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1975 general · November 1, 1975

1975 Virginia State Senate election results, district by district

Every Virginia State Senate district in the 1975 general election: winners, margins, unopposed seats and seats that changed party.

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Seats after the election

Democrats controlled the chamber · 40 seats

After the electionD 35 · R 5
Races38
Changed party3
Unopposed37%14 races
Incumbents defeated4

Every district

D 35 · R 5

RaceWinnerWon byNotes
SD-1Hunter B. Andrews (D)Unopposed
SD-2Herbert B. Bateman (D)62.4
SD-3William E. Fears (D)45.8
SD-4Elmo G. Cross Jr. (D)Unopposed
SD-5Stanley C. Walker · Peter K. Babalas · Joseph T. Fitzpatrick (D)7.7
SD-8A. Joseph Canada Jr. (R)8.3
SD-9L. Douglas Wilder (D)Unopposed
SD-10Edward E. Willey (D)74.1
SD-11Frederick T. Gray (D)Unopposed
SD-12William F. Parkerson Jr. (D)33.7
SD-13Willard J. Moody (D)Unopposed
SD-14Russell I. Townsend Jr. (D)UnopposedFlipped
SD-15William V. Rawlings (D)Unopposed
SD-16Elmon T. Gray (D)Unopposed
SD-17James T. Edmunds (D)4.0
SD-18Howard P. Anderson (D)Unopposed
SD-19Coleman Bennett Yeatts (D)43.6
SD-20Virgil Goode (D)72.6Flipped
SD-21William B. Hopkins (D)Unopposed
SD-22Dudley J. Emick Jr. (D)6.8Incumbent lost
SD-23Elliot S. Schewel (D)17.7
SD-24J. Marshall Coleman (R)12.6Flipped
SD-25J. Harry Michael Jr. (D)Unopposed
SD-26Nathan H. Miller (R)17.4Incumbent lost
SD-27William A. Truban (R)23.9
SD-28Paul W. Manns (D)Unopposed
SD-29Charles J. Colgan Sr. (D)28.4
SD-30Wiley F. Mitchell Jr. (R)5.3Incumbent lost
SD-31Edward M. Holland (D)Unopposed
SD-32Clive L. Duval II (D)Unopposed
SD-33Charles L. Waddell (D)24.3
SD-34Adelard L. Brault (D)26.1
SD-35Omer L. Hirst (D)7.9
SD-36Joseph V. Gartlan Jr. (D)4.7
SD-37Madison Marye (D)13.9
SD-38Daniel W. Bird Jr. (D)14.7Incumbent lost
SD-39F. C. Boucher (D)6.0
SD-40John Chalkley Buchanan (D)25.8

Virginia State Senate

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