1970 general · November 3, 1970

1970 Ohio House of Representatives election results, district by district

Every Ohio 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 · 99 seats

After the electionD 45 · R 54
Races99
Changed party12
Unopposed10%10 races
Incumbents defeated6

Every district

D 45 · R 54

RaceWinnerWon byNotes
HD-1Fred B. Hadley (R)30.6
HD-2Robert L. Wilhelm (R)Unopposed
HD-3Jack P. Oliver (R)18.3
HD-4Charles F. Kurfess (R)Unopposed
HD-5Robert D. Schuck (R)23.4
HD-6Walter L. White (R)23.8
HD-7Robert E. Netzley (R)15.5
HD-8Rod Hughes (R)18.1
HD-9Chas E. Fry (R)15.7
HD-10John M. Scott (R)10.2
HD-11Corwin Nixon (R)24.3
HD-12William H. Mussey (R)0.5
HD-13Howard A. Knight (R)6.8
HD-14Ethel G. Swanbeck (R)15.1
HD-15Paul E. Pfeifer (R)9.7
HD-16Lloyd George Kerns (R)32.4
HD-17Richard M. Christiansen (D)Unopposed
HD-18Kenneth B. Creasy (R)32.5
HD-19Raymond P. Luther (R)3.8Flipped
HD-20Joseph F. Hiestand (R)7.9
HD-21Myrl H. Shoemaker (D)Unopposed
HD-22Vernal G. Riffe Jr. (D)Unopposed
HD-23William Batchelder (R)28.5
HD-24John E. Johnson (D)4.3FlippedIncumbent lost
HD-25Don S. Maddux (D)29.2
HD-26Carlton E. Davidson (R)16.0
HD-27Ralph Welker (R)15.6
HD-28David Weissert (R)20.3
HD-29Sam Speck (R)26.5
HD-30A. G. Lancione (D)Unopposed
HD-31John Baker (R)2.2
HD-32William E. Hinig (D)27.6
HD-33Arthur R. Bowers (D)38.0
HD-34John P. Wargo (D)17.1FlippedIncumbent lost
HD-35Marcus A. Roberto (D)3.3FlippedIncumbent lost
HD-36James Mueller (D)6.6FlippedIncumbent lost
HD-37Joseph P. Tulley (R)4.8
HD-38E. W. Lampson (R)10.8
HD-39David E. Armbruster (D)1.1Flipped
HD-40Thomas N. Kindness (R)17.1
HD-41Ike Thompson (D)76.5
HD-42Larry G. Smith (D)Unopposed
HD-43Anthony J. Russo (D)28.7
HD-44John D. Thompson Jr. (D)Unopposed
HD-45Robert W. Jaskulski (D)Unopposed
HD-46Troy Lee James (D)67.6
HD-47Patrick A. Sweeney (D)50.4
HD-48James J. Flannery (D)66.3
HD-49Richard F. Celeste (D)22.0Flipped
HD-50James P. Celebrezze (D)50.8
HD-51Gertrude E. Polcar (R)2.6
HD-52George E. Mastics (R)36.9
HD-53George V. Voinovich (R)34.5
HD-54John G. Sweeney (D)7.7Flipped
HD-55Leonard Ostrovsky (D)19.4
HD-56Harry J. Lehman (D)3.8FlippedIncumbent lost
HD-57Walter A. Rutkowski (D)35.2
HD-58Lawrence E. Hughes (R)Unopposed
HD-59Alan E. Norris (R)18.0
HD-60James L. Baumann (D)4.6Flipped
HD-61Mack Pemberton (R)24.4
HD-62Doris J. Jones (R)8.7
HD-63Phale D. Hale (D)29.1
HD-64Keith McNamara (R)2.4
HD-65John A. Bechtold (R)25.8
HD-66Dale G. Schmidt (R)11.4
HD-67Frank H. Mayfield (R)29.5
HD-68Chester T. Cruze (R)10.8
HD-69James W. Rankin (D)41.6
HD-70Norman A. Murdock (R)31.7
HD-71Gordon M. Scherer (R)35.3
HD-72William L. Mallory (D)53.1
HD-73Thomas Pottenger (R)29.1
HD-74J. Leonard Camera (D)50.1
HD-75Donald Pease (D)15.2
HD-76John Galbraith (R)24.3
HD-77Donald R. Fraser (R)11.5
HD-78Casey Jones (D)41.7
HD-79Arthur Wilkowski (D)37.9
HD-80Barney Quilter (D)46.2
HD-81John V. McCarthy (D)49.0
HD-82George D. Tablack (D)68.0
HD-83Walter H. Paulo (R)10.6
HD-84Frederick N. Young (R)33.7
HD-85David D. Albritton (R)23.1
HD-86Tom Fries (D)9.7Flipped
HD-87Tony Hall (D)41.3
HD-88C. J. McLin Jr. (D)46.5
HD-89Ross G. Heintzelman (R)2.0
HD-90James Thorpe (R)12.4
HD-91Robert E. Levitt (R)29.8
HD-92Richard G. Reichel (R)14.1
HD-93Morris L. Boyd (R)0.7
HD-94Robert A. Manning (R)9.8
HD-95Claude M. Fiocca (D)27.7
HD-96David L. Headley (D)46.5
HD-97John Poda Jr. (D)32.9
HD-98Robert A. Nader (D)11.0FlippedIncumbent lost
HD-99Michael Delbane (D)28.1

Ohio 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