1978 general · November 7, 1978
1978 Florida House of Representatives election results, district by district
Every Florida House of Representatives district in the 1978 general election: winners, margins, unopposed seats and seats that changed party.
Seats after the election
Democrats controlled the chamber · 120 seats
After the electionD 89 · R 31
Races45
Changed party3
Unopposed58%26 races
Incumbents defeated4
Every district
D 89 · R 31
| Race | Winner | Won by | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| HD-1 | Clyde H. Hagler · Grover C. Robinson III · Tom Patterson (D) | Unopposed | |
| HD-4 | James G. Ward · Ken Boles · Bolley Johnson (D) | -20.7 | |
| HD-7 | Sam Mitchell (D) | Unopposed | |
| HD-8 | Ron Johnson (D) | 18.1 | |
| HD-9 | Leonard J. Hall (D) | Unopposed | |
| HD-10 | James Harold Thompson (D) | Unopposed | |
| HD-11 | Don C. Price · Herbert F. Morgan (D) | Unopposed | |
| HD-13 | Wayne Hollingsworth (D) | Unopposed | |
| HD-14 | Gene Hodges (D) | Unopposed | |
| HD-15 | George Crady (D) | Unopposed | |
| HD-16 | Andrew E. Johnson · Arnett Girardeau · John Thomas · John W. Lewis · Carl Ogden (D) | Unopposed | |
| HD-21 | Fred Tygart · William G. Bankhead · Tommy Hazouri · Steve Pajcic (REP) | Unopposed | |
| HD-25 | Frank Williams (D) | 21.9 | |
| HD-26 | Sidney Martin · Jon Mills (D) | Unopposed | |
| HD-28 | Hamilton D. Upchurch (D) | 31.6 | |
| HD-29 | William R. Conway · Samuel P. Bell III · Hyatt Brown (D) | Unopposed | |
| HD-32 | Wayne C. McCall (D) | Unopposed | |
| HD-33 | Bob Hattaway (D) | 18.0 | |
| HD-34 | Bobby Brantley (R) | 16.0 | |
| HD-35 | Everett Kelly (D) | 8.5 | Flipped |
| HD-36 | Charles R. Smith (D) | Unopposed | |
| HD-37 | Ronald R. Richmond (R) | Unopposed | |
| HD-38 | Dick Batchelor · John L. Mica · Toni Jennings · Fran Carlton · Lawrence R. Kirkwood · Richard Crotty (DEM) | 0.1 | |
| HD-44 | Marilyn Evansjones · David L. Barrett · W. W. Gardner · Tim Deratany (REP) | -0.9 | |
| HD-48 | R. Dale Patchett (R) | Unopposed | |
| HD-49 | Bob Crawford · Beverly B. Burnsed · Gene Ready · C. Fred Jones (D) | Unopposed | |
| HD-53 | Peter Dunbar · Jim Smith · S. Curtis Kiser · Betty Easley (R) | Unopposed | Incumbent lost |
| HD-57 | George F. Hieber II · Dorothy Sample · Dennis L. Jones · Robert Eugene Melby · Thomas M. Woodruff (R) | -11.9 | |
| HD-62 | Carl Carpenter Jr. · Jim Foster · John L. Ryals · Malcolm E. Beard (D) | Unopposed | |
| HD-66 | H. Lee Moffitt · Elvin L. Martinez · Richard S. Hodes · George Sheldon · Helen Gordon Davis (D) | Unopposed | |
| HD-71 | Lawrence F. Shackelford · Ralph H. Haben (D) | Unopposed | |
| HD-73 | Thomas E. Danson · Ted Ewing (R) | Unopposed | |
| HD-75 | Fred Burrall (R) | 32.3 | |
| HD-76 | Charles Nergard (R) | 4.9 | FlippedIncumbent lost |
| HD-77 | William G. Myers (R) | 3.4 | FlippedIncumbent lost |
| HD-78 | Thomas Lewis · Eleanor Weinstock · Gene Campbell · Jim Watt · Ed Healey · Ray Liberti (REP) | 0.0 | Incumbent lost |
| HD-84 | Tom Gustafson · Terry Omalley · Steve Warner · Linda Cox · Tom Bush (DEM) | 1.6 | |
| HD-89 | Mary Ellen Hawkins (R) | 44.8 | |
| HD-90 | Hugh Paul Nuckolls · Franklin Mann (REP) | 7.9 | |
| HD-92 | Walter C. Young · Lawrence J. Smith · Tom McPherson · Harold Dyer · Frederick Lippman · David J. Lehman (D) | Unopposed | |
| HD-98 | Elaine Gordon · Virginia Rosen · Ronald A. Silver · Barry Kutun · Harold W. Spaet · Gwen Margolis (D) | Unopposed | |
| HD-104 | Joe Kershaw · William H. Lockward · Gwendolyn Cherry · A. M. Fontana · Bob Reynolds (D) | Unopposed | |
| HD-109 | Joe Gersten · William E. Sadowski · Lawrence H. Plummer · Robert Hector · Roberta Fox · Tom Gallagher (DEM) | 0.4 | |
| HD-115 | Gene Flinn · Bill Flynn · John Cyril Malloy · James F. Eckhart · Larry Hawkins (D) | -13.4 | |
| HD-120 | Joe Allen Jr. (D) | Unopposed |
Florida 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