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1970 general · November 3, 1970

1970 Colorado House of Representatives election results, district by district

Every Colorado House of Representatives district in the 1970 general election: winners, margins, unopposed seats and seats that changed party.

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Seats after the election

Republicans controlled the chamber · 65 seats

After the electionD 27 · R 38
Races65
Changed party5
Unopposed15%10 races
Incumbents defeated3

Every district

D 27 · R 38

RaceWinnerWon byNotes
HD-1Dennis Gallagher (D)23.9
HD-2Ruben Valdez (D)27.5
HD-3Wayne N. Knox (D)26.6
HD-4Charles Demoulin (D)24.1
HD-5Hubert M. Safran (D)13.1
HD-6Dominic A. Coloroso (D)39.3
HD-7Betty Benavidez (D)48.2
HD-8Richard D. Lamm (D)14.2
HD-9Paul L. Hamilton (D)Unopposed
HD-10Donald J. Horst (D)6.9
HD-11Jean K. Bain (R)9.6
HD-12Carl Gustafson (R)15.5
HD-13Ted Bryant (R)39.7
HD-14Don Friedman (R)46.7
HD-15Jerry Rose (D)68.3
HD-16Gerald Kopel (D)39.2
HD-17Charles B. Lindley (R)0.5
HD-18Morton L. Pepper (R)1.4
HD-19Harold Evetts (D)0.9FlippedIncumbent lost
HD-20Kay M. Munson (R)10.8
HD-21Harrie E. Hart (R)27.1
HD-22C. M. Edmonds (R)8.8
HD-23W. J. Chestnutt (R)10.9
HD-24Robert E. Johnson (R)7.5
HD-25George Fentress (R)Unopposed
HD-26Floyd M. Sack (R)Unopposed
HD-27John M. Byerly (R)32.8
HD-28Laura Miller (R)6.0
HD-29John S. Carroll (D)30.2
HD-30Eldon W. Cooper (D)Unopposed
HD-31Anthony J. Mullen (D)8.1
HD-32Edward Newman (R)6.6
HD-33Thomas T. Farley (D)58.1
HD-34Robert A. Jackson (D)38.2
HD-35Bob Kirscht (D)3.3
HD-36Leo Lucero (D)32.2Flipped
HD-37Betty Ann Dittemore (R)33.6
HD-38Austin F. Moore (R)26.1
HD-39Ralph A. Cole (R)26.8
HD-40John D. Fuhr (R)35.8
HD-41S. G. Arnold (R)Unopposed
HD-42Eric W. Schmidt (R)9.3
HD-43Phil Stonebraker (R)7.4Flipped
HD-44Carl E. Showalter (R)10.8
HD-45Roy H. Shore (R)22.6
HD-46Walter Younglund (R)1.2
HD-47Ronald H. Strahle (R)Unopposed
HD-48Ray H. Black (R)42.8
HD-49T. John Baer Jr. (D)8.6
HD-50Tillman Bishop (R)12.2FlippedIncumbent lost
HD-51Forrest G. Burns (D)Unopposed
HD-52Lowell E. Sonnenberg (R)18.6
HD-53Parker D. Sooter (D)26.1
HD-54Durant Davidson (D)4.6FlippedIncumbent lost
HD-55Phillip Massari (D)1.1
HD-56C. P. Lamb (R)Unopposed
HD-57Robert Schafer (R)Unopposed
HD-58Ralph E. Porter (R)Unopposed
HD-59Harold R. Koster (R)2.0
HD-60Roy E. Wells (D)0.5
HD-61Michael L. Strang (R)14.3
HD-62W. P. Hinman (R)28.5
HD-63Clarence Quinlan (R)27.5
HD-64Harold L. McCormick (R)6.4
HD-65Hiram A. McNeil (D)5.4

Colorado House of Representatives

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