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1973Final resultsIncumbent defeated

1973 election for Virginia House District 18

Virginia House of Delegates · Virginia

Dorothy McDiarmid (D), Vincent F. Callahan (R), Wyatt B. Durette Jr. (R), Carrington Williams (D) and Raymond Vickery (D) won the district's 5 seats.

5 seats
Dorothy McDiarmidDemocrat · winner · incumbent
11.4%30,170
Vincent F. CallahanRepublican · winner · incumbent
10.5%27,835
Wyatt B. Durette Jr.Republican · winner · incumbent
10.5%27,814
Carrington WilliamsDemocrat · winner · incumbent
10.4%27,688
Raymond VickeryDemocrat · winner
10.3%27,486
9.5%25,204
Kenneth PlumDemocrat
9.4%24,850
David A. SutherlandRepublican · incumbent
9.3%24,792
8.4%22,303
8.3%22,019
Elisabeth BurchIndependent
2.1%5,504
265,666 votes

Source: Harvard Dataverse / Carl KlarnerUpdated Sep 30, 2026, 7:29 AM ET

The seat over time

D − R margin in this seat's races around 1973

Races before and after

EvenR+4.91973R+4.11975D+0.11977

Source: Past results: 99chambers results archive (MEDSL, Klarner, state election offices)