2025 Rhode Island Senate District 4 special election

2025 Rhode Island Senate District 4 special election

August 5, 2025

Rhode Island Senate
District 4
 
Candidate Stefano Famiglietti Alex Asermely
Party Democratic Republican
Popular vote 1,690 332
Percentage 83.6% 16.4%

Senator before election

Dominick J. Ruggerio
Democratic

Elected Senator

Stefano Famiglietti
Democratic

A special election in the U.S. State of Rhode Island was held August 5, 2025, to elect a new member for District 4 in the Rhode Island Senate, representing part of North Providence. The election filled the vacancy caused by the death of longtime Democratic state senator and president Dominick J. Ruggerio, who died on April 21, 2025. Primary elections were held on July 8. The Democratic nominee, North Providence Councilmember Stefano Famiglietti, defeated his Republican opponent, attorney Alex Asermely, in an overwhelming landslide of more than two-thirds of the vote.