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1978 general · November 7, 1978

1978 California U.S. House election results, district by district

California's U.S. House races in the 1978 general election: winners, margins, unopposed seats and seats that changed party.

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Races43
Changed party3
Unopposed5%2 races

Every district

D 26 · R 17

RaceWinnerWon byNotes
CA-1Harold T. Johnson (D)18.7
CA-2Don H. Clausen (R)6.7
CA-3Robert Matsui (D)6.9
CA-4Victor Fazio (D)10.7
CA-5John L. Burton (D)33.7
CA-6Phillip Burton (D)40.3
CA-7George Miller (D)29.7
CA-8Ronald Dellums (D)14.7
CA-9Fortney H. Stark Jr. (D)34.9
CA-10Don Edwards (D)34.3
CA-11Leo J. Ryan (D)24.9
CA-12Paul N. "pete" McCloskey Jr. (R)51.5
CA-13Norman Mineta (D)18.0
CA-14Norman Shumway (R)10.8Flipped
CA-15Tony Coelho (D)20.2
CA-16Leon Panetta (D)22.7
CA-17Charles Pashayan (R)9.0Flipped
CA-18William Thomas (R)18.5
CA-19Robert Lagomarsino (R)47.5
CA-20Barry M. Goldwater (R)32.8
CA-21James C. Corman (D)23.6
CA-22Carlos Moorhead (R)29.3
CA-23Anthony Beilenson (D)31.3
CA-24Henry A. Waxman (D)30.1
CA-25Edward Roybal (D)34.8
CA-26John H. Rousselot (R)Unopposed
CA-27Robert Dornan (R)2.0
CA-28Julian Dixon (D)Unopposed
CA-29Augustus Hawkins (D)70.0
CA-30George E. Danielson (D)42.8
CA-31Charles H. Wilson (D)35.5
CA-32Glenn Anderson (D)49.0
CA-33Wayne Grisham (R)12.0
CA-34Daniel E. Lungren (R)10.1Flipped
CA-35Jim Lloyd (D)8.0
CA-36George Brown (D)25.8
CA-37Jerry Lewis (R)26.6
CA-38Jerry M. Patterson (D)17.2
CA-39William Dannemeyer (R)27.4
CA-40Robert E. Badham (R)31.9
CA-41Bob Wilson (R)16.3
CA-42Lionel Van Deerlin (D)47.5
CA-43Clair W. Burgener (R)37.3

California

Results are each source's final count; margins are the winner's lead over the runner-up in points of the vote. Source: MIT Election Data and Science Lab