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1972 general · February 1, 1972

1972 Utah House of Representatives election results, district by district

Every Utah 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

Republicans controlled the chamber · 75 seats

After the electionD 31 · R 44
Races75
Changed party0
Unopposed20%15 races
Incumbents defeated8

Every district

D 32 · R 43

RaceWinnerWon byNotes
HD-1Rita A. Urie (D)3.0Incumbent lost
HD-2Ferdinand E. Peterson (R)10.8
HD-3David Nemelka (D)21.0
HD-4Lynn M. Hilton (R)6.8
HD-5Gerald L. Woodmansee (D)18.1
HD-6Nellie Jack (D)27.0
HD-7Richard Carling (R)24.9
HD-8T. William Cockayne (R)9.7
HD-9Mary Lorraine Johnson (D)22.0
HD-10Ennis Starr (D)25.7
HD-11George W. Black (D)9.7
HD-12Robert L. Backman (R)29.4
HD-13Charles Bennett (D)17.6
HD-14M. Byron Fisher (R)10.8
HD-15Samuel Taylor (D)34.5
HD-16Franklyn B. Matheson (R)19.0
HD-17Homer F. Wilkinson (R)8.9
HD-18Lorin Pace (R)36.0
HD-19T. Quentin Cannon (R)25.8
HD-20J. Easton Parratt (D)2.4
HD-21Sherman Harmer (R)6.4
HD-22Georgia Peterson (R)37.6
HD-23Peter K. Ellison (R)10.3
HD-24Elgin Hokansen (D)0.6
HD-25Lamar Vincent (D)9.8
HD-26Glen W. Crump (D)UnopposedIncumbent lost
HD-27Millie Oberhansley Bernard (D)19.3
HD-28Richard P. Lindsay (D)17.8
HD-29Harold Newman (D)34.4
HD-30George Gygi (D)15.5
HD-31Del L. Buckner (D)26.6
HD-32D. Leon Reese (D)Unopposed
HD-33S. Olani Durrant (R)5.0
HD-34David Harvey (D)33.0
HD-35Stanley Leavitt (D)5.0
HD-36Bryce B. Orton (R)22.4
HD-37Howard C. Nielson (R)Unopposed
HD-38Willard Gardner (R)Unopposed
HD-39Ted Davis (R)30.9
HD-40Don Strong (R)8.9Incumbent lost
HD-41W. Robert Phelps (R)12.3
HD-42Dallas Buckway (D)2.8
HD-43Ronald Halverson (R)26.3
HD-44Gilbert E. Marriott (D)Unopposed
HD-45Ron Rencher (D)17.5
HD-46Vern Wilcox (D)6.3
HD-47C. Demontjudd Jr. (D)Unopposed
HD-48Wilbur H. Berrett (R)3.3Incumbent lost
HD-49Roger Rawson (D)10.5
HD-50Earl B. Child (R)4.9Incumbent lost
HD-51William S. Holt (R)25.3
HD-52Eldon H. Barlow (R)21.8
HD-53Franklin Knowlton (R)21.6Incumbent lost
HD-54James Hansen (R)81.0
HD-55Darwin C. Hansen (R)26.0
HD-56David R. Irvine (R)37.2
HD-57John P. Redd (R)26.8
HD-58Charles Bullen (R)Unopposed
HD-59A. Alton Hoffman (R)20.7
HD-60Todd G. Weston (R)Unopposed
HD-61Willis L. Hansen (R)Unopposed
HD-62W. Edward Kerr (R)15.4
HD-63Farrell D. Anderson (D)Unopposed
HD-64Beverly White (D)Unopposed
HD-65Mike Dmitrich (D)Unopposed
HD-66Edison J. Stephens (R)28.1
HD-67Daniel S. Dennis (R)Unopposed
HD-68Glade Sowards (R)Unopposed
HD-69Ray Nielsen (D)2.4
HD-70Kenneth Silliman (R)4.5Incumbent lost
HD-71Cary G. Peterson (R)9.6Incumbent lost
HD-72Dewain Washburn (D)4.0
HD-73Calvin Black (R)Unopposed
HD-74S. Garth Jones (R)29.8
HD-75Sidney Atkin (R)23.7

Utah 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