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1972 general · February 1, 1972

1972 Louisiana election results

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

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Races144
Changed party0
Unopposed58%84 races
Incumbents defeated2

Louisiana State Senate

D 39

RaceWinnerWon byNotes
SD-1Samuel B. Nunez (D)Unopposed
SD-2Nat Kiefer (D)42.0
SD-3Theodore M. Hickey (D)57.8
SD-4Adrian G. Duplantier (D)Unopposed
SD-5Michael H. Okeefe (D)Unopposed
SD-6Frederick Leitz Eagan (D)62.7
SD-7Charles G. Smither (D)40.9
SD-8Fritz Windhorst (D)45.9
SD-9Elwyn H. Nicholson (D)68.1
SD-10M. Joe Tiemann (D)3.1
SD-11Francis Lauricella (D)40.4
SD-12B. B. Rayburn (D)Unopposed
SD-13W. E. Dykes (D)62.2
SD-14Gaston Gerald (D)Unopposed
SD-15J. D. Deblieux (D)56.7
SD-16Kenneth E. Osterberger (D)Unopposed
SD-17J. E. Jumonville (D)58.2
SD-18Louis J. Lambert Jr. (D)Unopposed
SD-19Harvey Peltier (D)Unopposed
SD-20Claude Berwick Duval (D)Unopposed
SD-21Carl W. Bauer (D)Unopposed
SD-22Paul Hardy (D)Unopposed
SD-23Edgar G. Mouton Jr. (D)24.5
SD-24Robert K. Guillory (D)58.1
SD-25James E. Fontenot (D)Unopposed
SD-26Jesse Knowles (D)Unopposed
SD-27Robert Jones (D)Unopposed
SD-28John Adam Tassin Jr. (D)Unopposed
SD-29Cecil R. Blair (D)Unopposed
SD-30Bryan A. Poston (D)Unopposed
SD-31Paul Foshee (D)33.4
SD-32James H. Brown (D)28.3
SD-33Charles M. Brown (D)54.9
SD-34William D. Brown (D)Unopposed
SD-35K. D. Kilpatrick (D)Unopposed
SD-36Harold Montgomery (D)Unopposed
SD-37Jackson B. Davis (D)Unopposed
SD-38C. Kay Carter (D)Unopposed
SD-39Don Williamson (D)42.9

Louisiana House of Representatives

D 101 · R 4

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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