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1972 general · February 1, 1972

1972 Ohio House of Representatives election results, district by district

Every Ohio 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 · 99 seats

After the electionD 58 · R 41
Races99
Changed party0
Unopposed5%5 races
Incumbents defeated8

Every district

D 58 · R 41

RaceWinnerWon byNotes
HD-1Raymond P. Luther (R)11.1
HD-2John P. Wargo (D)20.0
HD-3George E. Mastics (R)Unopposed
HD-4James P. Celebrezze (D)39.7
HD-5Richard F. Celeste (D)14.8
HD-6Patrick A. Sweeney (D)Unopposed
HD-7Jerome Stano (D)19.3
HD-8Edward Feighan (D)63.9
HD-9Troy Lee James (D)6.9
HD-10Thomas M. Bell (D)39.9
HD-11Robert W. Jaskulski (D)4.0
HD-12Donna Pope (R)5.7Incumbent lost
HD-13Ike Thompson (D)78.9
HD-14John G. Sweeney (D)34.2
HD-15John D. Thompson Jr. (D)Unopposed
HD-16Harry J. Lehman (D)36.0
HD-17Leonard Ostrovsky (D)21.9
HD-18John Timothy McCormack (D)33.2
HD-19Richard H. Finan (R)14.0
HD-20John P. Brandenburg (R)30.6
HD-21Norman A. Murdock (R)30.8
HD-22Chester T. Cruze (R)25.4
HD-23William L. Mallory (D)37.7
HD-24James T. Luken (D)28.3
HD-25James W. Rankin (D)24.6
HD-26John A. Bechtold (R)34.1
HD-27Alan E. Norris (R)49.7
HD-28C. William Oneill (R)13.4
HD-29William A. Kopp (D)12.3
HD-30Mike Stinziano (D)23.3
HD-31Phale D. Hale (D)20.7
HD-32James L. Baumann (D)21.2
HD-33Mack Pemberton (R)25.2
HD-34Edward J. Orlett (D)3.1Incumbent lost
HD-35Tom Fries (D)31.1
HD-36C. J. McLin Jr. (D)42.6
HD-37Paul R. Leonard (D)20.7
HD-38Frederick N. Young (R)48.4
HD-39Vernon F. Cook (D)12.7
HD-40Claude M. Fiocca (D)0.9
HD-41Kenneth R. Cox (D)43.8
HD-42Pete Crossland (D)11.3Incumbent lost
HD-43Ronald H. Weyandt (D)47.0
HD-44Richard L. Wittenberg (D)15.4Incumbent lost
HD-45Casey Jones (D)Unopposed
HD-46Arthur Wilkowski (D)32.6
HD-47Barney Quilter (D)39.3
HD-48Richard G. Reichel (R)18.2
HD-49Irene Balogh Smart (D)3.1Incumbent lost
HD-50James Thorpe (R)4.5
HD-51Thomas P. Gilmartin (D)14.0
HD-52George D. Tablack (D)26.7
HD-53J. Leonard Camera (D)48.5
HD-54Donald Pease (D)19.9
HD-55Robert A. Nader (D)35.6
HD-56Michael Delbane (D)33.8
HD-57William Donham (R)1.7Incumbent lost
HD-58Thomas N. Kindness (R)23.9
HD-59Joseph P. Tulley (R)15.3
HD-60David Hartley (D)2.2
HD-61M. Joan Douglass (R)3.8
HD-62Marcus A. Roberto (D)27.6
HD-63John M. Scott (R)14.1
HD-64Waldo Bennett Rose (R)23.5
HD-65Frank H. Mayfield (R)42.7
HD-66Lawrence E. Hughes (R)32.1
HD-67Larry H. Christman (D)6.5
HD-68John E. Johnson (D)16.0
HD-69John Galbraith (R)13.6
HD-70Robert E. Levitt (R)20.9
HD-71Thomas J. Carney (D)3.7Incumbent lost
HD-72Ethel G. Swanbeck (R)12.0
HD-73Corwin Nixon (R)Unopposed
HD-74James Mueller (D)27.8
HD-75Chas E. Fry (R)29.7
HD-76Harry E. Turner (R)20.6
HD-77Joseph F. Hiestand (R)24.5
HD-78Rod Hughes (R)13.6
HD-79Fred B. Hadley (R)25.8
HD-80Dale Locker (D)15.9Incumbent lost
HD-81Robert E. Netzley (R)26.0
HD-82Michael Oxley (R)14.2
HD-83Charles F. Kurfess (R)38.2
HD-84Frederick H. Deering (D)13.5
HD-85Gene Damschroder (R)21.9
HD-86Walter D. McClaskey (R)9.2
HD-87Harry C. Malott (D)17.7
HD-88Myrl H. Shoemaker (D)23.6
HD-89Vernal G. Riffe Jr. (D)25.2
HD-90Don S. Maddux (D)16.0
HD-91Claire M. Ball Jr. (R)1.8
HD-92Oakley C. Collins (R)0.4
HD-93William Batchelder (R)37.4
HD-94Rex F. Kieffer Jr. (R)8.1
HD-95Sam Speck (R)43.0
HD-96William E. Hinig (D)32.0
HD-97Robert J. Boggs (D)8.0
HD-98Arthur R. Bowers (D)41.7
HD-99A. G. Lancione (D)28.9

Ohio 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