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1972 general · February 1, 1972

1972 Illinois State Senate election results, district by district

Every Illinois 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 · 59 seats

After the electionD 29 · R 30
Races59
Changed party0
Unopposed2%1 races
Incumbents defeated2

Every district

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 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