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1977 general · November 8, 1977

1977 Kentucky House of Representatives election results, district by district

Every Kentucky House of Representatives district in the 1977 general election: winners, margins, unopposed seats and seats that changed party.

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Seats after the election

Democrats controlled the chamber · 100 seats

After the electionD 78 · R 22
Races100
Changed party4
Unopposed54%54 races
Incumbents defeated1

Every district

D 78 · R 22

RaceWinnerWon byNotes
HD-1Ward Burnette (D)Unopposed
HD-2Lloyd Clapp (D)Unopposed
HD-3Alice McNutt (D)Unopposed
HD-4J. W. Boatwright Jr. (D)Unopposed
HD-5Kenneth Imes (D)Unopposed
HD-6J. R. Gray (D)Unopposed
HD-7David E. Boswell (D)Unopposed
HD-8H. Ramsey Morris Jr. (D)Unopposed
HD-9James E. Bruce (D)Unopposed
HD-10William T. Brinkley (D)68.5
HD-11Gross Clay Lindsay (D)Unopposed
HD-12Roy Joe Head (D)Unopposed
HD-13Louis Johnson (D)Unopposed
HD-14Donald J. Blandford (D)Unopposed
HD-15Philip Stone (D)Unopposed
HD-16Lewis Foster (D)Unopposed
HD-17Willard Allen (R)5.9
HD-18Mary Ann Tobin (D)Unopposed
HD-19Ronny Layman (R)16.5FlippedIncumbent lost
HD-20Jody Richards (D)47.0
HD-21Buddy Adams (D)52.1
HD-22Buel E. Guy (D)6.3Flipped
HD-23Bobby H. Richardson (D)Unopposed
HD-24Sam B. Thomas (D)51.6
HD-25Allene A. Craddock (D)Unopposed
HD-26Virgil Pearman (D)Unopposed
HD-27Archie N. Romanies Sr. (D)9.8
HD-28James R. Dunn (D)26.8
HD-29Al Bennett (D)19.2
HD-30Thomas J. Burch (D)32.6Flipped
HD-31Mark Obrien (D)2.9
HD-32E. Bruce Blythe Jr. (R)15.4
HD-33Bob Benson (D)24.6
HD-34Gerta Bendl (D)35.7
HD-35Carl A. Nett (D)15.3
HD-36Claudia Riner (D)38.3
HD-37M. Jerry Kleier (D)14.8
HD-38Dexter S. Wright (R)9.8
HD-39Lawrence Ray Maynard (D)29.5
HD-40George R. Siemens Jr. (D)40.5
HD-41Mae Streetkidd (D)55.7
HD-42Aubrey Williams (D)53.5
HD-43Carl R. Hines (D)64.2
HD-44James Bernard Yates (D)43.2
HD-45Dottie Priddy (D)28.9
HD-46Harold Haering (R)4.5Flipped
HD-47Edward L. Holloway (R)18.7
HD-48Louie Guenthner Jr. (R)32.5
HD-49Frank J. Smith (D)Unopposed
HD-50John Hurst (D)Unopposed
HD-51Herman W. Ratliff (R)Unopposed
HD-52Raymond Overstreet (R)Unopposed
HD-53Randolph Smith (R)Unopposed
HD-54Joe Clarke (D)Unopposed
HD-55Forest Sale (D)35.7
HD-56John V. Carpenter Jr. (D)Unopposed
HD-57C. M. Hancock (D)Unopposed
HD-58W. Stephen Wilborn (D)Unopposed
HD-59Bob Jones (D)Unopposed
HD-60William K. McBee (D)Unopposed
HD-61Clay Crupper (D)Unopposed
HD-62Mark Fitzgerald (D)Unopposed
HD-63Louis Defalaise (R)Unopposed
HD-64Charles O. Petty (D)16.7
HD-65John J. Isler (D)Unopposed
HD-66Elmer Dietz (D)0.3
HD-67Terry Mann (D)Unopposed
HD-68William Donnermeyer (D)41.6
HD-69Arthur L. Schmidt (R)Unopposed
HD-70Pete Worthington (D)Unopposed
HD-71Woodford F. May (D)Unopposed
HD-72Jim Lemaster (D)Unopposed
HD-73Paul W. Richardson (D)Unopposed
HD-74Adrian Arnold (D)Unopposed
HD-75William Kenton (D)Unopposed
HD-76Steven L. Beshear (D)70.3
HD-77David Vanhorn (D)76.9
HD-78Jack Trevey (R)14.9
HD-79Henry Clay List (D)12.0
HD-80William Harold Demarcus (R)37.1
HD-81Dwight Wells (D)7.8
HD-82Elvin Elmer Patrick (R)6.8
HD-83Marshall Davenport (R)Unopposed
HD-84Lloyd McKinney (R)Unopposed
HD-85Albert Robinson (R)Unopposed
HD-86Jimmy White (D)24.4
HD-87George E. Stewart (D)Unopposed
HD-88Roger Noe (D)25.4
HD-89John Raymond Turner (D)Unopposed
HD-90Clay Gay (R)Unopposed
HD-91Hoover Dawahare (D)Unopposed
HD-92Bill Weinberg (D)Unopposed
HD-93N. Clayton Little (D)14.9
HD-94Herbert J. Deskins Jr. (D)Unopposed
HD-95James Allen (D)Unopposed
HD-96George M. Plummer (R)4.2
HD-97Leo Marcum (R)Unopposed
HD-98Ronald R. Cyrus (D)40.7
HD-99Ray O. Brown (D)Unopposed
HD-100Charles R. Holbrook (R)18.1

Kentucky 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