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1972 general · February 1, 1972

1972 Idaho election results

Every race on Idaho's ballot in the 1972 general election: winners, margins and seats that changed party.

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Races70
Changed party0
Unopposed13%9 races
Incumbents defeated12

Idaho State Senate

D 12 · R 23

RaceWinnerWon byNotes
LD-1James Stoicheff (D)17.5
LD-2Ivan Hanson (R)2.3Incumbent lost
LD-3C. C. Chase (D)Unopposed
LD-4Arthur Murphy (D)Unopposed
LD-5Orval M. Snow (D)9.3
LD-6Mike Mitchell (D)Unopposed
LD-7A. White (D)Unopposed
LD-8E. H. Jack Tacke (D)8.3
LD-9Warren Brown (R)10.3
LD-10David Bivens (R)49.0
LD-11W. Dean Abrahams (R)23.0
LD-12Leon H. Swenson (R)Unopposed
LD-13Phil Batt (R)25.0
LD-14Vernon Brassey (R)21.5
LD-15Edith Miller Klein (R)27.9
LD-16Lyle Cobbs (R)40.1
LD-17H. Dean Summers (R)16.0
LD-18Dave Eskelin (R)4.0
LD-19Walter Yarbrough (R)Unopposed
LD-20James Ellsworth (R)45.6
LD-21John Peavey (R)21.9
LD-22J. Wilson Steen (R)18.0
LD-23James Yost (R)2.0Incumbent lost
LD-24John Barker (R)38.8
LD-25Richard High (R)57.2
LD-26Robert Saxvik (D)0.9
LD-27George Katseanes (R)0.8Incumbent lost
LD-28Dick Smith (R)1.9
LD-29J. Marsden Williams (R)14.5
LD-30Dane Watkins (R)7.4
LD-31Richard Egbert (D)17.8
LD-32Reed Budge (R)34.3
LD-33John Evans V. (D)Unopposed
LD-34Robert Kinghorn (D)Unopposed
LD-35Chick Bilyeu (D)2.0Incumbent lost

Idaho House of Representatives

D 19 · R 51

RaceWinnerWon byNotes
LD-1Marion Davidson · Russell Bishop (DEM)1.4Incumbent lost
LD-2Gary Ingram · C. W. Neider (R)4.9Incumbent lost
LD-3B. E. Lewis · Emery Hedlund (REP)3.7Incumbent lost
LD-4Thomas Snyder · Dorothy McCann (D)9.2
LD-5Harold Snow · Norma Dobler (REP)1.9
LD-6Bruce Sweeney · Joe N. Wagner (D)Unopposed
LD-7Claud Judd · Leo Butler (D)20.7
LD-8Dale Branson · Harold W. Reid (D)1.1
LD-9David Little · Herbert Fitz (R)2.3Incumbent lost
LD-10Walter E. Little · George Danielson (R)18.1
LD-11Carroll Dean · James H. Elgin (R)26.7
LD-12Ralph Gines · C. L. Otter (R)10.8
LD-13Maurice Clements · Percival A. Wesche (R)11.9
LD-14Larry Jackson · Michael E. McAllister (R)4.7
LD-15Edward W. Rice · Peggy Bunting (R)13.3
LD-16Bill Onweiler · Paul Worthen (R)4.1
LD-17H. Ferd Koch · E. Don Copple (R)1.0
LD-18Jack C. Kennevick · Rudy Andersen (R)3.1
LD-19John F. Reardon · Lyman Gene Winchester (R)9.5
LD-20Wayne E. Tibbits · Ray Infanger (R)6.6
LD-21Steve Antone · E. V. McHan (R)16.9
LD-22Virgil Kraus · Charles Barron (R)2.7Incumbent lost
LD-23Vernon Ravenscroft · Earl C. Greenawalt (R)17.4
LD-24William Roberts · William Lanting (R)21.6
LD-25Ralph Olmstead · Ray Lincoln (R)27.4
LD-26J. Vard Chatburn · Ernest A. Hale (R)3.6
LD-27Allan F. Larsen · Israel Merrill (REP)5.7Incumbent lost
LD-28F. Melvin Hammond · Doyle Miner (DEM)2.8Incumbent lost
LD-29Kurt L. Johnson · C. Wendell Miller (REP)1.4
LD-30Elaine Kearnes · Russell Fogg (R)5.3
LD-31John O. Sessions · Clifford Scoresby (R)19.0
LD-32Lloyd Dunn · Angus Condie (R)2.3
LD-33Lester A. Hartvigsen · John Eyre (D)5.9
LD-34Patricia McDermott · Wayne Loveless (D)7.8
LD-35Jerry Albert Johnson · Ralph Wheeler (DEM)0.6Incumbent lost

Idaho

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