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1972 general · February 1, 1972

1972 Georgia State Senate election results, district by district

Every Georgia State Senate 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 · 56 seats

After the electionD 48 · R 8
Races56
Changed party0
Unopposed70%39 races
Incumbents defeated1

Every district

D 48 · R 8

RaceWinnerWon byNotes
SD-1John R. Riley (D)Unopposed
SD-2Wiley A. Wasden Jr. (R)8.8Incumbent lost
SD-3Edward H. Zipperer (D)Unopposed
SD-4Joseph E. Kennedy (D)Unopposed
SD-5Robert H. Bell (R)56.7
SD-6Roscoe Emory Dean Jr. (D)Unopposed
SD-7Frank Eldridge Jr. (D)Unopposed
SD-8Robert A. Rowan (D)Unopposed
SD-9Franklin Sutton (D)Unopposed
SD-10Michael N. Herndon (D)Unopposed
SD-11Julian Webb (D)Unopposed
SD-12Al Holloway (D)Unopposed
SD-13Martin Young (D)Unopposed
SD-14Hugh Carter (D)35.3
SD-15Floyd Hudgins (D)23.3
SD-16Harry C. Jackson (D)Unopposed
SD-17Bethel Salter (D)Unopposed
SD-18Ed Barker (D)26.8
SD-19E. M. McDuffie (D)Unopposed
SD-20Hugh Gillis (D)Unopposed
SD-21Jay Carroll Cox (D)Unopposed
SD-22R. Eugene Holley (D)Unopposed
SD-23Jimmy Lester (D)Unopposed
SD-24Sam McGill (D)Unopposed
SD-25Culver Kidd (D)Unopposed
SD-26Bert Hamilton (D)35.5
SD-27George N. Skene (R)1.2
SD-28Robert H. Smalley Jr. (D)Unopposed
SD-29Render Hill (D)Unopposed
SD-30J. Ebb Duncan (D)Unopposed
SD-31James I. Parker (D)Unopposed
SD-32Joe Thompson (D)Unopposed
SD-33J. H. Henderson Jr. (D)6.1
SD-34W. Armstrong Smith (R)12.5
SD-35Frank E. Coggin (D)Unopposed
SD-36Jack L. Stephens (D)46.2
SD-37Ed Garrard (D)29.5
SD-38Leroy Johnson (D)Unopposed
SD-39Horace T. Ward (D)Unopposed
SD-40Paul Coverdell (R)64.3
SD-41James W. Tysinger (R)Unopposed
SD-42Pierre Howard (D)27.2
SD-43George T. Warren II (R)33.2
SD-44Terrell A. Starr (D)Unopposed
SD-45W. Don Ballard (D)Unopposed
SD-46Paul Broun (D)Unopposed
SD-47M. Parks Brown (D)Unopposed
SD-48Steve Reynolds (D)Unopposed
SD-49Howard T. Overby (D)Unopposed
SD-50Maylon London (D)Unopposed
SD-51James Beverly Langford (D)Unopposed
SD-52Sam W. Doss (D)Unopposed
SD-53E. G. Summers (D)30.6
SD-54W. W. Fincher Jr. (D)Unopposed
SD-55Max Cleland (D)7.4
SD-56Tom Moore (R)20.9

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