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1970 general · November 3, 1970

1970 Idaho State Senate election results, district by district

Every Idaho State Senate 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 · 35 seats

After the electionD 16 · R 19
Races35
Changed party2
Unopposed26%9 races
Incumbents defeated1

Every district

D 16 · R 19

RaceWinnerWon byNotes
LD-1James Stoicheff (D)27.6
LD-2Art Manley (D)20.0
LD-3C. C. Chase (D)Unopposed
LD-4Arthur Murphy (D)29.2
LD-5John Mix (D)Unopposed
LD-6Mike Mitchell (D)34.5
LD-7William C. Crutcher (D)Unopposed
LD-8Nels L. Solberg (D)18.2
LD-9Warren Brown (R)1.3
LD-10David Bivens (R)UnopposedFlipped
LD-11William L. Crookham (R)Unopposed
LD-12Leon H. Swenson (R)10.6
LD-13Walter Yarbrough (R)24.7
LD-14Vernon Brassey (R)Unopposed
LD-15Edith Miller Klein (R)38.6
LD-16Lyle Cobbs (R)22.3
LD-17H. Dean Summers (R)10.3
LD-18Wayne L. Kidwell (R)Unopposed
LD-19J. Wilson Steen (R)12.1
LD-20James Ellsworth (R)22.7
LD-21John Peavey (R)18.6
LD-22Don G. Fredericksen (D)12.5
LD-23Richard High (R)Unopposed
LD-24John Barker (R)Unopposed
LD-25Robert Saxvik (D)9.7FlippedIncumbent lost
LD-26Joseph Allen (R)17.2
LD-27Neil Miller (D)18.0
LD-28Ray Rigby (D)7.2
LD-29J. Marsden Williams (R)3.5
LD-30W. Fisher Ellsworth (R)3.0
LD-31Richard Egbert (D)3.6
LD-32Reed Budge (R)17.1
LD-33John Evans V. (D)35.6
LD-34Darrell V. Manning (D)35.5
LD-35Chick Bilyeu (D)32.4

Idaho 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