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1972 general · February 1, 1972

1972 Michigan House of Representatives election results, district by district

Every Michigan House of Representatives district in the 1972 general election: winners, margins, unopposed seats and seats that changed party.

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Seats after the election

Democrats controlled the chamber · 110 seats

After the electionD 60 · R 50
Races110
Changed party0
Unopposed6%7 races
Incumbents defeated5

Every district

D 60 · R 50

RaceWinnerWon byNotes
HD-1Josephine Hunsinger (D)33.0
HD-2William M. Brodhead (D)30.6
HD-3Casmer P. Ogonowski (D)36.8
HD-4Alma Stallworth (D)Unopposed
HD-5George Montgomery (D)79.0
HD-6Morris Hood Jr. (D)61.5
HD-7Raymond W. Hood (D)66.9
HD-8Daisy Elliott (D)94.7
HD-9George H. Edwards (D)76.0
HD-10Michael Novak (D)68.6
HD-11Thaddeus Stopczynski (D)35.1
HD-12William B. Fitzgerald (D)32.3
HD-13William Bryant Jr. (R)47.3
HD-14William A. Ryan (D)43.5
HD-15James Bradley (D)91.4
HD-16Matthew McNeely (D)69.8
HD-17Frank V. Wierzbicki (D)56.8
HD-18Jackie Vaughn III (D)Unopposed
HD-19Stephen Stopczynski (D)66.9
HD-20Rosetta Ferguson (D)61.3
HD-21David Holmes Jr. (D)72.6
HD-22Gary Owen (D)2.9Incumbent lost
HD-23Hal W. Ziegler (R)29.4
HD-24Clifford H. Smart (R)42.2
HD-25Warren Obrien (R)5.9
HD-26Kirby Holmes (R)17.6
HD-27William R. Copeland (D)21.1
HD-28Thomas J. Anderson (D)28.4
HD-29Alfred A. Sheridan (D)26.6
HD-30Joyce Symons (D)35.3
HD-31Lucille McCollough (D)32.0
HD-32Richard Young (D)25.5
HD-33William Keith (D)38.8
HD-34John Bennett (D)30.5
HD-35R. Robert Geake (R)19.6
HD-36John F. Markes (D)0.9
HD-37Thomas H. Brown (D)19.2
HD-38Edward E. Mahalak (D)14.6
HD-39Raymond Kehres (D)Unopposed
HD-40John S. Mowat Jr. (R)Unopposed
HD-41John P. Smeekens (R)35.2
HD-42Deforrest Strang (R)28.6
HD-43Harry Gast (R)53.4
HD-44Ray C. Mittan (R)12.3
HD-45Bela E. Kennedy (R)33.7
HD-46Howard Wolpe (D)17.0
HD-47John A. Welborn (R)37.3
HD-48Paul A. Rosenbaum (D)3.9Incumbent lost
HD-49Dan Angel (R)41.2
HD-50Michael Griffin (D)2.2
HD-51Thomas G. Sharpe (R)37.3
HD-52Raymond J. Smit (R)31.6
HD-53Perry Bullard (D)12.1
HD-54James S. Farnsworth (R)52.8
HD-55Wayne B. Sackett (R)27.3
HD-56Dale Warner (R)32.9
HD-57Earl E. Nelson (D)18.2
HD-58Frederick L. Stackable (R)0.2
HD-59H. Lynn Jondahl (D)8.5
HD-60Loren D. Anderson (R)34.2
HD-61Melvin L. Larsen (R)13.6
HD-62Charlie J. Harrison Jr. (D)1.1Incumbent lost
HD-63James J. Damman (R)46.5
HD-64Raymond L. Baker (R)29.2
HD-65James E. Defebaugh (R)58.7
HD-66Bill S. Huffman (D)5.1
HD-67Joseph Forbes (D)30.4
HD-68William Hayward (R)18.5
HD-69Philip O. Mastin Jr. (D)14.9
HD-70John T. Kelsey (D)Unopposed
HD-71Thomas Guastello (D)7.2
HD-72Warren N. Goemaere (D)25.5
HD-73Gilbert J. Dinello (D)Unopposed
HD-74Joseph M. Snyder (D)0.5
HD-75David Bonior (D)6.9
HD-76William Jowett (R)26.7
HD-77Quincy Hoffman (R)45.1
HD-78Roy L. Spencer (R)28.6
HD-79F. Robert Edwards (R)8.9Incumbent lost
HD-80Harold J. Scott (D)58.4
HD-81Dale E. Kildee (D)48.4
HD-82Bobby D. Crim (D)39.1
HD-83James F. Smith (R)22.2
HD-84Loren S. Armbruster (R)20.0
HD-85James Oneill (D)32.2
HD-86Robert D. Young (R)12.9
HD-87R. Douglas Trezise (R)6.8
HD-88Stanley M. Powell (R)33.6
HD-89John Engler (R)24.4
HD-90Martin D. Buth (R)37.3
HD-91Peter Kok (R)52.8
HD-92Richard D. Buth (R)3.4Incumbent lost
HD-93John R. Otterbacher (D)25.3
HD-94Jelt Sietsema (D)6.7
HD-95Melvin Destigter (R)47.2
HD-96Gerrit C. Hasper (D)18.0
HD-97Edgar Geerlings (R)Unopposed
HD-98Dennis O. Cawthorne (R)44.0
HD-99Donald Vansingel (R)31.6
HD-100Bert C. Brennan (R)43.0
HD-101Bob Traxler (D)28.8
HD-102Louis K. Crampton (R)29.3
HD-103Ralph Ostling (R)31.9
HD-104Michael A. Dively (R)36.7
HD-105George A. Prescott (R)28.3
HD-106Mark L. Thompson (R)10.1
HD-107Charles H. Varnum (R)27.7
HD-108Dominic J. Jacobetti (D)31.4
HD-109Jack Gingrass (D)0.2
HD-110Russell Hellman (D)12.7

Michigan 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