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1970 general · November 3, 1970

1970 Illinois State Senate election results, district by district

Every Illinois 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

The chamber was tied · 58 seats

After the electionD 29 · R 29
Races58
Changed party0
Unopposed2%1 races
Incumbents defeated7

Every district

D 29 · R 29

RaceWinnerWon byNotes
LD-1Arrington W. Russell (R)20.0
LD-2Arthur J. Bidwell (R)8.0
LD-3John A. Graham (R)34.1
LD-4John W. Carroll (R)3.9
LD-5Howard R. Mohr (R)1.2
LD-6Frank M. Ozinga (R)17.2
LD-7James C. Soper (R)23.3
LD-8Jack E. Walker (R)20.5
LD-9Terrel E. Clarke (R)13.9
LD-10Esther Saperstein (D)43.4
LD-11Robert E. Cherry (D)30.9
LD-12Daniel P. Obrien Jr. (D)5.3
LD-13Ben E. Palmer (D)25.5
LD-14Kenneth W. Course (D)16.2Incumbent lost
LD-15Thomas G. Lyons (D)18.8Incumbent lost
LD-16Robert J. Egan (D)13.6Incumbent lost
LD-17Thad L. Kusibab (D)60.5
LD-18Philip J. Rock (D)63.5
LD-19Norbert A. Kosinski (D)78.2
LD-20Sam Romano (D)74.8
LD-21Bernard S. Neistein (D)77.0
LD-22Fred J. Smith (D)85.7
LD-23Edward A. Nihill (D)65.7
LD-24Richard H. Newhouse (D)76.7
LD-25Theodore A. Swinarski (D)25.5Incumbent lost
LD-26Cecil A. Partee (D)86.9
LD-27Frank D. Savicaks (D)6.0Incumbent lost
LD-28Thomas C. Hynes (D)16.6Incumbent lost
LD-29Charles Chew (D)80.2
LD-30Daniel Dougherty (D)46.8
LD-31Robert Coulson (R)5.3
LD-32Karl Berning (R)18.0
LD-33Dennis J. Collins (R)18.4
LD-34Bertil T. Rosander (R)11.2
LD-35Everett E. Laughlin (R)30.9
LD-36W. K. Davidson (R)3.0
LD-37William C. Harris (R)26.0
LD-38Robert W. Mitchler (R)29.3
LD-39Jack T. Knuepfer (R)25.9
LD-40Harris W. Fawell (R)26.3
LD-41Mead Baltz (R)0.4
LD-42John Linebaugh Knuppel (D)1.5
LD-43Donald D. Carpenter (R)0.5
LD-44Tom Merritt (R)3.4
LD-45Ralph Hudson Sours (R)15.0
LD-46Edward McBroom (R)Unopposed
LD-47Stanley B. Weaver (R)15.2
LD-48Egbert B. Groen (R)17.3
LD-49G. William Horsley (R)5.8
LD-50Robert W. McCarthy (D)32.2
LD-51James H. Donnewald (D)17.2
LD-52William Lyons (D)15.0
LD-53Sam M. Vadalabene (D)12.0
LD-54Kenneth Hall (D)17.3
LD-55Terry L. Bruce (D)4.9
LD-56John G. Gilbert (R)7.5
LD-57Gene Johns (D)6.2Incumbent lost
LD-58Clifford B. Latherow (R)22.3

Illinois 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