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1970 general · November 3, 1970

1970 Utah House of Representatives election results, district by district

Every Utah 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

Democrats controlled the chamber · 69 seats

After the electionD 37 · R 31 · 1 other
Races69
Changed party19
Unopposed10%7 races
Incumbents defeated13

Every district

D 37 · R 31 · Other 1

RaceWinnerWon byNotes
HD-1Stanford P. Darger (R)7.4
HD-2Richard Carling (R)0.3
HD-3Beatrice Marchant (D)22.0
HD-4Pete Grundfossen (D)4.4FlippedIncumbent lost
HD-5Allan E. Mecham (R)39.7
HD-6Robert L. Backman (R)14.0
HD-7Charles Bennett (D)16.2
HD-8Isaac B. Humphrey (D)7.1FlippedIncumbent lost
HD-9Ennis Starr (D)33.9
HD-10Nellie Jack (D)56.4
HD-11Gerald L. Woodmansee (D)28.1
HD-12Neil D. Schaerrer (R)0.4
HD-13Samuel Taylor (D)37.4
HD-14M. Byron Fisher (R)3.0
HD-15Franklyn B. Matheson (R)19.9
HD-16Homer F. Wilkinson (R)30.6
HD-17Lorin Pace (R)18.1
HD-18T. Quentin Cannon (R)26.1
HD-19Richard Howe (D)Unopposed
HD-20Georgia Peterson (R)25.7
HD-21F. Mort Bagley (D)9.8Flipped
HD-22Lamar Vincent (D)8.0Flipped
HD-23C. Elmo Turner (R)0.1FlippedIncumbent lost
HD-24Millie Oberhansley Bernard (D)22.7
HD-25Harold Newman (D)3.7FlippedIncumbent lost
HD-26George Gygi (D)11.8FlippedIncumbent lost
HD-27Del L. Buckner (D)18.9
HD-28D. Leon Reese (D)53.2
HD-29Dallas Buckway (D)17.3
HD-30Ronald Halverson (R)Unopposed
HD-31Brian R. Florence (D)39.4
HD-32Ron Rencher (D)13.8FlippedIncumbent lost
HD-33Nathaniel Clark (D)34.9
HD-34C. Demontjudd Jr. (D)20.8
HD-35L. Glen Cottle (D)17.2FlippedIncumbent lost
HD-36Lee K. Hanson (D)1.4FlippedIncumbent lost
HD-37Dean Prior (D)4.6FlippedIncumbent lost
HD-38David Harvey (D)35.8
HD-39Stanley Leavitt (D)2.0Flipped
HD-40Howard C. Nielson (R)Unopposed
HD-41Hans Verland Andersen (R)6.0
HD-42Ted Davis (R)7.6
HD-43Marvin Warren (D)2.3Flipped
HD-44Robert O. Bowen (D)11.0Flipped
HD-45John P. Redd (R)24.2
HD-46J. Dean Hill (R)29.0
HD-47Robert M. Arbuckle (R)12.0
HD-48Rebecca Nalder (D)3.5FlippedIncumbent lost
HD-49Kenneth Gardner (D)12.9FlippedIncumbent lost
HD-50Charles Bullen (IND)22.2FlippedIncumbent lost
HD-51Dale Workman (R)93.3
HD-52Charles B. Leatham (R)Unopposed
HD-53Willis L. Hansen (R)1.1
HD-54W. Edward Kerr (R)0.0
HD-55Mike Dmitrich (D)Unopposed
HD-56John Garr (D)Unopposed
HD-57F. Chileon Halladay (D)16.1
HD-58John Smith (D)Unopposed
HD-59Edison J. Stephens (R)3.4
HD-60Daniel S. Dennis (R)11.2
HD-61Glade Sowards (R)29.5
HD-62Homer U. Petersen (D)2.6
HD-63Vance W. Aagard (R)16.5
HD-64Kenneth Silliman (R)18.7
HD-65Dewain Washburn (D)0.2Flipped
HD-66C. Alfred Frost (R)10.7
HD-67Hyrum F. Lee (D)2.4FlippedIncumbent lost
HD-68J. Harold Mitchell (R)6.4
HD-69Sidney Atkin (R)29.8

Utah 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