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1972 general · February 1, 1972

1972 Illinois election results

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

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Races118
Changed party0
Unopposed2%2 races
Incumbents defeated8

Illinois State Senate

D 29 · R 30

RaceWinnerWon byNotes
LD-1Bradley M. Glass (R)33.1
LD-2John A. Graham (R)34.6
LD-3David J. Regner (R)43.0
LD-4John J. Nimrod (R)26.4
LD-5Howard R. Mohr (R)20.9
LD-6Terrel E. Clarke (R)34.8
LD-7James C. Soper (R)27.8
LD-8Frank M. Ozinga (R)31.9
LD-9Don A. Moore (R)9.1
LD-10Jack E. Walker (R)27.0
LD-11Esther Saperstein (D)32.5
LD-12Ben E. Palmer (D)5.8
LD-13Dawn Clark Netsch (D)35.1
LD-14Norbert A. Kosinski (D)15.8
LD-15Howard W. Carroll (D)15.5
LD-16Howard T. Scholl (R)13.4Incumbent lost
LD-17Kenneth W. Course (D)8.7
LD-18Philip J. Rock (D)0.6
LD-19Harold M. Nudelman (D)58.1
LD-20Sam Romano (D)68.5
LD-21Raymond J. Welsh Jr. (D)56.2
LD-22Fred J. Smith (D)80.5
LD-23Richard M. Daley (D)48.2
LD-24Richard H. Newhouse (D)67.5
LD-25Donald T. Swinarski (D)26.6
LD-26Cecil A. Partee (D)Unopposed
LD-27Frank D. Savicaks (D)2.9
LD-28Thomas C. Hynes (D)35.9
LD-29Charles Chew (D)74.5
LD-30Daniel Dougherty (D)26.4
LD-31John H. Conolly (R)13.7
LD-32Karl Berning (R)18.3
LD-33Jack Schaffer (R)41.4
LD-34Thomas A. Keegan (D)13.2
LD-35John B. Roe (R)23.0
LD-36Don Wooten (D)29.8Incumbent lost
LD-37David C. Shapiro (R)12.7
LD-38William C. Harris (R)35.8
LD-39Robert W. Mitchler (R)15.7
LD-40Jack T. Knuepfer (R)30.5
LD-41Harris W. Fawell (R)50.3
LD-42James F. Bell (R)13.0
LD-43Edward McBroom (R)20.4
LD-44Harber H. Hall (R)8.8
LD-45Roger A. Sommer (R)0.7
LD-46Ralph Hudson Sours (R)18.0
LD-47Clifford B. Latherow (R)25.2
LD-48John Linebaugh Knuppel (D)0.4
LD-49A. C. Bartulis (R)7.0
LD-50John A. Davidson (R)7.5
LD-51Robert W. McCarthy (D)18.2
LD-52Stanley B. Weaver (R)3.6
LD-53Tom Merritt (R)16.7
LD-54Terry L. Bruce (D)8.6
LD-55James H. Donnewald (D)7.9
LD-56Sam M. Vadalabene (D)39.5
LD-57Kenneth Hall (D)37.0
LD-58Kenneth V. Buzbee (D)5.8
LD-59Gene Johns (D)5.8

Illinois House of Representatives

D 87 · R 89 · Other 1

RaceWinnerWon byNotes
RD-1Brian B. Duff · John Porter · Harold A. Katz (REP)17.8
RD-2John E. Friedland · Leo D. Lafleur · Richard A. Mugalian (REP)5.0
RD-3Donald L. Totten · Virginia B. Macdonald · Eugenia S. Chapman (REP)10.1
RD-4Robert S. Juckett · Eugene F. Schlickman · Aaron Jaffe (REP)9.1
RD-5Richard A. Walsh · Edward E. Bluthardt · Jack B. Williams (REP)4.8
RD-6William D. Walsh · Ronald K. Hoffman · Joseph P. McGah (REP)4.5
RD-7Joseph G. Sevcik · Henry J. Klosak · Gerald W. Shea (REP)8.9
RD-8Herbert Huskey · Romie J. Palmer · Harry Yourell (REP)10.2
RD-9William F. Mahar · Richard F. Kelly Jr. · Leland H. Rayson (REP)0.7Incumbent lost
RD-10Thomas H. Miller · Donald E. Arnell · L. Michael Getty (REP)4.5
RD-11Joseph R. Lundy · Arthur L. Berman · James P. McCourt (DEM)1.0Incumbent lost
RD-12Bruce L. Douglas · John Merlo · Arthur A. Telcser (DEM)8.2
RD-13James M. Houlihan · Robert L. Thompson · Paul J. Randolph (DEM)5.2
RD-14Charles J. Fleck Jr. · John B. Brandt · Bruce A. Farley (REP)Unopposed
RD-15Bernard B. Wolfe · William J. Laurino · Peter Piotrowicz Peters (DEM)6.4
RD-16Roger P. McAuliffe · Roman J. Kosinski · Ralph C. Capparelli (REP)1.7
RD-17Thaddeus Lechowicz · John F. Leon · Jacob John Wolf (DEM)2.4
RD-18Henry Hyde · Lawrence Diprima · Robert F. McParrtlin (REP)1.1
RD-19Benedict Garmisa · Michael L. Nardulli · Louis F. Capuzi (DEM)2.0
RD-20Victor A. Arrigo · Richard A. Carter · Peter C. Granata (DEM)2.8
RD-21Isaac Sims · Langdon Patrick · Vincent E. Molloy (DEM)6.8
RD-22Corneal A. Davis · James A. McLendon · Susan Catania (DEM)8.2
RD-23John G. Fary · Walter S. Kozubowski · John F. Wall (DEM)5.2
RD-24Robert E. Mann · Lewis A. H. Caldwell · Bernard E. Epton (DEM)7.6
RD-25Robert M. Terzich · Walter McAvoy · Leroy Walter Lemke (DEM)7.4
RD-26Harold Washington · Peggy Smith Martin · James C. Taylor (DEM)10.6
RD-27Edmund F. Kucharski · Michael Madigan · John J. Beatty (REP)0.1Incumbent lost
RD-28Daniel L. Houlihan · Emil Jones Jr. · Robert L. Dunne (DEM)1.4Incumbent lost
RD-29Raymond W. Ewell · Eugene M. Barnes · Robert H. Holloway (DEM)2.7Incumbent lost
RD-30Samuel C. Maragos · Frank Giglio · Philip W. Collins (DEM)3.2
RD-31Adeline Jay Geokaris · Ronald E. Griesheimer · John S. Matijevich (REP)4.0
RD-32W. J. Murphy · Daniel M. Pierce · Donald E. Deuster (REP)12.1
RD-33Calvin Skinner · R. Bruce Waddell · Thomas J. Hanahan (REP)9.6
RD-34E. J. Giorgi · W. Timothy Simms · Frank North (DEM)2.1
RD-35Merle K. Anderson · Harlan Rigney · Robert E. Brinkmeier (REP)10.2
RD-36Oral Jacobs · Ben Polk · Pete Pappas (DEM)2.6
RD-37Tobias Barry · Kenneth W. Miller · Joseph B. Ebbesen (DEM)12.6
RD-38Carl T. Hunsicker · John E. Grotberg · Joseph Fennessey (REP)11.6
RD-39Allan L. Schoeberlein · John Jerome Hill · William L. Kempiners (REP)3.1
RD-40Gene L. Hoffman · James Philip · William A. Redmond (REP)6.9
RD-41George Hudson · Robert C. Dyer · J. Glenn Schneider (REP)11.6
RD-42W. Robert Blair · George Sangmeister · Harry D. Leinenweber (REP)5.9
RD-43James R. Washburn · George Ryan · Jack R. Beaupre (REP)3.7
RD-44John R. Lauer · Gilbert L. Deavers · Gerald A. Bradley (REP)1.7
RD-45James Vonboeckman · Carl W. Soderstrom · John C. Kriegsman (DEM)1.5
RD-46Robert G. Day · Fred J. Tuerk · Fred J. Schraeder (REP)3.7
RD-47Clarence E. Neff · A. T. McMaster · Samuel M. McGrew (REP)4.8
RD-48Michael F. McClain · Gale Schisler · Mary Lou Kent (DEM)1.7Incumbent lost
RD-49Thomas C. Rose · Ken Boyle · John F. Sharp (REP)1.9
RD-50J. David Jones · James T. Londrigan · W. Joseph Gibbs (REP)6.7
RD-51Rolland F. Tipsword · Webber Borchers · John W. Alsup (DEM)3.5
RD-52John C. Hirschfeld · Paul Stone · Charles W. Clabaugh (REP)1.3
RD-53Charles M. Campbell · Robert Craig · William D. Cox (REP)6.2
RD-54Charles F. Keller · Roscoe D. Cunningham · Ben C. Blades (DEM)1.5
RD-55Harold D. Stedelin · Ben C. Harpstrite · Don E. Brummet (DEM)4.0
RD-56Leland J. Kennedy · Horace L. Calvo · Robert J. Walters (DEM)6.6
RD-57James G. Krause · Monroe L. Flinn · Celeste M. Stiehl (DEM)5.6
RD-58James D. Holloway · Ralph Dunn · Norbert Springer (DEM)2.0
RD-59C. L. McCormick · Clyde L. Choate · Richard O. Hart (REP)3.4

Illinois

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