, 2018

General election

General election for Rhode Island State Senate District 17

Incumbent Thomas Paolino defeated Dennis Lavallee in the general election for Rhode Island State Senate District 17 on November 6, 2018.

Candidate
%
Votes
✔
Image of Thomas Paolino
Thomas Paolino (R)
 
50.5
 
5,998
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Dennis Lavallee (D)
 
49.3
 
5,860
 Other/Write-in votes
 
0.2
 
19

Incumbents are bolded and underlined. The results have been certified. Source

Total votes: 11,877
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Democratic primary election

Democratic primary for Rhode Island State Senate District 17

Dennis Lavallee advanced from the Democratic primary for Rhode Island State Senate District 17 on September 12, 2018.

Candidate
%
Votes
✔
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Dennis Lavallee
 
100.0
 
2,403

There were no incumbents in this race. The results have been certified. Source

Total votes: 2,403
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates

Republican primary election

Republican primary for Rhode Island State Senate District 17

Incumbent Thomas Paolino advanced from the Republican primary for Rhode Island State Senate District 17 on September 12, 2018.

Candidate
%
Votes
✔
Image of Thomas Paolino
Thomas Paolino
 
100.0
 
944

Incumbents are bolded and underlined. The results have been certified. Source

Total votes: 944
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2016

See also: Rhode Island State Senate elections, 2016

Elections for the Rhode Island State Senate took place in 2016. The primary election took place on September 13, 2016, and the general election was held on November 8, 2016. The candidate filing deadline was June 29, 2016. Incumbent Edward O'Neill (Independent) did not run for re-election.

Thomas Paolino defeated Jina Petrarca-Karampetsos in the Rhode Island State Senate District 17 general election.[1][2]

Rhode Island State Senate, District 17 General Election, 2016
Party Candidate Vote % Votes
     Republican Green check mark transparent.png Thomas Paolino 51.00% 7,224
     Democratic Jina Petrarca-Karampetsos 49.00% 6,942
Total Votes 14,166
Source: Rhode Island Board of Elections


Jina Petrarca-Karampetsos defeated Dennis Lavallee, Keven McKenna and Hagop Setrak Jawharjian in the Rhode Island State Senate District 17 Democratic primary.[3][4]

Rhode Island State Senate, District 17 Democratic Primary, 2016
Party Candidate Vote % Votes
     Democratic Green check mark transparent.png Jina Petrarca-Karampetsos 43.80% 964
     Democratic Dennis Lavallee 25.49% 561
     Democratic Keven McKenna 20.04% 441
     Democratic Hagop Setrak Jawharjian 10.68% 235
Total Votes 2,201


Thomas Paolino ran unopposed in the Rhode Island State Senate District 17 Republican primary.[3][4]

Rhode Island State Senate, District 17 Republican Primary, 2016
Party Candidate
    Republican Green check mark transparent.png Thomas Paolino  (unopposed)

Campaign themes

2024

Ballotpedia survey responses

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2022

Thomas Paolino did not complete Ballotpedia's 2022 Candidate Connection survey.

2020

Thomas Paolino did not complete Ballotpedia's 2020 Candidate Connection survey.

Campaign finance summary

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Thomas Paolino campaign contribution history
YearOfficeStatusContributionsExpenditures
2024* Rhode Island State Senate District 17Won general$3,000 $0
2022Rhode Island State Senate District 17Won general$44,916 $0
2020Rhode Island State Senate District 17Won general$24,263 N/A**
2018Rhode Island State Senate District 17Won general$14,964 N/A**
2016Rhode Island State Senate, District 17Won $18,665 N/A**
Grand total$105,808 N/A**
Sources: OpenSecrets,  Federal Elections Commission ***This product uses the openFEC API but is not endorsed or certified by the Federal Election Commission (FEC).
* Data from this year may not be complete
** Data on expenditures is not available for this election cycle
Note: Totals above reflect only available data.

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    2. ↑ Rhode Island Board of Elections, "2016 general election results," accessed January 19, 2017
    3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Rhode Island Secretary of State, "2016 Candidate Search," accessed June 30, 2016
    4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 Rhode Island Board of Elections, "2016 Statewide Primary," accessed October 14, 2016

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