1978 general · November 7, 1978

1978 Maine election results

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

Races188

Changed party21

Unopposed29%55 races

Incumbents defeated5

U.S. Senate

R 1

Race	Winner	Won by	Notes
Maine	William Cohen (R)	22.7

D 1

Race	Winner	Won by	Notes
Maine	Joseph Brennan (D)	13.4

R 2

Race	Winner	Won by	Notes
ME-1	David F. Emery (R)	25.7
ME-2	Olympia J. Snowe (R)	10.0

D 13 · R 19 · Other 1 · 4 changed party

Race	Winner	Won by	Notes
SD-1	Walter W. Hichens (R)	Unopposed
SD-2	Robert M. Farley (D)	24.1
SD-3	Ralph M. Lovell (R)	24.6
SD-4	Peter W. Danton (D)	8.3
SD-5	Roland L. Sutton (R)	27.7
SD-6	David G. Huber (R)	10.9
SD-7	Ronald E. Usher (D)	18.9
SD-8	Barbara A. Gill (R)	6.1
SD-9	Gerard P. Conley (D)	Unopposed
SD-10	Mary Najarian (D)	10.0
SD-11	Nancy Randall Clark (D)	19.8	Flipped
SD-12	Barbara M. Trafton (D)	39.9	Flipped
SD-13	Albert E. Cote (D)	Unopposed
SD-14	Carroll E. Minkowshy (D)	Unopposed
SD-15	David R. Ault (R)	6.0
SD-16	Donald R. Oleary (D)	24.9
SD-17	Andrew Redmond (R)	Unopposed
SD-18	Richard H. Pierce (R)	32.9
SD-19	Bennett D. Katz (R)	Unopposed
SD-20	John D. Chapman (R)	Unopposed
SD-21	Samuel W. Collins Jr. (R)	31.8
SD-22	Melvin A. Shute (R)	36.9
SD-23	Thomas M. Teague (R)	6.2	Flipped
SD-24	Jerome A. Emerson (R)	12.8
SD-25	Howard M. Trotzky (R)	25.9
SD-26	Dana C. Devoe (R)	0.4
SD-27	Joseph Sewall (R)	Unopposed
SD-28	Thomas R. Perkins (R)	63.0
SD-29	Harold L. Silverman (OTH)	8.1	FlippedIncumbent lost
SD-30	Charles P. Pray (D)	23.9
SD-31	James McBreairty (R)	21.3
SD-32	Roland Daniel Martin (D)	Unopposed
SD-33	Michael E. Carpenter (D)	Unopposed

D 77 · R 73 · Other 1 · 17 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: English Wikipedia; Harvard Dataverse / Carl Klarner; MIT Election Data and Science Lab