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1968 general · February 6, 1968

1968 Iowa State Senate election results, district by district

Every Iowa State Senate district in the 1968 general election: winners, margins, unopposed seats and seats that changed party.

Nov 5, 1968 general →

Races30
Changed party0
Unopposed7%2 races
Incumbents defeated13

Every district

D 7 · R 24

RaceWinnerWon byNotes
SD-2Charles G. Mogged (R)11.0Incumbent lost
SD-3Donald S. McGill (D)1.4
SD-4Quentin V. Anderson (R)11.0Incumbent lost
SD-5James E. Briles (R)35.2
SD-10Bass Vangilst (D)0.7
SD-11Charles O. Laverty (R)1.4Incumbent lost
SD-12Joseph B. Flatt (R)31.0
SD-13Jim Griffin (R)1.8Incumbent lost
SD-15Harold A. Thordsen (R)0.2Incumbent lost
SD-17Minnette Doderer (D)12.4
SD-20William D. Palmer · Lee H. Gaudineer Jr. (D)-4.9
SD-21Alan Shirley (D)2.1
SD-24Ralph W. Potter (R)9.5
SD-26John L. Mowry (R)16.0
SD-28R. Dean Arbuckle (R)11.2
SD-31Kenneth Parker (R)4.8Incumbent lost
SD-32W. Charlene Conklin (R)5.8
SD-35C. Joseph Coleman (D)13.5
SD-37Charles K. Sullivan (R)0.1
SD-38Leslie C. Klink (R)4.7Incumbent lost
SD-39Floyd Gilley (R)5.2Incumbent lost
SD-41Vernon H. Kyhl (R)Unopposed
SD-42Leigh R. Curran (R)16.5
SD-43H. L. Ollenburg (R)16.2Incumbent lost
SD-44Wayne Keith (R)8.0Incumbent lost
SD-45Walter B. Hammer (R)4.5Incumbent lost
SD-46J. Leslie Leonard (R)12.5Incumbent lost
SD-47J. Henry Lucken (R)26.9
SD-48Marvin W. Smith (R)24.5Incumbent lost
SD-49Lucas J. Dekoster (R)Unopposed

Iowa State Senate

Results are each source's final count; margins are the winner's lead over the runner-up in points of the vote. Source: Harvard Dataverse / Carl Klarner