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1972 general · February 1, 1972

1972 Tennessee House of Representatives election results, district by district

Every Tennessee 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 51 · R 48
Races99
Changed party0
Unopposed33%33 races
Incumbents defeated9

Every district

D 51 · R 48

RaceWinnerWon byNotes
HD-1John M. Gwen Flemming (D)4.7
HD-2Robert J. Bible (R)34.5
HD-3Herbert J. Denton Jr. (R)15.6
HD-4Albert E. Miller Sr. (R)Unopposed
HD-5Robert O. Burleson (R)Unopposed
HD-6Palma Robinson (R)18.8
HD-7Robert Good (R)47.9
HD-8Joe L. Bewley (R)Unopposed
HD-9Bruce Hurley (R)5.9
HD-10Howard S. Spoone (R)2.1
HD-11Hobart Ford (R)Unopposed
HD-12Fred C. Atchley (R)Unopposed
HD-13Ted Miller (D)3.5Incumbent lost
HD-14Ben Atchley (R)58.2
HD-15John K. Mann (R)2.3
HD-16Sandra Clark (R)29.9
HD-17Tom Jensen (R)22.6
HD-18Victor Ashe (R)20.1
HD-19Loy Smith (R)Unopposed
HD-20Fred Huffstetler (R)43.6
HD-21M. F. Stafford (R)Unopposed
HD-22William C. Watson (D)5.6
HD-23Clyde Webb (R)Unopposed
HD-24Ben Longley (R)66.7
HD-25David Copeland (R)57.3
HD-26Ray White (R)35.6
HD-27Paul Starnes (D)15.4
HD-28Bob Davis (D)3.2
HD-29William Carter (R)6.5
HD-30Claude Ramsey (R)10.5Incumbent lost
HD-31William W. C. Carter Jr. (R)18.4
HD-32Jack Bowman (R)32.2
HD-33Keith Bissell (D)23.3
HD-34James Elkins (R)15.6
HD-35Olen H. Marshall (R)2.3Incumbent lost
HD-36James A. Melton (R)7.5
HD-37Shelby Rhinehart (D)7.8
HD-38Hugh Dixon (D)Unopposed
HD-39Ed Murray (D)Unopposed
HD-40Frank Buck (D)Unopposed
HD-41S. Thomas Burnett (D)31.3
HD-42Tommy Burks (D)52.6
HD-43Ivory Hillis Jr. (D)Unopposed
HD-44Cecil L. Corley (R)1.8
HD-45Lloyd McKelvey (D)Unopposed
HD-46Gentry Crowell (D)Unopposed
HD-47J. Stanley Rogers (D)Unopposed
HD-48John Bragg (D)Unopposed
HD-49C. E. Depreist (D)Unopposed
HD-50James R. McKinney (D)17.8
HD-51Charles R. Robinson (D)33.0
HD-52E. Marvin Fleming Sr. (D)Unopposed
HD-53Victor Ellis (D)49.0Incumbent lost
HD-54Harold Love (D)21.2
HD-55Michael Murphy (D)26.3
HD-56Mary Anderson (D)19.6
HD-57James Marvin Hopper (R)29.2
HD-58Charles W. Pruitt (D)Unopposed
HD-59Dick Clark (D)36.2
HD-60John Hicks (D)Unopposed
HD-61Cletus McWilliams (D)Unopposed
HD-62Clarence Phillips (D)Unopposed
HD-63W. R. Lowe Jr. (D)Unopposed
HD-64William A. Richardson Jr. (D)20.5
HD-65G. L. Teague (R)3.3
HD-66H. Leon Perry (D)25.4Incumbent lost
HD-67Riley Darnell (D)Unopposed
HD-68Roscoe Pickering (D)Unopposed
HD-69Walter Work (D)34.7
HD-70Ray Bodiford (R)23.8
HD-71L. Parnell Taylor (R)10.5Incumbent lost
HD-72Edward Bailey (R)18.0
HD-73Roger G. Murray Jr. (D)0.8
HD-74Frank Lashlee (D)41.0
HD-75Kenneth Crocker (R)3.5Incumbent lost
HD-76Ned McWherter (D)Unopposed
HD-77Larry Bates (D)Unopposed
HD-78James Lanier (D)15.8
HD-79Frank Garner (D)9.6
HD-80Curtis M. Ross (D)Unopposed
HD-81Albert Kelley (R)0.1
HD-82U. A. Moore (R)15.6
HD-83Harold Sterling (R)56.2
HD-84Charles R. Ashford (R)61.2
HD-85Tommy Powell (D)Unopposed
HD-86Harold Ford (D)83.3
HD-87Ira H. Murphy (D)Unopposed
HD-88Elbert Gill (D)15.7
HD-89Doy L. Daniels (D)5.2
HD-90Henry Craft Jr. (R)28.3
HD-91Lois Deberry (D)Unopposed
HD-92Alvin King (D)52.8
HD-93R. Brad Martin (R)3.8Incumbent lost
HD-94W. G. Weldon (R)66.0
HD-95Gerald W. Benefield (R)51.0
HD-96Edward F. Williams III (R)Unopposed
HD-97Edward J. Bousson Jr. (R)31.7Incumbent lost
HD-98Harper Brewer (D)Unopposed
HD-99James E. Hendren (R)24.5

Tennessee 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