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1972 general · February 1, 1972

1972 Idaho State Senate election results, district by district

Every Idaho 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

Republicans controlled the chamber · 35 seats

After the electionD 12 · R 23
Races35
Changed party0
Unopposed23%8 races
Incumbents defeated4

Every district

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 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