1972 general · February 1, 1972
1972 Maine House of Representatives election results, district by district
Every Maine House of Representatives district in the 1972 general election: winners, margins, unopposed seats and seats that changed party.
Seats after the election
Republicans controlled the chamber · 151 seats
After the electionD 72 · R 79
Races114
Changed party0
Unopposed8%9 races
Incumbents defeated12
Every district
D 72 · R 79
| Race | Winner | Won by | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| HD-1 | Louis Jalbert · Georgette B. Berube · Albert E. Cote · Emile Jacques · Roland D. Tanguay · George F. Ricker (D) | 5.5 | |
| HD-2 | Bertrand L. Pontbriand · Frank M. Drigotas · Peter T. Snowe · Joyce E. Lewis (DEM) | 0.8 | Incumbent lost |
| HD-3 | James E. Tierney (D) | 18.6 | |
| HD-4 | Arthur P. Lynch (D) | 8.6 | |
| HD-5 | Philip E. Dunn (R) | 3.6 | Incumbent lost |
| HD-6 | Leighton Cooney (D) | 24.0 | |
| HD-7 | Ezra James Briggs · Hayes E. Gahagan (R) | 2.2 | |
| HD-8 | Floyd M. Haskell · Roy A. Bither (R) | 20.6 | |
| HD-9 | James Dunleavy · Harry K. Parks (DEM) | 5.6 | Incumbent lost |
| HD-10 | Thomas P. Albert (D) | 27.5 | |
| HD-11 | Luman P. Mahany (D) | 16.1 | |
| HD-12 | Vaughan A. Walker (R) | 28.4 | |
| HD-13 | Louis F. Finemore (R) | 45.1 | |
| HD-14 | Herschel L. Good (R) | 16.1 | |
| HD-15 | Harold Bragdon (R) | 1.1 | |
| HD-16 | John L. Martin (D) | Unopposed | |
| HD-17 | Valier E. Morin (D) | Unopposed | |
| HD-18 | Edward A. McHenry (D) | Unopposed | |
| HD-19 | Allen J. Ouellete (D) | Unopposed | |
| HD-20 | Jane Callan Kilroy · Anne M. Boudreau · Laurence E. Connolly · John B. Cottrell · Mildred F. Wheeler · Thomas J. Mulkern · Mary Najarian · Thomas R. Lapointe · Gerald E. Talbot · John B. Obrien · Domenico A. Santoro (D) | 0.5 | |
| HD-21 | Stephen L. Perkins · E. Lyle Flynn · James J. Conley (REP) | 0.2 | Incumbent lost |
| HD-22 | J. Robert Carrier · Maurice Aime Deshaies (D) | 4.5 | |
| HD-23 | Patrick N. McTeague · Bertrand A. Lacharite (D) | 2.2 | |
| HD-24 | Patricia S. Knight (R) | 7.3 | |
| HD-25 | David G. Huber (R) | 59.7 | |
| HD-26 | Richard D. Hewes (R) | 35.5 | |
| HD-27 | Calvin H. Hamblen (R) | 0.5 | |
| HD-28 | Thomas J. Peterson (D) | 9.0 | Incumbent lost |
| HD-29 | Owen L. Hancock (D) | 17.4 | |
| HD-30 | Larry E. Simpson (R) | Unopposed | |
| HD-31 | William J. Garsoe (R) | 27.6 | |
| HD-32 | Patrick T. Jackson (R) | 39.4 | |
| HD-33 | Nancy Randall Clark (D) | 14.4 | Incumbent lost |
| HD-34 | Sidney D. Maxwell (D) | 6.7 | |
| HD-35 | Richard G. Morton (R) | 28.5 | |
| HD-36 | Roswell Dyar (R) | 19.3 | |
| HD-37 | Lawrence P. Greenlaw Jr. (D) | 19.5 | Incumbent lost |
| HD-38 | Eugene L. Churchill (R) | 62.0 | |
| HD-39 | Cecil H. McNally (R) | 28.1 | |
| HD-40 | James C. Macleod (R) | 49.0 | |
| HD-41 | Walter L. Bunker (R) | 44.3 | |
| HD-42 | Stanley E. Sproul · Brooks Brown Jr. · David Bustin (REP) | 0.4 | Incumbent lost |
| HD-43 | Richard A. Carey · Robert C. Ferris · Arthur E. Genest (DEM) | 2.1 | |
| HD-44 | Norman P. Whitzell (D) | 7.9 | |
| HD-45 | Donald V. Carter (D) | 22.6 | |
| HD-46 | Guy I. Hunter (R) | 19.1 | |
| HD-47 | Carroll W. Farrington (R) | 21.5 | |
| HD-48 | Stanley F. Shaw (R) | 21.6 | |
| HD-49 | Charles G. Dow (D) | 1.2 | |
| HD-50 | David R. Ault (R) | 17.2 | |
| HD-51 | Francis B. B. Brawn (R) | 22.5 | |
| HD-52 | David F. Emery (R) | 45.1 | |
| HD-53 | Edwin F. Maddox (R) | 0.5 | |
| HD-54 | Albert W. Hoffses (R) | Unopposed | |
| HD-55 | Dorothy McCormick (R) | 15.3 | |
| HD-56 | Linwood E. Palmer Jr. (R) | 10.2 | |
| HD-57 | Ransom P. Kelley (R) | 5.2 | |
| HD-58 | Edward B. Lewis (R) | Unopposed | |
| HD-59 | Albert Theirault (D) | 44.8 | |
| HD-60 | Emile J. Fraser (D) | 42.7 | |
| HD-61 | John H. Rollins (R) | 41.8 | |
| HD-62 | Jacob J. Immonen (R) | 41.9 | |
| HD-63 | Lowell D. Henley (R) | 35.7 | |
| HD-64 | C. Allan Trumbull (R) | 39.5 | |
| HD-65 | J. Jay Willard (R) | 19.7 | |
| HD-66 | John R. McKernan Jr. · Raymond J. Curran · Frank John Murray · Edward C. Kelleher · Robert Soulas (REP) | 0.8 | Incumbent lost |
| HD-67 | John M. Norris (R) | 10.8 | |
| HD-68 | Joseph E. Binnette (D) | 21.0 | |
| HD-69 | Leon J. Crommett (D) | 4.7 | Incumbent lost |
| HD-70 | Stewart Smith (D) | 6.0 | |
| HD-71 | Roderick E. Farnham (R) | 11.3 | Incumbent lost |
| HD-72 | Lloyd Littlefield (R) | 36.2 | |
| HD-73 | Harold J. Keyte (D) | 16.9 | |
| HD-74 | Harold E. Barnes (R) | 10.1 | |
| HD-75 | Ethel B. Baker (R) | 19.7 | |
| HD-76 | Theodore S. Curtis Jr. (R) | 27.5 | |
| HD-77 | James Dudley (D) | Unopposed | |
| HD-78 | Walter W. Cameron (R) | 9.6 | |
| HD-79 | Edna M. Murchison (R) | 2.7 | |
| HD-80 | Walter A. Birt (R) | 52.4 | |
| HD-81 | Charlotte H. White (R) | 28.6 | |
| HD-82 | Claude N. Trask (R) | 2.8 | |
| HD-83 | Douglas M. Smith (D) | 42.7 | |
| HD-84 | Kathleen Watson Goodwin · Rodney E. Ross (DEM) | Unopposed | |
| HD-85 | Bert D. Merrill (R) | 25.3 | |
| HD-86 | Lorraine N. Chonko (D) | 2.4 | Incumbent lost |
| HD-87 | C. Everett Dam (D) | 17.7 | |
| HD-88 | William R. Lawry (D) | 32.2 | |
| HD-89 | Roosevelt T. Susi (R) | 23.8 | |
| HD-90 | Frederick C. Herrick (R) | 1.5 | |
| HD-91 | Glenys W. Berry (R) | 9.3 | |
| HD-92 | Raymond N. Faucher (D) | 4.7 | |
| HD-93 | Donald J. Webber (D) | 17.2 | |
| HD-94 | Lee E. Evans (R) | 26.9 | |
| HD-95 | Myron E. Wood (R) | 16.7 | |
| HD-96 | Melvin A. Shute (R) | 22.3 | |
| HD-97 | Bertram E. Davis (R) | 13.9 | |
| HD-98 | Dorothy B. Kelley (R) | 24.6 | |
| HD-99 | John A. Donaghy (R) | 5.7 | |
| HD-100 | Kenneth A. Mills (D) | 27.0 | |
| HD-101 | Harold L. Silverman (R) | 34.8 | |
| HD-102 | Robert M. Farley · Armand Fecteau · Carl F. Sheltra (D) | 10.3 | |
| HD-103 | Roland A. Gauthier · Howard A. Chick (DEM) | 10.2 | |
| HD-104 | Barry J. Hobbins (D) | 10.0 | |
| HD-105 | Henry W. Hodgdon (R) | 19.3 | |
| HD-106 | James K. McMahon (R) | 53.3 | |
| HD-107 | Leatrice Morin (D) | 19.6 | |
| HD-108 | Neil Rolde (D) | 22.3 | |
| HD-109 | Harland C. Goodwin (D) | 12.5 | |
| HD-110 | Ralph C. Cressey (R) | 27.8 | |
| HD-111 | Richard W. Stillings (R) | 37.9 | |
| HD-112 | Elmont S. Tyndale (R) | 48.5 | |
| HD-113 | Philip P. Berry (D) | 19.8 | |
| HD-114 | Norman G. Pratt (R) | 3.7 |
Maine House of Representatives
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