1971 general · November 2, 1971

1971 Virginia House of Delegates election results, district by district

Every Virginia House of Delegates district in the 1971 general election: winners, margins, unopposed seats and seats that changed party.

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Seats after the election

Democrats controlled the chamber · 100 seats

After the electionD 73 · R 24 · 3 other
Races49
Changed party6
Unopposed24%12 races
Incumbents defeated6

Every district

D 73 · R 24 · Other 3

RaceWinnerWon byNotes
HD-1Orby L. Cantrell · Ford C. Quillen (D)4.1
HD-2W. L. Lemmon · G. R. C. Stuart (D)4.8
HD-3Donald A. McGlothlin · C. D. Dunford (D)5.9Incumbent lost
HD-4A. A. Campbell (D)12.4
HD-5C. Jefferson Stafford (R)8.7FlippedIncumbent lost
HD-6John N. Dalton · Jerry H. Geisler (R)9.0
HD-7Ray L. Garland · John C. Towler (REP)0.0
HD-8C. Richard Cranwell · Raymond R. Robrecht (DEM)1.1
HD-9Lacey E. Putney · Charles W. Gunn Jr. (IND)13.2
HD-10Dudley J. Emick Jr. (D)10.7Flipped
HD-11William M. Dudley · Donald G. Pendleton (D)4.3
HD-12Richard W. Elliott (D)12.7Incumbent lost
HD-13Randall O. Reynolds · A. L. Philpott · Garry G. Debruhl (D)8.6
HD-14Calvin W. Fowler (D)Unopposed
HD-15A. R. Giesen Jr. · O. Beverley Roller (R)Unopposed
HD-16I. Clinton Miller · Nathan H. Miller (R)11.4
HD-17Duncan C. Gibb · Raymond R. Guest Jr. (DEM)5.4
HD-18Vincent F. Callahan · Dorothy McDiarmid · David A. Sutherland · Carrington Williams · Wyatt B. Durette Jr. (REP)0.3Incumbent lost
HD-19Stanford E. Parris · Warren E. Barry · Thomas Jefferson Rothrock · Warren J. Davis · James E. Dillard · William H. Moss (REP)0.0
HD-20Stanley A. Owens · Lucas D. Phillips · William R. Murphy (D)3.9
HD-21Frank E. Mann · James M. Thomson (D)0.4
HD-22George Mason Green Jr. · John L. Melnick · Mary A. Marshall (REP)0.3Incumbent lost
HD-23Herbert N. Morgan (R)0.1
HD-24Robert R. Gwathmey · Benjamin H. Woodbridge Jr. (DEM)9.6
HD-25Daniel Slaughter (D)Unopposed
HD-26Daniel G. Vancleif · Thomas J. Michie Jr. (D)0.7
HD-27Claude W. Anderson (D)Unopposed
HD-28Franklin M. Slayton (D)Unopposed
HD-29C. W. Cleaton (D)35.7
HD-30William Roy Smith (D)29.2Flipped
HD-31L. O. Scott (IND)1.2FlippedIncumbent lost
HD-32V. Earl Dickinson (D)10.6Flipped
HD-33Edward E. Lane · George E. Allen Jr. · Eleanor P. Sheppard · Philip B. Morris · Carl E. Bain (DEM)0.6
HD-34Edwin H. Ragsdale · T. Dix Sutton · Robert B. Ball Sr. (REP)1.0
HD-35William Ferguson Reid (D)13.1
HD-36George W. Jones · Alexander B. McMurtrie (REP)1.1
HD-37C. Hardaway Marks (D)Unopposed
HD-38L. Cleaves Manning · Lester E. Schlitz · Robert E. Gibson · Stanley G. Bryan (D)7.2
HD-39J. Warren White Jr. · Thomas W. Moss Jr. · William P. Robinson Sr. · George H. Heilig · Albert Teich Jr. · Joseph A. Leafe · Robert E. Washington (DEM)0.3
HD-40Bev R. Middleton · Glenn McClanan · Owen Pickett (D)Unopposed
HD-43Sam E. Pope · J. Samuel Glasscock (D)13.9
HD-45L. Ray Ashworth (D)23.6
HD-46George N. McMath (D)UnopposedFlipped
HD-47Walther B. Fidler (D)Unopposed
HD-48John Warren Cooke (D)Unopposed
HD-49Theodore V. Morrison Jr. · Lewis A. McMurran Jr. · Alan Diamonstein (D)8.4
HD-50Richard M. Bagley · John D. Gray (D)Unopposed
HD-51Russell M. Carneal (D)Unopposed
HD-52Robert E. Quinn (D)40.6

Virginia House of Delegates

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