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1972 general · February 1, 1972

1972 California State Assembly election results, district by district

Every California State Assembly district in the 1972 general election: winners, margins, unopposed seats and seats that changed party.

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Seats after the election

Democrats controlled the chamber · 80 seats

After the electionD 51 · R 29
Races80
Changed party0
Unopposed5%4 races
Incumbents defeated3

Every district

D 51 · R 29

RaceWinnerWon byNotes
AD-1Pauline L. Davis (D)42.4
AD-2Barry Keene (D)2.0
AD-3Leroy F. Greene (D)34.1
AD-4Ray Johnson (R)0.6
AD-5John F. Dunlap (D)43.2
AD-6Eugene A. Chappie (R)35.6
AD-7William T. Bagley (R)24.4
AD-8Walter W. Powers (D)39.6
AD-9Edwin L. Zberg (D)40.8
AD-10Daniel E. Boatwright (D)3.5
AD-11John T. Knox (D)36.3
AD-12Robert T. Monagan (R)43.2
AD-13Carlos Bee (D)36.3
AD-14Robert W. Crown (D)Unopposed
AD-15March K. Fong (D)55.3
AD-16Ken Meade (D)42.7
AD-17John J. Miller (D)65.7
AD-18Willie L. Brown (D)52.1
AD-19Leo T. McCarthy (D)58.7
AD-20John L. Burton (D)41.2
AD-21Gordon Duffy (R)Unopposed
AD-22Richard D. Hayden (R)24.2
AD-23John F. Foran (D)64.0
AD-24John Vasconcellos (D)11.4
AD-25Alister McAlister (D)44.5
AD-26Dixon Arnett (R)44.9
AD-27Louis J. Papan (D)22.1
AD-28Raymond Gonzales (D)4.1Incumbent lost
AD-29Robert Nimmo (R)6.9
AD-30John E. Thurman (D)5.0
AD-31Frank Murphy Jr. (R)30.7
AD-32Ken Maddy (R)9.0
AD-33Ernest N. Mobley (R)31.4
AD-34Bob Wood (R)47.2
AD-35John V. Briggs (R)31.6
AD-36W. Don Macgillivray (R)0.5
AD-37Ken Macdonald (D)18.2
AD-38Carley V. Porter (D)36.0
AD-39Bill Bond (R)8.3
AD-40Alex P. Garcia (D)24.8
AD-41Jim Keysor (D)24.8
AD-42Bob Moretti (D)31.5
AD-43Mike D. Antonovich (R)40.0
AD-44Mike Cullen (D)45.3
AD-45Walter Karabian (D)18.5
AD-46Robert G. Beverly (R)43.9
AD-47Frank Lanterman (R)25.9
AD-48Richard Alatorre (D)21.8
AD-49William H. Lancaster (R)27.7
AD-50Joseph B. Montoya (D)3.2
AD-51Jack R. Fenton (D)54.3
AD-52Floyd L. Wakefield (R)8.6
AD-53Bill Greene (D)Unopposed
AD-54John L. E. Collier (R)47.9
AD-55Leon Ralph (D)Unopposed
AD-56Charles Warren (D)25.3
AD-57Howard L. Berman (D)16.0Incumbent lost
AD-58Harvey Johnson (D)16.0
AD-59Alan Sieroty (D)52.6
AD-60Paul Priolo (R)5.8
AD-61Henry A. Waxman (D)43.7
AD-62Newton R. Russell (R)45.8
AD-63Julian Dixon (D)45.0
AD-64Robert C. Cline (R)9.9
AD-65Frank Holoman (D)33.1
AD-66Joe A. Gonsalves (D)40.1
AD-67Larry E. Townsend (D)43.1
AD-68Vincent Thomas (D)36.2
AD-69Kenneth Cory (D)22.9
AD-70Robert H. Burke (R)21.8
AD-71Robert E. Badham (R)27.0
AD-72John P. Quimby (D)14.9
AD-73Jerry Lewis (R)42.4
AD-74Walter M. Ingalls (D)9.2
AD-75Raymond T. Seeley (R)12.4
AD-76Bob Wilson (D)7.4
AD-77Wadie P. Deddeh (D)45.7
AD-78Lawrence Kapiloff (D)2.5Incumbent lost
AD-79Pete Chacon (D)34.5
AD-80John Stull (R)41.6

California State Assembly

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