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1974 general · November 4, 1974

1974 Michigan House of Representatives election results, district by district

Every Michigan House of Representatives district in the 1974 general election: winners, margins, unopposed seats and seats that changed party.

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Seats after the election

Democrats controlled the chamber · 110 seats

After the electionD 66 · R 44
Races110
Changed party8
Unopposed13%14 races
Incumbents defeated3

Every district

D 66 · R 44

RaceWinnerWon byNotes
HD-1Josephine Hunsinger (D)11.1
HD-2Jack Legel (D)35.5
HD-3Casmer P. Ogonowski (D)65.5
HD-4George Cushingberry (D)98.4
HD-5George Montgomery (D)Unopposed
HD-6Morris Hood Jr. (D)Unopposed
HD-7Raymond W. Hood (D)97.1
HD-8Daisy Elliott (D)Unopposed
HD-9George H. Edwards (D)94.0
HD-10Michael Novak (D)Unopposed
HD-11Thaddeus Stopczynski (D)Unopposed
HD-12Dennis Hertel (D)Unopposed
HD-13William Bryant Jr. (R)48.4
HD-14William A. Ryan (D)55.8
HD-15Joe Young Jr. (D)92.9
HD-16Matthew McNeely (D)Unopposed
HD-17Frank V. Wierzbicki (D)71.1
HD-18Jackie Vaughn III (D)92.5
HD-19Stephen Stopczynski (D)79.0
HD-20Rosetta Ferguson (D)64.0
HD-21Barbara-Rose Collins (D)68.1
HD-22Gary Owen (D)46.9
HD-23Michael H. Conlin (R)20.4
HD-24Richard Fessler (R)4.5
HD-25Dennis Dutko (D)31.5FlippedIncumbent lost
HD-26Kirby Holmes (R)9.0
HD-27Jeffrey D. Padden (D)94.6
HD-28Thomas J. Anderson (D)59.6
HD-29Alfred A. Sheridan (D)55.0
HD-30Joyce Symons (D)55.1
HD-31Lucille McCollough (D)47.7
HD-32Richard Young (D)45.8
HD-33William Keith (D)64.9
HD-34John Bennett (D)Unopposed
HD-35R. Robert Geake (R)16.5
HD-36John F. Markes (D)37.0
HD-37Thomas H. Brown (D)42.6
HD-38Edward E. Mahalak (D)42.1
HD-39Raymond Kehres (D)Unopposed
HD-40John S. Mowat Jr. (R)11.8
HD-41Paul Porter (D)2.8Flipped
HD-42Deforrest Strang (R)8.7
HD-43Harry Gast (R)33.3
HD-44Ray C. Mittan (R)0.8
HD-45Bela E. Kennedy (R)14.4
HD-46Howard Wolpe (D)30.6
HD-47Robert A. Welborn (R)23.0
HD-48Paul A. Rosenbaum (D)50.8
HD-49Dan Angel (R)26.1
HD-50Michael Griffin (D)41.7
HD-51Thomas G. Sharpe (R)15.6
HD-52Roy Smith (R)18.2
HD-53Perry Bullard (D)2.8
HD-54Ed Fredricks (R)34.6
HD-55Wayne B. Sackett (R)12.0
HD-56Ernest Nash (R)3.8
HD-57David Hollister (D)31.4
HD-58Thomas M. Holcomb (D)17.2Flipped
HD-59H. Lynn Jondahl (D)33.2
HD-60Claude A. Trim (D)4.7FlippedIncumbent lost
HD-61Melvin L. Larsen (R)15.6
HD-62Charlie J. Harrison Jr. (D)8.3
HD-63Ruth B. McNamee (R)40.6
HD-64Wilbur Brotherton (R)19.7
HD-65James E. Defebaugh (R)46.4
HD-66Monte R. Geralds (D)19.5
HD-67Joseph Forbes (D)53.4
HD-68William Hayward (R)7.6
HD-69Philip O. Mastin Jr. (D)40.2
HD-70John T. Kelsey (D)Unopposed
HD-71Sal Rocca (D)21.9
HD-72Warren N. Goemaere (D)55.9
HD-73Gilbert J. Dinello (D)53.0
HD-74John Maynard (D)37.7
HD-75David Bonior (D)Unopposed
HD-76William Jowett (R)12.8
HD-77Quincy Hoffman (R)25.1
HD-78Roy L. Spencer (R)1.3
HD-79F. Robert Edwards (R)3.7
HD-80Harold J. Scott (D)72.7
HD-81Mark Clodfelter (D)41.7
HD-82Bobby D. Crim (D)48.8
HD-83James F. Smith (R)0.3
HD-84Loren S. Armbruster (R)16.6
HD-85James Oneill (D)41.7
HD-86Don Albosta (D)36.2Flipped
HD-87Francis Spaniola (D)24.2Flipped
HD-88Stanley M. Powell (R)11.1
HD-89John Engler (R)7.7
HD-90Martin D. Buth (R)27.5
HD-91Peter Kok (R)46.8
HD-92Thomas Mathieu (D)9.4FlippedIncumbent lost
HD-93Stephen V. Monsma (D)37.8
HD-94Jelt Sietsema (D)22.4
HD-95Melvin Destigter (R)32.1
HD-96Gerrit C. Hasper (D)42.7
HD-97Edgar Geerlings (R)5.7
HD-98Dennis O. Cawthorne (R)23.0
HD-99Donald Vansingel (R)21.1
HD-100J. Michael Busch (R)24.6
HD-101Colleen House (R)17.6Flipped
HD-102Louis K. Crampton (R)Unopposed
HD-103Ralph Ostling (R)17.7
HD-104Connie Binsfeld (R)5.1
HD-105George A. Prescott (R)4.4
HD-106E. Dan Stevens (R)2.3
HD-107Charles H. Varnum (R)13.8
HD-108Dominic J. Jacobetti (D)Unopposed
HD-109Jack Gingrass (D)24.8
HD-110Russell Hellman (D)Unopposed

Michigan 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