Bridget G. Valverde is a Democratic member of the Rhode Island Senate, representing District 35 since January 1, 2019.
[1] Valverde won election to a Republican-held seat in the Rhode Island Senate on November 6, 2018.
[4] Valverde had a long history of Democratic activism prior to her first run for political office in 2018, including canvassing for her mother's school board campaign in Connecticut to fundraising for the San Francisco Food Bank and testifying in favor of the Reproductive Health Care Act before the Rhode Island House Judiciary Committee.
[11] Two Republicans, Dawson Tucker Hodgson and Mark Gee, subsequently held the seat from 2011 to 2015[12][13] and 2015 to 2019,[14][15] respectively.
In the 2018 general election, Valverde defeated candidate Dana Gee, the wife of the retiring incumbent, by about 1,000 votes, performing an unusual red-to-blue flip in the Ocean State.