1974 general · November 4, 1974

1974 Ohio House of Representatives election results, district by district

Every Ohio 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 · 99 seats

After the electionD 59 · R 40
Races99
Changed party7
Unopposed6%6 races
Incumbents defeated4

Every district

D 59 · R 40

RaceWinnerWon byNotes
HD-1Eugene Branstool (D)15.1FlippedIncumbent lost
HD-2John P. Wargo (D)21.9
HD-3James E. Betts (R)20.4
HD-4Rocco J. Colonna (D)23.3
HD-5Francine Panehal (D)7.8
HD-6Patrick A. Sweeney (D)56.3
HD-7Jerome Stano (D)32.9
HD-8Edward Feighan (D)60.3
HD-9Troy Lee James (D)66.7
HD-10Thomas M. Bell (D)62.8
HD-11Robert W. Jaskulski (D)62.2
HD-12Donna Pope (R)30.0
HD-13Ike Thompson (D)83.4
HD-14Arthur V. N. Brooks (D)14.6
HD-15John D. Thompson Jr. (D)78.3
HD-16Harry J. Lehman (D)35.6
HD-17Virginia Aveni (D)32.9
HD-18Dennis Eckart (D)46.7
HD-19Richard H. Finan (R)22.9
HD-20John P. Brandenburg (R)7.6
HD-21Norman A. Murdock (R)21.8
HD-22Chester T. Cruze (R)21.9
HD-23William L. Mallory (D)Unopposed
HD-24James T. Luken (D)27.8
HD-25James W. Rankin (D)37.5
HD-26Helen H. Fix (R)27.6
HD-27Alan E. Norris (R)41.3
HD-28C. William Oneill (R)Unopposed
HD-29William A. Kopp (D)19.5
HD-30Mike Stinziano (D)44.0
HD-31Phale D. Hale (D)38.4
HD-32James L. Baumann (D)34.2
HD-33Mack Pemberton (R)16.7
HD-34Edward J. Orlett (D)17.1
HD-35Tom Fries (D)24.8
HD-36C. J. McLin Jr. (D)70.3
HD-37Paul R. Leonard (D)24.8
HD-38Frederick N. Young (R)Unopposed
HD-39Vernon F. Cook (D)25.4
HD-40Paul S. Wingard (R)0.4FlippedIncumbent lost
HD-41Kenneth R. Cox (D)53.9
HD-42Pete Crossland (D)15.8
HD-43Ronald H. Weyandt (D)59.7
HD-44Irma L. Karmol (R)8.3Flipped
HD-45Casey Jones (D)51.6
HD-46Arthur Wilkowski (D)43.2
HD-47Barney Quilter (D)Unopposed
HD-48Richard F. Maier (R)4.4
HD-49Irene Balogh Smart (D)14.4
HD-50William J. Healy (D)1.7FlippedIncumbent lost
HD-51Thomas P. Gilmartin (D)47.4
HD-52George D. Tablack (D)47.3
HD-53J. Leonard Camera (D)51.6
HD-54Scribner L. Fauver (R)5.8Flipped
HD-55Robert A. Nader (D)44.8
HD-56Michael Delbane (D)39.5
HD-57William Donham (R)8.8
HD-58Michael A. Fox (R)13.6
HD-59Joseph P. Tulley (R)1.3
HD-60David Hartley (D)13.0
HD-61Sherrod Brown (D)7.4FlippedIncumbent lost
HD-62Marcus A. Roberto (D)39.4
HD-63John M. Scott (R)1.0
HD-64Waldo Bennett Rose (R)26.9
HD-65Frank H. Mayfield (R)28.3
HD-66Lawrence E. Hughes (R)36.6
HD-67Larry H. Christman (D)13.1
HD-68John E. Johnson (D)14.0
HD-69John Galbraith (R)16.2
HD-70Dave Johnson (R)14.2
HD-71Thomas J. Carney (D)Unopposed
HD-72Ethel G. Swanbeck (R)10.6
HD-73Corwin Nixon (R)6.4
HD-74Dennis L. Wojtanowski (D)35.0
HD-75Charles R. Saxbe (R)13.1
HD-76Harry E. Turner (R)19.1
HD-77Bob McEwen (R)11.6
HD-78Rod Hughes (R)21.0
HD-79Fred B. Hadley (R)26.5
HD-80Dale Locker (D)38.9
HD-81Robert E. Netzley (R)10.2
HD-82Michael Oxley (R)41.2
HD-83Charles F. Kurfess (R)29.8
HD-84Frederick H. Deering (D)39.6
HD-85Gene Damschroder (R)20.2
HD-86Walter D. McClaskey (R)19.5
HD-87Harry C. Malott (D)22.9
HD-88Myrl H. Shoemaker (D)Unopposed
HD-89Vernal G. Riffe Jr. (D)46.9
HD-90Don S. Maddux (D)24.6
HD-91Claire M. Ball Jr. (R)9.2
HD-92Ronald H. James (D)3.7Flipped
HD-93William Batchelder (R)30.8
HD-94Rex F. Kieffer Jr. (R)14.2
HD-95Sam Speck (R)42.3
HD-96William E. Hinig (D)42.2
HD-97Robert J. Boggs (D)37.7
HD-98Arthur R. Bowers (D)50.4
HD-99A. G. Lancione (D)33.5

Ohio 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