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1978 general · November 7, 1978

1978 Illinois State Senate election results, district by district

Every Illinois State Senate 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 · 59 seats

After the electionD 32 · R 27
Races40
Changed party4
Unopposed12%5 races
Incumbents defeated1

Every district

D 20 · R 20

RaceWinnerWon byNotes
LD-1Roger A. Keats (R)19.2
LD-2John A. Graham (R)33.8
LD-4John J. Nimrod (R)20.1
LD-5Richard A. Walsh (R)19.7
LD-7Leonard F. Becker (R)33.3
LD-8Frank M. Ozinga (R)31.9
LD-10Aldo A. Deangelis (R)16.1FlippedIncumbent lost
LD-11Arthur L. Berman (D)41.5
LD-13Dawn Clark Netsch (D)42.7
LD-14Walter J. Nega (D)45.7
LD-16Robert J. Egan (D)15.3
LD-17Steven G. Nash (D)38.1
LD-19Edward A. Nedza (D)Unopposed
LD-20John A. Darco Jr. (D)Unopposed
LD-22James A. McLendon (D)Unopposed
LD-23Richard M. Daley (D)Unopposed
LD-25Leroy Walter Lemke (D)48.3
LD-26Harold Washington (D)62.9
LD-28Jeremiah E. Joyce (D)55.8
LD-29Charles Chew (D)Unopposed
LD-31Adeline Jay Geokaris (R)20.8Flipped
LD-32Karl Berning (R)11.0
LD-34Lynn Martin (R)7.5Flipped
LD-35James Gitz (D)4.3Flipped
LD-37David C. Shapiro (R)39.4
LD-38John E. Grotberg (R)39.5
LD-40James Philip (R)12.5
LD-41Jack E. Bowers (R)49.7
LD-43Jerome J. Joyce (D)3.9
LD-44John W. Maitland Jr. (R)28.3
LD-46Prescott E. Bloom (R)21.1
LD-47Kenneth G. McMillan (R)32.1
LD-49Vince Demuzio (D)24.4
LD-50John A. Davidson (R)12.3
LD-52Stanley B. Weaver (R)34.8
LD-53Max E. Coffey (R)31.3
LD-55James H. Donnewald (D)26.8
LD-56Sam M. Vadalabene (D)47.2
LD-58Kenneth V. Buzbee (D)22.1
LD-59Gene Johns (D)2.7

Illinois 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