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1978 general · November 7, 1978

1978 California State Assembly election results, district by district

Every California State Assembly district in the 1978 general election: winners, margins, unopposed seats and seats that changed party.

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Seats after the election

Democrats controlled the chamber · 80 seats

After the electionD 50 · R 30
Races80
Changed party9
Unopposed8%6 races
Incumbents defeated6

Every district

D 50 · R 30

RaceWinnerWon byNotes
AD-1Stan Statham (R)Unopposed
AD-2Douglas Bosco (D)17.8
AD-3Eugene A. Chappie (R)31.1
AD-4Thomas M. Hannigan (D)24.8
AD-5Jean Moorhead (R)23.7Flipped
AD-6Leroy F. Greene (D)25.2
AD-7Norm Waters (D)Unopposed
AD-8Mike Gage (D)20.0
AD-9William J. Filante (R)8.2FlippedIncumbent lost
AD-10Daniel E. Boatwright (D)Unopposed
AD-11John T. Knox (D)45.5
AD-12Tom Bates (D)11.5
AD-13Elihu M. Harris (D)49.2
AD-14Bill Lockyer (D)52.5
AD-15S. Floyd Mori (D)31.7
AD-16Art Agnos (D)57.9
AD-17Willie L. Brown (D)25.9
AD-18Leo T. McCarthy (D)42.9
AD-19Louis J. Papan (D)33.7
AD-20Robert W. Naylor (R)4.8
AD-21Victor Calvo (D)7.6
AD-22Richard D. Hayden (R)9.5
AD-23John Vasconcellos (D)24.7
AD-24Leona H. Egeland (D)32.8
AD-25Alister McAlister (D)30.7
AD-26Carmen Perino (D)2.1
AD-27John E. Thurman (D)Unopposed
AD-28Henry J. Mello (D)26.7
AD-29Carol Hallett (R)52.8
AD-30Jim Costa (D)27.6Flipped
AD-31Richard Lehman (D)14.9
AD-32Gordon Duffy (R)45.2
AD-33Don Rogers (R)27.9
AD-34Phillip D. Wyman (R)8.6FlippedIncumbent lost
AD-35Gary K. Hart (D)18.0
AD-36Charles R. Imbrecht (R)33.7
AD-37Robert C. Cline (R)42.6
AD-38Paul Priolo (R)34.1
AD-39J. Robert Hayes (R)1.9FlippedIncumbent lost
AD-40Tom Bane (D)31.8
AD-41Pat Nolan (R)35.4
AD-42William H. Ivers (R)13.4
AD-43Howard L. Berman (D)Unopposed
AD-44Meldon Levine (D)37.5
AD-45Herschel Rosenthal (D)39.1
AD-46Mike Roos (D)40.1
AD-47Teresa Hughes (D)70.4
AD-48Maxine Waters (D)61.6
AD-49Gwen Moore (D)41.0
AD-50Curtis R. Tucker (D)42.1
AD-51Marilyn Ryan (R)36.2
AD-52Gerald N. Felando (R)10.3FlippedIncumbent lost
AD-53Paul T. Bannai (R)13.5
AD-54Frank Vicencia (D)56.4
AD-55Richard Alatorre (D)18.8
AD-56Art Torres (D)61.5
AD-57Dave Elder (D)34.2
AD-58Dennis Brown (R)8.0FlippedIncumbent lost
AD-59Jack R. Fenton (D)49.8
AD-60Sally Tanner (D)29.0
AD-61Richard Mountjoy (R)66.9
AD-62William H. Lancaster (R)6.2
AD-63Bruce Young (D)Unopposed
AD-64Dave Stirling (R)29.6
AD-65Bill McVittie (D)18.2
AD-66Terry Goggin (D)30.6
AD-67Bill Leonard (R)8.7
AD-68Walter M. Ingalls (D)12.5
AD-69Ross Johnson (R)9.7
AD-70Bruce Nestande (R)42.1
AD-71Chester B. Wray (D)12.0
AD-72Richard Robinson (D)24.4
AD-73Dennis Mangers (D)8.7
AD-74Marian Bergeson (R)48.2Flipped
AD-75David G. Kelley (R)15.3FlippedIncumbent lost
AD-76Robert C. Frazee (R)34.3
AD-77Jim Ellis (R)33.8
AD-78Lawrence Kapiloff (D)10.0
AD-79Pete Chacon (D)29.0
AD-80Wadie P. Deddeh (D)41.2

California State Assembly

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