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1972 general · February 1, 1972

1972 Iowa House of Representatives election results, district by district

Every Iowa House of Representatives district in the 1972 general election: winners, margins, unopposed seats and seats that changed party.

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Seats after the election

Republicans controlled the chamber · 100 seats

After the electionD 44 · R 56
Races100
Changed party0
Unopposed3%3 races
Incumbents defeated8

Every district

D 44 · R 56

RaceWinnerWon byNotes
HD-1Elmer H. Denherder (R)Unopposed
HD-2Lyle R. Stephens (R)13.9
HD-3Ingwer L. Hansen (R)28.2
HD-4Rollin C. Edelen (R)14.7
HD-5Lester D. Menke (R)12.6
HD-6Dennis L. Freeman (R)8.7
HD-7Robert A. Krause (D)12.2
HD-8Terry E. Branstad (R)17.9
HD-9Delwyn Stromer (R)19.9
HD-10Richard W. Welden (R)23.9
HD-11Alvin V. Miller (D)4.3
HD-12Lowell Norland (D)4.5Incumbent lost
HD-13Delbert L. Trowbridge (R)7.5
HD-14William B. Griffee (D)3.7
HD-15Donald D. Avenson (D)6.7
HD-16Semor C. Tofte (R)13.7
HD-17John C. Mendenhall (R)29.1
HD-18Harold C. McCormick (D)11.8
HD-19Joseph W. Clark (D)44.7
HD-20Bob Carr (D)18.7
HD-21Richard J. Norpel Sr. (D)24.8
HD-22Maurice Hennessey (D)2.6
HD-23Scott D. Newhard (D)10.9
HD-24Edgar H. Holden (R)20.0
HD-25John E. Patchett (D)12.2Incumbent lost
HD-26Joan Lipsky (R)34.7
HD-27James D. Wells (D)21.7
HD-28Wally E. Horn (D)33.7
HD-29B. Joseph Rinas (D)3.4
HD-30James D. Jordan (D)2.0
HD-31Russell L. Wyckoff (D)20.0
HD-32Kenneth D. Miller (D)22.4
HD-33Henry C. Wulff (R)22.1
HD-34Stephen J. Rapp (D)10.2
HD-35Donald L. Lippold (R)3.2
HD-36Mary Ohalloran (D)13.4
HD-37Chuck Grassley (R)41.5
HD-38Harold O. Fischer (R)40.6
HD-39Glenn F. Brockett (R)22.2
HD-40James C. West (R)24.9
HD-41Norman P. Dunlap (R)3.4
HD-42Reid W. Crawford (R)6.2Incumbent lost
HD-43Sonja Egenes (R)13.3
HD-44C. Raymond Fisher (R)4.4
HD-45Dale M. Cochran (D)20.3
HD-46Jerome Fitzgerald (D)28.9
HD-47R. G. Miller (D)6.8
HD-48Wayne Bennett (R)21.8
HD-49Bert Fullerton (R)10.8
HD-50Willis Junker (R)2.2
HD-51Donald V. Doyle (D)22.4
HD-52Louis A. Peterson (R)3.2Incumbent lost
HD-53Frank Crabb (R)15.1
HD-54Arlyn E. Danker (R)14.7
HD-55William R. Ferguson (R)0.7Incumbent lost
HD-56C. W. Hutchins (D)0.4
HD-57Andrew Varley (R)0.4
HD-58Glen Bortell (R)6.5
HD-59David Readinger (R)15.4
HD-60Robert M. Kreamer (R)24.8
HD-61Richard Byerly (D)15.4
HD-62Norman G. Jesse (D)30.6
HD-63Carl V. Nielsen (D)36.1
HD-64John H. Connors (D)31.7
HD-65Philip B. Hill (R)0.5
HD-66Edgar H. Bittle (R)21.0
HD-67James T. Caffrey (D)42.3
HD-68Jack Woods (D)44.6
HD-69Norman Roorda (R)2.5
HD-70Russell Dejong (R)13.5
HD-71Emil J. Husak (D)7.6
HD-72Rayman D. Logue (R)9.3
HD-73Arthur A. Small Jr. (D)37.9
HD-74William J. Hargrave (D)25.9
HD-75David M. Stanley (R)34.1
HD-76Richard F. Drake (R)16.8
HD-77Jay Mennenga (D)2.3Incumbent lost
HD-78Brice C. Oakley (R)2.3
HD-79Lavern R. Harvey (R)13.8
HD-80Emma Jean Kiser (R)5.4
HD-81Gregory D. Cusack (D)37.5
HD-82Thomas J. Higgins (D)11.6
HD-83Charles F. Strothman (R)0.1Incumbent lost
HD-84William R. Monroe Jr. (D)Unopposed
HD-85Adrian Brinck (D)1.1
HD-86John H. Clark (R)31.2
HD-87Floyd H. Millen (R)30.4
HD-88Keith H. Dunton (D)5.3
HD-89Charles N. Poncy (D)0.7
HD-90Mattie Harper (D)17.7
HD-91William E. Ewing (R)0.3
HD-92James I. Middleswart (D)Unopposed
HD-93John B. Brunow (D)1.9Incumbent lost
HD-94Quentin V. Anderson (R)9.6
HD-95Wendell C. Pellett (R)35.4
HD-96Horace Daggett (R)30.3
HD-97Lillian McElroy (R)38.4
HD-98Laverne Schroeder (R)43.5
HD-99Dennis E. Butler (R)7.2
HD-100George J. Knoke (R)3.9

Iowa House of Representatives

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