1972 general · February 1, 1972

1972 Oregon House of Representatives election results, district by district

Every Oregon 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 · 60 seats

After the electionD 33 · R 27
Races60
Changed party0
Unopposed2%1 races
Incumbents defeated10

Every district

D 33 · R 27

RaceWinnerWon byNotes
HD-1Dick Magruder (D)Unopposed
HD-2George F. Cole (D)45.0
HD-3Paul Hanneman (R)9.9
HD-4Les AuCoin (D)39.3Incumbent lost
HD-5Lewis B. Hampton (R)27.8
HD-6Mike Ragsdale (R)6.4
HD-7Pat Whiting (D)13.3Incumbent lost
HD-8Vera Katz (D)30.1Incumbent lost
HD-9Mary W. Rieke (R)20.6
HD-10Philip D. Lang (D)0.9
HD-11Earl Blumenauer (D)32.0
HD-12Grace Olivier Peck (D)44.2
HD-13Stephen Kafoury (D)26.9
HD-14Howard Cherry (D)58.8
HD-15William McCoy (D)49.2
HD-16Wally Priestley (D)5.9
HD-17Robert A. Elliott (R)3.9
HD-18Lloyd Kinsey (R)7.2
HD-19Keith D. Skelton (D)8.0
HD-20Mary Roberts (D)45.7
HD-21Howard Willits (D)38.2
HD-22Harvey Akeson (D)10.2
HD-23Glenn E. Otto (D)14.5
HD-24Roger E. Martin (R)9.2
HD-25Glen Whallon (D)8.3
HD-26Ed Lindquist (D)11.7Incumbent lost
HD-27Ralph Groener (D)3.6Incumbent lost
HD-28Curt Wolfer (D)4.7
HD-29Stan Bunn (R)0.3
HD-30Jeff Gilmour (D)11.0Incumbent lost
HD-31Norma Paulus (R)37.2
HD-32Margaret Dereli (D)8.1Incumbent lost
HD-33Martin Wolfer (D)14.8
HD-34Robert Marx (D)12.4
HD-35Robert C. Ingalls (R)16.6
HD-36William F. Gwinn (R)22.0
HD-37Bernard Byers (D)25.6
HD-38Gordon Macpherson (R)16.5
HD-39Wayne Whitehead (R)5.6
HD-40Larry Perry (D)35.0
HD-41Mary McCauley Burrows (R)4.6
HD-42Nancie Fadeley (D)41.1
HD-43David Stults (R)0.2Incumbent lost
HD-44Richard O. Eymann (D)7.9
HD-45Robert M. Stults (R)43.6
HD-46Bill Markham (R)9.7
HD-47Bill Grannell (D)32.8
HD-48Ed Stevenson (D)0.1Incumbent lost
HD-49Sidney Bazett (R)21.1
HD-50Al Densmore (D)23.5
HD-51Brad Morris (R)6.9Incumbent lost
HD-52Leigh Johnson (R)18.7
HD-53Gary Wilhelms (R)4.9
HD-54Sam Johnson (R)15.3
HD-55Jack Sumner (D)2.0
HD-56Paul Walden (R)21.8
HD-57Stafford Hansell (R)33.6
HD-58Ed Patterson (R)5.8
HD-59Donald Oakes (R)14.0
HD-60D. E. Jones (R)9.2

Oregon 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