1970 general · November 3, 1970
1970 Georgia State Senate election results, district by district
Every Georgia State Senate district in the 1970 general election: winners, margins, unopposed seats and seats that changed party.
Seats after the election
Democrats controlled the chamber · 56 seats
After the electionD 50 · R 6
Races56
Changed party4
Unopposed77%43 races
Incumbents defeated2
Every district
D 50 · R 6
| Race | Winner | Won by | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| SD-1 | John R. Riley (D) | 42.0 | |
| SD-2 | William A. Searcey (D) | Unopposed | |
| SD-3 | Edward H. Zipperer (D) | 8.8 | |
| SD-4 | Joseph E. Kennedy (D) | Unopposed | |
| SD-5 | Ronald F. Adams (D) | 41.9 | |
| SD-6 | Roscoe Emory Dean Jr. (D) | Unopposed | |
| SD-7 | Frank Eldridge Jr. (D) | Unopposed | |
| SD-8 | Robert A. Rowan (D) | Unopposed | |
| SD-9 | Ford B. Spinks (D) | Unopposed | |
| SD-10 | Michael N. Herndon (D) | Unopposed | |
| SD-11 | Julian Webb (D) | Unopposed | |
| SD-12 | Al Holloway (D) | Unopposed | |
| SD-13 | Martin Young (D) | 54.1 | |
| SD-14 | Hugh Carter (D) | Unopposed | |
| SD-15 | Floyd Hudgins (D) | Unopposed | |
| SD-16 | Harry C. Jackson (D) | Unopposed | |
| SD-17 | Turner R. Scott (D) | Unopposed | |
| SD-18 | Stanley E. Smith Jr. (D) | Unopposed | |
| SD-19 | E. M. McDuffie (D) | Unopposed | |
| SD-20 | Hugh Gillis (D) | Unopposed | |
| SD-21 | Jay Carroll Cox (D) | Unopposed | |
| SD-22 | R. Eugene Holley (D) | Unopposed | |
| SD-23 | Jimmy Lester (D) | 26.0 | Flipped |
| SD-24 | Sam McGill (D) | Unopposed | |
| SD-25 | Culver Kidd (D) | Unopposed | |
| SD-26 | Bert Hamilton (D) | 5.2 | Flipped |
| SD-27 | Oliver C. Bateman (R) | Unopposed | |
| SD-28 | Robert H. Smalley Jr. (D) | Unopposed | |
| SD-29 | Render Hill (D) | Unopposed | |
| SD-30 | Lamar Plunkett (D) | Unopposed | |
| SD-31 | James I. Parker (D) | Unopposed | |
| SD-32 | Cyrus M. Chapman (D) | Unopposed | |
| SD-33 | J. H. Henderson Jr. (D) | Unopposed | |
| SD-34 | W. Armstrong Smith (R) | 7.7 | |
| SD-35 | Frank E. Coggin (D) | Unopposed | |
| SD-36 | Jack L. Stephens (D) | Unopposed | |
| SD-37 | Ed Garrard (D) | Unopposed | |
| SD-38 | Leroy Johnson (D) | Unopposed | |
| SD-39 | Horace T. Ward (D) | Unopposed | |
| SD-40 | E. Earl Patton Jr. (R) | Unopposed | |
| SD-41 | James W. Tysinger (R) | 37.6 | |
| SD-42 | Robert Walling (D) | Unopposed | |
| SD-43 | Joe S. Higginbotham (R) | 8.3 | |
| SD-44 | Terrell A. Starr (D) | 48.2 | |
| SD-45 | W. Don Ballard (D) | Unopposed | |
| SD-46 | Paul Broun (D) | Unopposed | |
| SD-47 | M. Parks Brown (D) | Unopposed | |
| SD-48 | Steve Reynolds (D) | 52.9 | |
| SD-49 | Howard T. Overby (D) | Unopposed | |
| SD-50 | Maylon London (D) | Unopposed | |
| SD-51 | Jack C. Fincher (D) | Unopposed | |
| SD-52 | Sam W. Doss (D) | Unopposed | |
| SD-53 | Billy Shaw Abney (D) | Unopposed | |
| SD-54 | W. W. Fincher Jr. (D) | Unopposed | |
| SD-55 | Max Cleland (D) | 13.3 | FlippedIncumbent lost |
| SD-56 | Paul Coverdell (R) | 2.7 | FlippedIncumbent lost |
Georgia 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