1978 general · November 7, 1978

1978 Indiana election results

Every race on Indiana's ballot in the 1978 general election: winners, margins and seats that changed party.

Races109

Changed party10

Unopposed8%9 races

Incumbents defeated6

U.S. House

D 7 · R 4 · 1 changed party

Race	Winner	Won by	Notes
IN-1	Adam Benjamin Jr. (D)	60.9
IN-2	Floyd J. Fithian (D)	20.3
IN-3	John Brademas (D)	12.2
IN-4	Dan Quayle (R)	30.6
IN-5	Elwood H. Hillis (R)	35.2
IN-6	David W. Evans (D)	4.5
IN-7	John Myers (R)	12.6
IN-8	Joel Deckard (R)	4.0	Flipped
IN-9	Lee Hamilton (D)	31.3
IN-10	Philip Sharp (D)	13.3
IN-11	Andrew Jacobs (D)	14.6

D 10 · R 15 · 7 changed party

Race	Winner	Won by	Notes
SD-1	Frank Mrvan (D)	64.1
SD-4	John Bushemi (D)	57.4
SD-6	Ernest Niemeyer (R)	20.3
SD-11	Daniel A. Manion (R)	4.9	FlippedIncumbent lost
SD-14	Richard Worman (R)	9.4	FlippedIncumbent lost
SD-15	Elmer Macdonald (R)	24.0	Flipped
SD-17	Gene Snowden (R)	26.3
SD-19	W. Wayne Townsend (D)	10.6
SD-21	James R. Butcher (R)	10.7	FlippedIncumbent lost
SD-22	Michael E. Gery (D)	15.5
SD-23	Joseph W. Harrison (R)	8.2
SD-24	Keith C. McCormick (R)	10.1
SD-25	James R. Abraham (R)	3.0	FlippedIncumbent lost
SD-26	Allie V. Craycraft Jr. (D)	7.3
SD-27	Marlin K. McDaniel (R)	17.1
SD-29	Leslie Duvall (R)	29.7
SD-31	John M. Mutz (R)	25.2
SD-38	William C. Dunbar (R)	8.4	Flipped
SD-41	Robert D. Garton (R)	18.5
SD-43	Johnny Nugent (R)	0.8	Flipped
SD-45	Clay Baird (D)	27.9
SD-46	Frank O'Bannon (D)	15.9
SD-47	Michael C. Kendall (D)	9.7
SD-48	Kenneth C. Snider (D)	5.6
SD-49	Joseph F. Oday (D)	29.5

D 46 · R 54 · 2 changed party

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; MIT Election Data and Science Lab