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1978 general · November 7, 1978

1978 Kansas House of Representatives election results, district by district

Every Kansas House of Representatives district in the 1978 general election: winners, margins, unopposed seats and seats that changed party.

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Seats after the election

Republicans controlled the chamber · 125 seats

After the electionD 56 · R 68 · 1 other
Races125
Changed party16
Unopposed26%32 races
Incumbents defeated9

Every district

D 56 · R 68 · Other 1

RaceWinnerWon byNotes
HD-1Fred L. Weaver (D)Unopposed
HD-2Ralph E. Bussman (D)1.4
HD-3Douglas L. Baker (D)4.8
HD-4William M. Beezley (R)19.5
HD-5James H. Guffey (D)1.8
HD-6John H. Reimer (R)16.8
HD-7Larry Erne (D)19.5
HD-8Dan Thiessen (R)Unopposed
HD-9Rochelle Beach Chronister (R)17.9
HD-10George H. Works (R)35.9
HD-11Richard Harper (OTH)9.0Flipped
HD-12James Cubit (R)16.8
HD-13Irving R. Niles (D)13.7
HD-14Jim Allen (R)UnopposedFlipped
HD-15Marvin William Barkis (D)19.8
HD-16James E. Lowther (R)Unopposed
HD-17Anita G. Niles (D)12.8
HD-18David F. Louis (R)16.4FlippedIncumbent lost
HD-19Wendell Lady (R)53.8
HD-20Arthur Douville (R)Unopposed
HD-21R. D. McCrum (R)Unopposed
HD-22Joe Hoagland (R)36.1
HD-23Victor W. Kearns Jr. (R)Unopposed
HD-24Rex B. Hoy (R)21.1
HD-25Samuel Burr Sifers (R)Unopposed
HD-26W. Edgar Moore (R)43.2
HD-27David L. Webb (R)20.4
HD-28William M. Eddy (R)Unopposed
HD-29Stan Gibson (R)Unopposed
HD-30August Gus Bogina Jr. (R)17.0
HD-31Bill Wisdom (D)52.6
HD-32Herman G. Dillon (D)29.3
HD-33Joseph M. Mikesic (D)61.4
HD-34Norman Justice (D)61.7
HD-35Clarence C. Love (D)Unopposed
HD-36John M. Modrcin (D)Unopposed
HD-37Bill Reardon (D)34.9
HD-38John F. Sutter (D)25.0
HD-39Fred Rosenau (D)44.3
HD-40Carlos Cooper (R)16.8
HD-41Patrick J. Hurley (D)Unopposed
HD-42Ambrose L. Dempsey (D)30.8
HD-43John H. Vogel (R)7.8
HD-44Michael G. Glover (D)7.9
HD-45John M. Solbach (D)2.7Flipped
HD-46Robin D. Leach (D)14.3
HD-47Dick Cameron (R)2.1FlippedIncumbent lost
HD-48Francis Gordon (R)Unopposed
HD-49Nina Strahm (R)0.3
HD-50Tom Slattery (R)35.6
HD-51E. Richard Brewster (D)7.1
HD-52J. B. Littlejohn (R)3.8
HD-53Vic Miller (D)20.8
HD-54Bill Bunten (R)35.0
HD-55Loren H. Hohman II (D)16.5
HD-56Ruth Wilkin (D)3.3
HD-57Donald E. Mainey (D)19.7
HD-58Anthony Hensley (D)Unopposed
HD-59Charles F. Laird (D)37.0
HD-60Denny D. Burgess (R)Unopposed
HD-61Lloyd Polson (R)28.5
HD-62Robert E. Arbuthnot (R)Unopposed
HD-63James D. Braden (R)Unopposed
HD-64Ed C. Rolf (R)12.1FlippedIncumbent lost
HD-65Ivan Sand (R)5.1
HD-66John F. Stites (R)25.1
HD-67Elaine Hassler (R)2.4FlippedIncumbent lost
HD-68Gerald F. Simpson (R)3.0FlippedIncumbent lost
HD-69Larry F. Turnquist (D)27.5
HD-70William Novak (R)20.1
HD-71Harold P. Dyck (R)Unopposed
HD-72Jim Gilmore (R)30.3
HD-73Jayne Aylward (R)23.6Flipped
HD-74Ward P. Ferguson (D)25.4
HD-75Kenneth W. Green (D)13.2
HD-76Rex Crowell (R)Unopposed
HD-77Kenneth R. King (R)5.0
HD-78Marjorie J. Thomson (D)4.5
HD-79Jack Shriver (D)19.0
HD-80Robert H. Miller (R)Unopposed
HD-81John J. Maloney (D)31.2
HD-82Ben Foster (R)Unopposed
HD-83Mike Meacham (R)44.5
HD-84Ruth Luzzati (D)17.3
HD-85Willard Woody Thompson Jr. (D)3.9Flipped
HD-86Eric Yost (R)16.9FlippedIncumbent lost
HD-87Sharon Hess (R)42.7
HD-88J. Santford Duncan (R)38.5
HD-89Theo Cribbs (D)65.0
HD-90John Sullivan (R)15.7Flipped
HD-91Neal D. Whitaker (R)42.5
HD-92Belva Ott (R)13.0
HD-93Ardena Matlack (D)10.5
HD-94J. E. Talley (R)Unopposed
HD-95Homer B. Jarchow (D)41.8
HD-96George Dean (D)Unopposed
HD-97Darrel M. Webb (D)34.9
HD-98James Holderman (D)42.0
HD-99Roy H. Garrett (D)28.1
HD-100Victor Elliott (R)5.4FlippedIncumbent lost
HD-101Geneva J. Anderson (D)10.1
HD-102Lee Hamm (D)Unopposed
HD-103Dean B. Hinshaw (R)16.2
HD-104Timothy P. Osullivan (D)10.7Flipped
HD-105John L. Myers (D)Unopposed
HD-106Leroy Fry (D)14.6
HD-107Clifford V. Campbell (R)44.3
HD-108Bill R. Fuller (R)5.0FlippedIncumbent lost
HD-109Arden Dierdorff (R)13.2
HD-110Patrick B. Augustine (D)16.5
HD-111Richard Schmidt (D)Unopposed
HD-112Roy M. Ehrlich (R)Unopposed
HD-113Kent Roth (D)10.8
HD-114Phil Martin (D)57.3
HD-115E. Dean Shelor (D)13.7
HD-116Kathryn Sughrue (D)14.7
HD-117Kalo Hineman (R)Unopposed
HD-118Leary J. Johnson (R)1.1FlippedIncumbent lost
HD-119Marvin Littlejohn (R)3.0
HD-120Mike Hayden (R)28.5
HD-121Don E. Crumbaker (R)Unopposed
HD-122Jack Rodrock (D)27.0
HD-123David Heinemann (R)Unopposed
HD-124Keith Farrar (R)Unopposed
HD-125Robert Frey (R)40.7

Kansas 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