1970 general · November 3, 1970

1970 California State Assembly election results, district by district

Every California State Assembly district in the 1970 general election: winners, margins, unopposed seats and seats that changed party.

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Seats after the election

Democrats controlled the chamber · 80 seats

After the electionD 43 · R 37
Races80
Changed party6
Unopposed1%1 races
Incumbents defeated4

Every district

D 43 · R 37

RaceWinnerWon byNotes
AD-1Pauline L. Davis (D)46.1
AD-2Frank P. Belotti (R)4.4
AD-3Leroy F. Greene (D)20.3
AD-4Ray Johnson (R)28.5
AD-5John F. Dunlap (D)38.0
AD-6Eugene A. Chappie (R)32.9
AD-7William T. Bagley (R)19.1
AD-8Walter W. Powers (D)21.4
AD-9Edwin L. Zberg (D)39.4
AD-10James W. Dent (R)20.8
AD-11John T. Knox (D)37.8
AD-12Robert T. Monagan (R)36.9
AD-13Carlos Bee (D)46.7
AD-14Robert W. Crown (D)49.6
AD-15March K. Fong (D)47.2
AD-16Ken Meade (D)16.7FlippedIncumbent lost
AD-17John J. Miller (D)72.2
AD-18Willie L. Brown (D)33.5
AD-19Leo T. McCarthy (D)46.5
AD-20John L. Burton (D)37.1
AD-21Gordon Duffy (R)36.1
AD-22Richard D. Hayden (R)21.9
AD-23John F. Foran (D)51.4
AD-24John Vasconcellos (D)13.7
AD-25Alister McAlister (D)7.0FlippedIncumbent lost
AD-26Dixon Arnett (R)16.9
AD-27Leo J. Ryan (D)50.1
AD-28Kent H. Stacey (R)12.3
AD-29William M. Ketchum (R)34.7
AD-30Ernest Lacoste (D)2.0Flipped
AD-31Frank Murphy Jr. (R)29.5
AD-32Ken Maddy (R)16.9Flipped
AD-33Ernest N. Mobley (R)35.7
AD-34Bob Wood (R)42.0
AD-35John V. Briggs (R)38.7
AD-36W. Don Macgillivray (R)1.7
AD-37Ken Macdonald (D)8.3
AD-38Carley V. Porter (D)36.1
AD-39James A. Hayes (R)44.0
AD-40Alex P. Garcia (D)38.9
AD-41Jim Keysor (D)6.9FlippedIncumbent lost
AD-42Bob Moretti (D)32.4
AD-43Carlos Moorhead (R)44.7
AD-44Mike Cullen (D)18.9
AD-45Walter Karabian (D)16.7
AD-46Robert G. Beverly (R)39.6
AD-47Frank Lanterman (R)37.4
AD-48David Roberti (D)32.8
AD-49Peter F. Schabarum (R)40.9
AD-50William Campbell (R)2.2
AD-51Jack R. Fenton (D)48.3
AD-52Floyd L. Wakefield (R)6.4
AD-53Bill Greene (D)84.9
AD-54John L. E. Collier (R)50.4
AD-55Leon Ralph (D)Unopposed
AD-56Charles Warren (D)19.2
AD-57Charles J. Conrad (R)4.6
AD-58Harvey Johnson (D)23.9
AD-59Alan Sieroty (D)50.6
AD-60Paul Priolo (R)10.6
AD-61Henry A. Waxman (D)41.8
AD-62Newton R. Russell (R)43.3
AD-63Yvonne W. Brathwaite (D)55.6
AD-64Robert C. Cline (R)6.0
AD-65David C. Pierson (D)49.8
AD-66Joe A. Gonsalves (D)43.3
AD-67Larry E. Townsend (D)25.8
AD-68Vincent Thomas (D)35.9
AD-69Kenneth Cory (D)7.4
AD-70Robert H. Burke (R)30.4
AD-71Robert E. Badham (R)45.6
AD-72John P. Quimby (D)41.2
AD-73Jerry Lewis (R)42.8
AD-74W. Craig Biddle (R)29.3
AD-75Raymond T. Seeley (R)3.8
AD-76Pete Wilson (R)46.2
AD-77Wadie P. Deddeh (D)41.0
AD-78E. Richard Barnes (R)24.0
AD-79Pete Chacon (D)11.7FlippedIncumbent lost
AD-80John Stull (R)47.4

California State Assembly

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