1972 primaries · May 1, 1972
1972 Tennessee House of Representatives primary results, district by district
Every Tennessee House of Representatives district in the 1972 primaries: winners, margins, unopposed seats and seats that changed party.
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Every district
| Race | Winner | Won by | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| HD-1 · Democratic primary | John M. Gwen Flemming (D) | Unopposed | |
| HD-1 · Republican primary | Harry Lee Senter (R) | 33.4 | |
| HD-2 · Democratic primary | No winner recorded | Unopposed | |
| HD-2 · Republican primary | Robert J. Bible (R) | Unopposed | |
| HD-3 · Democratic primary | Vaughn Brewer (D) | Unopposed | |
| HD-3 · Republican primary | Herbert J. Denton Jr. (R) | Unopposed | |
| HD-4 · Republican primary | Albert E. Miller Sr. (R) | 16.3 | |
| HD-5 · Republican primary | Robert O. Burleson (R) | 19.7 | |
| HD-6 · Democratic primary | Howard S. Steed (D) | 18.1 | |
| HD-6 · Republican primary | Palma Robinson (R) | Unopposed | |
| HD-7 · Democratic primary | Earl E. Whitaker (D) | 13.4 | |
| HD-7 · Republican primary | Robert Good (R) | Unopposed | |
| HD-8 · Republican primary | Joe L. Bewley (R) | 8.4 | |
| HD-9 · Democratic primary | Roger Montgomery (D) | Unopposed | |
| HD-9 · Republican primary | Bruce Hurley (R) | 15.6 | |
| HD-10 · Democratic primary | Don Bunch (D) | Unopposed | |
| HD-10 · Republican primary | Howard S. Spoone (R) | 6.0 | |
| HD-11 · Republican primary | Hobart Ford (R) | Unopposed | |
| HD-12 · Republican primary | Fred C. Atchley (R) | 31.6 | |
| HD-13 · Democratic primary | Ted Miller (D) | 29.7 | |
| HD-13 · Republican primary | G. L. Anderson (R) | 18.9 | |
| HD-14 · Democratic primary | Hubert C. Hill (D) | 4.1 | |
| HD-14 · Republican primary | Ben Atchley (R) | 21.7 | |
| HD-15 · Democratic primary | Bill Owen (D) | Unopposed | |
| HD-15 · Republican primary | John K. Mann (R) | Unopposed | |
| HD-16 · Democratic primary | R. C. Herrell (D) | Unopposed | |
| HD-16 · Republican primary | Sandra Clark (R) | 14.4 | Incumbent lost |
| HD-17 · Democratic primary | Edward Mann (D) | 45.5 | |
| HD-17 · Republican primary | Tom Jensen (R) | Unopposed | |
| HD-18 · Democratic primary | Michael Rowland (D) | 11.4 | |
| HD-18 · Republican primary | Victor Ashe (R) | 42.4 | Incumbent lost |
| HD-19 · Republican primary | Loy Smith (R) | 15.0 | |
| HD-20 · Democratic primary | Victor M. Hodge (D) | Unopposed | |
| HD-20 · Republican primary | Fred Huffstetler (R) | 28.1 | |
| HD-21 · Republican primary | M. F. Stafford (R) | 35.7 | |
| HD-22 · Democratic primary | William C. Watson (D) | Unopposed | |
| HD-22 · Republican primary | Tommy Scruggs (R) | Unopposed | |
| HD-23 · Republican primary | Clyde Webb (R) | Unopposed | |
| HD-24 · Republican primary | Ben Longley (R) | Unopposed | |
| HD-25 · Democratic primary | Raymond L. Hughes (D) | 5.8 | |
| HD-25 · Republican primary | David Copeland (R) | Unopposed | |
| HD-26 · Democratic primary | Norma E. Thompson (D) | Unopposed | |
| HD-26 · Republican primary | Ray White (R) | Unopposed | |
| HD-27 · Democratic primary | Paul Starnes (D) | 20.2 | |
| HD-27 · Republican primary | Freddie Yentsch (R) | Unopposed | |
| HD-28 · Democratic primary | Bob Davis (D) | 60.8 | |
| HD-28 · Republican primary | Jackie Reese Davis (R) | Unopposed | |
| HD-29 · Democratic primary | Gus D. Hatfield (D) | Unopposed | |
| HD-29 · Republican primary | William Carter (R) | 25.2 | |
| HD-30 · Democratic primary | Laban Defriese (D) | Unopposed | |
| HD-30 · Republican primary | Claude Ramsey (R) | Unopposed | |
| HD-31 · Democratic primary | L. Donald Hill (D) | 37.7 | |
| HD-31 · Republican primary | William W. C. Carter Jr. (R) | 15.3 | Incumbent lost |
| HD-32 · Democratic primary | James Edward Tapp (D) | Unopposed | |
| HD-32 · Republican primary | Jack Bowman (R) | 18.5 | |
| HD-33 · Democratic primary | Keith Bissell (D) | Unopposed | |
| HD-33 · Republican primary | Daniel Tuxbury (R) | Unopposed | |
| HD-34 · Democratic primary | James Webber (D) | Unopposed | |
| HD-34 · Republican primary | James Elkins (R) | Unopposed | |
| HD-35 · Democratic primary | Paris Coffey (D) | Unopposed | |
| HD-35 · Republican primary | Olen H. Marshall (R) | 3.8 | |
| HD-36 · Democratic primary | Wayne W. Humphrey (D) | Unopposed | |
| HD-36 · Republican primary | James A. Melton (R) | 18.2 | |
| HD-37 · Democratic primary | Shelby Rhinehart (D) | 11.1 | |
| HD-37 · Republican primary | Geo Morgan (R) | Unopposed | |
| HD-38 · Democratic primary | Hugh Dixon (D) | Unopposed | |
| HD-38 · Republican primary | Thomas C. Arnold (R) | Unopposed | |
| HD-39 · Democratic primary | Ed Murray (D) | Unopposed | |
| HD-40 · Democratic primary | Frank Buck (D) | 40.1 | |
| HD-41 · Democratic primary | S. Thomas Burnett (D) | Unopposed | |
| HD-41 · Republican primary | A. B. Norman (R) | Unopposed | |
| HD-42 · Democratic primary | Tommy Burks (D) | 62.0 | |
| HD-43 · Democratic primary | Ivory Hillis Jr. (D) | 60.6 | |
| HD-44 · Democratic primary | Norval S. Baker (D) | 4.7 | |
| HD-44 · Republican primary | Cecil L. Corley (R) | Unopposed | |
| HD-45 · Democratic primary | Lloyd McKelvey (D) | 3.2 | |
| HD-46 · Democratic primary | Gentry Crowell (D) | 13.2 | |
| HD-47 · Democratic primary | J. Stanley Rogers (D) | 76.2 | |
| HD-48 · Democratic primary | John Bragg (D) | Unopposed | |
| HD-49 · Democratic primary | C. E. Depreist (D) | 14.8 | |
| HD-50 · Democratic primary | James R. McKinney (D) | Unopposed | |
| HD-50 · Republican primary | James T. McLean (R) | 57.9 | |
| HD-51 · Democratic primary | Charles R. Robinson (D) | Unopposed | |
| HD-51 · Republican primary | Ben H. Cantrell (R) | Unopposed | |
| HD-52 · Democratic primary | E. Marvin Fleming Sr. (D) | 5.3 | |
| HD-53 · Democratic primary | Victor Ellis (D) | 5.4 | Incumbent lost |
| HD-54 · Democratic primary | Harold Love (D) | 5.5 | |
| HD-55 · Democratic primary | Michael Murphy (D) | 77.6 | |
| HD-55 · Republican primary | Robert E. Farris (R) | Unopposed | |
| HD-56 · Republican primary | Jim Rau (R) | 25.3 | |
| HD-57 · Democratic primary | Helen Bain (D) | Unopposed | |
| HD-57 · Republican primary | James Marvin Hopper (R) | 25.1 | |
| HD-58 · Democratic primary | Charles W. Pruitt (D) | 45.8 | |
| HD-59 · Democratic primary | Dick Clark (D) | 17.4 | Incumbent lost |
| HD-59 · Republican primary | Gene Rudesill (R) | Unopposed | |
| HD-60 · Democratic primary | John Hicks (D) | 33.3 | |
| HD-61 · Democratic primary | Cletus McWilliams (D) | Unopposed | |
| HD-62 · Democratic primary | Clarence Phillips (D) | Unopposed | |
| HD-63 · Democratic primary | W. R. Lowe Jr. (D) | Unopposed | |
| HD-64 · Democratic primary | William A. Richardson Jr. (D) | Unopposed | |
| HD-64 · Republican primary | J. Dawson Frierson (R) | Unopposed | |
| HD-65 · Democratic primary | Greg Orear (D) | 2.9 | |
| HD-65 · Republican primary | G. L. Teague (R) | 54.8 | |
| HD-66 · Democratic primary | H. Leon Perry (D) | 8.5 | Incumbent lost |
| HD-67 · Democratic primary | Riley Darnell (D) | Unopposed | |
| HD-67 · Republican primary | Edmund Hadley (R) | Unopposed | |
| HD-68 · Democratic primary | Roscoe Pickering (D) | 29.9 | |
| HD-69 · Democratic primary | Walter Work (D) | 2.1 | |
| HD-69 · Republican primary | Thomas Richard Canady (R) | 17.9 | |
| HD-70 · Democratic primary | A. D. Caldwell (D) | 58.0 | |
| HD-70 · Republican primary | Ray Bodiford (R) | Unopposed | |
| HD-71 · Democratic primary | T. Ray Campbell (D) | Unopposed | |
| HD-71 · Republican primary | L. Parnell Taylor (R) | 40.7 | |
| HD-72 · Democratic primary | J. Carl Davis (D) | 1.8 | |
| HD-72 · Republican primary | Edward Bailey (R) | Unopposed | |
| HD-73 · Democratic primary | Roger G. Murray Jr. (D) | 40.1 | |
| HD-73 · Republican primary | Ken Baker (R) | Unopposed | |
| HD-74 · Democratic primary | Frank Lashlee (D) | 11.8 | |
| HD-74 · Republican primary | Clyde W. Watson (R) | Unopposed | |
| HD-75 · Democratic primary | C. M. Randolph Jr. (D) | Unopposed | |
| HD-75 · Republican primary | Kenneth Crocker (R) | Unopposed | |
| HD-76 · Democratic primary | Ned McWherter (D) | Unopposed | |
| HD-77 · Democratic primary | Larry Bates (D) | 60.9 | |
| HD-78 · Democratic primary | James Lanier (D) | Unopposed | |
| HD-79 · Democratic primary | Frank Garner (D) | 3.3 | |
| HD-79 · Republican primary | M. C. Bevis (R) | Unopposed | |
| HD-80 · Democratic primary | Curtis M. Ross (D) | 9.6 | |
| HD-81 · Democratic primary | Jimmy Naifeh (D) | Unopposed | |
| HD-81 · Republican primary | Albert Kelley (R) | Unopposed | |
| HD-82 · Democratic primary | No winner recorded | Unopposed | |
| HD-82 · Republican primary | Leonard Dunavant (R) | 87.9 | |
| HD-83 · Democratic primary | H. Wallace Maroney (D) | Unopposed | |
| HD-83 · Republican primary | Harold Sterling (R) | Unopposed | |
| HD-84 · Democratic primary | Tony Muscarella (D) | Unopposed | |
| HD-84 · Republican primary | Charles R. Ashford (R) | Unopposed | |
| HD-85 · Democratic primary | Tommy Powell (D) | 41.6 | |
| HD-86 · Democratic primary | Harold Ford (D) | 92.6 | |
| HD-86 · Republican primary | Bernard Roberson (R) | Unopposed | |
| HD-87 · Democratic primary | Ira H. Murphy (D) | Unopposed | |
| HD-88 · Democratic primary | Elbert Gill (D) | Unopposed | |
| HD-88 · Republican primary | A. Carl Abbott (R) | Unopposed | |
| HD-89 · Democratic primary | Doy L. Daniels (D) | 47.5 | |
| HD-89 · Republican primary | Claud Haire (R) | Unopposed | |
| HD-90 · Democratic primary | Howard A. Cohn (D) | Unopposed | |
| HD-90 · Republican primary | Henry Craft Jr. (R) | 6.9 | Incumbent lost |
| HD-91 · Democratic primary | Lois Deberry (D) | 33.0 | |
| HD-92 · Democratic primary | Alvin King (D) | 21.8 | |
| HD-92 · Republican primary | Larry Garrett (R) | Unopposed | |
| HD-93 · Democratic primary | James E. Williams (D) | Unopposed | |
| HD-93 · Republican primary | R. Brad Martin (R) | Unopposed | |
| HD-94 · Democratic primary | No winner recorded | Unopposed | |
| HD-94 · Republican primary | W. G. Weldon (R) | Unopposed | |
| HD-95 · Democratic primary | No winner recorded | Unopposed | |
| HD-95 · Republican primary | Gerald W. Benefield (R) | 23.5 | |
| HD-96 · Democratic primary | No winner recorded | Unopposed | |
| HD-96 · Republican primary | Edward F. Williams III (R) | Unopposed | |
| HD-97 · Democratic primary | Bob Hawks (D) | Unopposed | |
| HD-97 · Republican primary | Edward J. Bousson Jr. (R) | 9.9 | |
| HD-98 · Democratic primary | Harper Brewer (D) | 21.9 | |
| HD-99 · Democratic primary | E. L. Manker (D) | 18.9 | |
| HD-99 · Republican primary | James E. Hendren (R) | 29.4 |
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