1970 primaries · May 1, 1970
1970 Georgia State Senate primary results, district by district
Every Georgia State Senate district in the 1970 primaries: winners, margins, unopposed seats and seats that changed party.
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Every district
| Race | Winner | Won by | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| SD-1 · Democratic primary | John R. Riley (D) | Unopposed | |
| SD-1 · Republican primary | Richard F. Millan (R) | Unopposed | |
| SD-2 · Democratic primary | William A. Searcey (D) | 3.1 | |
| SD-3 · Democratic primary | Edward H. Zipperer (D) | 35.5 | |
| SD-3 · Republican primary | Jimmy Burnsed (R) | Unopposed | |
| SD-4 · Democratic primary | Joseph E. Kennedy (D) | Unopposed | |
| SD-5 · Democratic primary | Ronald F. Adams (D) | Unopposed | |
| SD-5 · Republican primary | J. Sidney Flowers (R) | Unopposed | |
| SD-6 · Democratic primary | Roscoe Emory Dean Jr. (D) | 47.2 | |
| SD-7 · Democratic primary | Frank Eldridge Jr. (D) | 23.7 | |
| SD-8 · Democratic primary | Robert A. Rowan (D) | 63.4 | |
| SD-9 · Democratic primary | Ford B. Spinks (D) | Unopposed | |
| SD-10 · Democratic primary | Michael N. Herndon (D) | 16.2 | |
| SD-11 · Democratic primary | Julian Webb (D) | 21.1 | |
| SD-12 · Democratic primary | Al Holloway (D) | Unopposed | |
| SD-13 · Democratic primary | Martin Young (D) | 22.7 | |
| SD-13 · Republican primary | Ben M. Turner (R) | Unopposed | |
| SD-14 · Democratic primary | Hugh Carter (D) | Unopposed | |
| SD-15 · Democratic primary | Floyd Hudgins (D) | Unopposed | |
| SD-16 · Democratic primary | Harry C. Jackson (D) | Unopposed | |
| SD-17 · Democratic primary | Turner R. Scott (D) | 14.3 | |
| SD-18 · Democratic primary | No winner recorded | — | Incumbent lost |
| SD-19 · Democratic primary | E. M. McDuffie (D) | 7.7 | Incumbent lost |
| SD-20 · Democratic primary | Hugh Gillis (D) | Unopposed | |
| SD-21 · Democratic primary | Jay Carroll Cox (D) | 27.8 | |
| SD-22 · Democratic primary | R. Eugene Holley (D) | Unopposed | |
| SD-23 · Democratic primary | Jimmy Lester (D) | 38.8 | |
| SD-23 · Republican primary | R. Luke Delong (R) | Unopposed | |
| SD-24 · Democratic primary | Sam McGill (D) | Unopposed | |
| SD-25 · Democratic primary | Culver Kidd (D) | Unopposed | |
| SD-26 · Democratic primary | Bert Hamilton (D) | Unopposed | |
| SD-26 · Republican primary | Charles H. Jones (R) | Unopposed | |
| SD-27 · Republican primary | Oliver C. Bateman (R) | Unopposed | |
| SD-28 · Democratic primary | Robert H. Smalley Jr. (D) | Unopposed | |
| SD-29 · Democratic primary | Render Hill (D) | Unopposed | |
| SD-30 · Democratic primary | Lamar Plunkett (D) | Unopposed | |
| SD-31 · Democratic primary | James I. Parker (D) | 18.7 | |
| SD-32 · Democratic primary | Cyrus M. Chapman (D) | Unopposed | |
| SD-33 · Democratic primary | J. H. Henderson Jr. (D) | 49.2 | |
| SD-34 · Democratic primary | Jack Summers (D) | Unopposed | |
| SD-34 · Republican primary | W. Armstrong Smith (R) | Unopposed | |
| SD-35 · Democratic primary | Frank E. Coggin (D) | Unopposed | |
| SD-36 · Democratic primary | Jack L. Stephens (D) | Unopposed | |
| SD-37 · Democratic primary | Ed Garrard (D) | 18.8 | |
| SD-38 · Democratic primary | Leroy Johnson (D) | Unopposed | |
| SD-39 · Democratic primary | Horace T. Ward (D) | Unopposed | |
| SD-40 · Republican primary | E. Earl Patton Jr. (R) | Unopposed | |
| SD-41 · Democratic primary | Liane R. Levetan (D) | Unopposed | |
| SD-41 · Republican primary | James W. Tysinger (R) | 16.9 | |
| SD-42 · Democratic primary | Robert Walling (D) | Unopposed | |
| SD-43 · Democratic primary | Robert L. Mitchell (D) | Unopposed | |
| SD-43 · Republican primary | Joe S. Higginbotham (R) | Unopposed | |
| SD-44 · Democratic primary | Terrell A. Starr (D) | Unopposed | |
| SD-44 · Republican primary | Don F. Sewell (R) | Unopposed | |
| SD-45 · Democratic primary | W. Don Ballard (D) | 26.3 | |
| SD-46 · Democratic primary | Paul Broun (D) | 18.7 | |
| SD-47 · Democratic primary | M. Parks Brown (D) | 17.4 | |
| SD-48 · Democratic primary | Steve Reynolds (D) | Unopposed | |
| SD-48 · Republican primary | Philip Gresham (R) | Unopposed | |
| SD-49 · Democratic primary | Howard T. Overby (D) | 3.7 | |
| SD-50 · Democratic primary | Maylon London (D) | 28.7 | |
| SD-51 · Democratic primary | Jack C. Fincher (D) | Unopposed | |
| SD-52 · Democratic primary | Sam W. Doss (D) | Unopposed | |
| SD-53 · Democratic primary | Billy Shaw Abney (D) | Unopposed | |
| SD-54 · Democratic primary | W. W. Fincher Jr. (D) | Unopposed | |
| SD-55 · Democratic primary | Max Cleland (D) | Unopposed | |
| SD-55 · Republican primary | Ed Reeder (R) | Unopposed | |
| SD-56 · Democratic primary | Jack Hardy (D) | Unopposed | |
| SD-56 · Republican primary | Paul Coverdell (R) | Unopposed |
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