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1978 general · November 7, 1978

1978 Maryland State Senate election results, district by district

Every Maryland 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 · 47 seats

After the electionD 40 · R 7
Races47
Changed party1
Unopposed55%26 races
Incumbents defeated0

Every district

D 40 · R 7

RaceWinnerWon byNotes
LD-1Edward J. Mason (R)10.5
LD-2Victor Cushwa (D)Unopposed
LD-3Edward P. Thomas (R)Unopposed
LD-4Charles H. Smelser (D)Unopposed
LD-5Francis H. Kelly (D)9.5Flipped
LD-6Arthur Henry Helton Jr. (D)Unopposed
LD-7Dennis F. Rasmussen (D)53.4
LD-8Patrick T. Welsh (D)74.7
LD-9Norman R. Stone Jr. (D)Unopposed
LD-10John J. Bishop (R)22.0
LD-11Robert E. Stroble (R)22.5
LD-12Melvin A. Steinberg (D)64.0
LD-13Timothy R. Hickman (D)Unopposed
LD-14James Clark Jr. (D)Unopposed
LD-15Laurence Levitan (D)8.2
LD-16Howard A. Denis (R)0.8
LD-17S. Frank Shore (D)13.0
LD-18Margaret Schweinhaut (D)43.9
LD-19Sidney Kramer (D)Unopposed
LD-20Victor L. Crawford (D)Unopposed
LD-21Arthur Dorman (D)22.9
LD-22John J. Garrity (D)Unopposed
LD-23Thomas Patrick Oreilly (D)40.2
LD-24Edward F. Conroy (D)Unopposed
LD-25Tommie Broadwater (D)24.1
LD-26B. W. Donovan (D)Unopposed
LD-27Peter A. Bozick (D)Unopposed
LD-28Thomas V. Mike Miller Jr. (D)44.9
LD-29James C. Simpson (D)Unopposed
LD-30Edward T. Hall (R)3.2
LD-31Jerome F. Connell Sr. (D)13.3
LD-32H. Erle Schafer (D)35.5
LD-33John A. Cade (R)31.5
LD-34Walter M. Baker (D)14.5
LD-35Frederick C. Malkus Jr. (D)Unopposed
LD-36Joseph J. Long (D)50.1
LD-37Harry J. McGuirk (D)Unopposed
LD-38Clarence Mitchell III (D)Unopposed
LD-39Julian L. Lapides (D)Unopposed
LD-40Verda Welcome (D)Unopposed
LD-41Clarence W. Blount (D)Unopposed
LD-42Rosalie Silber Abrams (D)Unopposed
LD-43J. Joseph Curran Jr. (D)Unopposed
LD-44John Carroll Byrnes (D)Unopposed
LD-45Robert L. Douglass (D)Unopposed
LD-46Joseph S. Bonvegna (D)Unopposed
LD-47Cornell N. Dypski (D)Unopposed

Maryland 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