1978 general · November 7, 1978
1978 Georgia State Senate election results, district by district
Every Georgia State Senate district in the 1978 general election: winners, margins, unopposed seats and seats that changed party.
Seats after the election
Democrats controlled the chamber · 56 seats
After the electionD 52 · R 4
Races56
Changed party0
Unopposed86%48 races
Incumbents defeated0
Every district
D 52 · R 4
| Race | Winner | Won by | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| SD-1 | John R. Riley (D) | Unopposed | |
| SD-2 | Charles H. Wessels (D) | Unopposed | |
| SD-3 | Glenn E. Bryant (D) | Unopposed | |
| SD-4 | Joseph E. Kennedy (D) | Unopposed | |
| SD-5 | Robert H. Bell (R) | Unopposed | |
| SD-6 | Richard William Littlefield Jr. (D) | 40.5 | |
| SD-7 | Frank Eldridge Jr. (D) | Unopposed | |
| SD-8 | Loyce W. Turner (D) | Unopposed | |
| SD-9 | Franklin Sutton (D) | Unopposed | |
| SD-10 | Henry Russell (D) | Unopposed | |
| SD-11 | Jimmy Hodge Timmons (D) | Unopposed | |
| SD-12 | Al Holloway (D) | Unopposed | |
| SD-13 | James L. Paulk (D) | Unopposed | |
| SD-14 | Hugh Carter (D) | Unopposed | |
| SD-15 | Floyd Hudgins (D) | Unopposed | |
| SD-16 | H. Norwood Pearce (D) | 5.6 | |
| SD-17 | Janice Horton (D) | Unopposed | |
| SD-18 | Ed Barker (D) | Unopposed | |
| SD-19 | Ronnie Walker (D) | Unopposed | |
| SD-20 | Hugh Gillis (D) | Unopposed | |
| SD-21 | Bill English (D) | Unopposed | |
| SD-22 | Thomas Allgood (D) | Unopposed | |
| SD-23 | Jimmy Lester (D) | Unopposed | |
| SD-24 | Sam McGill (D) | Unopposed | |
| SD-25 | Culver Kidd (D) | Unopposed | |
| SD-26 | Richard Greene (D) | Unopposed | |
| SD-27 | Lee Robinson (D) | Unopposed | |
| SD-28 | Kyle T. Cobb (D) | 41.6 | |
| SD-29 | Render Hill (D) | Unopposed | |
| SD-30 | J. Ebb Duncan (D) | Unopposed | |
| SD-31 | Nathan Dean (D) | Unopposed | |
| SD-32 | Joe Thompson (D) | Unopposed | |
| SD-33 | Roy E. Barnes (D) | Unopposed | |
| SD-34 | Ed Johnson (D) | Unopposed | |
| SD-35 | Perry Hudson (D) | Unopposed | |
| SD-36 | Jack L. Stephens (D) | 74.4 | |
| SD-37 | Todd Evans (D) | Unopposed | |
| SD-38 | Horace E. Tate (D) | Unopposed | |
| SD-39 | Julian Bond (D) | Unopposed | |
| SD-40 | Paul Coverdell (R) | 43.7 | |
| SD-41 | James W. Tysinger (R) | 27.1 | |
| SD-42 | Pierre Howard (D) | Unopposed | |
| SD-43 | Tom Scott (D) | 61.7 | |
| SD-44 | Terrell A. Starr (D) | Unopposed | |
| SD-45 | W. Don Ballard (D) | Unopposed | |
| SD-46 | Paul Broun (D) | Unopposed | |
| SD-47 | M. Parks Brown (D) | Unopposed | |
| SD-48 | Steve Reynolds (D) | Unopposed | |
| SD-49 | Howard T. Overby (D) | Unopposed | |
| SD-50 | John C. Foster (D) | Unopposed | |
| SD-51 | James Beverly Langford (D) | Unopposed | |
| SD-52 | Dan Fincher (D) | Unopposed | |
| SD-53 | E. G. Summers (D) | Unopposed | |
| SD-54 | W. W. Fincher Jr. (D) | Unopposed | |
| SD-55 | Lawrence Stumbaugh (D) | Unopposed | |
| SD-56 | Haskew Brantley (R) | 21.4 |
Georgia 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