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1971 general · November 2, 1971

1971 Virginia State Senate election results, district by district

Every Virginia State Senate 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 · 40 seats

After the electionD 33 · R 7
Races38
Changed party1
Unopposed26%10 races
Incumbents defeated1

Every district

D 33 · R 7

RaceWinnerWon byNotes
SD-1Hunter B. Andrews (D)Unopposed
SD-2Herbert B. Bateman (D)26.5
SD-3William E. Fears (D)36.9
SD-4Leslie D. Campbell Jr. (D)54.9
SD-5Stanley C. Walker · Peter K. Babalas · Thomas R. McNamara (D)9.0
SD-8A. Joseph Canada Jr. (R)10.6Incumbent lost
SD-9L. Douglas Wilder (D)UnopposedFlipped
SD-10Edward E. Willey (D)Unopposed
SD-11Frederick T. Gray (D)Unopposed
SD-12William F. Parkerson Jr. (D)39.3
SD-13Willard J. Moody (D)46.4
SD-14William H. Hodges (D)44.4
SD-15William V. Rawlings (D)Unopposed
SD-16Elmon T. Gray (D)24.4
SD-17James T. Edmunds (D)Unopposed
SD-18Howard P. Anderson (D)11.8
SD-19Coleman Bennett Yeatts (D)30.3
SD-20William F. Stone (D)80.5
SD-21William B. Hopkins (D)Unopposed
SD-22David F. Thornton (R)27.5
SD-23Robert S. Burruss Jr. (R)1.7
SD-24H. Dunlop Dawbarn (R)13.1
SD-25J. Harry Michael Jr. (D)31.1
SD-26George S. Aldhizer (D)11.2
SD-27William A. Truban (R)22.6
SD-28Paul W. Manns (D)Unopposed
SD-29H. Selwyn Smith (D)18.2
SD-30Leroy S. Bendheim (D)Unopposed
SD-31Edward M. Holland (D)21.3
SD-32Clive L. Duval II (D)7.4
SD-33Charles L. Waddell (D)7.5
SD-34Adelard L. Brault (D)16.8
SD-35Omer L. Hirst (D)12.6
SD-36Joseph V. Gartlan Jr. (D)13.4
SD-37James C. Turk (R)Unopposed
SD-38George F. Barnes (R)1.0
SD-39George M. Warren Jr. (D)10.5
SD-40John Chalkley Buchanan (D)11.0

Virginia 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